The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05

ia banquet was recently given to Gener
Rosseau Of Kentucky, BY the Union men
Louisville. The General discussed the slave,
question with great holiness, and showed clea
~ enough that ne is not a conditional Unio
man." and if the question comes whethe
slavery must perish in order to save the Un;or
there will be no doubt as to how he will meet il
Gen. Rosseau said
This rebellion is lie, from the beginning
There was never any cause for it. To begin an
keep it up system of wholesale living wa
adopted, and is pursued industriousjy 10 tbi
day. 1t is the only stock in trade thew have
They could teach the devil himself much he neve
knew before about lying. Wherever the arm,
has gone it has met this fell spirit of falsebood
We have taken none of their property we hay,
excluded their slaves from our lines: wbe,
needed, We have placed guards of our soldier
around their houses, to protect them, and We
they persist in calling us abolitionists and neerr
thieves. Behind and before Us this has been 1h,
CRY OF the enemies of the government Nov
| the army of Ger. Halleck is eminentIy conserva
tive. l believe there is neither an ibolition;s
nor secessionist in it. If there is one of eithe,
faction, do not know it. So orderly. 80 patri
otto, and so conservative body of men believe
never before assembled together. That army. in
it's intercourse with the secessionists, has plead
ed, and is still pleading for peace under the old
government, offering to our Southern brethren
all they ever had, and claiming nothing except
in common with them. They want to take moth
ing from any one, but desire that their southern
brethren shall enjoy all their rights unimpared.
But the negro is in the way, in spite of all that
can be done or said. Standing before the eve
of the secessionlst, the negro hides all the bless.
ings of our government, throwing black
shadow on the sun ITSELF If it had been anv
other species of property tina: stood in the way
the army, provoked as it has been, would will
lingly have seen its quick destruction. But the
negro they did not wish to interfere with in anv
way. Yet with all it's conservatism and natr;o.
tism, the army has grown weary Of this insane
CRY of abolitionism as a cause for bresk;po
up the government. 1870
I" I have warned our Southern friends of the
danger of continuing it much longer; and I tell
you tonight that, if this war continues a vear
from this day, there will not be a slave on this
continent. The great revolution will take care
't itself-the dead will bury its dead-and those
who are causing all the bloodshed and desolation
around US under the false pretense that we de.
sire to free their negroes, will, if they persist
'ne day ind slavery snufed out as YOU would
'nutf out a candle. Slavery is not worth our
government. 1t is not worth our liberty. It is
lot worth the free navigation of the Mississippi
liver. No; we must still have our government
If not as it now is, with slavery in it, still we
must have our government We cannot he
laves to JEFF Davis g. Co., We must and will
'e free. We mus. have the free navigation of
be Mississippi river, and if slavery gets in the
Vay of any Of these rights, why slavery must
ct out of the way. That would be the last re-. |
ort, and should be sorry to have recourse tn
!; but am for the government of our fathers
galnst all things and everybody. While the
berries of the people are secure under it. as
hey ever have been, would allow nothing but
cath to prevent my upholdDg it. And, 10th az
on may De to decide, you will soon, as believe.
called upon to do 80. In spite of YOUR en-.
'eaties, the issue will be cruelty thrust mn,
on, and you will be forced to decide between
avery and yonr wives and children. As for
re, am ready for the responsibility. Southern
AN as am, born and brought up in the South.
ith all my sympathies with the South. conld
't hesitate one moment when the issue is pre. I
nted between the niger and the government q
our fathers. am for the government of the :
nited States against all its enemies. I hopefp
ID pray that our Southern friends will not ki'
rec Us to extremes on this sensitive point Wal c
precate such result, for we want our right q
der the Constitution, and we are all ready to G.
'It Tor theirs under the good old government. 81
would to day most willingly grid on nv sword t
d fight for any right belonging to them. slave. h
included, but they must not put slavery he. P
cen me and the government and laws of the
llted States. viii not consent to become n 81
We that the negro may be kept slave. will pl
sacIitce the happiness of my wife, children m
q friends, the welfare of my beloved State. P
the glory OF my country, on an altar dedi. 4 W
ed to the Ebony Idol.' When see placed tfn
one side government formed by the noblest Va
the world has ever produced, the legacy of b1
ashington to the human race, glorious coun. tn
MED with happy and enlightened people.
ADMIRED or feared Oh every spot that il oh
dden by the foot of civilized man, and on the ri,
er country rent into Insignificant fragments. lie,
aged IN continual wars with each other, each cir
ts Knees begging assistance from some foreign Pc
narcn or other against rival fragment, an ed
oct OF contempt to him who uses it for bis w
purpose, then shall not be long in coming mn
decision, though negro slavery may be on Dr.
side and not on the other"
Turned into Charcoal ...Tbe :'u
!ergy and Doctors In ConsuItsrIon.o ms
er skin Stripped of, etc. de,
From the New York Express act
ne meolcai gentlemen OF this city have been kin
high fsverish state of consultation, for some
past over a very extraordinary lusus no- the
I'm the shape and form of a woman ed
Oh Or. e. Perkins, of Oneida, has been in Wis
ucing to the faculty here and to an aston mes
d and astounded world str.
Miss Perry, Of Oneida, net yet Madame. pit,
now about tbirty-seven years has city
. It seems iSs fourteen years past, turning feet
caa.eoas! enc is very good woman, 50 ing
a n!eu 'nere-a Chrlstlan'-prays and reads wit
Bible; and her piety has SO inspired all the the
= and the surrounding country, that thew eati
not see why and wherefor the dav;, I
ID get into her before she died, and bepin ate
'ver her up with formation of carbon and of l
coai' on her limbs, in her interior, etc Fac
sou 'he caroon formation was forever 10 Mrs
srve her, carbon being d great conservst;.s was
y; others, however, that the devil had been Yor
'itted to seize the saint living, to burn up i
'p quick, as soon as he could get her. tans