The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-28

Peutiol, Olu 0Ou put an emu TO 3 rcDeiiiOH
that had waged near twenty years, and had
been carried on with all the horrid circum-
stance of murder, devastation and pari-
eide, that fire and sword, in the hands of
most wicked men in the world lit is a roy
alist that is speaking) could be instrument
tai OF, almost to the desolation of the two
kingdoms, and the exceeding defacing and
determining Of the third. By these remark
able steps did the mercifu1 hand of God,
in this short space of time, not only bind
up and heal all those wounds, but even
made the scar as undesirable, as in re-
spect of the deepness, was possible, which
was glorious addition to the deliverance."
In Germany, the wars Of the Reformation
and OF Charles V. in the 10th century, the
thirty years war in the 18th century, the
seven years war in the 18th century, not
to speak of other less celebrated con-
tests, .entailed upon that country all the
mlserles OF intestine strife for more than
three centuries. At the close of the last
named war" an officer" says the Archen-
holz, rode through seven villages in
Hesse and found in them but one human
being" More than three hundred princi-
paiitles, comprehended in the Empire,
fermented with the fierce passions of proud
and petty States. At the commencement Of
this period the castles of robber Counts
frowned upon every hilltop; dreadful
secret tribunal froze the hearts of men with
sAAOuSu OuI tuc lduu, religious ma
Ired mingled its bitter poison in the see
thlng cauldron of provincial animosity--
put OF all these deadly enmities between
the states OF Germany scarcely the memo
~ remains. There is no country in the
MoIiu, IN which the sentiment Of national
pl0tnerhood is stronger. $50 -,as
IN 1taiy. on the breaking up of the Ro-
lnan EmPlre, society might be said to be
resolved into its original elements-into
hostlle atoms, whose only movement was
that OF mutual repNlsion, Ruthless bar
parIans had destroyed the old organizations
and covered the land with a merciless feu-
oailsm: AS new civilization grew up,
families and walled towns fell madly into
conflict with each other; the secular feud
OF Pope and Emperor scourged the land
province against province, city against.
city, street against street waged renorse-
less war against each other from father tn
son, till Dante was able..to fill his immagina-
ry hell with the real demons of Italian
history. So ferocious had the factions be-
come, that the great poet-exile himself, the
glory OF his native city, and of his native
language, was by adecree of the municipal-
lty ordered to be burned alive, if found in
the city of Florence. But these deadly
feuds and hatreds yielded to political infiu-
ences, as the hostile cities We're grouped in
TO states under stable governments; the
lingering traditions OF ancient animosities
gradually died away, and now Tuscan and
Lombrad, Sandman and Neapolitan, as if
to shame the degenerate sons of America.
are joining in one cry for an united Italy.
In France, not to go back to the civil wars
of the league of the 10th century and the
Fronde OF the 18th, not to speak of the
dreadful scenes throughout the kingdom.
which followed the revocation of the edict
OF Nantes; we have, in the great revolution
winch commenced at the close of the last
century, seen the blood hounds of civil
strife let loose, as rarely before in the his
tory OF the world. The reign of terror es-
tablished at Paris stretched its bloody Bril-
arean arms to every city and village in the
land, and If the most deadly feuds which
ever divided people, had the power to
cause permanent alienation and hatred.
this certainly was the occasion. But far
otherwise the fact. In seven years from
the fall of Robespierre, the strong arm of
the youthful conqueror brought order out
OF chaos of crime and woe; Jacobins whose
hands were scarcely cleansed from the
best blood of France met the returning en-
lgrants, whose estates they had confiscated
and whose kindred they had dragged to
the guillotine in the Imperial ante-cham-
bers; and when, after another turn of the
wheel of fortune, Louis XVIII was restor-
Fouche, who had voted for his brothers.
death, to his cabinet and confidence.
The people of loyal America will never
take to their confidence or admit again to a
share in their Government the hard heart
ed men, whose cruel lust of power has
brought this desolating war upon the land,
but there is no personal bitterness felt even
against them. They may live, if they can
bear to live after wantonly causing the
death of so many thousand fellow men.
they may live in safe obscurity beneath the
shelter Of the Government they have
sought to overthrow, or they may fly to
the protection of the Governments of Eu-
rope-some OF them are already there.
seeking, happily in vain, to obtain the aid
OF foreign powers in furtherance of their
own treason. There let them STAY. The
humblest dead soldier, that lies cold and
stiff in his grave before US, is an object Of
envy beneath the clods that cover him, in
comparison with the living man, who is
willing to grovel at the foot of foreign
throne, for assistance in comprising the
ruin of his country ' N..at
But the hour is coming and now is, when
the power of the leaders of the rebellion tC,
delude and inflame must cease. There is
no bitterness on the part of the Masses
The people of the South are not going to
wage an eternal war, for the wretched pre-
texts by which this rebellion is sought to
be justified. The bonds that unite us as
one people, substantial community of or
igin, language, belief and law, (the four
great ties that hold the societies OF men to-
gether,) common national and political in
terests; common history; commons
pride in glorious ancestry; common
interest in this great heritage Of blessings;
the very geographical features Of the coun,-
try, the mighty rivers that cross the lines
OF climate, and thus facilitate the inter-
change OF natural and industrial products:
while the woodworking arm of the engi-
neer has leveled the mountain walls which
separate the East and West, compelling
your own Alleghanies, my Maryland and
Pennsylvania friends, to open wide their
everlasting doors to the chariot wheels Of
traffic and travel; these bonds of Union
are of perennial force and energy, while
the causes of alienation are imaginary, fac.
titious and transient. The heart of the peo-
pie North and South is for the Union. In
too plain to be mistaken an
nounce the fact, both in the East and the
West of the States in rebellion. In North
Carolina and Arkansas, the fatal charm is
broken. At Raleigh and Little Rock, the
lips of honest and brave men are unsealed.
and an Independent press is Numbering
Its artillery. The weary masses of the peo-
pie are yearning to see the dear old flag
fioatinp again uD0n tho capifals opd tbaSr