The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-09-20
HOW THE REBELs ABE HELPED

HOW THE Rebels ARE HELPED
n al From the N. Y. Evening Post.
The present civil war has its marvels; and
one of them is the extent to which the rebels
are supplied with arma In the late battles be
fore Richmond and between Richmond and
Washington, of which We have been obliged to
give go sad an account, We had them at no dis
advantage in this respect. They were we'll fur
nished with rifles and cannon, and used them
with deadly effect .......
Yet the time has been when We fancied We
had shut them out from the various markets in
which arms were procured They do not and
cannot manufacture for themselves. to any ex-
tent, these destructive engines of war; and We
had surrounded them, IS We thought, with q
barrier Of armed vessels which would effectual-
y prevent arms from being imported, When
We proclaimed the blockade We said to our
selves, snow We have sealed up their ports, and
however strong their disposition may be to re-
sist the lawful Government, they must submit,
for they will have nothing to fight with" TO
our setonishmsnt We find that the duration of
the, blockade makes no difference 10 the album
dance of their supply Of the Weapons and mu-
in battles, damaged by careless use, thrown
away in fight, sunk in rivera and harbors, are
made up by new importations. Hs
The rebel government orders new levies Of
men these are equipped with weapons imme.
diately; guerrilla bands start up in the border
States they are all accoutered in some manner
which makes them formidable. OF the popula
ton Of the insurgent States, capable Of bearing
arms, amounting to nearly million, We suppose
there are few who have not fire arms of some
sort The stories which We heard of their be-
ing badly supplied with weapons turn out, when
We come to meet them ir battle, to be gross ex.
aggerations. They hsveifar more firearms than
shoes. Hungry they may be !. ragged and
barefooted they certainly are, but they carry RI
fes, and are provided with powder and ball, and
discharge their pieces with fatal aim. They
have their batteries we'll mounted with cannon,
on our great rivers, from the banks of which
they assail our commerce and defy siege and
bombardment.
How are they provided with armss Let them
answer for themselves. A valued correspondent
who has wealthy slavehoding relatives that hap
place in one of the Eastern States, gives 10 their
explanation. I'VE have" say they, .armories in
England; but for England we should have been
obliged to end this war long ago for the want Of
the necessary weapons. She is our best friend,
and friend in need. English foundries cast
our cannon; English artisans forge our rifles
English vessels bring them over; English adven.
turers run your blockade, and keep good the
supply of arms as fast as the circumstances OF
war diminish it. 1t is . merit in England to
break the blockade; it is virtue to supply the
oppressed South with the means of separating
from the Union. The contrabandist who under.
takes this is philanthropic parsonage and high.
ly respectable. The English press is on his side,
the English ministers encourage him BY taking
every opportunity to Say that the cause Of Union
is hopeless and the success of the Slave States
certain, and condemn the mannerin which the
Free States are carrying on the war"
Interpolation is literally exact. It is true
that had our generals shown half IS much wis
dom 40 our soldiers have shown valor, the war
would have been over by this time; but it Is no
less true, that but for the supplies Of arms fur
nished by the English, and smuggled BY the Eng
lish into the Slave States, the rebels, feebly q
the var has been conducted, would have been
compelled to submit before now for the yery
reason that they would be disarised and defense.
less. tits ediiying to read the speeches made Ia
the English Parliament, and the grave moralties
printed in the English journals about this inter-
necine war, this fratricidal war, and ths grief
and horror with which the British nation regard
it.. Accordingly, to show that they are quite in
earnest, they send over to the insurgents. n
great risk of loss, and some personal danger, bu,
with large chance Of gain, it is true, the means
which enable the rebels to continue the war from
year to year. The English arc 90 consistent IN
this % in the instance for which We are indebted
to . correspondent, who relates that q vessel
which carried to India number Of mission aries.
sent to convert the Hindoo from the worship OF
false gods, took out also cargo Of idols for the
yorshipers. H.. ssssrt
But the conduct Of the English Goverment is
open to the harshest censire. The Ministry
tell their country that to. recognize the South.
ern Confederscy will only rouse the spirit of the
Northern States, and cause them to throw their
whole energies into the war. They, therefore,
carefully avoid taking that step: They do NOT
see that any advantages 10 to be gained for the
rebellion by recognizing it publicly just nov as
full grown and Independent power. It ismore
polite to assist it ihdhectly by declaimine
about the impossibility of subduing the insur.
gents and inevitable dissolution. of the American
Union. It is tho shrevder course for Earl Rus.
sell to 60 into OBSTACLES of horror at the thought
Of placing distractions iii channel which leads
to rebel port, and for the virtuous Palmerston
to abuse General Butler foI,. his proclamstio
against the women, who misbehave themselves
in the streets of New Orleans. TO proclaim. as
tho English Ministry has done, that the Govern.
ment of the Union 10 doomedaso defeat and the
rebellion predsstiaed to success, is quite O. adj
vantageous 70 the rebels - arecognition Of their
Independence TO assail tie Northern Btates
as the same ministry has also done, for their
mode Of conducting the war, is one way of
awskiug sympathy for the rebels and causing
Il to be thought work Of mercy to assist them.
~ these arts, with the aid of the periodical
press, which makes the Northern States the
theme Of almost daily disparagemeut the En-.
giish public 10 educated TO believe that the Gov.
eminent of the Union j. in the wrong, that the
rebellion isA rightful proceeding on tie part Of
the slaveholders, that their cause Is Just and
destined to triumph. and that it is q merit to
hasten the triumph by supplying it With arms.
The whole conduct of the British Government
and its abettoIs in this matter is most remark.
able example Of an attempt TO- do BY aneaking
indirection Whist Il ID unwilling, for reasons Of
policy acknowledged by itself, to do openly
That mistakes have been made BY our own Gov.
eminent in more than one respect, since The
civil war broke out, 10 not to DO denied. but il
has done nothin9 "a diaRrnoaful A III. cor,.. of