The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-03
The lncurable MaJ,xnan,s.

sAc AnCuf2Dle NAkl&nantes
In another column we print an interesting
letter from Central Kentucky. The writer is a
woman, and q determined Unionist, and she
gives very clear impression of the condition
OF public sentiment in the part of the State in
which she lives. 1t is sad to read of the divi-
sion of families and the alienation of friend
ships caused by the lawless rebellion into which
the demamogues of the South have enticed so
many people. That the conduct of the seces-
sionists in Kentucky is as perfdious as she
describes it to be does not surprise US. The
experience of the past year has shown that
when men cast off their allegiance they throw
away with 1t, too often, most of the sentiments
Of honor by which society is upheld. They
deny their debts, break their oaths, malign
their opponents, and, indeed, seem Indifferent
to all the usual impulses of manly feeling
1t is frequently asked, What is to become of
these determined mahgDants? They are found
in st. Louis in Nashville, in Baltimore, and
more or less in all those parts of the slave
States which our armies have re-occupied. As
We get further South, moreover, the number
will increase; and though they will form but q
wretched minority, even in South Carolina
their unquiet spirits will try to keep the coun-
try in turmoil. Yet we do not see much cause
for apprehension on this head. A free people
know how to protect themselves against disor-
ganizers. Wherever the rebels are subdued
and the supremacy of the laws is re establish
ed, the common sense of the great majority
will uphold the government. So long as the
rebels hope to succeed, their friends in the
loyal States will stand ready to join them, and
will-because they peril nothing by doing So
openly talk and secretly act in dsloyal man.
ner. But where their cause is made hopeless,
as it has been in Maryland and Missouri, they
will themselves quiet down, and their sympa-
thetic friends will disappear
No doubt there will remain in all the south
ern States number of implacable natures
which it will be difficult if not impossible to
reconcile to the defeat of their reasonable
schemes. In their infatuation they have taught
themselves and their neighbors to hate the
Union and the Government; they have long
cherished the hope of destroying both, both
for personal and political ends, and they will
never again be able to resume their former
feelings towards their fellow-citizens. The
animosity engendered by war will add to the
virulence of their passion. How could they
live with any comfort under government they
have tried to overturn, obey laws they have
spurned, pay taxes for their enforcement, or
remain, in short, in a society which, if not an
tagonistic to them, would be suspicious of them
But such has been the fate of many men, in
all ages of the world. 1t is melancholy fact
that no government ever framed could suit all
its subjects. There have been grumblers and
malcontents under despotisms, and now under
the freest ana best government in the world
fortunately, however, there has Away. been a
way OF escape open to such persons. The
Puritans were dissatisfied class; they emf
grated, FIRST to Holland, and not finding them
| selves comfortable there, next to America
After the act of Union was passed thousands
| of lrishmen were dissatisfied, ard they depart
ed for distant shores. In Germany there has
| long been numerous body of unsatisfied peo-
pie, who have found their relief in migrating,
| some to Brazil, some to Chilli, ard other to the
United States. Emigration, indeed, has been
kind of safety valve for nearly all the older
nations--for Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Eng
land and Scotland-and the descendants OF
these classes MAKE up almost the whole of our
population. They all removed when they
found themselves no longer comfortable under
the established government of their native
| country Parts of South Carolina and Georgia
were settled by French Protestants who were
| hEely to suffer from the repeal of the Edict oi
Nantes. In word, if we look back through
history we shall find that ever since the days
when the Children of Israel got tired of making
bricks without straw, and returned to Pales
| tine, cmigation has been the outlet and cure
for all sorts of dssatisfactions.
Even in our own country the process is no
at all unknown. Many of the free States o
the West are populated in great part by cmi
grants from slave States. In Indiana who'll
counties are composed of Kentuckians ant
their children, poor non Shareholders, who fe,
from the stagnation imposed on free labor b,
the presence of slaves. Every eastern slay
State has been drained by these filtrations o
men and women wearied Of the bitter struggl
with poverty and ignorance, and anxious /,
secure for their children the benefit of the su
perior civilization of free society.
But If such has been the resort of innocen
persons in different circumstances, We see n
harm in suggesting to those who cannot cor
tent themselves in our old Union, as good Uncl
; Toby said to the fly, '.the world is wide enoue
for me and thee, 60 in peace" We shall MOI
like many Of the despotic governments of e,
rope, interpose difficulties in the way. "
shall not Require passports or demand of tt
, young man term of military service befo,
he leaves the government which no longer sa
isles him. Go in peace; take your goods vii
you; seek more congenial climes-sail to Cut
or Brazil, IL you will, where you will find eve
slavery existing to please you; or, if you wo
revel in that species Of barbarism, the Who
. continent of Africa is open to you, exceptir
!, only Sierra Leone and Liberia.
!, Is it unreasonable counsel, this? Suppo
4 that Of our thirty millions twenty.eight We
for Davis and slavery, and two millions for n
A Union, the Constitution and the Enforceme
!. OF the Laws, would not the same advice be
Z fered to the minority-even though they We
i morally rights And justly, We think. Il
necessary to have government under viii
% peace, Law and order are supreme. Those y
10 are strong must maintain these; those Who a
weak must succumb; must obey while they
main; must emigrate when they can or win
2 longer obey.--lN. Y. Post.
u AonR NulsEs WnsrED.-Dr. Hughes, Sup
% intendent Of 1.-THE Hospital, requests US
os state that several more good male nurses ,
In nesdedfor permanent enpaoynens in The hos