The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-14

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JeE: Davis Omcial Organ and the North.
west. a
Below We give the leading editorial article
from, the Richmond Enquirer, of Feb. II. This
article is not copied from New York paper. but
our printers are instructed to preserve the COPY
for the inspection Of the curious We received
it from friendly officer ip Western Virginia
1t contains choice crumbs of comfort for our
Democratic friends Here it is:-[Cincinnati
Commercial
GREAT NORTHWEST AGAIN.
Amongst the foreign relations of the Confede-
racy, none 10 at this moment more interesting
than our relations with the States of Indiana and
Illinois 1t is represented to ue every day-and
We know it to be q fact-thst the people Of those
States are heartily tired Of the war, as waged by
the Abolitionists, strictly SO called, and are in
fact devising and contriving methods and excus.
es to get ont of It, and to evade the share of the
Yankee War debt Democratic Yankee Sena.
tors IN those States bring in strings of resolu-
lutions, denouncing Lineoln's government and
proclamation, and declaring that that they are
not going to fight any more for the negro
This is all very we'll, and highly encouraging to
us, as proving distraction and Encouragement
in the enemy's camp. But it is also we'll for us
to understand once for ell, that the whole affair
means simply, ezclssively-that they, the Demo-
Gratis, ought to hsye the conduct and the profits
Of the War forlhe Union"-that it is Demo-
cratic finance minister who ought to have the
striking of Of reenbacke-Democratic COM
tractors who ought to supply army aud navy
Democratic Generals who ought to lead-Demo-
cratic printers who ought to print-and Demo
cratic thieves who ought to steal.
To prove that this is all that is meant, We
might be content to cite Vallsndigham-that
mighty friend of the South-who cries out, as
stupidity as Lincoln himself, that there can be
no secession because the Mississippi runs from
North to South. But take the joint resolutions
introduced the other day into the Indiana Sen.
ate by Mr.. Wolfe, which we find spread abroad
upon the columns of Southern papers IS if they
we're of some interest to Us. In one Of these
resolutions Mr.. Wolfe declares 'sthat arms
alone, uuder the recent and present policy of the
cabinet at Washington, will never accomplish
that desirable object" namely-restoration of
the Union; it is under another policy, of another
cabinet at Washington Mr.. Wolfe would go to
work. The second resolution of Wolfe says:
Experience has taught the costly and bloody
lesson, that ,edr alone is the remedy for dis
union; but war mind, for the Union and not
for the negro. The sixth resolution declares
sthat the State of Indiana, on account Of her
devotion to the Union and her geographical
position and commercial interests never will
consent to any settlement upon basis Of dis
union, or policy which shall separate her
from the States bordering on the Mississippi
river Her highest interest demands the per-
petustion Of the Union; and especially that
the great valley Of the Mississippi, from its
source to its mouth, shall remain under one
government and one flag" which is precisely
what Mr.. vallandigham says.
What comfort is all this! Those people Of
the North West are not only making war upon
us with all their might, but announcing to us
that they will continue to make war until We
submit, nay, that they, with their policy, are
the only party which can make that war deci.
sive, crushing and triumphant. Indiana's in.
terest, indeed, demands" that Mississippi
shall be under the same government and flag
with her! And to compel that consummstion,
she will scourge Mississippi with fire and
sword. Aud these are our friends. A plague
of such backing. as
X Of course we are pleased that the Northwest
sickens of the war; but let us not deceive our
selves It is not the Washington Abolition
policy which has brought them to this. 1t is
their continued ill-succese, and the dismal pros
pect before them. We do not deny that it is q
wholesome frame of mind, but the Confeder-
ates BY tteir desperate resistance to that afro.
cious invasion, have produced the excellent
SYMPTOMS. If our energy were to slacken, or
the tide of victory should turn against US, their
rage against Lincoln would subside, their ten
derness for US disappear. IL there any human
being at the South, who does not feel that those
people of Indiana and Illinois, who are now
swarming around Vicksburg and Nashville, in
tend, If possible, to be rewarded with Southern
plantations, and to pay their war debt out of
Southern confscatious? If they begin to be-
think them now that the enterprise will not pay
to whom do We owe it? To our army, alone.
To our army, alone, then, we would leave the
whole task of dealing with the Great Northwest,
for the present; and at point blank range. So
long as they keep their troops upon our soil, the
terms on which we stand with those States are
terms of utter and mortal defiance.
We do ardently wish that We could break
down and finally explode this idea of looking to
the Northwest 1t is not uncommon amongst
ne; it has it's advocates amongst good and devo-
ted citizens of the Confederacy. Yet it is .
blunder, akin to that other blunder which weak
ened and baffled US for twelve months-relance,
upon European friendship and Intervention.
1t is victory over our enemies which alone
will make us friends in Europe, and which
is already giving rise to sympathetic feelings
in the breasts of some of our enemies them
selves.
Let us not check those nasceRt sympathies by
relaxing in our military efforts, or by pressing
overtures of friendship-thsy will take those
overtures IS . sign Of weakness and despair; and
they will be right. They will say, how dare
these rebels approach us with their vile propo-
salsf For whom do they take US? And imme-
distely would rise once more before their minds
eye, fresh ard fair as ever, visions of the fertile
Wales of the South in loyal Yankee hands
Southern women for hand-maids! Southern
men for vassels! And their answer to our "over-
lures" would be, fresh levies of the hungriest
Roosievs poured over Tennessee and down the
Mississippi.
Let us respond, then, to the sympathies Of
the Northwest in the proper spirit-that is With
the bayonet Those fond feelings which (they
say are gushing and flowing towards us now,
let US not rudeIy turn them back to their spring