The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-19

lusitVe slaves snail be given up. They
are pressed TO make treaties with foreign
power by which those powers should be
required to give up slaves. But from he
! ginning TO end no grievance was allepaj
but what is connected with slavery. THeor
hear.] 1t is slavery, slavery, slavery FROM
beginning to end. Hear, hear.l
SLAVERY THE CAUSE OF THE VAR.
is IT not astonishing, in the face of facts
like these. that any one could have the To-
merlty, with any regard TO decency or anv
sense OF seif-respect, TO get up in the House
OF Commons and say that the secession of
the Southern States has been on a Question
OF Tree trade and protection? fCheers l.
This is war to extend and perpetuate In.
man slavery. Prolonged applause tits
a war not to defend slavery as it was left by
their ancestors-a thing TO be retained. and
, to be apologized for. It is a war to estab-
lish slave empire, where slavery shall no
made the cornerstone of the social system
where it shall be defended and justified on
scriptural and chronological grounds
lCheers.l Isay God pardon the men who,
in this year of grace, 1863, should think
that sucha project as that could be crowned
with success. [Cheers.l Now you know
why have, from the first, never believed
| it possible that the South could succeed
and have not founded that faith merely
on moral instincts which teach us to repu-
diate the very idea that anything so infer
| nal SNOuit succeed, NO. IL IS because IN
| this world the virtues and the forces go to-
| gether, and the vices and weaknesses are
| inseparable. iApplause.l
NATURE OF THE CONFLICT.
1t is therefore feltcertain that this pro-
ject never could succeed. Applause For
how is il? Here is a community with near
ly half of the population slaves, and they
are attempting to fight another community
where every workingman is Il freeman
1t is as though Yorkshire and Lancashire
were to enter into conflict, and it was Tn
derstood in the case Of one, all the laborers
who did the muscular work of the country
in the field, in the factory, on the roads, or
in the domestic estabiishments-all the
bone and muscle Of the cOuntry-should be
eliminated from the fighting population
and ready 10 take advantage for them
selves If an opportunity was afforded them
of running away; how could community
so circumstanced fight against the neigh
boring country where every workingman
was fighting for his country? How could
the one have q chance of succeeding, even
if LETT 10 physical force, without the moral
considerations to which ! have REFEREED
This is the condition in which the two sec
tons of the United States are now placed.
In the one case you have honor given to in
dustry; labor is held to honor. What DO
we hear? Have we not heard by way Of
reprOach by some people who fancied
themselves in alliance with our arstocracy
some of our writers who wish to be sup
posed they are themselves Of the arist0-
cratic order-as p stigma against the North,
that their President was once a rail-Split
ter? CHEERS. But why is that raii-spi.-
ter elevated 10 be President OF the United
States? Because labor is held to honor IN
the United States. LCheers.
AEISTOCRACY AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
With such conflict going on, and with
such a result as ] feel no doubt will follow,
is it fair to speak Of such contest as that
and say that it is a struggle for empire on
one side, and for independence on the 9TH
err? say it is an aristocratic rebellion
against a democratic Government APP
plause.] That is the title / would give to
it. In all history, when you have had the
aristocracy pitted against the people in
physical force and conflict, the aristocracy
has always gone down under The heavy
blows Of the democracy. Hear, hear. J.
When speak thus let nobody say | am
therefore indifferent to the progress of mis-
cry and devastation and ruin and bloodshed
that is now going on. No, my indignation
against the South, is thatthey fired the first
shot and made themselves responsible for
these results. 1 take, probably, stronger
view than most people of this country
and certainly stronger view than anybody
in America-of the vast sacrifices of life
and of economical comfort and resources
which must follow to the North from this
they can carry on a civil war like this,
drawing million OF men from productive
industry TO be engaged IL the processes OF
destruction-to spend two or three hundred
millions sterling-they are deluded if they
think they can carry on war like that
without n terrible collapse, sooner or later,
and a dreadful prOstratiOn in every part OF
the community. Hear, hear.l That being
so, makes me still more intolerant Of the
cause. But of the resuf I have no more
doubt than of any subject which lies in tie
future.
THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN GOV
ERNMENTS.
Now ! would ask YOU why do some peo-
pie wish the United States should ke cut IN
TWO? They think it desirable il should be
weakened. Will that view bear discussion
for moment? I hold not. / am of the
opinion which our statesmen were in the
time Of Canning, who thought it desirable
for Europe that America should be strong,
because it would thereby prevent Europe
an powers from interfering in American
affairs. That has been the case hitherto
That country has prOspered, and II mas
never come to interfere with European po-
litics, whilst it has kept European govern
ments from interfering in other American
States which have been less prosperous or
less orderly than the United States. What
has followed this disruption? You have
France going into Mexico and Spain to st.
Domingo. There are horrors unutterable
going on in st. Domingo, because Spain
has invaded that country hear, hearl-
with view to reconQuest. And the French
Emperor has embarked on career in
Mexico which will only characterize as
the greatest mistake he has ever made
Loud applause.]
Those enterprises would never have
been undertaken if the United States had
not been in this difficulty, and it is the
least creditable part Of these enterprises
that they have been undertaken because
America was weak. Hear, hear. 1t only
required that the North should have been
little weaker to have enabled those silly
people who were going about the country
to have carried their project, and to have
induced England and France to interfere
to settle the rebellion. IHear.l Is that de-
sirable? [Cheers.l Don't you think we
have enough to do at homer Do you sup
pose that Europe has so little to do that
she can afford to cross over to America 10
set that country in order?
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