The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-01
what We must Do nexs Year.

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what We must Do nexs Year.
It 10 hardly possible that the war will end in
time for the volunteers to return to their fields
and workshops BY the early Spring. Since our
last crops were planted, siS or seven hundred
thousand mon have left their farms, and other
avocations, for the battlefield. These are nc
longer producers of food. They have become
consumers instead. We have reason to be thank
full that the harvests Of the present year have
been almost uniformly abundant. We shall be
plentifully supplied for the current year. But
it is time to look forward to the next. So great
reduction Of the producing class, unless We
look the matter square in the face in time, not
only may, but almost inevitably must produce
disastrous results. We are now chipping bread.
stuffs. Shall We have any to exports year from
now! Shall We have enough for ourselves? Il
not, where shall We get it, If it be obtainable
anywhere, shall we have the money to buy il
with!
These may seem impertinent questions. We
are 90 accustomed to abundance, and have always
had 80 much to spare, that want, much less ia
mine, appears to be impossible. But we must
remember that the condition of things is utterly
without precedent. Almost half of our male
population are in arms. Next year they will
not only not produce anything, but, if they live
they must continue to eat. The remaining frac
ton must not only produce enough for them.
selves but also enough for those who are in arms.
If it chance to prove an unprcductive season,
what will come OF it? Flour has sold in this
country at SIS barrel when there we're not a
million men In the field to feed What will it
be next year if crops should generally fail, when
the producers are comparatively 80 reduced!
There is one way to avoid the danger, and
only one. With the opening spring, let oil hands,
old and young. who can find a bit of ground to
cultivate, be sure to plant or SOW something
that is used for food. Men, women and children
must make up their minds that they must pro-
duce something or else quaint Famine will be
upon us. There are too many idlers in the
land. Hitherto We have lived easily, because
the producers have been abundant Next year,
unless We all put our hands to the pillow, there is
every probability that many will sadly learn what
it is to want. Timely and judicious industry
alone can save us. Let everybody plant and SOW
and afterwards cultivate rightly, and all may be
well.
If any one is undecided still as to the cause of
the hideous rebellion which..so fearful'y menaces
the National existence, We refer hin to the
speech of A. HI Stephens, now Vice President of
the pretended Confederacy, made at Savannah,
March Esd, 1861. he says that "African sla-
very" was the cause. Because the North would
not be Africanized-in other words, because the
Slave System could not be spread over the
North, and made a. potent for evil here as in
the South, the propagandists plunged the coun-
try into civil war. It is well to reproduce this
authority. 1t is not the assertion of Republicans,
nor Of Abolitionists, but the deliberate state
ment of the ablest man among the traitors. If
there are any who think the corner stone which
he makes the foundation of the Oonfederacy
better than that of freedom, they can pr ebably
sympathize with the treason of the South, and
desire to unite with it in its barbarism. 9th
erwise, they will strive to save the Nation and to
exterpate the cause of the terrible revolt. Here
is what Stephens says:
"The new (confederate) constitution has nut
to rest forever all agitating questions respecting
our peculiar institution-Atrican slavery as it
exists among us-the proper status of the negro
in our form of civilization. This was the imme-
date cause OF our late rupture and present rev.
olution. Jefferson, is his forecast had antici-
pated this as the rock upon which the old Union
would split He was right. What was then
conjecture with him, is now realized fact. But
whether he ccmp.ehended the great truth upon
which that rock stood and STANDS, remains 20 be
doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained BY
him and most Of the leading statesmen at the
time of the formation of the old (federaD consti
tuition were, that the enslavement of the African
was in violation of the laws of nature that it was
wrong in principle, socially, morally aud polti-
caily. These ideas, however, we're
fundamentally wrong They rested upon the
assumption of the equality Of races This was
an error. 1t was sandy foundation, and the
idea OF government built upon it: when the
storm came and the wind blew, it fell" -a
Nv" SOSStuLuCut 10 lUuuOeO upon the
exactly opposite idea: its foundations are laid
in, its cornerstone rests upon, the great truth
that the negro is not equal to the white man;
that slavery-subordinatlo to the superior race
lis his natural and normal condition. ZAP
plauss. a
"This, our new government, is the first in the
history Of the ,corld based upon this great phys.
cal, philosophical, and moral truth y
1t is upon this, AZ l have already stated, that
our social fabric is rirmly planted: and cannot
permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a
full recognition of this principle throughout the
civilized and enlightened world"
Us The Reverend Dr.. Hawks, the we'll known
Episcopal Divine of New York city, has &C.
cepted call to Christ Church, Baltimore, and
is about removing to that city. 1t is supposed
that negrophobia is the cause of it. The church
in New York is little too earnest in it's hatred
of the rebellion to suit the aged, but any thing
but venerable Doctor.
| From the accounts blished in the Chi
cago papers, the County Convention of the On