The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-11-08

can impede their fight. While the pro-slsvery
fogies and dotards Of Missouri are prating of the
preservation Of their "rights," and conservation
Of their constitutional privileges these same
rights and constitutional privileges ere taking
unto themselves wings. In few months q
farthest, there will be few such rights and priv
iieges to be enjoyed in the blessed State Of MIS-
souri,
He must move rapidly who, in these times,
would not be rnn down and trampled under foot
BY the car of progress. Old gaits must be aban.
doned. Men that once INDUCED the precious
privilege of walking to suit themselves, must
now run in self-defence. Inexorable fate pur-
sues them; and the laggard who sits down on his
OLD rotten stump by the way-side to rest, will
never overtake his companions in the front of
the race.
The rush of current events is mighty and ire.
sistible. Two years ago to have advocated
emancipation, in Palmyra, of even the most grad.
ual character, would have subjected the daring
man to the halter or the stake. One year ago,
the fountains of the great deep, though heaving,
mad not yet broken up. Now, they dash over
the land, and the e6ete institution on which we
nave hung our hopes and anchored our life.boats
are swashed of like empty tenements on the low
sea shore All that We can now hope or expect
to do is to save the pieces"
The people of Missouri are mad, crazy, fit for
the asylum for the insane, if they refuse to see
the facts as they really exist. A miserable eys-
tenn, the curse and ruin of the State even in its
very best aspects, is now unloosened and about
to be cast of. To the State and the people it is
now worse than worthless. While We comtem-
plate in CONSERVATION this fact, the Federal
government steps forward voluntarily and says
People of the State Of Missouri. you have in your
midst system of labor disastrous to your very
interest. You chose it yourselves The General
Government has left you free in this natter
NOW 1t is seen that it produces discord and re-
oelion-that all its tendencies are pestiferous to
the State and nation. Ifyou, Of your own
choice, will abandon that institution, the Gov
eFnment O will compensate you for your losses
You are free to act in the premises as your own
views and feelings may dictate-but the Gov
ernment warns you that causes beyond its con-
tro! are conspiriDg to destroy your institution
ana its advice to you 10 to accept the PROPOSE
ton. So.
Inc real question Of the people Of Missouri to
decide is, whether they will have emancipation
with compensation, or emancipation without
cent IN direct return. One or the other must be
CHOSEN. The issue can neither be lodged nor de.
ierteo Emancipation is decreed by the edicts
OF nign Heaven. The act is irrepealable, in
ehaceable-its reconsideration has been moved
and laid upon the table by God Himself. Then
why struggle longer against an irrevocsble de-
cree! The Government extends its hand with
compensation. The question is, will you take
the sum offered, or will you turn your ragged
back on your benefsctor, and spurn the noble
grasuity. You must be your own choosers-and
that quickly. The Government will not long
stand in the attitude of suppliant, entreating
you to accept its gift, while you spurn its gen.
erosity with deprecating negligence or positive
insults. You must move quickly, promptly,
cheerfully, in the responsive, or you move will
come too late. Already, powerful influences
are at work to induce the President to include
the State of Missouri in his forthcoming procls.
nation, at New Years. upon .the very true and
plausible grounds that Missouri is and has been
fearfully rebellious in this struggle. Ifyou act
favorably upon the question now before you, you
can control the matter. If you do not, others
will control it for you. Your own destiny is in
your own hands. See that you act wisely and
not too late.