The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-26

of the interests Of sdversaries, but Of our own
"a class which has maintained, and still main.
tains, and the whole people now 20 with it,
that the acute disease of to-day is q sufficient
task for the government, and the chronic dis
ease can be left to the future.
!. If the employment Of negroes isexpedient for
tho suppression Of the rebellion, then negroes
should be employed. II would not be right to
employ them only because it may be expedient
Very few in the world now think that the end
jussifies the means. The employment of negroes
Is IN itself right and the only question remaining
is that of expediency.
What is war? IL it not the employment of
moral and physical forces to produce the great.
est amount of destruction in the most limited
time, with view to the establishment of peace.
Brain, muscle, iron, wood, all things which may
tend to success in war, enter into the prosecu-
ton of it, subject only to code adopted by
civilized nations called the laws of civilized war.
fare. All forces working within these limits are
legitimate, the European, the Asiatic the Amer.
lean, the Indian-why not the African as we'll.
Some men make distinction between the en-
ployment of negroes in intrenching and that of
negroes fighting with arms in their hands
Brain, muscle, food, clothing and everything
else serviceable in war and provided to one
army, are lives to that army, and death to the
adversaries. A spadeful of dirt thrown by ne.
gro on Union breastwork, may save Union
soldiers life, and bring about Southern sol.
dler's death. Does a negro thus fight for the
Union, or does he not?
II negroes throw up breastworks and dig
trenches and canals which in conjunction with
Union armies lead to the routing Of the enemy
then negroes fight the enemy. The only differ.
hot- q uvhi fho IL
that the former is provided with q musket to de.
fend his spade and to the latter we do not choose
to grant anything but limited destructive
agency, and limited personal security.
The first regiment of Zouaves belonging to
France was largely composed of Arabs. The
principal part Of the troops of England in In.
dia we're natives of that country. Does any one
suppose that if in Algeria or in India rebellion
of Europeans had broken out, these troops
would not have been employed to suppress it, O.
they were used in both places, as far as availa-
BILE, against their own countrymen? Does any
one imagine that If the South could marshal its
negroes into regiments against US, that it would
refrain ? Who commenced the employment of
Indians in this war? The South, which felt Sc.
cure of the adherence of the Indians. rhe EN-.
ployment of Indians is right, if they fight in ac-
cordance with the law of civilized warfare, and
thus the South would have been right in em-
ploying them if the rebellion itself had been
right, which it was not. One right is merely &c.
pendent upon the other. But if the United
States had commenced to employ Indians, there
would have been no end to horror expressed
everywhere. The South seems to be outside of
all limitations. 1000. ..s,. a..
Whether the negro would or would not be
useful as soldier, or in what capacity he would
prove most useful, are questions which cannot
be determined without trial. That be may be
put TO better use than he has been thus far is
evident. Only lately in Congress a member
spoke of the uselessness of negroes as soldiers,
and at the same time spoke of the terror which
they would inspire if arms were placed in their
hands, when he was very pertinently reminded
by another member of the irreconcilability of
the two propositions.
What the nation now perceives is that all
these idle reasonings, which have so far kept
the negro from serving the country to the ex-
tent OF his capacity, are to be cast aside. The
negro serves the South by raising crops at home,
to feed the Southern army. The North retains
laborers, who would otherwise be soldiers, while
on the other side the laboring population is not
available for war in the Southern cause, and BY
it's labor enables nearly all the white to take up
arms. We are people more than twice as nu-
merous as those contained in the States in rebel
lion, but if q conscription there sends as many
men to the war as We do, what then? They
are conscripts it is said, and therefore viii not
fight well. Is this true E? What are the alter
natives? On the one hand, an almost certain
bullet in the back, and on the other possible
one in the breast, with military glory in life or
death. Can we doubt which will be chosen?
Let US lap ourselves no longer in sentiment
IS rknsn Qokx
selves with immediate success derived from the
power Of the justice of our cause, and we have
discovered that the devil fights we'll. We once
poured sympathy of the whole of Europe, and
we have found that jealousy and ambition, and
self-interest are more powerful in the minds of
men than justice. We once fattered ourselves
that the Union sentiment of the South would
yet be heard, and we have found that if it ex-
lists, it is powerless. We shall render success
probable, speedy and economical in lives and
treasure, only when the Government puts forth
its whole power. There can be no mistake as
to what constitutes its whole power. Itswhole
power means every available force, in talent,
in material, and not less in every man-white
or black, freeman or slave. Ifthere is surplus
strength when this is done, it is better so than
otherwise, for the government risks everything
for humanity, for the cause of liberty, and for
itself, when it seeks to calculate what will just
suffice to crush the rebellion; and only in the
exertion of its whole power is there certainty.
Self preservation may yet teach what reson has
failed to show. -
~ Murder OF Samuel CASTOR.
Mr.. Samtel CASTOR, an old man and an old
citizen, residing on the southern line of this
county, near the Columbus road was Tues
day night about II o'clock brutality murdered
and robbed. The circumstances are briefly as
follows: Mr.. CASTOR has been loyal citizen,
and like the rest Of his loyal neighbors has
been from time to time robbed, until he had
almost been deprived of all his property