The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-15

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In the same way and with the same means in an
with which the King of Naples was in the habi
of suppressing them; but it 10 certain that "
can not AFFORD to initiate him in his manner Q
maintaining the re established authority Of th
Goyernment fCheers But now look at th
sesk before you. am willing to suppose tha
the Rebel armies will be beaten and disperse,
with greater ease and facility than I at presen
deem it possible. Then the spirit of disloyalt
must be extinguished, the source Of the mischie
must be stopped. This cannot be done by strate
gic movements and success in battle. How
then, Is it TO be done ? Take the State Of Soutl
Carolina: you beat the Rebels defending it's sol
and occupy the whole State with your troops
Armed resistance to the authority of the Unitet
States becomes impossible but you want to re
store the active cooperation Of the people o.
South Carolina in the Governmento Of the United
States, without which the restoration of the ole
order of things is impossible. Now, you either
call upon the people of South Carolina to eleci
new State authorities of their own, or you i'm
pose upon them Provisional Government, an
pointed by the President at Washington. n
the first place, the people Of South Carolina-s
large majority Of whom are disloyal, and those
who are not disloyal are not loyal either Zap
plause] and to certain extent seem to be in
corrigible-are most likely to elect new Sc,
of Seceesionists to Office. It will be re.organi
cation of treason and conspiracy; for you must
know that conspiracies do not only precede re-
bellions, but also follow unsuccessful ones The
new State Government is at once in conflict
with the Federal authorities. The latter find
themselves counteracted and clogged in every
imaginable way; aud after series Of unsuccess.
full attempts to secure q cordial and Trustworthy
cooperation, after season of tiresome and
fruitlees wrangles, they find themselves obliged
&c resort to sterner measures then forcible sup.
preston of every combination hostile to the
Union close surveillance Of press and speech ;
martial law where the civil tribunals are found
insufficient in one word, steady and energetic
pressure Of force, by which the Federal Govern
ment overrules and coerces the refractory State
authorities.
You will see at once that If this pressure be
not strong enough, it will not furnish the Gov
ernment of the United States the necessary
guarantees Of peace and security; aud if it be
strong enough to do that it will not leave to the
State Government that freedom Of action upon
which our whole political fabric is based. Or
you follow the other course indicated-insti-
tute provisional governments by appointment
from the President, in q manner similar to that
in which territories are organized. Then the
General Government enters into immediate re-
lation with the people of the rebellious district
While it leaves to the people the election Of
the Territorial Legislature, if may call 1t so, it
controls the action of that Legislature by the
vote of the Executive and the rulings Of the
judiciary in q regular and organic way. Thus
mischief may be prevented, the execution of the
laws secured, and the supremacy of the General
own agents, until the States can be reorganized
with safety to the Union. This plan may be
preferable to the other, inasmuch as it will pre-
vent the continuation Of rebellious lntrigues and
facilitate the repression and punishment Of dis
loyal practices without conflict with lawfully
instituted authorities but it is evident that such
a condition of things cannot last long without
essentially changing the nature of our general
system of government. In either case it will be
the rule of force, modified by circumstances,
ready to respect individual rights, wherever SUBJ
mission is complete, and to overrule them where.
ever necessity may require it. Do not say that
these things are less dangerous because they are
done with the assent of the majority; for the
assent of the people to consolidation of pow
eris the first step toward subversion of liberty.
I Applause.] But is indeed this Government, in
struggling against rebellion, in re.establish ing
its authority, reduced to policy which would
nearly oblterate the line separating Democracy
from Absolutism? It is it really unable to stand
this test of it's character? For this is the true
test of the experiment If our democratic in.
stutons pass this crisis unimpaired, they will be
than ever; if not, the decline will be
rapid aud irremediable. But can they pass it
Yes. This Republic has her des-
tiny in her hands. She may transform her great
est danger and distress into the greatest triumph
of her principles. [Cheering There would
have been no rebellion, had there not been a
despotic interest incompatible with the spirit of
her democratic institutions lCheersl, and she
has the glorious and inestimabIe privilege of
suppressing this rebellion, by enlarging liberty
instead of restraining it lgreat cheeringl, by
granting rights, instead of violating them.-
["Good." Applause,
shall have to speak of Slavery, and wish
you would clearly understand me. am an Anti
Slavery man. (Cheering) All the moral i'm
pulses of my heart have made me go, and all the
working of my brain has confirmed me in my
faith. Loud applause. "Hear, hear.m have
never hesitated to plead the cause of the outrag-
ed dignity of human nature. could not do
otherwise; and whatever point of argument I
might gain with any one, if denied it, 1 would
not deny it, / shall never deny it. ("Good,
good" Applause.) And yet, it is not my life.
long creed, which would make me urge the de-
struction of Slavery nop. As an Anti Slavery
man, would be satisfied with the effect tho
course of events is already producing upon Sa.
very. When formerly argued in favor of its
restriction, knew well and clearly that as soon
a tho nf fho all INT sv,o
itical life was destroyed, the very life of Slavery
was gone, and the institution would gradually
disappear. For many reasons would have pre-
ferred this gradual and peaceful process. Inever
was in favor of precipitate measures, where a
quiet and steady reform was within the limits of
practicability. (Cheers.) But the rebellion,
which placed Slavery in direct practical an
tagonism with the institutions most dear to us,
has prodigiously hastened this developement.
said already that do not deem another victory
Of Slavery over the National conscience impos.
sible; but this reaction will produce new strug.
giles, with passions more fierce, with resentments
more acrimonious and reckless, and dangerous
to cur democratic institutions, aud violent in
their nature; but as to Slavery, radical and con-
elusive in their results (Applause.) This re-
belion has uprooted the very foundations of the
system, and Slavery is not far from its DEATH
\ShSSAoJ ~ "sa' Wv ohu ~ yOu WOuiu3 yOu
could not prevent it. (Applause.) And thus,
as an Anti-Slavery man, might wait and look
on with equanimity. But what do not want to
see s, that Slavery, in this death struggle, should
involve the best institutions that ever made
nation great and happy. 1t shall not entangle
the Union in its downfall, and, therefore, the
Union must deliver itself Of it's pernicous en-
brace.
And now listen to what have to say of the
third possible result Of the revolution through
which we are passing, the only result which will
restore the Union, and save the spirit of its
democratic institutions. The ambition, the as.
pirations Of men grow from the circumstances
in which they live. As these circumstances
change, these aspirations will take cor-espon-
ding direction. A slaveholding population,
welded to the peculiar interests of their pecu.
liar institutions, will, In their aspirations and
political action, be governed by the demand oi
those interests II these interests are incompa.
tible with loyalty to certain established form
of Government, that population will be disloyal
in its aspirations. Their way of thinking, their
logic, their imagnations, their habits, are 90 ef
fected and controlled by their circumstances
that as long as the latter remain the came, the
former are not likely to change. Imagine this
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