The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29

Robert r. Lee gave rebel testimony to the
same point: 1.-THE enemy may I'LL your fort
with shot and shell, but they can not
breach it's walls But the inoredulous
Gilmore insisted on an opportunity to
drag some cannon miles across floating
proposed to plant them for preaching
battery, and by some strange chance he
was permitted to do so. The world knows
the effect on Fort Pulaski, and we are in
formed that its consequence with the
branch of the service to which he was at
tached was to make Gen. Gilmore the
best hated officer in the Engineer Corps.
In the present struggle Gilmore has dis
played decided superiority over Beaure-
gard in one respect that is, in getting his
foothold on Morris Island. If he had been
kept out of that-and he might have been
he could have made no progress; but that
having been secured and held, he has fair
field, and need ask no favOrs. At the very
starting point, therefore. Gen. Gilmore
eyinteda generalship of q higher grade
than belongs to the strict departmental en-
cheering. AS for what is to come, the ex-
perienee of Pulaski can only give us conf
dence, without determining specific results
the conditions of the problem being so
different. Sumter is further off from Gil
more than was Pulaski it is of stone in
stead of brick, and is additionally protect
ed by tiers of cotton bales. On the other
hand, Gen. Gilmore has much better and
heavier ordnance than he had at Pulaski,
and more batteries, besides having the AID
of the iron-clads. The balance of the con-
ditions is believed to be not against the pre-
sent undertaking, but experience alone can
settle the question.-Boston Journal.
SIGNS OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES never
was a balder faulty than thrt of the Rebel
nhn1
hoist themselves by their own petards.-
Only little while ago, and through the
length and breadth Of that territory which
it cursed, the Slave Power, an irremediable
and irresponsible incubus, haughtily 81
fenced all discussion of its merits, and
owning no respect for the forms of law, dis
pensed its rude revenges by the hands Of
Vigilance Committees and Mobs. When
we remember that only a little while
ago, it was high treason against the majes-
ty of narrowing to whisper doubt Of
the wisdom and justice of the institution
that travellers went about, if not with blind
ers over their eyes; at least with gags in
their mouths-that it was dangerous for
them to have so much as Northern news
paper in their pockets-that the Slavehold-
ing police, with all it's violence and terror
ism, was vigorous and effective-when we
remember all this, and now observe that in
every quarter of the Confederacy, Slavery
is at the mercy of presses printed without
let and speeches uttered without hindrance,
we begin to understand the old proverb
about the madness of those whom the gods
wish to destroy. Wherever the Yankee
soldier goes he establishes newspaper
No sooner does he occupy town affording
typographical materials, than he begins to
issue pestilent Abolition journal. suffi-
GENTLY outspoken to drive all the patriarchs
mad in the neighborhood. These soldiers
newspapers have already been established,
or at least issued, in Virginia, the CARROLL
mas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and perhaps in other
Slaveholding States. We have before us
list of these Abolition sheets printed in
what must, with such influences, soon be
the Free South-printed, edited, bought
and read by our soldiers, and not, of course,
by them alone. The facilities of the slave
for learning to read must now be consider
able, to say nothing of the opportunities
| afforded to whites whose early education
has been neglected. The schools will, of
necessity, speedily follow the newspapers.
The "Institution'' is certainly getting into
d most perilous position. For, ever since
we have heard anything about it, we have
been informed, principally by its most
fervent supporters, that it detested schools,
of all wicked things in this wicked world
that spelling promoted intidelity, and that
reading made men fanatical-that popular
ignorance was public safety, and popular
enlightenment public peril-that thesmall-
| er the number of the educated class, the
greater was the stability of the political
| body. See what Common Schools have
| done for the North! See what newspapers
have done for New England! See how the
art of printing has promoted unbelief, skep-
ticism, and the incontinency of the married
and single, until all New England is nc
better than a very bad Sodom-while we !
well, if you want pure, intiexible and in
| imitable virtue, and enlightened. uncom-
promising and rational religion-you must
| look to us.
Who has not heard and read this sort OF
loose assertion over and over again?-
Within the last few years it has been the
| warp and wook Of speeches without sense,
and of sermons without grace, of irrational
reasoning and of bottomless philosophy
Jack Cade never held reading and writing
| in deeper devastation. The consequence
was. that the Stakeholder who would not
| have his boy grow up without that culture
which lends its chief grace to human char
| acter, who feared to see his child bestial-
! lied utterly by the noXious influences OF
plantation, was forced to send him to the
| North for an education; while Northern
governesses were imported for the training
Of the misses. But rs his indignation at
| Abolition fanatics grew more and more
| v
another ground. He did not mince mat
ters. He detained, as we have seen, most
| loudly in behalf of ignorance. He sneered
| at Yankee Common Schools. He rallied at
| Yankee books. He denied the value of
popular mental cultivation altogether. Ii
| wisdom meant anything more than getting
| work out of the slaves, and cotton and TO-
bacco out of the ground, then ignorance
was most certainly bliss, and wisdom most
certainly folly.
Times have changed. The unbridled Ii
cense of the plantation has eliminated in
an instruction. The necessary invasion
of Southern territory has carried with it
not only the arts OF war, but the arts OF
peace. The Soldier of the Union marches
| to the notes of a nobler Utilization than the
Planter with all his cheap PHILOSOPHY has
ever dreamed of, and although it might
not have been difficult, with buta moder-
ate exercise of common sense, to have
kept him out of the Southern territory, it
| will not be by any means easy to dislodge
| him now that heis already there. Should
the Government rigidly confiscate, not
merely the Blacks but the lands of the