The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-05

al Government. The real grievance Is that he
blockade is done too thoroughly, and Mr. Gre.
CORY wishes England to abate the nuisance by
declaring that it is not done at all T.
eE 1t is evident from the tone of our latest
advices that q great battle is soon to be fought
at or near Corinth, Miss, which will decide the
destiny of rebellion 10 the West. Both sides
are making tremendous preparations for this
conflict, which is not far off.
e8- The Memphis Avalanche, of the 18th
says Gen. Lee has been appointed Commander
in-chief Of the Confederate Army. The report
that the appointment had been conferred on
Beauregard is untrue. 4.u q
VERY LKELY.-The view is generally taken
at Washington that the Westward movement of
JEFF Davis is actually fight to save his bacon
In an able speech made in the Senate ofNew
York in the debate on the expulsion of Mr..
Bright, by Judge Law of Sullivan County, we
find the following striking passages: s,fs 81
.we fail TO appreciate the era in which our
lot is cast. We fail to realize the rapidity of
the march of events, moving swiftly and ire
sistibly forward, but neuer backward, and
changing almost in a moment the whole aspect
of the country and sweeping from our minds
the tissues of forms, precedents, technicalties
and learned absurdities as the swift wind drives
away the mountain msts. The truth is-and
we might as well learn it at once--we are max
| ing history for the future; not reading that of
the past. We are stamping our own charac-
| ter and impress upon people and nationalities
| yet unborn, and whose veal or woe will be de-
| termined by our conduct now. .e.I
81 have no fear of the guillotine in the in
| telligent, the free the patriotic North. But
| will tell the learned Senator where, at no dis.
tant day, he may find the counterpart of the
| bloody horrors he has invoked. Where wrong
and crime and oppression have already worn
| deep the channels of human suffering; where
| the pent-up aspirations of enslaved and de-
| graded men beat vainly against their prison.
bars; where the chains of human bondage clank
harshly upon the unwilling ear, and the COVER
| ing victim that wears the image of his God is
bought and sold and worked and whipped by
his fellow man; where violence and treacbery
and terror stalk through the land; where loyal
men are dragged to the scaffold for no crime
but that of fealty to their Government, and
| weeping women and innocent children are fee
| ing to the rocks and mountains to hide them
selves from the armed robbers that scourge the
land" sts Ifir
member Of the Democratic party, and such
words from him afford a clear indication Of The
| revolution which this atrocious rebellion has
= very influential class Of Northern men,
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