The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-02


Inings are the established policy Of their
Iavorlte section, and they exuit in the
knowledge. They are exbanstinu their
mental and physical resources from f,ay to
gay 70 force Kentucky into condition i'm
wM,ch an her Union people would be COM
pelled TO choose at once between submis-
sion, death and Punishment, and vet thew
thlnk 1t a terrible thing that they can moi
While our State is member of the Federal
Union, be permitted to live here in the nm
disturbed exercise of what thew consider
the lnalienable right of stirring up as much
sedltlon as they please against the United
states Government. They are unreasona-
Ole, irrational, presumptuous and insolent.
Leu zen. Burnside's order be carried out
with the true Burnside vigor. 1t will do
good. will do what must of necessity
De done If we would save the country.
Saul Among the Prophets.
Ihere are beams light as well as clouds
OF darkness in our great national calamity.
MOI among the least is the increasing moral
unity OF the North. Journals that have for
years been at antagonism, are every day
approaching q common ground.
what sensation would have been felt
throughout the land had The Ne,y YORK
Observer spoken in 1850, or in 1895, the fol-
lowing words from its paper of April9:
2" We had right to abhor slavery and To
desire its removal from the world: it is A
curse to any people, and we are bound to
do all we lawfully can to deliver ourselves
and others from its baneful influence: bu
we are bound to love the Shareholder as the
slave; to breathe only the spirit of Chris
| and his Gospel toward them for the mas.
ter and the slave are both in bonds, and
often the former is more TO be pitied than
the latter ~ 4g#r
We could not better state the ground on
which The Independent has stood for fifteen
years.
We should hardly change word or wish
to add word to the following from the
same article:
We knoW and it is very easy 20 relate
the wrongs which the South were accus-
toned to infiict upon the people of the
North: we know the repeated indignities
and insults heaped upon unoffending citi-
zene who were sojourning in the South un-
der the fancied protection oflaw we know
the violence with which Southern men in
and out of the halls of Congress sought to
intimidate the North, eliminating in the
brutal and savage assault of Senator in
his seat: We kno,O the long and terrible
| struggle of the sJdUeocrdcy to make Slavery
national, instead of a State and sectional
Institution, and it is very easy for US to ex-
tend this catalogue until the bin of indict-
ment against the South is sufficient to con-
vict them of wrongs enough to bring down
on them the punishment of this civil war"
1t is so comfortable to lay all the blame
on them! 1t is so pleasant to throw off all
the guilt from ourselves! The South be-
gan it, when there was no justifying cause
for it: that is true in the sight of God and
man ]; and in the day of judgment, it will
so appear when the secrets of all hearts are
made known, and the men who plotted and
finally, consummated this war are called to
answer for the deeds done in the body
Then it will be seen that not one solitary
occasion existed, in this case to make it
right for men to rebel against the existing
government, the powers that be- and to
attempt revolution; which in other circum-
stances might be right and duty"
The Observer then exhorts good Chris
tians to consider whether the Incorporate
use OF discussion was not the provocation
under which the South did wrong:
"For the last twenty-five years the peo-
pie of the South have been pursued by men
of the North, in the press, in the pulpit, in
the civil and ecclesiastical bodies of the
land, with fierceness of invective, a spirit
Of denunciation, want of charity, and q
denial Of the courtesies, the rights and priv
ileges to which they were entitled under
the Constitution, and finally laws were en-
acted by many of the states designed to de-
feat the operation of the Constitution, and
all this was calculated to eXasperate and
ALLEVIATE the hearts of the Southern people,
and prepare them for the mad and despe-
war. The apostle asks, Whence come wars
and fightings among you? Come they not
hence, even from your lusts?' Our sins,
the sins of the North, the sins of the people
whom the President invites to fast. to re-
pent, and pray, our sins acere the sins of the
censed the passions of the South.''
We could not ask for a clearer statement
of the great facts in the history Of the past
fifty years. It seems that the South has
been engaged in revolutionizing the fun
damental ideas of government, in making
Slavery national instead of sectional, and
that in such nefarious course. they have
been so guilty, that The Observer says bill
of indicmentmight be formed sufficient ''to
CONFLICT them Of "Urongs enough to bring DOM
then the on punishment of this Gtvu War;
What measures can there be to guilt that
deserves the scourge OF this most horrible
civil war, as it has been felt at the South?
Whole regions are depopulated! Vast
tracts are turned to a wilderness. There is
hardly family that has not been bereaved
and shattered. Disease and starvation
have followed Slaughter. For two years
the faireSt portions of the South have been
under sucha rain of fire and devastation,
that they might almost be said to be like
Sodom and Gomorrah! And The Observer
solemnly and rightly declares their guilt in
the past to have been such that they have
This will be the awful ver-
dict of historyi The transcient admiral
ton bestowed in Europe upon the leaders
of this Great League of oppression will
give place to horror and detestation. Upon
a background of blackness of darkness
their image viii stand in lurid color, the
mighty prospects of wickedness frescoed in
the Sistine OF Perdition! Our children cam
not enough be taught to abhor that unpar-
allied wickedness which is represented by
the names of Southern leaders. In view of
this history SO justly characterized by The
New York Observer, there is occasion GER
tainly for humiliation and repentance on the
part of the North. There are multitudes of
Christians who shouldrepent because, in OPP
posing so gigantic wickedness, they suf-
cred themselves to lose their temper.
There are even more who should repent
because, i'm looking upon this infamous reve-
olution, they cared SO little about it that,
without difficulty, they kept their temper.
DEMOCRACY OF THE RIGHT SoRT.-Nathanief
B. Baker, formerly Democratic Governor OF New
now Adjutant General of Iowa, has
written an eloquent letter upon the duty OF DEM
ocrats to sustain the Government. He puts the
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