The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-23

:, 1HS, OuI nov 0oVofumonC, IS the first IN
the history of the world based upon this
great physical, philosophical and moral
truth" "Anti-slavery men, he says,
ARE fanatics, because they assume that
the negro is equal, and hence entitled to
equal privileges and rights with the white
man: If their premises were correct their
conclusions would be logical and Just. But
ment fails" And, again-"It is not for
US, Mr.. Stephens says, ito question Gods
ordinances. He has made one race inferi-
or 10 another. Our Confederacy is found
so so IN strict accordance with these laws
ms stone, which was rejected by the first
builders, is become the chief stone of the
corner IN our new edifce.' With these
1ouDt as to the aims and objects of the
Southern Confederacy, or why should there
ue moments hesitation as to the party in
Ine CONNECT that deserves our sympathies?
but, then 1t is said, the North is not fight
ing IoI emancipation, and should the Union
De restored, Slavery will come back and
nestle as before under the wing of the
American eagle. As to the restoration of
inc Union and the conditions on which. in
that event, the South would return no
would be a bold man who would. at this
stage, venture to predict anything certain.
Divine Providence seems to have taken the
matter, as it were, out of the hands of both
into His hidden counsels? But, although
we may not approve all that the North has
done, we must not forget the enormous DIFF
ficulties with which they had to contend.
and we are bound to give them credit for
what they have actually done. Since the
outbreak the whole spirit and policy of the
North have been tending toward universal
emancipation. The emancipation procla-
ton of the President may, in one view, be
called war measure; but, even as such, it
would be unj Just and unfair to disjoin it
from the whole scheme of his administra-
ton, of which it forms an important part.
In truth, the President and Congress seem
to have done all that they could constitu-
tionally do for the emancipation of the
all the Territories Of the Union free, and
prohibited the introduction of Slavery into
them. They have freed the slaves in the
District of Columbia-the only Slavery over
which they had direct control. They have
passed measure offering compensation to
all slaveholding States who shall agree to a
law Eberating their slaves. And, though
last not least they have given full effect to
the international law by which the African
slave trade is declared to be piracy-a law
which was being continually evaded, and
its violations connived at by Southern
Administration. And the present Govern
ment have had the manliness to inf1ict
Sttpiual puulsuIuSHI-siS WAS IlOSU ITCHY Oe-
served-on the villain who dared to traffic
in human flesh, contrary to the laws both
OF God and man; for "the man-stealer shall
surely be put to DEATH" [Applause.l II
spoke of prophesy at the commencement.
But, instead of prophesying myself, pre-
fer giving you the prophetical announce
ments of Count Gasperin-one of the ablest
and most enlightened of French statesmen,
and one OF its warmest-hearted Christians.
He says: "1fa Southern Confederacy should
ever take rank among nations, it will re-
present Slavery and nothing more-I am
wrong: it will also represent the African
slave trade and the fillibustering system
In any case, the Southern Confederacy will
be so far identified with Slavery-with it's
with the measure designed to
propagate it here belOw-that a chain and
whip seem to be the only devices to be en-
broidered on her flag. One cannot with
impunity give full scope to his magma
ton, and in this year of our Lord 1861, set
to work to contrive the plan Of Confed-
eraey designed to protect and propagate
Slavery" Nothing could be more impos-
ing, in fact, if they had the least chance of
success. The fifteen Southern States-al-
ready immense-joined to Mexico, Cuba,
and Central America-what a power this
would be! And, doubtless, this power
would not stop at the Isthmus of Panama.
1t would be no more difficult to re-establish
Slavery in Bolivia, on the Equator, and in
Peru, than in Mexico. True, the patriar-
Brazil, and the dismayed eye would not
find single free spot upon which to rest
between Delaware Bay and the banks of
Uruguay. Furthermore, this colossal ne
gro Jail would be stocked by no less col
Ossal slave trade. Baracoons would be re-
fitted in Africa, slave expeditions would be
on scale hitherto unknown. and
w n If S1
ing hells) would transport their cargoes
under Southern colors, proudly unfurled.
Patriotic indignation would be aroused at
the mere name of the right of search, and
the whole world would be challenged to
defend the liberty of the seas. This, then,
is the system that our great capitalists are
at this moment subscribing to support, by |
taking shares in the Confederate loan, and
our great organs of public opinion at the
press are laboring to write up into favor in |
this land of freedom. 1 heard a talented
friend the other day state that the Times |
was understood to represent the
mean opinion of the people of great Britain. |
trustthe opinions of that great journal on
the American question and Slavery are not
held by any considerable proportion of the
people ofthis country. But there
is another and far more appropriate sense
in which it may be said to represent the
mean opinion of the people essentially
mean, for 1t Is an opinion moulded by SELF
is an opinion formed under the
influence Of the cotton trade. Has the
Manchester interest guided the pen, and
blinded the mind, and blinded the con-
science, when the writer dared before a |
British public to become the apologist for
Has the shadow upon the dial of
time gone backward ten degrees, when, in
this land of Wherefore, and Clarkson, and
Brougham, our leading journal ventures
to experiment upon the Interested Southern
sympathy in Great Britain, to see whether
it may not be pushed up to the point of
Southern slayeholding? do
Pro-Plavery men in this COZ ntry
know or think of the nature of that
thing on which they look so Indignantly?
We are frequently referred to Roman, Gre
clan, and Hebrew Slavery, as being quite
with the highest civilization,
and even the mostexalted piety. But am
prepared to prove that American Slavery
is quite different thing, and worse than
all that went before it. l do not approve of
slavery in the abstract, but let us view it in
the concrete, as it is found at this moment
in the South, and then ask again, do pro-
slavery Englishmen know what they are
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