The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-31

and embarrassments, ite questions OF bread ana
butter and bullion, its privileged classes to be
coddled, and it's pauper classes to be crushed,
its dying oligarchies and awakening masses, its
certain demands andiits uncertain supplies
Humanity, AZ such, does not care to be appealed
to; and it particularly dislikes, in all diplomatic
conferences, anything like whine. Davis
should know better than to suppose that be can
gain any consideration abroad BY q studied dis
play of the Confederate ulcers. Foreign cabi-
nets will not assist him any the sooner because
he protests, though never so pathetically, that
he Is in instant danger Of having his throat cut,
his crops destroyed and his house burned over
his ill-fated head. OF this, indeed, the Confed-
crate Sacbem has q shrewd suspicion. He is
therefore like Orator PUT, and has two tones to
his voice-the ''B alt" Of appeal and the &c
below" Of defiance. If he whires, we must do |
him the justice to say that he also roars. The
Confederacy, Sants everything, and it wante
nothing. The ''nigger" loves Davis dearly, and
will slaughter him upon the first opportunity
The Slave, who lie 90 peaceful and contented"
to-day, is to be transformed into homicidal
devil tomorrow, through the mysterious infu
ence Of a bit Of printed paper, Elk inches long
by two broad, which, to save his life, be cannot
read! The careful hands which smooth Mr..
Daviss virtuous sheets in the evening, will be at
morning prayers In short, Mr.. Davis 10 very
much alarmed and not in the least frightened
in great peril. but never go safe before in his
life-highly suspicious of Sambo, in whose 6del.
ity he has the highest confidence! No doubt,
he ia in dreadful quandary-but why should
he advertise it to mankind? i ST.
A man 10 situation 90 highly uncomforta-
BILE may properly be psrdoned, although his
logic limps little. If the black be compen-
dunn of the Seven Cardinal Virtues, tender,
afectionate, peaceful and contented-whst is
there in the Proclamation by which he is
s'doomed to determination ?" Who is to be
the exterminator? The master beloved! Who
is to be exterminated? The affection, peace
full and contented slave! Sturdy, this is q
most inscrutable concentration. The world
may not be prepared, as ]. D. eupposes, to
abandon its humane.instincts, butstill less will
it be prepared to abandon its common sense,
or to bestow its admiration upon statesman
who gravely informs it, with tears gushing in
rivulets from his swollen eyes, that in order
cessity of putting to the SWORD, of''extermina.
ting, several millions of peaceful and content
ed human beings" in order to prevent this
peace and content from developing itself in 50
general assassination of their masters" With
all due respect to his Excellency's intellectu-
ais, we must say that he seems to have weak
preference for the circular reasoning.
In another way, this titular President makes
quite deplorable show of fatuous sagacity.
He takes it for granted that mankind does not
know what human slavery is. He supposes
that man, just now emerging from the dark
ness Of social degradation, has lost all recol.
lection OF the pangs inflicted by his oppress-
ors; and that those who are only now casting
off the manscles Of the Middle Ages, are to be
cozened into the belief that involuntary servi.
tude is the most blessed Of human conditions.
Davis should remember that he Is sinking the
statesmen Of Europe to acknowledge ss excel
lent, in America, . social policy which they
are fast abandoning at home; and that the en-
franchsed Of the old lands comprehend we'll
enough what slavery must be in the United
States. Humvn nature will have something
to do with that common humanity, to which
Davis officially tenders the assurance of his
most respectful consideration. There is no man
in Europe who is so ignorant as not to know
slavery means unrequited toll, unrestrained
cruelty, the despair of man and the degrade.
ton, of woman. Whips speak . universal Lam
guage Is they fall upon the bare and blister
ing back; all ears understand that their hiss is
hellish, and that the mystic characters which
they write upon the cracking and furrowed
akin do not hide any new gospel Of ineffable
| tenderness Common humanity has common
cuticle, and refuses to comprehend the de.
lights Of fagellation, Common humanity
shrinks from forced concubinsge, from the
| sunderiug Of marital ties, from the paternity
which sells its own children, from system Of
labor which is pitiIess in its demands and
worse than niggardly in its rewards. Com
mon humanity is not so utterly besotted as to
find virtue 10 uurestrsined violence, and beauty
in systematic brutality. Common humanity
has its instincts. and of these Davis should
have said as little as possible. What had he
to do with humanity at all! Why should he
take the trouble Of reminding mankind that
there are even in this hard hearted world such
things as sacred pity and eternal justice .
Why transfer his assaults from the pockets of
commerce to the heart of the human race -
Why talk of anything but cash and cotton p
Why not be contented with good merchanta-
BILE Message addressed not to the man Of feel
ing, but to the man of trade message bristl.
ing with figures to prove the proftableness of
man owning, and stiff with the fascinating
statistics Of well requited wickednessi The
Confsderacy should understand that it can
have no recognition except upon contemptu.
ous conditions, no good will which it does not
buv. .snd no hearts which it does not bribe.-
Men will trade with it, and 90 they will trade
with Hottsntots. In respect Of it, slavehold-
ing, mankind will losths this new and hybrid
republic; but in respect of its cotton crop, it is
supposed by the Richmond sages that mankind
viii be good natured. We shall see. Man.
kind may prefer certainty Of cotton supply
Mankind may not fancy the dubious product
Of unrequited and discounted labor. Msnkind,
or that portion Of it which ls devoted to the
wearing Of cotton cloth, may have have pre-.
JUDGES in favor Of well assured aud steady
production.
Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal, says:
''those who talk Of reconstruction Of the
Union, with New England left ont, are no bet
ter than the other rebels" which ststsusnt
tsrssly sums up the whole question.