The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-19

the American army, attacked on both
sides at once, fell an easy prey. They at
tempted to retreat, but the force in the
rear precluded it; and one half of our little
army was killed or captured on the spot.
Forty eight pieces of cannon" says Mar
shall, twenty three mortars, the fort with
all its military stores, large quantity Of
provisions collected for the use of the South
ern army and the capital Of Georgia, fell
on the day Of the action into the hanus OF
the enemy. No force now remaining in
Georgia, except the garrison of Sunbury,
whose retreat into South Carolina was cut
| off, all the lower part of the State fell into
the hands OF the enemy, who adopted mea-
sures to secure the conquest they had |
made
1t was thus that single slave avenged
| the wrongs of his race upon the masters |
who were contending for their own inde-
] pendence. In numDerless instances have |
our own commanders derived similar in |
| formation and aid from the same class of |
men. And yet we are told of the impossi- /,
bility of a united people being conquered
| 4 people truly united is indeed formidable
to an invading foe. No one will furnish
| them food; no peasant will guide them across
| the country; no inhabitant of the district
will give them trustworthy accounts of
roads and streams and bridges, or carry to
them information of the approach of an as
4 sailing force. But here is a whole rural
population, not only not hostile to the in
vading force, but enthusiastic to welcome
1t. They run TO meet our troops; they steal
off by night, and findtheir way to our lines
from distance. Every new conner brings
information of the enemy and Of the resour
! ces Of the country. Each one is familiar
, with every by-path and bridle-road; and
under their faithful guidance a Union force
can traverse the widest and most difficult
country by night with perfect security
, They take service in our armies with de-
! light and pride which no other of our sol
} diers can possibly feel; and they lay down
their lives with the patriotic devotion of
men who, in no dubious sense are fighting
for wife, and home, and liberty. The very
e sight of a brigade of them in the uniform
: of the Union, strikes terror into the heart
/ of the master, and be hastens to remove
e the slaves that remain to some safer and
e more inaccessible portion Of the rebel ter
4 ritory-a portion which is growing "small
< by degrees and beautifully less' with each
), new advance of our arms. Yet the infatu-
q alton which refuses to count slaves as men,
n still boasts of the impessibility Of a united
|, people being subjugated!
!; AS this reliance also disappears, the reb-
It els fall back upon another and a more real
s one. They allege as evidence incontestable
e that the Union cannot be restored, the in
;, tensity of Southern hate toward the Yam
h KEGS. This we are told by the Richmond
q papers, is the decisive consideration. The
d lofty soul of the South has so sublime 8
e contempt for the ignoble and grovelins
l. spirit of the Yankee, that it is inconceiva-
BILE that Providence should conceive sc
awful apunishment even for the enemies
!. of heaven, far less for the children of right
eousness, whose very life is in the pres
ervation of the patriarchal institutions t.
- a late posterity. Divine vengeance is no
;, executed in this life; the present world is
~ world of mercy; and therefore it cannot b
IL that Virginia gentlemen should be subject
- ed to the dominion of a race who-her
IS follows an outpouring Of the bitterness O
l. the Southern heart, TO WI hich we can do n
:" justice. The resources of our language ar
ST exhausted in the attempt to picture the odi
business of Northern civilizations; and tn
Is Yankee is represented as stupid and gros
50 barbarian, with whom il is degradation t
~ hold the ordinary intercourse Of life.
y We do not stop to make ourselves merr..
le over these effusions Of passion. The Yam
M kee has both too much self-resdect, an
u too many tokens of the respect of the wOrl
y to be at all troubled by such ebullitions.-
IT, They who have done all that has been don
OF within the last generation to illustrate lii
e erature, to elevate art, to adorn science, t
er improve education, to extend invention, t
IS elevate morals, and to benefit the masse
sh in our country, have little need to argu
ge their claims. They who have made thei
ry country a model in so many respects to tn
world, will not lack the grateful appreca
RI and slave-mongering chivalry may regar
he their sublime labors as disgraceful.
p But the thing which it does concern us
ST note in this bitterness of reproach, is tn
N. fact that no form Of civil society can res
he upon that barren and wretched sentimer
he of hatred which it is here gravely propose
n to make the foundation of a State. n
O.; community, we believe, was ever so il
n fatuated before as to suggest such a thin
:e- among civilized men, except that type {
est impotence and hopelessness, Ireland. Tf
ar constructive force of hate to consOlidaI
ter society has been tried there for generation
ne and centuries; and the 'hoOf of the Saxon
nd has formed the theme of declamatio
TX among its moody and gairish orators ii
= the world is weary, and themselves gro
he ashamed of the threadbare theme. B'
is while the bitterness Of hate, eXaSperate
ry by the most real oppression, and cherishe
on by the most decided oppOsitions of rel
in gions, has deepened and strengthened
ess the bosoms Of her children toward En-
yer land, the sway of the conqueror is unbr
Ter ken. Ireland does but demonstrate in e
NJ cry paroxysm of her fury how powerle
tn is all the energy of malice, when me
ere would be so blind as to make 1t the primo
to pie of social organization.
ur- The South must claim its independent
, OF of the Yankees because it hates them
China long proclaimed its independence
ssh all the world from the same impulse; th
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A that of the South has none for Yank
uld but Devil. But no; the world is not form'
an to proceed upon that principle. The n
hat ton which more than any other carri
acy loue in its heart, may assert and may mai
md tain its independence. Such people c:
ing be trusted, if the claim be sincere, with
ba- boundless supremacy in human societ
se- and the nation which by kindly ministr
our tcn to the wants fthe lowly shall demo
be strate it's approach to this, Gods test of
leir gitimate authority, shall not fail of digni
SOL or dominion among men. But the socie
ain which tramples upon the poor, and
all spises the laborer, and which aims to co
act struct civilization upon this false prin,
pie by aid of an intense malignity of h
Va tired toward all who obstruct the success
use its dire schemes, is destined to find that
Il is as true with states as with individu
tri- men, that che that exalteth himself shs
of be abased.' 1t can hardly require the a
en- of Divine inspiration to enable a though
the full man to see to the bottom of the pl;
my which proposes to found q state upon Il
the princjpfeo of hatred toward all who earnes