The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-04
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| The East and the West.
The Richmond Enquirer of March Gath has
characteristic article on "Signs in the North
west" The Enquirer says; " The organization
which used to be called the Democratic party
in those Federal States, is broken up," that cold
issues are gone BY and the great new issue il
the war and the conduct OF the war" The
Enquirer is further Of the opinion that
"If the Union be finally broken forever,
though the Norths est may find safety and profit
in q confederacy of its own, New York, Phila-
dslphia and Boston are ruined at any rate. -
Hence We can understand the total reyulsion Of
language and of feeling among the Democrats
of New, York. All their. talk of amnesty or
peace, al their loud asseT tons of State rights
Ill their notification of their President aud his
Cabinet, and his Generals, was under the delu-
sion that We had not really seeded from them
in earnest, and that We were willing to let our
moral struggle pass tor Democratic Presiden-
tial campaigns somewhat violent campaign, It
is true-rathef more stormy than the "sour
cider " one, or the Know Nothing one, but still
only an effort that would be amply re warded BY
the epoils Of Office in Wellington. They ap-
pear only lately to have found out that We were
serious oil the time, and meant what we said, to
their intense disgust. They have discovered
that the prize We sought, and which we thought
worth the richest and reddest of out best blood,
was no less than absolute Independence be
eternally clear of them and their mean politics.
to leave them Ill their ways, to rise out of the
contaminations Of their society, aud begin to
live our own full, strong, genial life, in accord
with our institutions and national character
They had been giving us credit for more practi-
cal good sense, those Democrats !" they had
thought We valued the hearts blood of our
children as much a. they value the Hessians they
hire, and, finding out their mistake. they are
naturally Disguised" az. s.
{, If the Union we're finally and forever broken,
it is certain that the Northwest, and not the
Northeast, would be the section, next to the
South, that would suffer most. The east would
have the ocean before their cities, as now, but
We of the west would be blockaded east and
south. It is poor sort Of twaddle, and very
to the Northwest, to talk to her of
the advantages of an independent Confederaey
in this corner of the country. It is true that
Northern people are very slow to believe that
Southern disunionists are in earnest It is
equally true that the Southern people have been
hard to convince that the Northern Unionists
are In earness, and especially that Northwestern
Union men are the most tenacious of oil, and
would be the last to give up the cause of the
nation, even If the cause should become desper-
ate. The Richmond Enquirer continues:
snow, this discovery they have made in the
country north Of us, both east and west, operates
very differently on the Democrats Of these two
sections. In the eastern Fart it makes them
drop suddenly all thoughts of Cancellation, and
rage and foam for war and slaughter. ISee
speeches of Van Buren,, Brady, SC. The very
same discovery makes Western men bethink
themselves that there has been too much war
and slaughter already, and though they are now
in for it, and must try it out, yet their evident
policy will soon be 10 draw out of it, ifpossible,
and out of the Union, and out of the debt, and
out Of the bunder, and bankruptcy, and philan-
thropy, and all the rest of it The interests of
the two sections are now separated, and it is our
secession and our troops and generals that have
separated them. 1t would be wise, undoubted-
~, to encourage this break up, and develope it
80 far as we honorably may. And the first and
best way to do it is to maintain those troops
and strengthen the hands of those generals"
The Richmond Enquirer commits gross mis-.
take in assuming that the interests Of the Eas>
tern and Western States are not identicsli in this
war and in the perpetuity of the nation. As to
the rupture between the East and the West, on
which the Enquirer counts go confidently, 1t
consists almost exclusively in little vile rheto-
ric in the speeches of men who represent an ig.
norant and meager minority. There is no such
rupture, in fact. The West knows her power in
the Union too we'll, to sacrifice it for any mis-
cradle delusion of independence, with al the
commercial channels to the sea closed against
her. Era EG e. lsf,
! The Enquirer continues:
p "But, as the Enquirer has been accused of re.
polling friendly advances and discouraging or
preventing the course of that excellent rupture
at the North, we shall try to make amends this
very moment by saying the most soothing things
that any Confederate properly can to help the
good work. We think, then, that when the war
is once over, and when the Northwestern States
shall have separated themselves from the Federal
Union and established league for themselves,
and taken tie initiative in recognizing the in
dependence Of the Confederaey, then it is highly
probable that the Confederates would enter into
an alliance with the Northwestern league not
wi.hstanding ai it's sins done, and would engage
themselves to furnish proportion of Confederate
troops for the defense Of that country, in case of
the furious Yankee nation waging war to crush
q second rebellion" .4.J gat
The rebels are cheating themselves with the
idea that the Northwest is actually on the point
of going to war with the Eastern States. This
is more foolish on their part than their belief in
ity of blockading their coast; the incapacity OF
the North TO make war; the certainty of speedy
anarchy in Northern cities; the want Of valor in
Northern men; the poverty Of the North without
the Southern trade, and the other items of the
sandy foundation on which they rested in COM
mencing the war. a 80 :
1t is 4 favorite notion with "Southern states.
men" that they may prevail upon Western men
to join them in q grand raid upon the East
The Richmond Wing shows its estimate OF West
ern character as gathered from the speeches Of
our Copperheads, by assuring Western men that
there would be better chance for pillaging in
the rich and populous East, than in the poor
and exhausted South.
The Richmond Enquirer proceeds to show us
that We can have the permission of the Confed-
eracy to navigate the Mississippi freely,
"Without any duty or other hindrance, except
light money, pilotage and other like charges;
permission to pass freely to any port of entry
on the Mississippi within Confederate limits,
and to enter and load goods and freight, paying
the duties thereof to the Confederate Govern
ment, and there to sell them, and to forward
them, under bond or seal, asr is customary in