The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-22

navy, however brilliant, occupying the Southern
coast and the cities upon the sea shore. This.
though well and very well, will be but scratch
ing the extremities of the giant, instead Of deal
ing blows at his heart That heart palpitates
de6antly in the armies Of Leo and jackson.
which have so recently rsvaged Maryland, and
still from the banks of the Potomac threaten the
capital
Ny faith in ell this matter is simple and brief.
" stated. II is this: For all things that are
for the Union-sgsinst all things that are
against it. am for the Union as uncondition.
ally as am for protecting my own body, at
every cast and hazard, from the knife Of the as
sassin. No human institution, no earthly inter-
est, shall ever by me be weighed in tbs scales
against the life ofmy country. Least Of all viii
approach with unsandalled feet, or permit to be
thus weighed, an institution, the feeding foun-
tain OF whose being-the African slave trade
the laws Of my country have for more than for
ty years denounced 40 crime worthy Of death
. crime not against any particular code, or any
particular form of civilization, but . crime
against the very race to which We belong. -
HOSTS horsoni ge,,eris is the designation which
the Christian legislation of the United States has
given to the African slave trader.
yield to no man in veneration for the Con-
stitutiou, or in determination that its blessings
sholl be extended to those who respect and obey
it. The door to all these blessings is widely
open to the Southern people, and they are earn.
estly invoked by the President to enter in and
enjoy them. r
These institutions and their every interest
are in their own hands, and can be saved not
only from ruin, but from the slightest injury, by
the utterance of . single words word Of duty
and of honor. But, If in their passionate pur>
suit of separate empire, and in their blind re-
sentiments against brethren who have never
wronged them, they refuse to speak that word,
and prefer to perish themselves, rather than
that the loyal States shall escape destruction
be it go. The world will judge Alright and his
tory will record its judgment. But 10 1t not
childish practice to say that the South can
claim to be at the same moment the proteqe and
the destroyer Of the Constitution Does it not
require an audacity absolutely satanic to insist
that the bene6cent provisions of that hallowed
instrument shall be secured to States and peo-
pie who are hourly spurning and splitting upon
its authority, ard who are reading forward vast
armies to overwhelm it, and with it the homes
and hopes of all who are rallying in its defense
War-certajnly one like this, in selE-defense-
is clearly constitutional; but, if such war has
it's restraints, it has also it's rights and duties
prominent among which is the right and duty of
weakening the enemy by all possible means, and
thus abridging the sanguinary conflict. Never
until now has it entered into the imaginations
OF men to conceive that among these duties is
that of seeing that the enemy is clothed and fed
and armed before be is struck. In prosecuting
the war, while exercising our right to weaken
the enemy, we may destroy not only ships upon
the sea, and fortresses and cities upon the land,
hs,th ,,pnn I~kA IL
institution, what material interest is there be-
longing to the enemy that we are obliged to
spare, even though by so doing We perish our
selves? The Constitution is not..a charter of Ma.
tional death. All movements which seek or
tend to the dissolution Of the Government
erected by it, and of which it lie the soul, are
in conflict with its spirit, aud with the scope
and end OF its enactments, and may be resisted
to the death by it's express or implied authority.
Neither the keenest vision nor the most delicate
ear can detect in any line or letter of that elo-
rious charter the faintest throb of sympathy With
treason or traitors.
Pardon these hurried words which are spoken
in elimination of none but in grief alone. There
is abundant cause for sorrow but none for de-
spair No man more sincerely desires the re-
establishment of the Union than does the Presi.
dent himself. Let it be our trust that while an
october sun Is yet shining, the mind on which
all depends will devise ways and means to over.
come every obstacle to the onward march and
triumph of our armies.
New York has already sent hundred and
seventy regiments into the field. The muskets
they bear prove that they are unconditional
Union men. God forbid that the fathers, and
brothers, and sons whom they have left behind
should, through show of dissension at the bal
lot box, do aught to weaken their hands or add
to the strength and courage of the traitors
whose swords are lifted against their bosoms. :
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. HoLr