The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-31
JUNE, 1889
that Of the free North toward the South dur

/ ask you to take notice of the conduct of
the two sides at this point. For thirty
years we have been experiencing sectional
defeats at the hands of the Southerners.-
For thirty years and more we had seen our
sons prescribed, because loyal to liberty, or
worse than proscribed-suborneda and made
subservient to Slavery. TCheers.l Wehad
seen our judges corrupt, our ministers apos-
tate, our merchants running headlong af-
ter gold against principle; but we maintain
ed our feality to the law and Constitution,
and had faith in victory by legitimate
means. But when, by the means pointed
out by the Constitution, and sanctioned by
the usage of three-quarters of century,
Mr.. Lincoln, in fair, open field, was elect
ed President of the United States, did the
South submit? [Cries of "No,' and cheers.
No offense had been committed-none
threatened; but the arrogation was that the
election OF man known to be pledged
against the extension of Slavery was not
compatible with the safety of Slavery in the
South, and on that ground they took steps
for secession. Every honest mode to pre-
vent it, all patience on the part of the North,
allpusillanimity on the part of Mr.. Buchan-
an. While he still sat, before his successor
came into office, he left nothing undone to
make matters worse, did nothing to make
things better. The North was patient then,
the South impatient. Then came the steps.
lhe question was put to the South, and
with the exception of South Carolina, every
State in the South gave a popular vote
against Secession and yet, such was the
Juggiery Of political leaders, before a few
months h had passed they had precipitated
every state into Secession. That could
never have been where there were common
people. The South has common herds of
people, the North had herds of what Lord
Brougham lamentablyt termed mobs. Lord
Brougham, upon whose plentitude of days
the hght OF God shone so gloriously, is
iYCv dow LA
intelligent people of the North by calling
them mobs. [Cheers and counter cheers.
/ call you to take notice that the people
| of the South thought that the Government
| of the States could not be administered by
an honest man without prejudice to Slav-
| cry. 1t could not. The Government of the
United States is such that, if il be adminis-
tered equitably, still in the long run it
would destroy Slavery and it was the pros
pect of this that led the South to make pre-
cipitate Secession. [Cheers.l
! Now, against allthese facts it is attempt.
ed to make England believe that Slavery
has had nothing to do with this war
LLIanghter.l You might as well have at
tempted to persuade Noah that the clouds
had nothing to do with the flood; perhaps
some man will attempt to persuade you
that the palm trees and orange trees will
grow at the North Pole perhaps some one
will persuade. you next that there is no
| oehu III tlo SlSub ueSSits IL Is tile uloSl
monstrous absurdity ever born in the
womb OF folly. [Cheers.l Nothing to
do with Slavery! 1t had to do with moth
ing else. Cheers. Slavery was the moth
er OF Rebellion. ECheers.l The father of it
was-O, no, we never mention him. Much
laughter.l Against this writhing fact
against this damning allegation-what is
their escape? The attempt is to say--the
North is just as bad as the South. Laugh
ter. Now we are coming to the marrow
Oft. Cheersl 1t the North is as bad as
the South, why did not the South find it
out before you did? fthe North has been
in favor OF expressing the black man, and
Just as much in favor Of Slavery as the
South, how is it that the South has gone to
war with the North because of their belief
to the contrary? Ia voice-'Slavery does
not pay in the North" Gentlemen, I hold
speech of the amiable, intelligent, and cred
ulous President, I believe, of the Society
for Southern Independence. Laughter
1 have some curiosities in it. Laughter
That you may know that Southerners are
not all dead yet, will read paragraph:
1.-THE South has labored hitherto under
the imputation, and it had constantly been
thrown into the teeth of all who supported
that struggling nation, that they, by their
proceedings, were tending to support the
existence of Slavey. This was an impress
sion which he thought they ought carefully
| W eLuetVOT 10 TeulOVe lcueerS anu iallSn-
teri, because it was one which was iniuri-
Gus TO their cause-[cheers]- mot only
among those who had the feeling of all
Englishmen-ofa a horror of Slavery-but,
also, because strong religious bodies in
this country made point of it, and felt it
very strongly indeed" .a-
| I never like to speak behind mans
back-I like to speak right to mems faces
what have to say-and could wish the
higher felicity than that which has been
accorded to me tonight might have been
given-to have had Lord Wharncliffe pres
ent, that I might address to him few
simple and artless Christian Inquiries
[Cheers.l For there can be no question
that there is strong impression that the
South has had something to do with Slave
ry. [Cheers.l Indeed, on our side Of the
water there are many persons that affirm
it. daughter and cheers.] And, as his
Lordship thinks it is the peculiar duty Of
this now agglomerated and agglutinated
association for Southern independence to
do away with that impression, beg to
submit to them that, in the first place. they
ought to do away with four million slaves
in the South; for /, for my own part cannot
say but that / think there are uncharitable
men enough living in this world to think
that q nation that has four million slaves
in it has good deal to do with supporting
Slavery, [Cheers.] And when he has done
that, it might perhaps be pertinent to sug-
gest to his Lordship that there should be
little something done to the Montgomery
| Constitution of the South, which is chang
ed from the old Federal Constitution in
only one or two points, the most essential
| of which is that 1t introduces and legaliZes
Slavery, and makes it unconstitutional
ever to do it away; and they are under
| that Constitution. Now, l submit that
that wants scrubbing little. [Cheers. /
| Then would respectfully lay it at his
lordship's feet-more beautifully embossed,
if could, than this address to me is-the
speech of Vice President Stephens-Ihear,
hearl-in which he declares that all nations
have been mistaken, and that the subju-
CATION of an inferior race is the only prop
er way to maintain the liberty of superb
or; in which he teaches Calvary new less
son-in which he gives the lie into the face
of the Savior Himself, who came TO teach
| us that by as much as a man was stronger
| than another, he owed himself to that 9TH
er. Loud cheers.l Not alone are Christ's
| blood-drops our salvation, but these word
drops of sacred truth which cleanse the
| heart and conscience by the expression of
precious truths and principles themselves