The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29
JUNE, NE, \ 1889


this matter! We have talked Of strict neu
trality. I0ish our statesmen, particularly on,
Cabinet Msnisters, rould enforce npon their o,on
tongues httle of that principle ofnon. ia,erves.
tion Whieh they profess Is apply to taer diplomacy
TLaughter and cheers. I We are told very fts.
quently at public meetings that we must re-.
cognize the South; but that recognition of the
South, is always coupled with another object,
viz, 20 obtain the cotton You want, because
If il were not for the distress brought on us BY
the civil wsr in America I don't think humanity
would induce us to.interfere any more than Il
does in any other war in other parts Of the
world And now let us trJ to dispel this float.
ing fallacy which has been srread through the
country by interested persons. Your recogni.
ton of the South would not give you cotton;
but the recognition Of the South in the minds
Of parties who use that term is coupled with
something more. There is an idea Of going
aud interfering by force to put an end to that
contest in order that the cotton may be set free.
If were President Lincoln and found myself
rather in difficulty on account Of the pressure
of taxation, or on account Of discord in the
Union ranks and If wanted to see the whole
population united as one man ready to make
me despot, should wish nothing better than
for England, France, or both together, to at.
now Of the elections which are going on in
America, and look to those elections with the
greatest interest. ,.as the only indication to guide
me in forming . judgement of the future
You see it stated that in those elections there
is some disuuion of parties, but let the foreign
er interfere in that quarrel, and all the old
lines of demarcation will be effaced forever;
and you will have united people Joined togeth-
er to repel the Intrusion. Hear, hear. It was
go in France in the great revolutionary war.
What was it that caused the Reign Of Terror
but the cry Of alarm that the foreigner was
to invade them land the aristocrats were
guillotined as traitors to their country because
they were friends of the foreigner. d And let
ne remind you that your interference
would not obtain cotton. IL would have, in
the present state of armaments, very little eff
feet on the combstants., If people were gen..
orally better acquainted with the geography of
America, and the state of its population, they
would see how much we are apt to exaggerste
even our power to interfere to produce any
result on this contest. The policy to be pur-
sued by the North will be decided by the elec-
tions in the great Western States-l mean the
great growing region of the Mississippi Valley,
the States Of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Ii they de-
termine 10 carry on the war and say" Wewin
never make peace while the mouths Of the Mis-
sissippi, which drain $1,000 miles of Davigable
water into the ocean, remain in the hands Of q
foreign power,"we could never expect to put
period tosit. eYoulmust remember that you
have to 60 600 miles up the Mississippi before
youget TO that vast region, peopled by eight
or ten millions of souls, that will be the future
depository of the wealth aud numbers of that
great continent: and whatever the will Of that
people is, New York is but the broker of their
opinion, and New York, Pennsylvania and
New England must 60 with them. 1t is as idle
then, as the talk Of children for France AID
England to pretend that they can go there and
reach that population. For my part, think
the language which is used sometimes In cer-
tain anarters with regard to the power Of this
country to 60 and impose its will upon the
population Of America almost savors Of the
ludicrous. When America had but 500, 600
of population we could not enforce our will
upon it. And when you, consider the tendency
Of modern ornaments and when you have, to
deal with civilized people having the same me-
chanical appliances as yourselves, and when
that people number ten or twenty millions, it
is next to impossible for any forces to be trans.
ported across, The Atlantic which win, effect q
conquest. Englisbmen are very apt TO think
that they can do any thing by force. Let them
Danish that idea their interference in this case
would only do harm and in the end you would
not got yohr cotton. Even if you could, what
price would you pay for it /! Iknow something
of the way in which money is voted in the
House of Commons for warlike armamelts even
in time of peace, and venture to say that i
would be, cheaper to keep al the population en-
gagged iny the cotton manufscture-.ay, to keep
them on turtles champagne and ysnison--than
to send to America to obtain that c0,tonIby force
of arms. Laughter and cheers, IT would il
volveyou ina war.and six months of war would
cost more money than would, be required to
maintain this population Comfortably for ten
years. CHEERS. hfgm lfI 10 ,lsn4EA s4sb9G
,..-,-cr 5.,. Dry Goods. :, ~ = es;ssV
There 8 considerable abatement in the der
mand for goods. Jobbers are buying very
cautiously and less liberally, being anxious 70
avoid heavy stocks at the close of the season.
Goods, however, are very firm in price and
stocks are light in first hands. Domestic prints
are less active, but are firmly held under are-
ricted supply. Brown and bleached shiFtings
and sheetipgs are veIy Quiet and the M4EkSt