The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-13

that liberty Is that free speech9 Is that
free press? Is that trial by iury7 Is that
tho universal and unhindered power of the
habeas corpus? Is there any man who
does not know that all these have been
struck down at the South, and that habit
ually and persistentiy7 Is there any men
either, who does not understand that for a
quarter of g century the slave force ofthe
South has been at work to fetter them
throughout the nation? Whoa are they that
in the past have raised mobs and gagged
the press and Kissed speakers FROM the
platform, or knocked them down in the
national capitol? Who are they that have
Knocked at the jury and trial Of the writs
of liberty, and have forced white men by
the military arm to aid in the mockery?
Who are they that have sneered at the doc
trines ofjusticeand equal righs? In whose
ears are the great fundamental declarations
of human liberty but sound? Where in a
word, is the organized and established des-
potism of the country, and who are these
despots?
When these questions are answered we
shall be in a condition to determine on
which side Is the danger to our liberties
The war itself is a war for freedom; and
its purpose is TO hold up over us and over
all the country and cover those who shall
take our places after us, the sheltering
hand of law. The only liberty in which
Clement Vallandigham, or any one like
him, can be a martyr, is the liberty to over
| turn law and to make us slaves. We are
sorry whenever the forms of legality are
trespassed upon; but in this case, and in
| all others like it, it is nevertheless TO be
| remembered that the great injury is on
| the other part. If the officers of govern
ment have done wrongto the letter-the form
| TIL: outward show and body ofliberty, he
has trodden on itsliving soul. 1t is Wor-
thy offs free people, that they should for
bid the repetition of the smaller offense;
but it is surer yet that they will rebuke,
with a still more decisive indignation,
whoever endeavors to commit the greater
Springfield Republican.
THE NEW YORK WoRLD.-The New
| York World goes into the classics over
General Burnsides notification that the Or
der suppressing it's circulation in his de-
partment has been revoked. Burnside is
Achilles drawing his sword to settle
quarrel with Agamemnon, (the World,
when Pallas Athene president Lincoln)
intervenes, stays the blade of the wrathful
| warrior, and a great historic rumpus is
avoided. The World mixes the sexes con-
| foundedly. Mr.. Lincoln, in this modern
nomenclature, must represent the bearded
woman. The subject is fine one for IL
| lustration, and we shall look for a cartoon
in the next number of Vanity Fair. The
| World is dissatisfied, however, that it was
General burnside ana not the Presldent,
who revoked the order. Nothing but the
Presidential condescension can mollify its
wrath, and it raves like a Bedlamite,
through column of stuff, about the impor-
lance of the event and the timely in
terference Of the President, to whose ac-
ton tive owe the immediate redemption
of the American Government from a hiss
ing reproach, and the American people
from civil danger and political convul-
1royx ON
we reflect that the tremendous crisis is
past, and the redemption of the Govern
ment so easily effected. The World has
passed through a variety of phases since
its creation. 1t was a religious World,
then stock joboing World, next an ar
y-contract World, still later an India
rubber World, and now it is "the World,
| the flesh and the DEVIL" rolled into one
! What it will next be, heaven only knows.
If it should be 1.-THE World without end, it
| will happen through no fault of General
Burnside.-CFn. Com.