The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-16

1ro@ ~ .Calslsaian MsEsazy, July 8.
"Brave and heroic" the Northern soldiers un-
are. Such is the verdict Of the New
York Timed eorrespo lent With ~ the vi.
denoe Of 81 recent istl befose him; nd
~ the IT. itself Hay her day psurs n.
cule upon these brsSe and heroic nen, and o.
deavors to rouse up the feelings Of the people
into sympathy With the Shareholders and con.
tempt for "the mongrel race Of plunderers and
oppress0rs" Of the North. These are the words
BY which it designates people, sprung mainly
from Puritan forefathers, and added to- by .
Wholesale emigration from the United King
doms during the last twenty or thirty years
1t styles the Southern slsveholders-the Le-
grees and oil this odious class sour own Eng
lish kith and kin, !" and calls upon the people to
give their whole ''moral weight" to the immoral
rebels who fight for dominion over human flesh
and blood. Nay, nos only does It wish the peo-i
pie 10 throw their ''moral weight" into the scale,
but Il 10 laboring with devilish earnestness
to urge on this country to war with their brsth.
rem in the Ftes States of America, IN order that
the Slave Coufederacy may be established. Il
permits no chance to escape for pouring ridi.
cule, contumely, and abuse upon the Northern
armies and people.
Let those among rs who live BY commerce or
labor bs careful 70 avoid giving countensnoe to
the war party in any form or shape. Let the
ministers of religion speak out like men against
the horrors Of Slavery, the guilt of aiding OF
abetting the slaveholder, and the horrible guilt
of that nation which, having nothing to do with
the contest, should take up arms to aid In the
establishment Of kingdom of which Slavery is
the boosted corner. stone. ga a2ss. o..2.s
: Whist, except war, can be the Issue Of these
determined, repeated, and odious calumnies
sgainst the Northern frsemen which day By day
appear in influential English journals These
ore the dispatches which are read throughout the
Union, and not the silly platitudes of sOabinet
Minister. False news, dishonest glosses, rock.
less revilings, Wholesale cslumniea, and IN utter
absence of even 90 mush as solitary compli-
ment to undauntsd bravery-these form the
staple Of the articles which afs read IN the
Exchanges Of the large cities and The settlers
homes Of the West ~ ~. /. 3 N'' ~
) Human nature cannot stand these incentives
70 war without resentment No high-epirited
people can tolerate threats and insults patiently,
especially can they i'll endure to be tainted whom
in the midst of such . stupsndous calamity q
The reckless slavsholders have brought upon the
Union. There would b little danger from the
efforts of the war party ct home If they were not
encouraged BY the silence or connivance Of ms
ny who, formerly regarded Slavery With abho,.
renee, but now speak Of il With bstsd breath 90
respectable institution. Those Who believe that
the North will not succeed in putting down the
Southern insurrection almost insensibly drift
over to the armed Intervention party without
having first considered the awful issues which
are involved In such . proposal. It 10 to these
We chiefly appeal TO beware how they permit
their influence to be used on such question:
Any man may quite honestly and properly be-
lieve that the instruction will never be put
down, without also lending his influence to the
idea that because of this belief we ought to inter.
fere forcibly to stop the war.
If the view of Southern success be acorrect
one, the war will stop of itself by an arrange
ment between the 'combatants, who at the pre-
sent rate must soon come to know the extent Of
their ability. We belieye in tie certainty of North.
e,n success success Wtch recent eye,ts may haze
postponed, bat cannot prevent. Equally, in this
view, will the war be brought to an end without
any great delay; but if Great Britain or France
attempt at any stage to interfere, ii would be re-
peating. on more gigantic scale, the blunders
Of the French Revolution. We would drift into
. war of determination with spirited people,
many Of them in reality our own kith and kin,
who yet speak in the provincial dialects Of our
native land and before six months were over
the blind fury Of the contest would entirely OBJ.
scure the professed aim of the intervention ~
(. From the London Star, July 9sth,
The Canadians refuse to BE- frightened into arm.
to be 6ullied. Their Parliament has sanctioned
tho ant f met ~ fhav oc
men proposed by their late Ministry. Instead
Of . militia hundred thousand strong, they
vote ten thousand. Thereupon their new Gov.
ernor-Genersl lectures them in speech deliv-
cred during his first official tour, and the last
mail will carry out to- them series of sharp
rebukes from Ministers, Peers, and the Times,
The Duke of Newcastle deplores, and Mr. ;.
Chichester Fortesque censurss the attitude of
the colonists. Lords Carnarvcn, Ellenborugh,
and Grey, urge that the Canadian Parliament
be called together in special session to recon-
slider the matter in q penitential mood.
The Times renews its warnings that Great
Britain will leave her ungrsteful offspring to
be swallowed up by the terrible neighbor that
will presently tire of feeding upon ITSELF We
should not wonder if Lord Palmerston we're to
send out dozen more regiments, and charge
Us another million for their conveyance, BY
way Of giving effect to these reprosches and
sdmonitions; But We shall be very much sur
prised If either British or colonial tax payers
submit to an increase Of their burdens for the
sake Of nothing but gratifying the Unsuitable
greed Of our sristocratic establishments, and
the implscable hatred Of our aristocratic rul-
ers to the free institutions Of the Western Con.
tinent. There is not the remotest danger of
the United States engaging in war of aggres-
sion upon British America-but very consil !
cradle danger that these restless intermsddlers
may provoke . fatal enlargement between the
mother country and the colonies. n
II. National Republican contains the follow
ing explicit refutation Of the story, widely tel
egraphed and believed, that the President had
refused his assent to the arriiine
Of negroes and had threatened to resign rath,
er than be overruled on this point The Gin
cinnati Gazette, having given shape to this ro-
m nance, Senator who was present at the in.
terview in question thus explodes it:
WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. 9, 1862. 4
Sir: I have seen several versions of vhat