The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-24
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

'EEKLY HAWK-EYE.
! sAFETYrAND ADVANTAGE OF EMANc1rA-
TioN.-Nr. Bryant, Of the New York Eve-
req 70 our experiences in North and South
Carolina and in louisiana in proof of the
safety of immediate emancipation. He
SAID ne had just read letter from person
whose name would carry with it authority
ana conviction, in which the writer saws
that all those negroes who have been made
free, who are treated like freemen, paid
wages, and allowed to provide for their
families, now work better, more to the
pront OF those from whom they receive
wages, and in all respects observe a more
respectful department. than ever before
He goes on to say that all the planters saw
TINS, and II things were rightly managed
IN LOUISIANA, within year that State
would take her place among the free safes
of the Union, with the entire consent of ali
VINO dwell within her limits. He goes
lurther than this: he says that all over the
| South, in every part Of the Slave States.
the change, the transition from absolute
and universal slavery to universal and in
stantaneous emancipation might take place.
with even less of violence and confusion
than tax law could be changed in a nor
thern State. We have no doubt that this
is wholly true. THERE'S no romance about
1t, but the opinion is based upon such SOL
id facts that the most obstinate Gaderind
cannot call it in question. We have pub
llshed authentic statements of the large
crops made on some plantations in Louisi-
ana and Mississippi. cultivated by freed
negroes this season for the first time. and
under many obvious endorsements,
that prove the fact that the negro will do
better for himself and his EMPLOY
er as a hired laborer than as a.
slave, that with the black man,
as well as the white, the cash is superior to
the lash as a motive power. We have new
er doubted the fact, because we never
doubted that the negro is man of like
passions and motives of action like other
men; but it is remarkable that the habi-
tude of slavery is so quickly thrown off by
our southern negroes, and that the laziness
and unthrift cultivated for so many gene
rations, yields SO readily to the influence OF
liberty and its motives to exertion and
thrift. II is not pretended that the negroes
but year or so taken from under the lash
can be compared with northern laborers
white or black, for industry or intelligence
in their work. But it is that the freed ne.
gro works better than the slave, and that q
crop is raised more economically by paid
than by compelled toll, and this too in the
first year Of the experiment. The bene
fits of the change must Of course increase
as the negroes become better used to theil
new relations and are inspired by the high
er intelligence and character which will
gradually be awakened under the inau
ence Of freedom and its attendant influ
ences. Gen. Banks, who has the facts be-
fore him, was not whit too enthusiastic
when he said in his general order of the
: 18th of September, in relation to this mat
ter t-..z
notwithstanding the ravages of war
the destruction of property, the dispersion
of laborers, and the defamation of popula
ton the inhabitable globe does not offer
nobler theater for Intelligent enterprise
than the valley of the Mississippi. TIL.
> cultivation of new products, the applica
ton Of new elements and different system.
Of labor, and the immediate reorganization
of local governments and the resistless en-
; ergy of many millions of freemen, will
create individual and national wealth, suci
as the world has never seen. Never was
country better worth fighting for, better
worth defending
Those who have studied the question.
connected with free and slave labor with
out prejudice did not need fresh demon
stration of the safety and economy of eman
cipation, but we have it in the facts to which
we have alluded, and which may now b,
known and read of all men. The instances
of suffering in some of the contrabanC
made by the opponents of the emancipa
ton policy, really prove nothing against it
In the disordered state Of the country it ha:
been impossible to organize the negroes al
free laborers and place them on plantations
as fast as they came within our lines, anC
it was to be expected that there would be
much temporary suffering among them
If we may credit accounts from the dis
tricts held by the rebels, the slaves, and in
deed many of the whites there have suffer
ed quite as much as the negroes escaping tt
our lines, and have more fearful prospect
for the coming winter. rrga
Emancipation being proved safe and pro-
fitable on all hands, who shall object if the
government gives its influence for the ad
vancement Of the beneficent work in all
proper methods? That such is the purpose
of the President and his cabinet there is nc
doubt. They should therefore have the
coincidence and cooperation of all reasOna-
BILE abolitionists. To emancipate by force
wherever the war gives that right, and by
moral and political influence where slavery
still has the right to life under the consti.
tuition, is the true policy. It is radical in
the ultimate results arrived at, and con-
servative in its adherence to Legitimate
means and measures. And the transform
alton goes on quite as fast as is consistent
with the well-being of all concerned, while
i by the Justice and forbearance of the gov
i
sition to see and accept the demonstrated
I advantages of the change; and that is no
small point gained for future security and
peace.-.Sprinataeld Republican. mn
A WHINE FROM JEFF. DAvIs.-The latest
publication over the signature of Jefferson
/ Davis is in the nature of whine, and in
striking contrast to the general character
of his messages, proclamations and letters.
He is so hard pressed as to denounee spec
ulators, joining in the shallow twaddle
4 charging the worthlessness of Confederate
paper to other causes than the want Of act
ual value. He saws:
1.-The passion for speculation has become
a gigantic evil. 1t has seemed to take pos
session Of hewhole country, and has Sc
duced citizens of all classes from deter
mined prosecution of the war to sordid eff
fort to amass money" $50 -.-..5 R@NH'
| So it would appear the chiyalry are