The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-01

VIII OTIuk Tie IdctS.
Gen. A. 8. Johnston has fallen back FROM
Bowling Green to Nashville, where he hopes to
be able to make defence
Faulkner on the Disease.
Hon. Charles James Faulkner, late Embas
sador to the Court of the Tuileries, ex-Whig,
ex-Democrat, and now ayowed rebel, having
been arrested as traitor by our Government
AMI exchanged for the Hon. Alfred Ely, was
young and tolerably honest member of that
Virginia Legislature of 1882 which took up the
subject of slavery, under the spur of the Nat
Turner insurrection,) and very nearly resolved
on its abolition In his speech on that occa-
sion, Mr.. Faulkner, said:
81 am gratifed TO perceive that no gentle
man has yet risen in this Hall the avowed dd
pocate Of slavery. The day has gone by when
such voice could be listened to with patience
or even with forbearance. I even regret that
there should DO one among US, who enters the
lists as its apoiogist, except On the ground of
uncomfortable necessity. Let me request him
to compare the slave-holding portion of this
Commonwealth, barren, desolate, scared as it
were by the avenging hand of Heaven, with
the descriptions which We have of this same
country from those who first broke its virgin
soil. To what is this change ascribable p
Solely to the whitening and blasting effects of
slavery II this does not satisfy him, let me
request him to travel to the Northern States,
and contrast the contentment and happiness
which prevail throughout the country; the
busy, cheerful sounds of industry, the rapidly
swelling growth of their population, their
means and institutions of education, their skill
and proficiency in useful arts, their enterprise
md mn, Iio airst No. % A.
mercial and manufacturing industry, and, above
ell, their devoted attachment to the Govern
ment from which they derive protection-let
him compare all these with the division, dis.
content, Incidence, and poverty of the South.
ern country. To what is this ascribable? It
is to that vice in the organization of society by
which one half of its inhabitants are arrsyed
in interest and feeling against the other half
to that unfortunate state of society, in which
freemen regard labor as disgraceful, and slaves
shrink from it as burden tyralnically i'm
posed upon them; to that condition of things,
IN which half million of your population can
feel no sympathy with the society, in the pros.
perity of which they are forbidden to partici.
pate, and no attachment to Government at
whose hands they receive nothing but injus-
tice
III the incredulous inquirer should suggest
tnat this manifest contrast might be traced to
dlnerence OF climate, or to other causes dis |
tinct from slavery itself, permit me to refer
him to the two States of Kentucky and Ohio
No difference of soil or climate no diversity in
the original settlement of those two States, can
De adduced to account for the remarkable dis |
proportion in their advancement Separated |
by river alone, they seem to have been pur- |
posely and proyidentially designed to exhibit
in their future histories the difference which
necessarily results from acountry afflicted with
the curse Of slavery, and country that is free |
from II. The same may be said of the two
States Of Missouri and Illinois
slavery is an institution which presses
heavily On the best interests of the State. 1t |
bsnishes free white labor. II exterminates
mechanics, artisans, manufacturers. II de. |
priyes them Of occupation it deprives them Of
bread. 1t converts the energy of community |
into Incidence, its power into imbeclity its ef-
hceney into weakness Being thus injurious. |
hare zee not right to demand its extsrninai,ons
Shall society suffer, that the Shareholder NAV |
continue to gather his vigintial crop of human
nesh! what is ms mere pecuniary claim COM
pared with the great interests Of Tie common cealS
Must the country languish and die, that the
shareholder may flourish? Shall all interests
be subservient to oneP Shall all rights be sub |
ORDINATE to the interests Of the slausAoldere-
has not the mechanic rights? Have not the
middle classes their rights rights incompsti-
bic with the existence Of Slaveryr'
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THE STORY OF AN EscArEp PRIsoSEk-HE Pr
LOTS GENERAL BURNSIDE TO RoANoKr The Me-
York World has the following in its W ashineton
correspondence
=. b Remington, private OF Company A
thirteenth New York regiment, now stationed |
a. opeons h'1l, reached here 20 day with pass
rom uenerA Burnside, whom he had previously |
Jo,ned ny deserving from the rebel feet station |
ed in Albemarle Sound. 1t seems thst Rsm;r.
ton was captured BY the rebels during 4 recon
noisance near Fairfax some two months since |
and taken to Richmond, and thence sent 10 nris.
on IN North Carolina. Here he saw extracts
published from the Troy papers where the Thr.
teenth regiment was mosty recruited. stating
that ne was disloyal, having deserted bis com.
rads, and had gone over to the rebels Deter
mined TO resent this imputation on bis name. he
managed to escape from Portsmouth, N. c., aud
made his gay TO Norfolk but, failing to 60,
further North, be returned to North Carolina
and was offered employ ment on the rebel cpn'
boat Fanny, which he was forced 70 accent. ana
was employed in surveying inland waters for the
rebels. In connection with another loval man
be obtained small boat and managed u ioin
ten. Burnside at Hatteras. Il was he vho n.
loted the expedition to the Island and ~ ~
small degree thus contributed to the great vic
tory won BY our forces.
ne )o'neo nis regiment to-day, and then OBJ.
tanned furiough to return 20 Gen. Burns;de
1rst Waiting his home in Lansingbure New
w Ws1f DlPLoAAfs THmx or rns Rspxr,,os
Ms nave y from good authority that NJ.
nassnan, the Ainister from Austria to this
county, has stated that every ono of the foreign
CONSERVATIVES q Waahington had come 10 tke
sooSluslon that the days o. The rebellion vsrs
ana that the power Of the Federal
.ov ,' would be soon fully rs-sstabliehed
2 oil The nov sscsded States; and morecvss
e, the forelgn Ministers had ssat dispsscS:s
q sneir respective s0oyemueats o I'm 49,
Y : NV veska NJ ahall, thsgefsss. pro6ahiv -
ss esenee Y re sons Of tAs f6rsien o6icial