The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE;

come in here, and charmed with the sOf
climate, productive soil. short winters and
long summers. and seeing your bountiful
crops Of grain, hemp, wool, and captivated
~ your liking ootton"-if yon don't re,
double your exertions, somebody will
come in and take your places who will
strike two ticks TO your one. Energetic
and intelligent labor ill come in and su-
persede your tardy labor.
ana let me say to you, that we have
plenty Of room in the South for q heap Of
you. We do not insist on your leaving
yopr homes, but We would like to see you
among us. We want your energy and en-
terprlse; we want q demonstration Of the
advantages Of mechanical power in ma
chlnery in our shops and on our planta-
,ions. Our land. the richest in the world,
has been worked too long by its few own
efs and their large gangs Of niggers. ]
think It is time white men had an equal
chance to participate in the cultivation Of
TINS rich land. SO my principles run both
ways; while wsnt to give the black man
an equal chance, also want to give the
white man q chance; and then II he can't
compete successfully. all there is of it he
must get out Of the way. Hence let MS re-
move these letters; let us strike this dis
tufDlng element out of the Government,
and let enterprise and energy and merit
constitute the elevation OF man.
NEGRO EQUALITY.
know it is said by the copperheads, and
others perhaps, you want negro equality;
but You can't expect the negro to be fit 70
enloy freedom after having been kept 10
for hundred years. Slavery dis
qualities him for freedom, they say; and
then they insist on keeping him ia slavery
to disqualify him few years longer by
way Of qualifying him for being freeman.
| Laughter aud cheers.] It is all wrong,
and now is the time for cutting up the
whole thing, root and branch, and letting
the black people take their chances with
all other human beings. lCheers.]
INCREASE OF LABoLERs NoRTE AND
SOUTH.
There are some people ia the South, ma
ny indeed, who can't understand how it is
that State which receives its increase Of
population without costing anything, and
bringing with it more or less
capital, thrives and prospers 80 much
more than they do. When they 60 out to
bring in man for the purpose Of increas.
ing their production, they must take
thousand dollars with them to buy him
with. But the man going into Ohio or In
diana, carries q thousand dollars with him,
in addition to the labor, and he is his own
man. Cheers. We ofthe South have to
wait fifteen or twenty years TO grow our
man, or somebody must travel to Virginia
and buy one ut an outlay Of thousand
dollars. Can you be surprised as the tardy
progress Of the one, and the rapid progress
Of the other? IA voice, "Hurrah for the
tailor."l Well, let us 60 to work, and
keep at work in good earnest, and we will
soon sew up this rebellion so tight that it
will never kick again.
COMPROMISE WITH THE DEVIL?
But we were talking about peace. Don't
everybody know that there can be no peace
20 long rs rebels are encouraged here, and
can hold out there7 You talk about COM
promise. Would you have right comprom.
1s wo With w, wrong, Voices. No, never"
with lalsehood Virtue 10 compromise
with vice? Would you have Deity in
Heaven when Beelzebub, His Satanic
Majesty made war with Michael when he
rebelled against Heaven, would you have
had Deity held a parley and an armistice?
[Great and continued cheers.] All ye an
gels and heavenly hoets, stand aside =
will seek An armistice with his Satanic
Majesty. o! infamy too base to be
thought Of. [Cheers.1
COMPROMISE REJECTED IN 1861.
Compromise! Your attention on this
point few moments. In 1861, after soces-
sion was inaugurated, Mr.. Crittenden
came forward with his compromise meas
ures, which, amer long discussion, was
about to come to q vote on Clark's amend
ment, and what do We find ? Il was said
give as Crittenden's compromise, and the
nation will be at peace? What was the
result? When the ayes and nays were
called on Clark's amendment, its adoption
being the rejection Of Crittenden's COM
promise measures, the amendment was
adopted and the measures defeated? And
how? BY Benjamin the rebel Secretary OF
War, and Iverson, and Robert w. john
son, and three others, when it WAS their
refused to vote for the compromise and il
was lost by three votes. AS soon as this
was known, the telegram wires running
out of the gallery were made TO flash to the
South the news that the compromise was
lost, and they must now go TO war. The
fate Of this compromise measure shows
their sincerity about compromise. Then
desired then was that the Territories
should be denied the power 70 legislate mp
on the subject ofslAvery but after awhile
they were not s2ti6ed with ihat-it was all
pretense.
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTY REJECTED.
want to now call your attention to an
amendment 10 the Constitution. offered by
Mr.. Corwin in the House Of Representa-
tives, and il this don't put "fle-closer"
upon 0Il compromises, UoA NuOw nOW
one could be got up. The cry had been,
we want constitutional protection for
slavery; We want. some constitutional
guaranty; We want something to prohibit
Congress forever: from interfering with
slavery. Their argument was: You viii
20 on making free States out OF the Terri
tories until you get enough free States 10
the Union to adopt an amendment to the
Constitution abolishing slavery. Now,
Mr.. Corwin proposed his amendment to
the Constitution 70 meet this objection
You know that there are some parts Of the
Constitution that have been made to stand
unamenable, one Of which il, that the
Constitution shall never be 30 amended al
to deprive any Of the States Of ito two Sen
ators in Congress. Now, while the free
States had in their power, prospective.
", to abolish slavery, they voluntarily
came forward and passed the following res
olution, as offered by Mr.. Oofwin:
"Resolvsd, That the following article be
proposed to the Legislatures Of the severa
States, as an amendment to the Constitu.
ton Of the United States, which, wher
ratified by three-fourths OF said Legisla
lures shall be valid to al intents and pur
poses, rs part of said Constitution:
"ARrlcLE l3. No amendment shall b
made TO the Constitution which shall au