The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-20
A Prassieal Iliussra,,oa.


f'sar a Practical lllussrasioa. .ss -.4
The latsss English papers tell curious
story Of tae adventures Of . Southerner, who
mistook . Manchester gentleman for slave,
and forgot that in free country men cannot
b violently assaulted with impunity. The
case ID reported - follows: 4 number Of gem
tlemen, thrown together in railway train pro.
cseding from, Liverpool to Manchester, found
that one Of the companywa IS he called him
self, 50 netiye Of the Confederate States Of
America" The conversation naturally turn
ing upon the war, soon changed into discuss
sion Of the character of Slavery. The Souths
ern gentleman gestieulsting violently with
those delicate hands, which are regarded as an
iudication Of gentle blood, strongly defended
the peculiar institution, and justified its exist
ence ON scraptural grounds but failing to con.
vert his immediate opponent, the Manchester
man, suddenly enforced his argument BY ,seiz-
ing him BY the throat The unlucky disputsnt
being in imminent peril Of strangulation, the
grasp Of the irate Southerner was forcibly
loosened BY the remainder Of the company.-
When his temper had time to cool, the Euglish-
man whom he had assailed took occasion,to
remind him that she was not now in Slave
State, but in land where every man was al =
lowed freely to- express his opinions, and
would be protected while so doing by law;
adding that he intended to give his assilsnt at
once into the custody Of q policeman. This
threat brought mattersto q crisis. Friends
interfered, the Southerner apologized and was
finally permitted to go free on condition Of
paying sovereign to the fund for the relief Of
the distress Of the manufacturing Districts
Having done this he disappeared, grestly
crest fallen, and the papers are publishing the
whole story under the title IA Southern way
of Clinching an Argument
This case furnishes An illustration on small
scale Of the game the rebels are attempting to
play at homelin their war. upon the Govern
ment. Their wicked schemes having failed of
success through arguments, they next resorted
to threats and from threats proceeded to blows
taking the Government by the throat and try~
ing to choke it into compliance with their De-
mands. They; have whole nation in bloody
war, just as this Southern gentleman" dis
turbed the peace Of the railway travellers in
Rngisnd by ,resorting to violence in defenselof
Slavery. Having no better argsmsntIta ofsr,q
they clinch and 6ght..[Na 7. Pos aabaa2 brn
The pLsuisvills journal ON the MeNeal'
Affair. .trF.
"Let the President Of the rebel Confederscy
consider what his people have done. 1t is all
affectstion-it is hypocricy in him to pretend
to regard with horror the shooting Of the ten
Missouri citizens. He knows that Kirby Smith
hung ffteen innocent persons near Cumber.
land Gap and tumbled their bodies into . hole
not even assigning reason for the awful deed.i
He knows, that seven Federal prisoners we're
recently shot OF, hung in Louisiana upon no
other pretext than that they had enlisted in
the United States service in New Orleans. He
knows that his men butcherei General McCooki
under circumstances that have made the blood
of the nation run cold. He knows that his
guerrillas in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennes.
see, al bearing regular commissions in his
Confederacy, have been in the regular habit
of riding up to citizens houses, calling them
to their doors, and shooting them down or
taking them out and hanging them to the first
trees, or fcuttipg their threats in their beds
by the sides Of their weeping wives and in the
midst Of their shrieking children. He knows
that hundreds and hundreds of murders Of this
kind have been committed by his men and con.
tinue to be committed daily and Nightly. He
knows oil this, and he knows that the Unite
States satho1ities hsve never demanded III :
surrender OF the perpetrators of the bloody
horrors, or even threatened retaliation. He
now orders that the ten United States officers
tirst csptursd perhaps Generals perhaps
Colonies, perhsps Majors--shall be massacred.
unless asurrender shall DO made thss he is
fully aware cannot be msds;s and his object is to
demoniac warfare, which, as con-
Quoted Ga both sides, shall horrify and sppall
the nations Of the earthisnd compel interviews
ton, Our government may hste need Of the
highest wisdom in, Determining Its own action
il view Of these things. 81 osa. 6,Tf ,oso,so
Nothing like : Coed TAlksr. ~ ,rsy
There is world Of truth in the saying that
rat sixteen girl prefers the best dancerin tie
room; at two-and1tNentyt the best tslker, and st a
thirty the richest man., The girl Of sixteen is
not supposed to feel enough Of the worlds by
pocrisy and Csocisty's necessities to appreciate
fully the value of wealth; at thirty, the misof- il
tunes, of her friends, who hsys married upon,a
dream of Glove in cottage" have made her APP
preciate the usefulnessof money too much Both
eY,remes have their faults AZ for the "best
tslker." he isnot only preferred by ladies of22,
hut admired by ladies and enyied by gentlemen :.
IF every age-for what is more pleasing than the
society of man whose mind is we'll stored With I
knowledge, which his tongue is capable of utter
ING with auency, grace and eloquence, that
maketh even old truths assume the enchanting
dignity Of moral philosophy. There is nothisg !
like good talker to win his way to the hearts