The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-01-04
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10 our telegraphic despatches vial b found I
short abstract Of ths olRcial correspondeucs b.
tween our Government and the Engiiah Enbas
sador at Washington, from which il appears thal
the Presfdent and Cabinet have cone TO III
unanimous conclusion 70 give up Mason and sii
DELL Whatever may be the law upon the sub.
Jsct, there is no question Of The prudence end
wisdom Of avoiding war with England at thia
timess Our restoration Of these rebels to the
protection Of the British Aag, is IN accordance
with the doctrines We have alwaya held and pro.
claimed, and can be made without any lsttipg
down or dishonor, while the British demand for
them is in the teeth Of British doctrine and psas-
tice for the last eighty years. a. ese
Il The disposition Of the Irish, In case Of
war, enters largely into the estimate made BY
both sides. tits noticed a peculiar that the
British regiments already designated for service
in Canada are the English regiments, il which
there are very few Irishmen or Scotchmsn.-
The Irishmen in this country are ready to vel
come tussle with England, and would 70 into
it with hearty zeal, and the Irishmsn Who CON.
stitute no small portion Of the Southern army,
and, if we may credit frequent accounts, are IL.
ready weary Of the service, will BE- likely 70 fssl
much more 80 when they find that they are
fighting in the interests Of England by dssSad-
ing the rebellion. 90 IS a ~ %
The news of the hostile position Of Enelandis
received at the Souti. with great shout Of ex.
ultation. The rebels see in It the salvation Of
their failing cause. But if they should b. dis
appointed in this last hope they viii aink to .
despair deeper than ever The Richmond Et-
aminer closes an article, in which, it dsclars
that the success of the Southern Confedsracy d
now secured, with this pious paragraph in &C.
of special providence toward
the rebellion as.s--,,,y.sS1 -. :, ~
"Who can doubt that the Almighty fat has
gone forth against the American Union, or that
the Southern Confederacy is decreed BY the Di-
vine Wisdom? The dullest worldling, tho cool.
est atheist, the most hardened cynic, might be
struck with awe by the startling and continual
interpositton of power beyond the control or
cognizance Of men in these afairA The Incl
dents Of this struggle so unparalleled, ,:unex-
is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the
acts OF men and Of nations are now submitted
to superior hand Had but one such event oc.
Cured it might be reckoned an ordinary chance
But each has been followed by another more
wonderful than it's predecessor, while they all
have an identical tendency, and move forward,
by inexorable sequence, to the same GOAL
None of them, however, and indeed no miracle
OF mans history, is more singularly distinguish
ed from the common contingencies Of earthly
transactions, than the arrest OF those two minis-
ters OH tire mid-ocean: VINO thought when the
Trent was announced to sail that on its deck
and in the trough of the weltering Atlantic the
key of the blockade would be lost? Who
dreamed that the chief element in the strife
would enter from that unnoticed doori The
hand Of God was hero visibly extended over the
world. Men sink to puppets, their works are
naught, their intelligence turns into folly"