The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-12

meant to im sls f By this '1 AS r ee
CARDS the procession Of hi Nealth, it con-
sisted OF few old carriages, with chairs
carried Dy men with figures like Polichi.
nero. one thousand women carried each
bottle OF liquor on her head, brass ba-
sin in the shape of footbath to receive the
nioo1 OF the human victims on the day of
tne Nihgs banquet; an image Of the Vir-
GIN; various baskets full of human skulls;
an image OF 81. Lawrence, as large as life,
death.
Atanother festival the King commanded
on loot his Amazons, who Unanswered with
the precision of a flock of sheep. On the
market place already mentioned, each step
was ornamented by dead body and the
klng came and went in the midst of
pools Of blood and fragments of human
flesh in state of putrefaction On this &C.
caslon he had daubed his face with COAL
The ceremony terminated by mad dance,
In which the King took part, dancing vis-a-
pts to drunken soldiers and musicians
Such are, NJ. lie Due, the man, the Govern
ment and the people whom we have hith-
to the laws of humanity. regret that Cap
tain Burton should have arrived at Kama
just at the moment of the Kings depart
ure, as he might have been enabled to see
and Judge all these things.
am, NJ. LIE Due,
Your most obedient servant,
JULES GERARD.
P. Son the day of his departure. the
King invited us to review o. his army
prepared for war. 1t was from twelve
thousand to fourteen thousand strong. COM
prising twelve thousand Anazons, one
thousand men Of body guard and two
thousand archers.
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THE DAY OF FREE SPEECH-TKE ADO
LITIoN OF WHITE SLAvERY.-'Ehank God
devoutly, for this new era in Tennessee
True, it has cost the loss of property and
life; the desolation of many home; the
shedding of the blood of many citizens,
both patriots and traitors. But the liberty
of speech, the breaking ofthe chains which
so long bound, not the bodies, but the
very souls of her white citizens, have
been cheaply purchased, by what would
be for any other worldly good too heavy
an outlay. Prior to the breaking out of
the rebellion did free speech and a free
press really exist in this State? Did cam
didates for office, high or low, dare to
say: IT doubt the policy, justice, and
economy of Slavery, and would like to see
it removed from our midst?" No man
could have carried a single county in
the State who should have ventured a SEN
timent so frightfully radical" 1t would
have sealed his political death-warrant.-
Mechanics, tradesmen, professional men,
teachers and laboring men were permitted
to say, with impunity: ~ think the steam
engine is Il curse. | regard the thresh-
ing machine and the sub-soil plough as
nuisances. don't believe in railroads.
l think religion is humbug. l believethe
Wing party, or the Democratic party, are
hot-bedS of corruption. / think il would
be blessing if all the churches were pulled
to the ground l believe colleges and fe-
male academies are unmitigated evils
And so one could go on railing, abusing
and vilfying every law, system, institu-
ton and custom of the Commonwealth,
saving and excepting always the system of
negro slavery. People might take eXcep-
lions to ones views and attempt to contrO-
vert them, but still, any one, or all OF these
views, could be expressed in Tennessee
and their holders live unmolested But
name Slavery in like manner and thou
sand eyes in an instant are blazing at the
daring speaker with malignant fire. and
lynch law usually terminated the auda-
cious utterance. No man was suffered to
attack Slavery, although only one man
in thirty owned slaves. Discussion of this
subject was a forbidden thing. 1t was to
be accepted by every one as humbly as if
| it had been gift from heaven. While
none were permitted to speak or write
| against Slavery, orators and newspapers
| all over the State were making infiammato-
ry speeches in its behalf. Slavery. stranget to
| tell, claimed and exercised the right to agi-
| tate the State. and atthe same time, with the
voice of a tyrant commanded the State on
| its peril not to agitate Slavery! Slavery,
Slavery was higher than the State! Slave
was the tyrant, despot, unquestioned, un-
controlled dictator of the State 1t ruled
the cottage; it ruled the pulpit; it ruled the
counting room yea, it ruled the humblest
workshop like bloody minded Nero, re-
solved to rule without a rival. Do we ex-
aggerate? We do not we have fallen
short of, rather than gone beyond the truth.
| What was the consequence OF all this in
solent despotism which bridled every
mouth and every newspaper in the state
| Why the non-slavehOlders were afraid TO
allow themselves the luxury of me-
ment's Independent thought. They trem-
| BILE like Persian slaves at the nod
of the merciless master who reigned
over them. Infidel clubs were tolerated;
books and pamphlets in defense of Athe-
ism, Mormonism, Mesmerism, Spirit-rap-
1 pings, were circulated openly; Jews, Gen.
tiles, Mahomedans, and the one thousand
and one sects of Christianity could all pro-
claim their own views and denouuce those
of other people, but the nOnslaveholder
dare not open his lips against Slavery
This is no exaggeration, no extravaganza
picture; it is plain unvarnished truth. Inc
limbs, the bones the muscles OF the negro
were enslaved, but bondage more gaining
than corporal bondage enslavey the white
citizens of this Commonwealth. The white
man was only free in name, while IN 1acs
the slave of a worse bondage than negro
Slavery. The Slavery of the soul is worse
than that of the body. 1t is more degrad-
ing, more oppressive, and harder to throw
off. 1t follows its unhappy victim every
where, sleeping and waking, in pubic or
in private, in church, market, and farm
What are the pains of the overseers iasn
to the sense of humiliation, of the loss %
manhood, which he must feel VINO Is inc
victim of mental Slavery?
on-slaveholders, surely you ieel tna'
this white Slavery has lasted long enough,
and that this is most propitIous time 70
throw Of the letters noS hsh b nay yoap v aeng
souls narn tc act and think for your
selves henceforward. Tell the slave hold
s r P s sa"s and an II n7s ssRs
froa,u every question which he inyesti-
gates and discusses: Proclaim your free
dom onenly. Tell the despotswho have SO