The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-13
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10 re- General Assembly:
communicate herewith copy of q lette, -.
ceived on yesterday. from Col Henry Il Flo,d
! commanding the Militia of Canden county. in
forming me that on the 4th day of tbis mon,h
three companies Of negroes were landed i IN S,'
Marys. who, after insulting the few ladies ~
naming there, and taking every thing thew conIa
lay their hands upon, retired to their gunbo,ts
without the slightest molestation On The ssns
day, all the salt works 10 the county were IA
| strOyed, except two, which by this time b,..
capacity to turn out as or 80 Bushels per a..
Unless protection is afforded, these must co..
/ share the same fate. The people on the 49,.
possess large numbers of cattle, hogs. and oths'
stock The enemy leave their guaboats kin and
carry off stock without opposition The Colonsl
asks tor an order to call out the militia for tbroa
| to six months, and says be can muster about sG
or 40. &2L az ~
Adjoining counties upon the coast could add
to the numbers enough to make q considerable
force, who are well acquainted with all the In.
calities, and could, on that account, act NOR
effectively against the enemy than the like num.
Der of men taken from any other part Of the
State. It cannot be denied that the State owes
it to her citizens, 90 long a. she claims their al
legisnce, to afford them all the protection in her
power. egg .s.aG
The Constitution Of this State having invested
me for the time With the chief command Of h.r
militia, should, under ordinary circumstance
have had no hesitation in issuing "a order cal.
ling out the whole militia of the county, and Of
the adjoining counties If necessary, to protect
our citizens, and especially the women against
the outrages Of invasion, robbery, and insult by
negroes. .74 az .htgF
Under the acts of the Confederate Congress-
and the late decision of our Supreme Court, the
authority to command the militia of the State,
even for the protection Of our mothers and
wives, our sisters and daughters, against the bru
tality Of our own slaves in q state Of Insured.
ton, seems to be denied to the Governor. "A
each man composing the militia of the State
except the ol(cers, is declared to be subject to
the command of the President without the CON
sent Of the Executive of the State Il follows.
therefore, that if the Governor should order ont
the militia in this pressing emergency, which
admits Of no delay, to protect those citizens Of
Georgia to whom no protection is afforded br
the sConfederacy, the President may counter
mand the order, aud compel each person 40
called out to leave the State and 90 the utmost
part Of the Confederacy, to protect those Who
are not citizens of this State The State has
reserved to herself the right under the Consti
tuition, 70 "engsge In war;" when "actualIy in
vaded J" and to "keep troops" while she is iuva.
ded. That authority which has the right to
take from her this power, without which no
State can exist, has the power to DESTROY her
believe it. is admitted, however, BY high
authority in this State, that the creature has no
power to destroy the creator, the child no power
to destroy the parent, and the parent no right to
commit suicide. If this be true, the Confeder-
ate Government, which is admitted to be the
creature of The States, can certainly have no
power to deny to the States, which are the ere
ators, the use of their own militia to protect
their own inhabitants against the invasions of
the enemy, and the unbridled, savage cruelty of
their slaves, in actual insnrrectioD; nor can that
Government, as the child, destroy the parent by
paraiyzlng her right arm when raised to ward of
a blow struck at her very vitals nor, indeed,
oan the parent, which is the State, commit sui
eide by surrendering the command of her entire
militia when she 10 invaded, and her people are
left without other sufficient protection, nor by
removing her obligations to protect her citizens,
and thereby FORGETTING their allegiance. at<
Placed as am In this embarrassing condition,
when helpless innocence calls upon this State for
protection, and when the Constitution of this
State and the Confederate States seem to point
clearly to the path of duty upon the one hand,
but when the acts of Congress and the decision
OF our own Supreme Court, rendered under
heavy outside pressure, and, if not ex parte, IN.
der the most peculiar circumstances: when the
counsel on both sides, who had brought the case
before the Court, agreed that in their individual
opinions the decision should be as il was made, l
deem it my duty to submit the question to the
General Assembly, who, as q co ordinate branch
OF the Government, represent the sovereign peo-
pie OF the State, and to ask your advice and d.
rection in the premises. -hi "slT
If you should hold that the Governor NO long:
er has the right to command the militia of The
State for the protection of her people, it only
remains for me to inform the people of Camden
and the ladies ofSt. Mary's that, while the State
collects taxes and requires them to bear other
public burdens, she withdraws her protection
from them, and leaves them to the mercy of ne.
gro invaders, who may insult and plumber them
at pleasure. Should you hold, on the contrary,
that the Governor still has command of the
militia of the State. and that she has the right
to use her own militia for the protection of our
homes, shall nos hesitate to call them forth and
so hold them in service as long as the coast
is invaded and our people are subject to the
insult, robbery, and merciless cruelty of the en-
envy. JosxpH v. BRowN
Mr.. King offered the following, which VAS
adopted: 81 .+'sf&--
Resolved. That the Governor be, and he Is
hereby authorized to call out such parts Of the
militia az be may think necessary to protect the
citizens Of Camden County, and other counties
on the coast similarly exposed, against the invs.
sion being made by companies of negroes, sent
oy the Abo'itonists to make raids upon our cit
liens, and to continue them 10 service as'lonR ss
the emergency may require. |
ID A NEW MOVEMENT ON RIcHMoNp.-We have
an intimation that Lees army is falling back
having thrown up works about Fredericksburg
for temporary defense, to gain time by holding
our army in check 10 its movement toward
Richmond, the superiority of which is well
known and now acknowledged by the rebels.
This has all been understood by General Burn.
side, who long ago had the most positive as
surances that the enemy designed falling upon
our divisions now occupying points on the coast
and destroying them. To Illustrate these