The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-06

,EKLY HAWK-EYE.
shall. Well, is it then the saving Of the
country that is this common cause7 1t is
not even that, for there are many good men
who do not like the present boundaries Of
our country. They wish it to be made
smaller. For my own part, every rood of
1T is dear to my heart. GAApplause.1 I
would not have ono star pass from the Ma
tional flag. [Applause.I Not even poor
South Carolina. [Applause and faughter.l
love even South Carolina. I love her for
the memory of her noble men who stood
by the side ofour revolutionary fathers. i
love her for another reason; love her for
what she will become again when she shall
have come out of her present degeneracy
and madness. Well, now, if this common
cause which has drawn US together is not
the saving of the Constitution, nor the sa-
wing of the Union, nor the saving OF the
country, pray what then is it? My answer
will be-and it will leap up from all your
hearts to your lips-it is the putting down
of this accused and causeless rebellion
|TApplause.] That is the common cause
that has drawn us together. And now
mark you we all stand together at this
point, where all good and just and patriotic
men can do and stand with us. [Applause.]
And then one thing more; that is the very
point where unpatriotic and selfish men
refuse to stand with us. The very point.
And yet, some of these unpatriotic and
self-seeking men and traitors among them,
are very eager to assure us of their intense
regard for the Union end Constitution and
country.
But when we turn upon them with the
Question, care you for putting down the
reilion?' they are found wanting. That is
just the only test to apply to them, and un-
der its application they fail. recollect
Britain was agitated by the proposition to
abolish British Slavery, some Quakers
supplied themselves with an image OF a
kneeling slave, and the appealing question
was running out of its mouth, "Am I not a
man and brother?' When the candidates
for seats in Parliaments would come
around to these Quakers and solicit their
votes, and tell them of the many fine things
they would do if things peculiarly
acceptable to Quakers-these cunning
QuakerS would thrust in the face of these
candidates this appealing image, and ask
them: "Can you go that? Ii you can't go
that, we can't go you" Just so 90 do
with these men, when they pirate about
their love for the Constitution, the Union
and the country. / ask them, and you ask
them. can you go for putting down the re-
bellion? If you can't go that, we can't go
YOU. o, why should we go these vile n.y.
pocrites-for such they are--who talk about
being for the Constitution and the Union,
and the country, and yet go, not for put
ting down the rebellion, the putting down
of which can alone save these blessings to
us, and the triumph of which will rob us OF
them all? And now we have before us but
one duty: our one work is the work of put
ting down the rebellion. You have got to
come to this point. don't allow myself to
be co-worker with any one on earth who
does not come to this point. The putting
down of this rebellion must be done, come
what will to Constitution and Union, and
even country. [Applause.] Can you go
that? Applause. and cries of eyes, yes"
For hold that our duty to justice, in put
ting down this rebellion, is infinitely more
commanding and absolute than any duty
we owe to the Constitution or the Union,
or even the boundaries OF our country. /
claim that we are to go for putting down
the rebellion Internationally. Can you 60
that? You are not to say, we will consent
to put down the rebellion on condition OF
the saving of the Constitution, the saving
of the Union, or the saving of the country.
You are to say, we go for putting down the
rebellion Internationally, and that is just
where these traitorous enemies will not &C
one Questions me-, Would You 60 for put
ting down this rebellion with all the posi-
BILE risks that the Union, the Constitution
and the country might go down with
4 it? 1 answer, would. ! answer 1 make
no calculation at all at that point
My only duty has been, from the first the
putting down of this rebellion. And hence
some old Abolitionists, perhaps would ask
J me, Do you go for putting down this rebel
} lion at all possible hazards, that Slavery
J may survive and be stronger than ever?
would. ] run that risk. [Applause.]
J have no conditions to make in behalf o
any of my hobbies, and have not had since
the day the news reached me at Peterboro
| of the bombardmento of Sumter. Applause
And now here let me say, that in my phi
losophy, the putting down of crime canno
bring any harm to any good, cannot brins
f any help to any evil. Hence the puttins
down of this rebellion, which is the crime
: of crimes, cannot bring any possible harm
: to any good in the Constitution, in the I'm
| ion or in the country, or in freedom-non
whatever. I call it the crime of crimes
; Earth has never known a greater Grim
than this attempt to destroya nation whicl
f had never done any thing to provoke tina
: attempt: a nation which had always beel
not only just, but exceedingly partial, t
4 those guilty of this practical and murder
Gus attempt. [Applanse.l And now lie
me here say, that to make ourselves mos
effective in this work, We ought to cult
e vate earnestness. Oil what an immens
advantage the South has had over us il
that respect! fall our early Generals
a beg your pardon Mr.. President, I did nc
include OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are to
: nearly kindred to me that l should do tina
: I say if our early General had had but
1.-THE Of the earnestness that characterize
: the South and Southern Generals w
: should not have needed to be meeting here
e the rebellion would long ago have ended
/. And there is one thing more we need
: cultivate and that is resentment. Can 20
J go that? reyes, Sir,' and applause.]
: know there is q sentimental, namby-p pam
r by religion, which takes fright at the ide
r ofcultivating resentment. We need NOR
: resentment to fight the rebels as we ougf
: to fight them. That has been our want a
8 the way through. Il recall conyersatio
: with that great and good man, Theodor
n Parker, which had few years before hi
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