The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-05

be necessary on this point; but if orr Sontp
ern men of business go on as they have ha-
gun, the sons of the Pilgrims will find their
| brethren of the South even more diticnI.
! to deal with than the astute natives Of ths
Celestial Empire. A far more Important
! question for the safety of the State js The
extent to which Yankee ideas have narva0
ded the structure of our society. Nenrn
worship is but the corollary of the nodsrn
Evangel of Labor, and, if we once snf 4a.
the apostles of this gospel to hold their con.
venticles, and gather in their converts
throughout the Confederacy, we NAV hfs =
long goodbye to all our dreams OF social
order. We called it a modern EvanpoI bnt
| it is in truth as old as the first revolution
airy poet, Hesiod, as old as Tubal Cain. as
old as Satan himself, whom we have to
thank for the sweat of the brow, which the
Bible tells US is curse, and the horny
hand which socialists would have us kiss
in rapturous alteration. Even before tho
war, the so-called "working-menr had
their candidates in our larger towns: and
since the war we have seen, in the verv
Capital OF the Confederacy, an appalling
display of mechanic 'goosery,' which near
ly frightened our worthy representatives
out of their propriety. Indeed, such is the
arrogance of the few artisans of the South
that well-meaning men, who, a few months
ago. revealed in visions of the future devel-
| opment of the material resources Of Vir.
ginia, stand aghast at the sequel of their
dreams, as they foresee the whole "chaos
come again" of corrupt civilization; all
the "isms' of the North, all the "ologies'
! of Germany, the phalansteries of French
communists, the extravaganzas of English
radicals, running riot through our South
ern country. Mills and manufactures on
every stream, and in every valley, would
be poor compensation for the introduce
ton Of such a crew Of the sons and daugh-
tiers Of Belial; and no wonder that those
who cling with love, which is often the
highest reason, to the old frame work Of
our society, shudder at the thought of a
Lowell on the Appomatox or Manchester
in the Piedmont region: And yet they see
no other future for the border States Of the
Confederacy. Slave labor is to be with
drawn from the northern side of the James,
and the country is literally and metaphor
ically to go to grass. The old lords of the
soil are to migrate to the far South, and
Yankees and Yankeefied Southrons are TO
dive the rivers of Virginia with indigo and
copperas. and make her skies black with
the smoke of their furnaces. Then the fatal
process which led to adissolution of the Old
Union is to be repeated, and another fratri-
cidal war inaugurated.
These Vaccinations may be fulfilled; but
if they are, it will be our own fault. We
see no necessity for the upturning of the
agricultural basis in any of the Southern
States. The inconvenience of the block
ade have made us envy the comparative
independence of the North in the matter of
manufactures, and we have sedulously
dinned into her ears the exploded theory of
antique politics, according to which every
State must be self-sut1icient, every little
canton must produce within its own limits
all that it needs. All the experience of the
last fifty years is to be thrown away, and
Southern manufactures are to be fostered
into a sickly life by tariff pap, under the
supervision of nursing fathers and nursing
mothers of the Protectionist school. We
are to forget that war is an episode and not
a normal state; and we are to waste cur
capital in order to meet therequirementso Of
| heavy insurance policy.
But suppose, for the sake of argument,
| that after the war is over, manufactures
will be found to pay in the South. Even
that our social system will necessarily IN
dergo radical change, and that we shall
be forced to import laborers from abroad,
and with those laborers, the germs of Red
| Republicanism and its kindred tares. An
easier solution of the problem is found in
the advanced intelligence of our slave
population, who are, in some respects. not
whit behind the operatives of Lancashire
| When the blacks cease to be prOtitabl n
| the field, we can transfer them to the work
shops, and the more elaborate the fabric,
the more minute the subdivision of labor,
the easier will be the management of the
race, the less the danger from the thievish
propensities of this peculiar people. Every
body knows, although every body seems
determined to blink at the disagreeable
fact, that of late years all the higher order
of slaves, such as domestic servants and
mechanics, have been bent on the acquis-
ton of money, which they either hoard
with senseless avarice, or spend with
reckless profusion; and how fearfu1ly
the high bred tradition, which forbiGs
the close inspection of a servants pecuH-
una has told on our domestic economy du-
ring this war, every hOusekeeper in the
land knows by sad experience. No won
der that the negroes do not feel the war,
when the necessaries Of life are secured TO
them by the system, and their extra labor.
which is often their only real labor, and
their daily pilferings, enable them to in
/ dulge in luXuries which are banished from
their masters tables. That we have to
guard against the growth of this evil, the
history of all slaveholding nations shows
negroes of the South, down to certain
period, followed the lead of their careless,
improvident masters; and now that every
one in civil life is endeavOring to amass
wealth, the new direction is as readily ia
ken by these servile copyists of the vices
of their superiors. Hence we have sad
that such slave labor as may not be profit
able in agricultural or domestic servitUde
should be employed in these manufactures
which require variety of Independent
processes, rather than in the more simple
handicrafts, for which alone negro opera
tives have been deemed fit. Opportunities
for theft they will still find, but they viii
not be able to make such wholesale dispo-
sition of their time and labor as they are
doing now, and as they will do in larger
measure, if the rights Of the master are
not insisted on with more rigor than nas
been the case heretofore. At all events,
the capacity Of the negro race for manutac-
turing operations. not simply for the heavy
work of the foundry and the fiouring-mill,
but for the production Of delicate fabrics
of every kind, deserves series OF careful
experiments at the hands of those who
wish, on the other hand, to see our system
of slavery perpetuated and developed, and,
on the other, to prevent the rise of mere
mechanical class, which, by its license us
I half-education, its narrow views, its low
moral standard, has endangered every
form of free government, and has always
proved the worst foe to social order.-Rseh-
nond Examiner, Nor. 18th. ~