The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-14
.pEECH OF ELDER p. It. RUSSELL.
,,.,x.red ae Drakeville, Iowa. March 4.
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7 appear before you with real difidence;
5;fiiepce caused by the fear that my feeble pow
svs will not allow me to rise to the Importance
&c the subject. Satisfied am that no ordinary
;rdncement could have caused an impromptu
Gathering of such a sea of heads as see before
me ON this occasion. When reflect on the all
mos, impossible state OF the roads, and the very
brief notice ] have given, am satisfied that
matters of deep interest to all, have called you
topether What is Il? War, with all its hor-
and woe; pestilence and
famine, carnage and slaughter, as with bosom
of destrucaod, are sweeping DER our once happy
land. Our liberties are at stake That rich In
heritsnce, sealed by the blood of our Revolu-
tiopary Fathers, bequeathed to Us in trust for
millions yet unborn-sll is in the Issue. The
design of those who instigated this war, is no
less than the Punishment OF liberty from the
earth: destro.ipg the last shelter for the op-
pressed, the last ray of hope of the down troa-
den O; the Old World. Who has dene tniss-
Who has been aud is laboring to accomplish all
this evil? Is il the Northern abolitions'! Then
screen them not o. their heads let cond'gn
punishment be visited. II, on the other hand
the Southern dem.gogues and not the NORTH,
are to blame. then, on the eternal principles OF
iustice. let them euffer the consequences Let
us, then, meet the question, who has caused oil
thisp II we are wrong, let Us know IT, We
are right let us know that. Then may We avail
ourselves of the immense amount Of moral pow
er which knowledge OF the right always gives'
In the settlement of this question We shall rely
unen what our enemies themselves say is true,
conse ouently evidence unimpeachable by them
or their Northern sympathizers.
We now call up our witnesses. Our first is
Mr. Yulee, formerly Member Of Congress from
Florida After his State, with South Carolina,
Georgia. &c bad seeded, be was at loss to
know whether to vacate bis seat 10 Congress, or
not In company with other rebel Congress-
men. Mr.. Yuee met ip secret conesave for con-
sultatiop. after which be writes TO his constitu-
en,s. asking their advice. 10 that letter be
esvs. at seemed to u.s." (himself and the other
,ehel Congressme in conclave,) that by re-
naming in cur places until the close OF buchan-
ans term, by the aid of onr Northern friends,
we can completely tie the hands OF the incom-
ing Administration, BY preventing the passage OF
any loan, confscaton, or volunteer bill, SO as to
render them perfectly unable to prevent the
success of our enter Prise" When Yulee ad
mi,ted this, he admitted that the election of
Lincoln was no cause of war. For, with the aid Of
his "Northern friends, he could prevent any act
designed to empower the incoming administers
ton to put down the rebellion, certainly be
could. by the same aid, prevent the passage Of
any act designed to Infringe upon the rights OF
the Sorth, 10 the enjoyment Of her peculiar So
cisl institution. Aud they, knowing that the
President was powerless without Congressional
aid and the South with its Northern friends,
being in the majority, would not, bylaw, suthor.
i,e the President to work damage to their cher
ished pet. Therefore, they we're perfectly safe.
So much for Nj. Yulee.
We next call up Messrs. Yancy, Rust and
Mann, the official organs of all rebellion. In
their address to the British government, thro'
Lord John Russell, dated August IA, 1861,
their language lis this: at was from no fear
tnat the slaves would be liberated that seces-
sion took place. The very party in power had
rroposed to guarantee slavery forever, If the
States would remain in the Uniou." This off.
cial admission speaks volumes. 1t forever
generates the Republican party from all blame
in this matter. Finding. on the showing OF
the South, that the North was not and could
not be to blame in this matter, we now call up
the testimony of John C. Calhoun.
During Jackson's day, under the lead of
Calhoun, the notification effort was made
1.-THE old hero is said to have arisen and de.
cared by the Eternal he would hang them on
a galows as high as Haman, if they did not
ea them: for the time they quit. At the close
Of that session of Congress Calhoun made
speech to mis- constituents. In that speech he
said, ave must change the issue. We can
never unite the South against the North on the
tariff issue. Louisiana will always want high
tariff to protect her sugar interest. Hence
she will rot unite with US against the North on
this. We must change the issue. We mus
make slauery the issue. We can diride all tn.
South from the North on that" Under the die
tation of Calhoun the South made slavery the
issue. and as was designed by it, they divided
the South against the north. The secession
movement took place. War is the inevitable
result as we have seen by their own witnesses
brought on by the rebels themselves.
Hence. also. we see TIE truthfulness of al
article published in the Des Moines Times, {
weekly Democrat paper, bearing date July
9, 1861. Said article is headed, "The rebel
lion eleven years Old" This article stated
thai when our troops took possession of Beau
fort, Carolina, in q noted rebel lawyers oftic'
was found the record Of the organization OF tn
first Lodge Of the Knights Of the Golden Cir
Gle; together with the reason and object OF 1t
organizations. The object was to organize tn
entire South against the Government, anu thu
by rebellion separate from the North. Tn
reason is, because the North, in the late com
promise measures, refused to surrender
many of her rights as the South demanded.
There are TWO admissions, DOW pause t
notice First. The North, instead cf en-
crcaching on the rights Of The South, had, fo
the sake Of peace, surrendered many of he
lights, and because she refused TO surrende
more the South inaugura,ed rebellion. But
10 make the case yet more clear, in the abor
named article was another fact stated viz
That when The New England Abolition Societ
first organized, ii was entirely ignorant of tn
strength of&he foe already organized and i
the field prepared 10 NEE, it This also bein
true, it follows that unless the child con !
4 elder taon lis parent, Abogitionism canno, b
the cause of the rebellion. For the rebellio
Was already organized and in the field befor
/ Abolitionism came into existence What. ther
was the cause! Let the historic documeu
from which we have drawn the foregoing fact.
I be heard again. 1t refers to Jackson as saw
| ing, that the leading politicians of South c.,
] oina and Georgia were not to be trusted
| Their fathers were Tories in the Revolutio,
| aud their sons have inherited the same spiri