The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-04

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EMANCIPATION.
An Address by b. Crate Brown.
B. Gratz Brown, Esq, Of st. Louis, delivered
an address on the above subject before the
General Emancipation Society Of Missouri, at
ST. Louis, on the 18th. From Fthis Address
whichisa one Of great power and eloquence, we
make-she following extract: ey
EMANCIPATION As A WAR MEASURE. Isl.
q The two great revolutions of modern time
which mark the most signal advance in political
freedom, that of England during the common
wealth and that Of France in 1859, have this
among many other striking features Of similari.
ty-that in each case large part Of the empire
resisting the advent Of free principles, took up
arms against the government to contest the L.
sue. In Vendee, % in Ireland, it became neces-
sary to establish by force the supremacy Of the
new order. It Was antagonism by the popula-
ton Of whole sections, and in both instances
courses of Cancellation having proved worthless
stern and vigorous policy Of subjugation VA
required. That even the success when crowned
such measures was only partial and TRANSIENT
demanding supplemental work Of assimilation,
is also well worthy Of attention, But in sub
DUNG the resistance now presented, this nation
has that to contend With, not less than to assist
it, which VAS not present in either Of the paral
lels cited allude to slavery, the strength and
the weakness Of the South.
Look steadily at the prospect. Q, 0oO, 900 ofpeo.
pie in aE-6, 6O0, 900 Of whites addressing them.
selves exclusively to warfare, sustained by s.
100000 blacks drilled % slaves to the work Of
agriculture. Such are the official statistics Of
the seeding States. r 7sa " zese7e,I,1
With the whites the conscription for military
purposes reaches to every man, capable Of bear.
ing arms with the blacks the conscription for
] abor recognizes neither weakness, nor age, nor
sex. Solitary drivers ply the lash over the
whole manual force to transform plantations into
granariea This allotment necessarily gives to
war the largest possible number Of soldieFs, and
extracts from labor the greatest possible pro
duction Of food. Combined, protected, undis-
turbed, the relation 30 developed presents q
front that may well shake our faith in any speedy
subugation. & 2 9 .,1 ~ y 70 o.. .s' ,,s ss
Of these {, 500 600 white population, tho "a
ito over the age Of twenty -one, which accord
ing to statistical averages 10 one in elk, wilgve
exempts or incapables twenty per cent, leaving
72O, 600, and add on the score Of minor enlist.
ments, one half of those between the ages of
sixteen and twenty .one, or $1,000, and there ex.
listed 1880 as the total possible Confederate
force in the outset II from this number 100 =
900 DO stricken of as the aggregate Of the Kill
led, disabled, imprisoned and paroled since the
outbreak of the war, and 10000 added o. the
probable number of recruits from Kentucky.
Missouri and Maryland, there will result 7t4 200
- the effective force. From these are to be Ia
ken the men needed for the civil service, for the
provost and police duties, and for regulating
the transmission or exchange Of productions
certainly not less than 10000, and there re-
thorough CONSUMPTION. Perhaps, however, it is
right to make from such rigid possible military
array, deduction in favor OF the population
which abandoned the seeding States since the
war began, and that which, .intrinsicslly loyal,
has eyaded enrolment In default of any Ger.
tain information this may be placed at 5000
men, thus leaving 100000 soldiers fit for ser
vice and ready 70 be concentrated and marched
% the skill of their commanders may determine.
Such is the strength Of the array that now
contests and resists the cause of advancing Free
dom in the nation. The strength is not over
estimated; that the conscription has been re-
morseless is proved by every critical battle
field where our armies have been outnumbered
and is to-day doubly attested by our beleagured
\ capital, and widely menaced frontiers. There
then, is the rebellion stripped to the skin
" Look at it squarely. Those 100000 soldiers
stand between us and any future of honor, lib
erty, or peace. How are they to be disposed Of
defeated, or suppressed? ~
It is an imposing column of attack, but it has
also its element of weakness and Dispersion
Remember that in making such an estimate, il
has been predicted upon the fact that the en-
tire available white population was devoted te
the formation Of armies. No part was assigned
to the labor of the field or work. shop, to pro-
duction or manufacture but all this vast Or
ganization reposes for sustenance, not to speal
of efficiency, on the hard wrung toll of slaves
Reflect, furthermore, that this whole foundation
is mined, eruptive, ready to shift the burden
now resting on it so heavily. The three and
half millions of black population engaged il
supplying the very necessaries Of life and move
ment of the Confederate armies are all loyal il
their hearts to our cause, and require only th
electric shock of proclaimed freedom to dis
rupt the relation that gives such esectness ant
inpulsion to our sdvsrsariee, and such peril t.
ourselves. $500 "a! aIl ag
Years of bondage have only sharpened thei
sensibilities toward liberty, and the word spoke1
that causes such hope viii penetrate ever
quarter of the South most lspeedily and mos
6ureIys GU8uClpStc tuo IuUVoSIy tu0t UpuolV
Z the war power Of the South; destroy the repos
of that system which has made possible . lev
en..naasse Of every white male able to bear arm.
recall the tillsge of the field; to the care Of th
- plantation; to the home supports of the com
= munity corresponding number of the i've an
!. half millions Of whites, and there will b. pu
5 another face to this war. Compel the rebels t
oa do their own work, hand for hand, planting
= harvesting, victualing, transporting the fu
substitution Of the three and half millions Z
Sc blacks, now held fog that purpose, and wher
now they advance With armies they win fall bac
F.. with detachments; where abundance now reign
in their camps hunger will hurry them to othe
avocations. It needs only that the word b
spoken. A national declaration Of freedom ca
, no more be hidden from the remetsst section
of the Slave States than, the uprisen Sun in
cloudless sky. The falsehoods, the doabts, th
repulsions that have heretofore driven them fro,
u.s. will give place to the kindling, mesmeri
realization of protection and delverance. I
the very outset their forces, which now marc
to the attack, will be compelled to fall back o
the interior In maintain authority and nrevep