The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-14

accomplished it's mission here. A great
mission 1t had, A new and fertile country
had been discovered, and must be made |
useful. The necessities of mankind pressed
Tor its speedy development. Negro slavery /
was the instrument to effect this. 1t alone
could open up the fertile and miasmatic re-
gions OF the South, solving the problem of
thelr utility, which no theorist could have
Ieacneo. 1t was the magician which sud-
ueniy Tevoiutlonized the commerce Of the
world by the solution of this problem. 1t |
peopied and made opulent the barren hills
OF New England. and threw its powerful |
influence across the great North-West.-
StanalnS as avail between the two sections
IL caught ana rolled northward the wealth
| and population Of the old world; and held
IN their places the restless adyeuturers of
New England. or turned them along the
great prairies and valleys of the Vest
Thus New England reached its climax. |
and the Northwest was overgrown of it's |
age, while the South, with it's negro labor |
ers, was sparsely settled, and comparative
/ ~ poor. Thus slavery had done its utmost |
for New England and the North West, and
was weight upon the South. If, at this |
point, Its disappearance could have clearly
commenced, what untold suffering and
sorrow might have been avoided!
q Its existence had become incompatible
with the existence of the Government. For
While it had stood as a wall, damming up
the current and holding back the people
and laborers of the North, it had, by thus
precluding free intercourse between the
sections, produced marked change in
their manners, customs and sentiments
) And the two sections were growing more
divergent every day. This wall or the
Government one, must give way. The
shock came which was to settle the ques-
ton. l thought that the.Government was
divided, and negro slavery established for
| Qy-np hn oa,,f
stronger than slavery. AS have said, the
mission of the latter is accomplished. And,
: as his happiness must always be subordi-
nate to that of the white man, he must, ere
!, long, depart on the footprints Of the Red
man, whose mission being accomplished,
is fast fading from our midst. ....+
While think the mission of the negro
is accomplished here, I am clearly of the
opinion that the time will come when civ
,, iliZatiOn and learning shall light up the
dark abedes of the four hundred million
people III India, and when their wants and
necessities will put the patient and hardy
negro to toillng, and opening up the great
valley of the fertile but miasmatic Amazon.
5 But such speculations are out of place
I here.
Let US, fellow citizens, endeavor to be
calm. Let US look these new ideas, and
? our novel position, squarely in the face
We fought for negro slavery. We have
lost. We may have to do without it. The
inconvenience will be great for WHILE
The loss heavy. This, however, is already
well-nigh accomplished. Yet, behind this
Il Il dark cloud is silver lining. If not for us,
s 5 at least for our children. In the place OF
u these bondsmen will come an immense in
iux of people from all parts of the world,
bringing with them their wealth, arts and
:: Improvements, and lending their talents
= and sinews toincrease our aggregate wealth
Thrift and trade and common destiny
= will bind us together. Machinery in the
e hills of Arkansas will reverberate to the
. music of machinery in New England, and
i the whirr of Georgia spindles will meet re-
= sponsive echo upon the slopes of the far-of
{, Pacific. Protective tariffs, if needed, viii
: stretch in their influences from the Lakes
"a to the Gulf, and from ocean to ocean, bear
II ing, alike, at last, equally upon Arkansiar
y Californian. Difference of section and 10
=, cal sentiment will wear away and be for
~ gotten, and the next generation be mor'
T. homogeneous and united than any since th
p days Of the Revolution. And the descend
u u ants of these bloody times will read, will
y as much pride and little jealousy, of thes
e battles of their fathers, as the English ant
ie Scotch descendants of the heroes of Flod
VI den-feld, read of their ancestral achieve
!e ments in the glowing lines of Scott. or, a
~ ~ the descendants of highland and lowlan'
ia chiefs, illusions to their fathers conflict
IN Let us live in hope, my grief-strickel
,ii ~ brothers, that the day is not far distant
70 W when Arkansas will rise from the ashes c
~ ~ her desolation, to start on path OF highe
ns destiny than, with negro slavery, she eve
ell could have reached; while the reunite
- Government, freed from the cankering sore
~; will be more vigorous and powerful, an
ca ca more thrifty opulent and happy, than tho
~ the scourge Of war Ind never desolated he
ol fields, or made sorrowful her hearthstones
81 The sooner we lay down our arms, an
ny quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner ou
~ h days Of prosperity will return.
,ye WHY I HEsITATED-THE SITUATIoN-TH
ke REMEDY.
ate 1 hesitated long, my fellow citizens, b,
fore 1 determined to issue this address.
dislike to be abused and slandered. Blu
ci- more than all; dislike to live under clou
ou with those friends who have not yet reacl
las ed my stand point. And, besides, all
.ry possess is in the Confederate lines. The
all leaders will deprive my family of slave
ua! home, property-debts due me-ln wor
The reduce them from competence and ease
the penury. Aside from what I have insit
in the Confederate lines, ] could not pay f
the paper this address is written upon. B
his it may all 60. Did desire future prom
us. ton, and could bring my conscience to it.
ans would 90 Hke the Johnsons, SAFE from Dt
as lets and hardships themselves, they ASST
the in holding you on to this hopeless and r
vii, inous struggle, and, at the end of the co
ed; f1ict, will come back and say: 81 staid ac1
de- vou to the last?'' ''HOnOr me and mine
ore God deliver me from such traitors to h
ed, manity, and to the interests Of our bleedi1
and people! To me, the path of duty is plai
ay- It is to lend my feeble aid to stop this us
ing less etfusion Of blood. And, though it be
WIS gar my family, and leave me no ray of ho
and for the future, shall follow it.
of have witnessed the desolation of Il
de- Southern States from one end to the 9th,
the This hopeless struggle but widens it
a Each day makes new graves, new orpha
, of and new mourners! Each hour filings in
gro this dreadful whirlpool more of wreck
Ally hopes, broken fortunes, and anguish
bo- hearts. The rich have mostly fallen. T
we poor have drank deep of the cup of sorro
SO, while surely, and not slowly, the tide
nth ruin, in its resistless surge, sweeps iowa
her the middle classes! A few more campaign
be and they will form part Of the gene,
o. wreck! Each grave and each tear, ca
the wasted fortune and broken heart puts
late that much further off from the object
~ L.