The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-23
Hudson Bay Company; chat John G.


unionist and in favor of civil war, because
ne would not issue declaration that the
doctrines of the platform on which he haC
been elected should not give coloring to the
policy of his Administration, and that al
the while the Abolitionists were conduct
ing themselves in this way, giving cause
1or declaration OF war against them every
day; they had kept up a ding dong thai
| there must be mo coercion" pleading thai
| the General Government had no constitu
tlonai right to object to any thing that 8
sovereign Yankee State might do, but was
helpless in the tolls of the Constitution
bound hand and foot, and placed at the
| mercy OF any faction of assassns. AND
suppose that, after all the noise about New
England's wrongs, not one of the traitors
was able to point to a single wrong ever
done one of the disatfected States by the
General Government, but that the great
and controlling influence for disunion was
simulated apprehension that Mr.. Breck.
inridge would do something unconsttu
tional.
Suppose the Conventions of the several
seeded States selected representatives who
met at Hartford and formed new Consti.
tuition, entirely discarding the old one, and
had establishes Provisional Government
calling Charles Sumner to the Presidency
that he had proceeded to form Cabinet
asserting in speeches wherever he went
that if the cowardly Southerners and West
erners did not like it they should smell
Yankee powder and feel Yankee steel; that
he sent Commissioners to Europe, to hang
around the Courts of England and France,
and attempt to obtain the recognition OF
the Confederate States Of New England as
an independent nation; that he issued mes
saSes and orders as President of the Con-
federate States, intended to embitter the
people OF the North against the slavehold-
ing South, and intiame all local preiudices
to the widest degree; that he urged upon
the people of the Confederate States to pre-
pare for war, and so prepare that it might
be carried beyond the borders of New Eng
land, and made a war of conquest against
those who disputed Yankee sovereignty at
home and supremacy abroad that he es-
tablished custom-houses to tax Western
trade, and that it would have been unsafe
for Western or Southern man to say a
word for the Union in his dominons; that
the chivalry of New England had been in
debt hundreds of millions to the Southern
planters, and refused to pay their debts in
order topunish the planters for being Union
men, and guilty of the oppression of their
fellow beings. Suppose it had been an es-
sential part of the policy of Charles Sum-
ner and his co-conspirators that every free
State should be included in the Yankee
Confederacy, whether they were or were
not willing to give up the old Union, and
that the Yankees all through the Middle
and Western States had been vociferous.
rampant, ana furious tor the New England
movement, determining to overbear by vi
olence all friendliness to the Union. Sun
pose their influence had been so great as to
call convention in New York to consider
the question OF disunion, and that a mob Of
Yankees had besieged it, hooting at and
all who were true TO the old
Union as submissiOnists to nigger-drivers,
Suppose,ln the mean time, the United States
Governmenthad a garrison Of seventy men
III fort in Boston Harbor, and that the
ankees, under cover of the policy of the
Government, which was conciliatOry be-
yond example in history, built batteries
it, and prepared for months
to lombard it, and waited with deyiIish
cunning, until the obnoxious Breckenridge
became President before committing an
overt act of hostility, in order that it might
be said that he was responsible for the war,
because he could not, without violating his |
oath, yield to their intolerable Demands
suppose, when THE United States garrison
IN Boston Harbor had been within forty
eight hours Of exhaustion of supplies, and |
the Yankees had been notified of it, and |
mat the fort must be surrendered that |
very week if not succored, they had opeD-
ad IRE upon ii with bombs and red hot shot.
ana reduced it. and then had shouted ho-
n
pose few days before this Yankee Con
FRESHMAN from New York had appeared in
Boston, expressed his doubts as to the ac-
lOn or the convention Of his State apOlO-
5ized for the laggardness of the State in !
olnlng the great movement of anti-Slavery
liberty ana State sovereignty, and had told |
ne Bostonlans that If they wanted to make
sure OF New York, Massachusetts must
make war-that it was necessary to strike
blow in order to precipitate New York
INTO the Yankee revolution. Suppose the
news OF the bOmbardment and fall of the
Boston fort had been received at Hartford
With every demonstration of ioy-that
Charles Summer and Cabinet had been SER
enaded, and Wendell Phillips, his Secre-
AIRY OF War, had proclaimed. and the fact
had been telegraphed all over the land, that
low the Middle States would follow New
England in secession, that in thirty days
he Confederate Yankee flag would wave
over the Capitol at Washington, and if the
south and West dared resent it, and test
! ankee prowess, that flag should speedily
ly from the spires of Charleston and Gin
'lnnatl. suppose the first gun fired at the
of the United States fort had
been discharged by William LLOYD Garri-
first gun at Sumter was fired by
Rutfin, Of Virginia, who had been
IN ayowed disunionist for forty years.
md that he had been celebrated through
'ut 1anhee ianu as nero, and giOrified
IS the most venerable of New England Sc
'essionists, and therefore, entitled to the
of firing the first gun for Yam
See independence. Suppose the New York
convention had gone into secret session.
'dopted ,clandestinely, but under the de-
noniac threats of a ravening mob, an ordi-
lance of secession, which they were oblir-
d to submit to the people by clause In
he act calling the Convention, intended to
'uard against any hasty action, and that
While it was presumed the adoption or re-
ectlon OF the ordinance was Still in the
lands of the people, expeditions had been
'tted out to seize the United forts and ar
enals in New York, and partially succeed
d.. Suppose the State of PENNSYLVANIA
lad voted largely against the secession
novement-that in one third of the State ;
he vote had been almost unanimously
gainst the mad designs of the Yankee
leaders,, and yet that she had been literal
y llnched into the movement by her State
authorities, leagued with parcel of
military conspirators, and that her
oval people had at once been sub
ect to the most dire prosecutions, for no
rime but that of loving the old Union. that