The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-09
What May Be ana Hhaf arusf M

Commodore Farragut3 hid raa.bg QUINCY. I
what May He ana what Must he.
ad. There were not Z few loyal men who said,
whsn secession vas only threatened, if con-
trolling majority Of Dc South desire to 70 out
of the Union, let them 90 In peace But events
have proved the fallacy and absurdity of any
such idea. The South could not 60 In peace
There was no way out of the Union but war
upon the Union, and the leaders of the rebellion
saw very clearly that nothing but waf could
unite the South and give them success And
the South 10 now Substantially unit, meaning
by the South the States acually held BY the
rebela It is true that there are still thousands
Of men in these States whose hearts are loyal,
and who would welcome the restoration Of the
federal authority. But the loyaly of these men
must necessarily remain silent and concealed un-
til the rebellion 10 crushed out In effect. Even
In North Carolina We cannot reasonably look for
any further Union demonstrations till the power
Of the rebellion is broken, although We know
that large portion of the people there long and
pray for deliverance. There is nov no escape
from the fact that the Confederate States are a
unit in their resistance to the Government, and
are likely to remain so till they have been over
run and thoroughly subjugated. 1t is worse
than useless now to ask how much Of this unity
and strength in the rebellion Is justly charges.
BILE to the mistakes Of the Government, or the
needless exasperasions created by Northern pol
iticians. We cannot stop to settle such accounts
real state Of affairs and act accordingly.
The American people were never more deter
mined than at this moment that the nation shall
be ard remain one, however long and expensive
. war may be necessary to re establish national
unity. And they will not stick ct trifles in this
matter. The war has been urged thus far on
the basis of "the Constitution as it 10 and the
Union'as it was" and the government has sacri-
feed obvious advantages by sacred fidelity to
this principle. The war is still conducted on
the constitutional basis, and no right of any
State or any citizen has been Intentionally in
vaded. But II, either because forced into
more extreme policy by the rebels, or drawn
into it by mistaken views of duty among loyal
men, more radical method shall be adopted,
the people will nevertheless accept the alterna.
tive and fight it through. National unity We
will have at any rate. If the rebels make Q
Constitutional Union impossible, We 60 still for
the integrity Of the national territory. Every
acre between the Lakes and the Rio Grande is
United States soil; We have paid for it In trea-
sure and blood twice over, and NJ. ..other govern.
ment shall occupy foot Of It until it has blot.
ted 10 out as . nation. That is the feeling and
purpose of every true American. ~.
The alternative is not yet presented-we
trust it never may be-but if it does come We
shall not hesitate to say, Perish constitutions;
perish states; perish local institutions; every.
thing, but the national unity must be preserved.
II We are compelled to subjugats state by state
in detail and maintain military government
over the subjugated states for . generation, till
treason dies out with its authors and the soil
is reclaimed and occupied by more loyal race
If it takes twenty years Of war and half .
century of military rule to accomplish this-no
matter. Better this than the success of the
rebellion and the establishments Of foreign
and hostile power within our borders. Better
the complete destruction Of the government
and vsssalsge to some foreign government than
that. National unity at any cost-and il not
that, national destruction.
We look to no such terrible alternative. and
We suggest it only to illustrate what We suppose
to be the real feeling and purpose Of the deep
est heart Of the American people. But some-
thing like this alternative may come--ani con
tinued disaster, continued delays in reinforcing
our armies, continued efforts Of factious men to
distract and demoralize the people, NAV bring
the crisis Of our fate, and 60 complicate affairs
that there will be nothing left for us but to
throw aside all other considerations and fall
back upon the simple necessity of sell. f.preservs-
tion by any and oil means within our reach. II
We are to be saved from 90 hazardous an ap-
proach to the verge Of anarchy and revolution.
It can only be by the unanimity and co.opers.
ton Of oil loyal men in the duties of the pre-
sent crisia We must fill up our armies and
crush the rebellion at once, or there is future
before us into which no man can look without
being appalled.-[Springfeld Republican.
TIE Town u CANTON (Mo.) CAPTURED sY TIE |
REBELs.-On Friday evening about dusk the
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