The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-11
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.
sP1ECH OF GEN. DUTkER -.
1t tie .Aeadmy 81 Aasic, Nee York, Tx.ws6s,
E,eniag ADrl 2nd. 1863. -


have run down the account Of rather as Illus
the proposition, What 10 the contest with all;the
States that are banded together in the so.called
Confederate Statesi Into what form has It
come! It started in insurrection; it grew up .
rebellion; it has become . revolution, and car
rying with it all the rights Of revolution. And
our Government has dealt with il upon that
ground. When they blockaded their ports, they
dealt with it % . revolutions; when they sent
out cartels of exchange Of prisoners, they dealt
with these people no longer - simple insurrec-
tionists and traitors, but as organised revolu-
tionists, who had Get up government for them
selves upon the territory Of the United States
Let no man say to me, Sir, let no man Gay to
me, why, then you acknowledge the rights Of
revolution in these men!" beg your pardon,
Sir, only acknowledge the fact of revolution.
What had happened! look these things in the
face, and do not dodge them because they are
unpleasant; find this revolution, and these
men are no longer, repeat, our erring brethren,
but they are our alien enemies, foreigners
Gcheers] carrying on war against us, attempting
successful revolution, and revolution never to
be successful loud cheers]; pardon me, was
speaking Of matter of law,-never to be sue
cessful until acknowledged by the parent State.
And now, then, am willing to unite with you
in your cheers when you say, arevolution which
we never will acknowledge. lCheers. Why,
Sir, have been so careful in bringing down
with great distinctness these distinctionss Be-
cause, in my judgment, there are certain logical
consequences following from them % necessar>
ily as various corollaries from problem in Eu-
cid. If we are at war, o. think with foreign
country to all intents and purposes, how can q
man here stand up aud say he is on the side Of
that foreign country and not be an enemy.
(Cheers.1 A man must be either for his coun-
try or against his country. (Cheers] He can
not be throwing impediments all the time in the
way of the progress Of his country under pre-
tence that he is helping some other portion of
his country. II man thinks that he must do
something to bring back his erring brethren, if
he likes that form of phrase, at the South, let
that way (Cheers) If be is still of different
opinion. and thinks that is not the best way to
bring them back, but he can do it by persuasion
and talk. let him 20 down with me to Louisiana
and will set him over to Mississippi, and if
the Rebels do not feel for his heart strings, but
not in love, will bring him back. (Cheers,
odd and prolonged. "Send Wood down 6rst!"]
Let us say to him: Choose ye this day whom ye
will serve. If the Lord thy God be God, serve
him, if Baal be God, serve ye him. Cheers
But no man can serve two masters, God and
Mammon. [''That's sou
Again, there are other logical consequences to
flow from this view which have ventured to
take of this subject, and that ia with regard to
past political action. If they are now alien enc
mics am bound to them by no ties of party
fealty. They have passed out Of that, and I
think We ought to 60 back a moment and ex :
anime and see if all ties of party allegiance
and party fealty as regards them are not broken,
and that am now to look simply to my coun-
try and to its service, and leave them to look to
the country they are attempting to erect and to
its service, and then let US try the conclusion
between us. Mark, by this | gave up no terri-
tory of the United States. Every foot that was
ever circumscribed on the map BY the lines
around the United States belongs to u.s. ZAP.
plause.1 None the less because bad men have
attempted to organize worse Government upon
various portions of it. And it is to be drawn
iu under our laws aud our government as soon
as the power of the United States can be ex-
erted for that purpose, and therefore, my friends,
you see the next set of logical consequences that
| must follow that we have no OCCASION to carry
on the fight for the Constitution as it was
Cheers I beg your pardon, the Constitution
az it is. Who is interfering with the Constitu-
ton as it is? Who makes any attacks upon
the Constitution We are fighting with those
| who have gone out and repudiated the Consti-
tttion. Cheers.] And now. my friends, do
not know but shall use some heresy, but as
Democrat, az an Andrew Jackson Democrat,
| am not for the Union as it was. Great cheer
ing. GOOD !" F" Good !"l say, as Demo-
crat, and an Andrew Jackson Democrat, I am
not for the Union to be again as it was. Under
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saw, or thought saw, the troubles in the fu-
| ture which have burst upon US but having un-
dergone those troubles, having spent all this
blood, and this treasure, do not mean to 60
back again and be cheek by jowl with South
Carolina as l was before, if can help it,
| [Cheers. YOU'RE right"l Mark me now, let
no man misunderstood me, and repeat lest
may be Observation-Disclosures are none 80 slow
| to understand as those who do not want to-
mark me, say I do not not mean to give up q
single inch of the soil of Sonth Carolina. II ]
| had been alive at that time, and had had the
| position, the will and the ability. would have
dealt with South Carolina as Jackson did, and
kept her in the Union at all hazards, but now
she has gone out, and will take care that when
she comes in again she comes in better behaved
lcheersl that she shall no longer be the FIRE
brand of the Union aye, and that she shall en-
JOY what her people never yet nave enjoyed, the
blessings of Republican form of government
! Applause Aud therefore, in that view, am
not for the reconstruction of the Union as i,
was Yet have spent treasure and blood enough
upon it, in conjunction with my citizens
to make it little better. Cheers It was
good enough if it had been lett alone. The ole
house was good enough for me, but as they have
pulled down all the part, propose, when w
build it up, to build it up with all the moderr
improvements. prolonged laughter and APP
plausa)
Another of the logical consequences, it seem,
to me, that follow with memorable and not-to.bs
Stunned course upon this proposition, that W.
are dealing with alien enemies, lie in our duties
in regard to the con6scation Of their property
and that would seem to me to be easy of settle
ment under the Constitution, and without any
discussion, if my first proposition is right. Hat
it not been held from the beginning of the worlo
| down to this day, from the time the Israelitet
took possession of the Land of Canaan, which
they got from alien enemies, has il not been held
that the whole property of those alien enemies
belonged to the eonqueror, and that it has beer
at his mercy and his clemency what should be
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