The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-28

poses the gradual Adjustment Of slavery" with
the consent Of loyal masters, and compensation
allowed them Democratic policy cIsmors for
peace With rebels in arms, on the basis of the
Crtttenden compromise, rejected by them two
years ago, and which, il accepted. would COM
Pletely surrender the liberties Of the people 70
the slaveholdng vandals of the South. Demo-
cratic policy has played into the hands Of rebels
by refusing the help Of negroes in our armies a.
ia60rers, transfers, cooks, nurses, scouts, and
soldiers, thus necessarily weakening our military
power, and sacrificing the lives of our men
democratic policy has sought the Office of slave.
hound tor rebels ever since the beginning of the
var, anc is still, occasionally, exercising it's
functions 10 defiance of positive prohibitions.
democratic policy, taking the form Of "Order
NO. O., under which, for more than year, loyal
colored men were driven from our camps, and
their proffered aid, and information reiected
earned the gratitude of every rebel throughout
Union, and the curses of every loyal man -
Democratic policy despises an abolitionis. far
more heartily than traitor; the term abolition.
ist, according to leading Democratic organ.
signifying "any man who does not love slavery
for Its own sake, as divine institution: who
does not worship it as the cornerstone of civil
lipertyi wfo does not adore il az the only possi-
Die social condition on which permanent re-
puoiican government can be erected; and who
does not IN bis Utmost soul, desire to see it ex-
tented and perpetuated over the whole earth, as
means OF human reformation, secondin dignity.
importance, aud sacredness to the religion Of
Christ" Democratic policy by thus perpetuslly
deterring TO slavery as a sacred thing, and to
siaVeholders as superior order of men, has
smothered that feeling of resentment in our ar
mies which else would have been evoked, and
the lack OF which, according to our commanders.
ls one OF the serious obstacles to our success.
Democratic policy in the year 1861, gave US as
commanders OF our three great military depart
ments, Mcclellan, Halleck, and Buell., whose
military administrations have 60 terribly cursed
the country; while it imposed upon our yolup-
teer forces in the field, such officers as Fitz John
Porter, Gen. Nelson, Gen. Stone, and very many
more whose sympathies with the rebels we're well
known throughout the country.
Mr.. Chairman, the time has come when every
true man 10 the Union should demand, in the
name OF the country, that Democratic policy
shall rule it no longer. When the nation is gasp
Jog for breath becau-e the honored leaders Of
kepubicauism have been infidel to its principles,
plainness of speech is duty, and silence crime.
As freeman, aud tie Representative of free
men, 1t is at once my right and my duty to utter
what believe to be vital truth. deeply regret
the necessity which impels me to criticise the
policy of the Administration. honor the Pre-,
sdent as the Chief NJ agst-ate of the Republic,
and love him as man. l have received at his
hands nothing but personal kindness and politi-
Cal respect l stand ready to make any earthly
sacrifice to sustain him in this direfu conflict
with the rebel power of the country, North and
South Faithful are the reproofs of friend"
and it is as his friend seeking to rescue the land
fro vNnlsf al -,
rebel, seeking to undermine his Administration,
that speak. tell him that his policy of con.
ciliatiDg Democrats has been as ruinous to our
cause as the kindred policy Of conciliating rebels.
Instead of winning them to our side, blotting out
the lines of party, and naugurating an "era of
good feeling" it has breathed fresh life and vigor
into the Democratic organization, which now
everywhere copfronts US as powerful and con.
soidated opposition, while our own party is dis.
banded and powerless. Sir, had the policy of
the Government been boldly Republican making
good to the people their victory over the cohorts
of slavery in 1850, every northern State would
to-day have been wheeled into line on the side
of the Administration, and the Democratic party
would have been lingering on its death-bed. The
war itself, firmly believe, would have been
ended, and with far less sacrifice of treasure and
blood than we have already incurred. speak
respectfully, but earnestly, when say the Presi.
dent must stand by his friends, if he expects bis
friends to stand by him. He must point the
door to every pampered pro-slavery rat in any of
his public cribs, and bestow the offices and hon.
ors at bis disposal upon those who believe in the
Republican idea. He should institute, as speed
lily as possible, Q general casting out of devils
from the various Departments Of the Govern
ment, and fill their places with men who believe
in God, aud who have not outlived their con-
sciences in serving as the shameless scullions of
the slave power. By ell means, at the earliest
moment, should he insist upon lustration of the
military Department, to purify it from the deadly
contamination Of treason. This is slavehold-
ers' rebellion. The rebellion in fact, is slavery
in arms" and therefore no man who believes in
slavery is fit for any high command. The war
is not war of sections, but of ideas; and we
need and must have military leaders who will
conduct it in the light of this truth. To the want
of such leaders must be attributed the delays
and disasters Of the struggle thus far.
Sir, it is because of the remorseless despotism
which Democratic policy would certainly estsb-
lsh that denounce It, and plead with the Pres
ident to smite it with oil the power of the Gov.
eminent, if he would save either his country or
himself. The Republic of our fathers at this
moment swings in horrid alienation between
destruction. Rose.water craftsmanship will not
meet tie crisis. Nothing can save US but the
earnestness which finds it's reflex in the rebels,
and the courage which gathers strength from
despair. A wise policy Of the war is not enough
PRESENTATIONS of freedom will, of themselves,
accomplish little. What We need is action, in
! slant, decisive, defiant action, scourging faiths
less men from power, sweeping away obstacles,
and kindliDg in the popular heart the fires Of a
new courage and hope. The Government should
arm the coloIed men Of the free States as well
as the slaves Of the South, and thereby give eff
feet to the proclamation of freedom. 1t should
at once organize bureau of emancipation, to
take charge of the great interests devolved up
on it by the extinction of slavery. While pay
ing fair assessment for the slaves of loyal owns
ere, it should digest an equitable homestead pol.
icy, parceing out the plantations Of rebels in
small farms for the enjoyment of the freed men,
who have earned their right to the soil by gen
erations of oppression instead of selling it in
large tracts to spectators, and thus laying the
foundation Of a system of land monopoly in the
South scarcely less to be deplored than slavery
itself 1t should seize all property belonging to
traitors, and use it in defraying the expenses Of