The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-18
Address OF Hon. Edward Everett.
Delivered before the Boston onion Club,
Thursday, Apsil 0tk, 1858.
GENTLEMEN OF THE UNION CLUB:


Thursday, Ap,is eta, 1888,
GENTLEMEN OF THE UNION CLUB:
The struggle, in which the Government
and loyal people of the country have been
now for nearly two years engaged, is one,
need scarce say, of almost unexampled
magnitude, attended with all the difficult
ties, the sacrifices, the alterations of sue
cess and failure, which are incident to q
contest of such stupendous dimension
Scarce ever have there been arrayed against
each other, in a field Of action SO vast, for
ces SO numerous, at al expense so great,
with such profusion of material supplies
and financial resources, and, what is infi-
nitely more important, with interests so nu-
merous at stake. The scene of the conflict,
cO-extensive as il is with the settlements Of
the United States this side OF the Rocky
Mountains, is but little inferior in extent
to Europe; the military forces in array and
amply supplied with the material OF war,
are as great as were ever placed in the field
in the wars of the French Revolutions; the
sea-coast held in rigid blockade by our ma
w, is more extensive than that actually
blockaded by the navy of Great Britain
during that war our armies and navy,
owing to the character Of our soldiers and
seamen and the higher standard of COM
fort in this country, are sustained at great
er expense than those Of any other service;
and the objects of the war are nothing less
than TO prevent great and prosperous
Union of States, under one Constitutional
Government, from being broken UP into
wretcheG fragments; to protect the organ
of tha;r nat;nSai II. ;ta,no fd,,, IA ,,,,t
darons anI Sn;n;dai How o;n,ad of =, To
rasc,,a the worI of orr reynInt;onarv and
constitutional fathers, the greatest political
work of human wisdom, from ignomini-
Gus ruin, and to hand down this peerless
MINI a;rod r. pnr nnstar;tv
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Inc great questlon Whlch we nave 10 set
Tie Is, snail thls mighty aggregate OF pros.
perry PERISH, OF snaii ~ ehuure! onai !
TINS lmperlai heritage OF dressings descend
unlmpalred to our Posterity, or shall 1t be
ANONYMOUSLY, pronlgaIeiy, thrown away
small the lerrltory OF the Union, late SO
happy under the cOntrol and Adjustment OF
the Natlonal ana state Governments, De
broken up into miserable fragments, sure
10 De engaged IN c0nStantly Dor
der wars and all lying at the mercy OF Tor
eign powers, or shall it preserve Its noble
integrity under the segls OF the National
Government? Admit the right OF the sece-
ding States to break up the Union at plea
sure, nay, of each and every State TO Go SO,
ana allow them 10 ENFORCE tnat rlght' Dy
successful war; deny the authority OF the
Central Government to control Its men,
ibers, and how long VIII 1t be, before the
new Confederacies created by the first dis
ruption shall be resolved into still smaller
fragments, and the continent becomes a
vast theatre OF civil war, military license,
anarchy and despotism? Better, at achot-
eUe1' cost, by Dhdtecer sdc'yfcc, settle the
question: at once, ana settle II J0rcCer. For,
remember. my friends that in this desola-
ting war, the Governments and loyal peo-
pie OF the country are the party assailed,
and that they are clad i'll the triple armOr
of inst The DrQtonSG NV
the rebels that they are contending for the
right of self-gOvernment; the unfriendly
press of Europe talks OF its being a war of
revenge and subjugatlon. Consider what
makes just war even in the opinion OF
those who cOndem the North. England, q
little natwelvemonthago, thought
1T u Just cause for war, that merchant
packet was bronght-to at sea by a beliger-
ent cruiser, IN the exercise OF the undoubteti
right of search, and that four persons were
taken from 1t, as she considered, without
Warrant III the law OF nations, though she,
IN the last general war, had taken more
imam TOUR thousand persons from our neu-
ia oSsse;, el""s Mi.h I, "alIanS IN .ne
=" ,a W uai,s ~ ~ ,,e,,..'u saI
the NV, drrar;,,m, hat'S.op,, IL ~, J."s" nS
Aa,,;n; r, nst;o,. s,,,,r;t.ad FL .: s :"
to tho atyrnnt NJ ia,,;,o 10 sh;,,.p 49,
with snr,n,ias for a fnst hoIora;psr, 20 III
FITnitcd States t;red ,,nnv ;,s Isr,S - .,1
nnara Nv a (,ovornn,n,t ,,noo
no,yiedgsd -, that tine o,,a,, ns 'h mhc
erent. nv any foreign bower # w.s . net
until the third act 9f Omen oroa,,ized ODD ,,-a p'
as mean as If was 1,nr,n,,,,,ss .ls ma
On Fort Snmter from, aIaxon bo asa.i.s'
manned nv eight or ten thonsand ,ne,"s
fnrtrnss be,onsiny to tho TIT;tad 's S,..tos
hm;lt bv the Gsnesai Go on nu,es J.
snot coded bv the State of Snnth catnli,," %
to- the Tinted states and ,ban oc.,,;a JIi t,
one con,mny ,,f seventy mon nrn,l;s;",o,
but for forty-e,aht hours no' mil tho
threat had gone forth. on the same dav
from the Capital'6 of the pretended Confsd,
aeracy. that in three weeks their fiap shnn,d
float over the dome of the Canitoi .3 WASH
ington. and. in due time Fnnuiel Hall not
until their emissaries in London had claw M
ed that Mr.. Adams, the Envoy Of tho ei Iln;-
ted States. ought not to he received ON h;s
arrival. because before that event. the Con
federacy would be installed at Washing
ton, and the United States would have
ceased to exist; it was not until all this
had taken place that the General Govern
ment drew the sword. M !. ~ -
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