The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-18

my, oeVerai nave been exhnmed nj -.
y The Iha ratraa. M on wagons.
moralization of Lees entire ar,n uteer oe-
Is much struggling, and some com meI 70
tmiantry are without arms of anv L;.ss Vi
Iheir wounded are obliged to Wall Wv
nave seen men with their arms off wall
ing along as best they could. We have =
nV Spu =, mere, with a large number in il.
W. ~ I. Iytonae: FRANKLIN.
Or. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, op.
TON ON THE FOURTH OF JuLY.-The ora
.ioh 1ellyered on the Fourth, by DIR. Oil
sbI Wehueli Holmes at Boston, was prob
a ~ tne pest OF the whole crop of orations
we select a splendid and telling passsne.
10 !ne citlzens OF Harrisburg or PhiIa-
deiphla quarrel to-day about the strict L.
gaiity OF an executive act meant i'm GOOD
laitn for their protection against the inya-
ueIs we are all citizens Of Harrisburg. all
| cltlnens OF Pniiadeiphia, in this hour oftheir
peril, ana with the enemy at work in orr
own harbors, we begin to understand tha
uilierence between good and bad citizen.
the man that helps and the man that hin,
ders; the man who, while the pirate ia in
sight, complains that our anchor is DRAG.
glng IN his mud, and the man who violates
the proprieties, like our brave Portland
brothers, when they jumped on board the
hrst steamer they could reach, cut her ca
pie, bore down on the corsair, with bn-
Oeos corpus act that lodged twenty buc
cancers in Fort Preble before sunseiy
we can not, then, we can not be circling
inward TO be swallowed up in the whiri.
poor OF national destruction. If our bor-
ders are invaded, it is ONLY as the spy,r that
is driven into the courser's flank to rouse
ms siumbering mettle. flour property is
taxed, IL Is only to teach us that liberty is
worth paying for as well as fighting sf0r.-
we are pouring out the most generous
Dlood OF our youth and manhood; alas! this
is alWays'the price that must be paid for
the redemption of a people. What have
we to complain of, whose granaries are
choking with plenty, whose streets are
gay with shining robes and glittering
equipages, whose industry is abundant
enough to reap all it's overlooking harvest.
yet sure OF employment and of its just re-
ward, the soil of whose mighty valleys is
an inexhaustible mine of fertility, whose
mountains cover up such stores ofheat and
power, imprisoned in their coal measures.
as would warm all the inhabitants and
work all the machinery of our planet for
unnum bered ages, whose rocks pour out
rivers OF OIL, whose streams run yellow
over beds of golden sand-what have we
to complain of?
Have we degenerated from our English
fathers, so that we can not do and bear for
our national salvation what they have done
and borne, over and over again, for their
form OF Government. Could England, in
her wars with Napoleon, bear, an income-
tax of ten per cent, and must we faint un
DER the burden of an income-tax of three
per cent? Was she content to negotiate q
loan at tifty-three for the hundred, and that
PAID IN deprecated paper, and can we talk
about financial ruin with our national
stocks ranging from one to eight above
par, and the ''hve-twenty' sWar loan ca
gerly taken by our own people to the
amount of nearly two hundred millions.
without any check to the flow of the cur,
rent pressing inward against the doors of
the Treasury? Except in those portions of
tne country which are the immediate seat
OF war, or liable to be made so, and which,
having the greatest interest not to become
the border States of hostile nations, can
best afford to suffer now, the state of pros
perlty and comfort is such as to astonish
those who visit us from other Countries
What are war taxes TO nation which. as
we are assured on good authority, has
more men worth a million now, than it had
worth ten thousand dollars at the close of
the REVOLUTIONS; whose whole property is
hundred times, and whose commerce. in
land and foreign, is five hundred times
what it was then? But we need not study
Mr.. STILES pamphlet and Thompsonis
Bank Note Reporter, to show us. what we
know well enough, that SO far from ha W.
ing occasion to tremble in fear of our i'm
pending ruin, we must rather blush for
our material prosperity. For the multi
tndes who are unfortunate enough to be
taxed for a million or more, of course we
must feel deeply, at the same time suggest
ing that the more largely they report their
incomes to the tax gatherer, the more con.
ISOLATION they will find in the feeling that
they have served their country. But.-let
us say plainly, it will not hurt our peopIe
10 be taught that there are other things to
be cared for beside money-making and
money spending; that the time has come
when manhood must assert itself by brave
leeds and noble thoughts; when woman
1ood must assume it's most sacred office.
ito warn, to comfort and, if need
De, ITO command" those whose services
heir country calls for. This Northern
section of the land has become great va
'iety-shop, of which the Atlantic cities ara
ne long-extended counter We have grown
'lch for what? To put gilt bands on coach
mem S hats! 70 sweep the foul sidewalks
With the heaviest silks that the toiIinp
artisans of France can send usr To look
trough plate-glass windows and pity the
.roWn soldiers, or sneer at the black ones?
20 reduce the speed of trotting horses q
econd or two below it's old minimum
10 color merschaums? To faunt in Iaces
nd sparkle in diamonds2 To dredge our
maiden hair in gold-dust? To float thro,
lie, the passive shdttlecocks of fashion.
rom the avenues to the beaches, and back
gam from the beaches to the ayenuesf-
as 1t Tor this that the broad domain Of
ne Western hemisphere was kept SO long
twisted by civilization? for this that
Ime, the father of empires. unbound the
lrgln zone of this the youngest of his
aughters, and gave her, beautiful in the
ong veil of her forests, to the rude embrace
the adventurous colonists ALI. this is
mat we see around US .now-now, while r
re are actually fighting this great battle.
nd supporting this great load ofindebt-
dness. Wait till thediamonds go back to
ne Jews of Amsterdam; till the pIate-glass
;indow bearsthe fatal announcement, For
tent, or, To Let; till the voice of our Mi
lam is obeyed, as she sings:
Weave no morestIks. we Lyons Ioomsr p
i'll the gold-dust is eombed from the gold
u locks, and boarded to buy bread; till
he fast-driving youth smokes his CLAY
ipe on the platform of the horse-car. til
he music-grinders cease because none will
ay them; till there are no peaches in the
indows at twenty-four dollars dozen.
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