The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-23

| At the traitors once again!
| By our Nations ancient story
| By the deeds of other DAYS
| By our hopes of future glory,
| , BY the deep disdain or praise.
That our action now awaits
| AS we yield or dare the strife:
| Let us, through all adverse fateS
| swear to guard the Nations lifel
! Up and at Them
| Freemen, then, the way is plain:
! AT the traitors once again!
| -O
Some SuppOsitiOns-Re tn,
Glass.
Persons who have been accustomed t,
indulge in fierce prejudices against tn
Abolltlonists-who have suffered them
selves to speak of the great and san
culinary struggle on the part of the Gov
eminent to preserve the national life, as al
Abolition war for the negro, and who hay,
cultivated morbid Sensitiveness as to tn,
alleged intractions of the Constitution il
the name OF the war power, and art
strangely unconcerned as to the contemp
in which the Constitution is held by til,
rebels i'll arms, need to call to mind an(
consider, in spirit of candor, the utter
want OF provocation there was for the re-
belllOn, and the strange, barbaric atrOcity
with which the sword was uplifted, under
false pretenses the most false and unnatu.
raj, against the Constitution and the Union
Let us suppose, for the benefit, and if il
| of the disaffected, that John G. Breckin-
| ridge had, A. d. 1860, been elected Pres
ident of the United States, undeniably ac-
cording to the forms of the Constitution;
that the Abolitionists OF New England
having possession Of the State Govern
ments in that section, as the secessonists
had in the Cotton States, had concluded
they would no longer remain in a Union
governed by pro-slavery politicians and
dominated by minority section; that
those AbOlitionists believed themselves
capable OF forming great and indepen-
dent nation; of resisting successfully by
force OF arms the authority of the Federal
Governments; of securing by virtue of
some commodity or branch of industry. of
which they presumed themselves to have
the monopoly, and which they had faith
was indispensable to the world, alliances
with European powers that would overaWe
ana humlIlate the Government. Suppose
the New England Abolitionists had raked
the embers of the Kansas difficulties: re-
vlved the agitation about the repeal of the
Missouri Compromises; renewed the con-
troVerSy about the war with MeXicO made
cutlery concerning the tilibustering pro-
clivities of the South, giving Cuban and
Central American illustrations: charged
that the foreign policy of the South was
aggressive and likely to involve us in need
less wars that would destroy the commerce
OF New England; resurrected all intiam-
matory matter about the execution of the
Fugitive Slave Law; magnitied and dwelt
upon the outrages perpetratedupon North
ern men III the Southern States; clamOr-
ed necessarily about the violation OF the
United States mails by officials in the slave
communities, and the suppression OF Abo-
llt1on newspapers; assumed that the spir-
IT OF the fathers OF the Republic had been
departed from in the management of the
Government trar Of
dom, and therefore that the dissolution of
the Union was righteous; asserted that it
was the purpose Of the South to exclude
New England from her proper share in the
conduct OF national affairs; and declared
that it was the fell intention of slavehold-
ing statesmen to prevent the legitimate ex-
panslon OF 4ankeedom, to exclude her
citizens from official positions, and pre-
vent, by exercise Of the Federal authority,
the extension of New England institutions
over, and the annexation of, the Canadas
and Russian possessions. Suppose, then.
the New Englanders had for many wears
cultivated rabid provincial sentiment:
that they did not believe any persons
but Yankees could fight, and that one
Yankee could whip at least three West
ern and Southern men; that they held
each little New England State to he
sovereignty, and that their citizens
owed paramount allegiance to it; that
there had been rejoicings in Boston over
the election of Breckinridge, as atfordinu a
preteXt for long-meditated disunion, and
1T had been the boast of AbOlitionists i'm
Massachusetts that they had, for thirty
years, been maturing projects for the disso-
luton of the bonds binding the States into
nation; that they had referred with COM
placency to the Hartford Convention as the
antecedent Of which they We're most vain
glorious; that Massachusetts had called a
n n y-nY, fin,, nd
cooperation OF other States sympathizing
with her, but less rash, had adopted an or
dlnance of secession; that the Abolitionists
had established reign of terror over ali
Yankee land, mobbing and numbering
Union men, and compelling citizens Of
Southern and Western birth to flee for
their lives, or take the lead in the frantic
crusade against the Republic. Suppose the
example of Massachusetts had been speed
lily followed by the other New England
States, regardless of the protest of their
pest and wisest citizens; that the adoption
OF ordinances OF secession had been an
nounced by the ringing of bells and the
III IrlhS OF cannon, general rejoicing that
the dominion of Slave-drivers over New
England was broken; that the seeded
States had made immense preparations for
war, seized the U. S. Armorv at SPRING
held, and all Government property wher
ever found; that the defenSeless forts had
been occupied, with insulting demonstra-
tlons by armed and uniformed mobs. af
1ectlng to act under State authority: that
the United States officers in the disatfected
districts had resigned; that the Stars and
p, had been hauled down; trailed in
the streets, trampled under foot, and RAGS
with strange devices run up over the Gus
tom houses and forts, and paraded by the
forces of the States; that Eastern
members OF the Cabinet had left their
places to become missionaries of sedition
ln the middle States, that the seeded
states had sent commissioners to plead the
cause OF secession all over the North. that
wv England congressman had remained at
dea asnington longafter they had resolved to
destroy the Government, especially and
a avo,Wediy to embarrass it, thus adding the
suna OF perjury to that of treason. and
iiauhtlng their crimes in the face Of the |
loyal authorities, defiantly made their
ma a boast. Suppose all this time that
t tne me ". England secessionists had pre-
compromise and remain in the Union
or return to it, if the South would agree ~
d m n nj NOT fJ,n oil,