The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-07
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.
THE PURIrAN AND CAvALIKa.

THE PURITAN AND CAvALIRR.
For the last six months 30 much has been
said by the Copperheads in favor Of re-con-
structing ''the Union as it was," by kicking
the six New England States ont of it, thus Civ
ing the Southern States, if they would only
come back, preponderance in the United
States Senate, and permitting them to be our
masters for all future time, by keeping out any
more free States, Is was the case with Kansas,
that few facts on this subject may not be out
Of place.
Passing over the abuse showered on the
yankees, )" Of meanness, sel6shness, abolition.
ism, aud seeking their own advantage BY par-
tial legislation when the other States permit
it, for We are not meeting this issue, it must
be admitted that when they earn their money,
thew are neither mean nor avaricious in keep
ing it. On the contrary, no people on the
earth are more benevolent and charitable when
occasion calls, and to no portion Of their com.
mon country have these much abused people
been more liberal than to their upgratetul
countrymen of the South. az
One Of our FIRST recolections in this way,
was Of q ship load Of provisions, and other
necessaries, the contributions Of benevolent
citizens of Boston to the city of Charleston,
South Carolina, on the occasion Of one of those
fearful confagrations SO common in Southern
cities, in 1928. The first relief which met
the miserably poor of that city at that time,
came from Boston.
The last case of similar character was
during the last Yellow Fever visitations of
1858, when more than one hundred thousand
dollars was contributed by the Northern COM
mercial cities to the relief of those Southern
cities, scourged by the epidemic The inter.
val Of time between these dates, period Of
thirty-fve years, was continual exercise of
charitable contribution from the East to the
South, which the latter thanklessly received,
claiming them as but meagre returns from the
'swindling' practised upon her'in the shape
of tariffs and the carrying trade, which she
never attempted to carry on herself, but sys-
| tematically for series Of years endeavored to
| transfer to foreign nations, for their sole ben
eft and the injury of the common country.
One of the most noted instances of Northern
benevolence occurred in 1856, when the cities
of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, were so
awfully scourged by Yellow Fever. Not only
was money contributed by thousands for their
relief, but ''Yankae" nurses rushed to the as
sistance of their distressed Southern brethren,
testify to the courage of those disinterested
''abolitionists" who sacrificed their lives in the
endeavor to mitigate the >sufferings of South.
erners. Years afterwards, in the spring Of
1861, gentleman attached to the great Phil
adelphia dry goods house of Hallowell s. Co.,
who was one of those prompted by his phi.
anthropic feelings to act as nurse during that
epidemic, and who took also large amount of
money from the firm to assist in relieving the
living and burying the dead, had occasion
again to visit the city of Norfolk. He was not
only denied a resting place in the town, and
compelled to walk the streets all night but
was forced to leave the place by the first con.
veyance in the morning, without transacting
the business for which he came there, thank
full to escape with his life Such is Southern
gratitude, virtue which even the savage re-
joices in the opportunity to exercise and re-
ciprocate.
But let us look at home. Our Western States
are dotted all over with schools and churches.
to the erection of nearly every one of which
yankee money has contributed. Scarce
minister POUNDS western church but looks
for eastern help. Is there church in our
city which has not been assisted in this way?
Burlington University has been built more by
eastern than by home contributions The en-
terprising western minister or teacher who
should seek aid at the hands of Southerners for
such purposes, would not only speedily return
with very extensive flea in his ear, but would
have double cause for gratitude if he escaped
the traditional hospita!itie, of seethins tar
and indigenous feathers.
Even while Western Copperheads we're revil-
ing the people Of the East, the latter in true
christian spirit, were giving mony for the re.
lief OF western soldiers. The Rev. Mr.. Eliot,
OF ST. Louis, who has been lecturing in the
East in behalf Of the Western Sanitary Com.
mission, sen. home, according to the St. Louis
Democrat, upwards Of twenty-five thousand
dollars from Boston alone. Have the pusil.
luminous peace Copperheads of the entire
country done as much, busy as they are and
have been in their works of evil, promoting
mischief and discomfort for the most infamous
party purposes. both at home and among the,
soldiers, as this single Yankee" city? 4
Meanwhile, what has the South ever done.
generous and 'tchivakric" as it claims to be. be.
yond fomenting sectional differences and NAL.
treating their fellow-citizens from other States
whenever in their power! Distance, it has
been truly said, lends enchantment to the
view. The traditional virtues and chivalry Of
the Southern vanish into thin air upon close
examination. No States have been so AFRO.