The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-21

lemonstrat'on OF TIE power Of the Gove,n-s
rom Cairo to the Balixe, IL an even, .st
vast importance tbss IL alone NAV hs s., ~ M
eide the fate OF the Southern Confsds..~
How men could be 20 mad 40 10 supooss ~ W
population like that upon the upper ~. s
ever consent to be debarred from ,h.i, ';. ssouh
way TO the Gulf 10 certainly quite n =, Icy It
prehensiop; and yet, sho has forsa,,sn' :, coz.
Of confidence with which the Confeds,. ~
clared IL closed, and TO remain 40 e,.ae
their good pleasure; In al time TO co,nas
recollect well tte announcement thai ..s, We
was planted on its4anks by order Of 81, .s.an,,ery
ernor Of AississippI. and how Il tool ,s as s''.
Try by surprise, not uumixed With ,nc.ss oar
aud even amusement. Of such reported n..sly
tion. Let rs recur 70 some announs.pp 'sssnp-
excitingly made by Rebel priuu At tS ., y
Here IL from the Memphis Avalanche ~ Ipenod
18th, 1851: " 'snuay
.Ju.s above vicksburg, by direction :. Z
ernor Pettus, . battery has been e,s., y vos.
every boat hailing from north Of ~ 'sd
Dixon's line Is compelled to round n 80. md
an account Of themselves. Tbs Imo.,,.' ~
this port, passed there during the pirb. ~, fos
forced to land &c the behest Of t.sI.s aa 20
shot fred across her bows. VI cou,.. i. p'a's
all right and vent on. The new Rensh,;.s ~
ing 10 work 10 eorneot'
Here. again, Is from the Memphis r,.,,.
gus Of January 18th: A.
cincinnati steamboatmen bsye hss, ;, -,
into fever from the Governor Of u,.' 'are5i
ordering cannon and q militar, ca.hspa
Vicksburg to hall all steamboats, p,a,inp
abolition joarnals howl over 1t. and s,a Inc
incsnsed. We would like to see ts.nSsaI
themselves" 'u nslp
Such was the prelude to events vh;,,,
since drawn the eyes Of the ciyili,sd "a sa's
the Valley Of the Aississippi-a preirS.
tined TO humble to the last degree ,b. n,.' ~
tuous functionary who led Oh there in s..p
hottie attitude, since the city which .l
scene of his follies, with others az me- 70
made to succumb to tho power 20 fool;,si. sa
lenged to trial of strength. And ~. sost
remember that these hostile acts tool 800
early - January of that year, that liz Gu
ment had not made the FIRST moyems,,
woke condition of war, we NAV nro,..r ~
mate the assumed forbearance Of III, wv
plotters In the Cotton States who .f,., w
had succeeded in getting themselves. in,o =.
perate scrape, coolly insisted upon /, ,h,, ~.
only desired ito be let alone.n
And this reminds US Of another co,s,.,..
precedent in regard to these matters I. ~.
assumption insisted upon all o,er n. D.,
States-that bat for the President. 80, =. .
seventy i've thousand men, after he .,,,or -
Fort Sumter, there would not bave h.sn =.
feeling of enmity and hostility aroused ,e,;rss
the Government.
Now, in truth, tie seay teas 6eqs q, MG-L
~ The 14ississippi riser. Besides yns,e -.
threatening the people of the whole y,l,s, !,
the Mississippi in their navigation az ,hsl,
great thoroughfare to the Gulf; We mus. rsmeu.
Der, also. that long before the Pres deut, c,IJ
for the "seventy.6ye thousand referred IA tbs
Rebel Congress passed a law providing for ,hs
raising OF zone hundred Thousand men" Via
In the loyal States, however, troubled then
selves about thai, threatening as il appeared to
the public peacef-and yet 1t was passed !,
Montgomery only two days after Mr.. Lincolns
Inauguration, and before he had done ANYTHING
to demonstrate hostile policy. We quote The
Law in question:
That in order to provide speedily forces to
repel invasion, maintain the rightful possession
OF the Confederate States Of America in every
portion OF territory belonging to each State, and
to secure the public trsr guilty and indepepd.
ence against threatened assault, the President be
and he 10 hereby authorized to employ the mill
tia, military and naval forces Of the Confedersn
States Of America, and ask for and accep, the
services Of any number Of volunteers no. exceed.
ing one hundred hoaad"
It did not need the attack on Fort Sumter by
the rebels in April to demonstrate their dessr.
mined purpose to wage war for the dessructln
of the Union and the Constitution; the doines
at Vicksburg we're ample to demonstrate their
criminal intentions mcIIths before, linked In The
desperate conspiracy as Mississippi with South
Carolina, when the former was so Immediately
under the lead OF Mr.. Jefferson DAVE And ye,
the cry in the disloyal States even yet is, the
South would never have gone 70 war, hand j,
not been for the Presidents call for troopas-
Away with such hypocrisy.
In the light Of the great rast, as We scan Ito.
day, it is easy to see the bearings ofshese mote.
nents; it is easy, perhaps, to understand .hi!
'vsr-weening confidence felt by the rebel lead
srs in entering upon the great conflict Having
'lready, month before Mr.. Lincoln's call to,
,roops made provision for raising tWsnty.f Ave
thousand more than the latter had deemsd 1t
hat time necessary, why should they not laugh
q Cabinet council at Montgomery 1T iadingshs
resident so far "behind time 2" The artillery
eveled at the peaceful commerce Of the North
Vest, the "twelve. pound shot" fred at ViekS
'urg, was, after all, the real 6egi,ung Of Hs great
o'ttest, only that the people OF the loyal stalea
ess pugnacious, In fact, earnestly DESTROYS Of
'eace, old not ''see it," They bore and lore
'ore. They considered the demonstration Of the
ebel Governor as rather in the light of IKE
han otherwise; and IL absolutely took the can.
ION brought to bear upon Fl. Sumter nearly two
lays TO convince them otherwise.
The loyal and the disloyal sections understood
ach other at last, and on that score there will
,e no difficulty in the future. The Montgomery
gentlemen have ceased to "lapgb;" tie aruiIsry
# Gov. Pettus no longer threatens the Mlssi,'
ippi at Vicksburg; the "6ve to one" theory Is
played out" 1t has taken year or more 70
dJust these and other matters which entered
nto the differences betwixt the two sectons,sDd
Vhas 10 left unsettled will also be settled before
eng And what reckoningf I,ookiug back
Ipon it all at present, what fierce and persst
mt effort was made to bring on the quarrel %
be one side, what forbearance and patience wu
xercised on the others Reluctant TO rscogniW
be traitorous purpose until 1t was brought "
he verge of total disintegration and ruin, nov
lowly did the Government, since demonstrated
be one Of the mgbtiest in its power to make
'ar that has ever existed in the whole tide Of
me, come up to the unnatural conflict Tsunt
with the declaration that IL "could NOT b
sS "oAS iouoSu, tuIehFneo " u.s.
last turned upon the yelping pack which howl
defiance on all sides, and as they are scstier.
. In dismay 10 the astonishment Of tbsiy syn
athizers in other lands, its character 10 thus
eng ehectually indicated to the end Of time.
ot in all the annals Of the past has foolish
resumption met with a more deserved and
gnal chsstisement, never was a great lesson
lore needed by the nations Of the earth
An APPALLING FAcT.-The beresvements Of
10 war 90 far Is the single city OF New M.
'ans 10 conncsrned, have dreadful exem.
liaoation In the appalling fact, stated BY ths
ew Orleans Delta, that there ere now NO few.
than twenty four hundred orphan ehildrss
the several ssylums Of that city.
A like fact would bs revaled In almost svs1
euthern city by invsstigation. How MANI
Unprotected little orphans are there now vsa.
sr'ng In rags and want about our s,rssiss-
o., and as they pass mournfully along