The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-22

TIM NHaRo.-Mr. Seward 10 reported to
have said, during the campaign which re-
suited in the election Of Presideut Lincoln,
that no man who spelt negroes with two
g g could 6e President: He He NIGH might ssy it
paign. No man who spells negro with two
~ now can BE- elected. There 10 no blink
lng the rights and wrongs Of this negro
question. and no magnifying or cheapenfng
u importance. The fate Of four millions
Of human beings, whose lot, when the war
commenced. was that Of slavery, u to BE-
decided By the var, rightly or wrongly
and any man, We care not 70 what party he
belongs. who treats these unfortunate four
millions with contempt, and II willing that
their bondage shall be perpetual, must In
stitute light with nature, with God, and
with Ill his best impulses and instincts.-
The man who can say "nigger." and who
really feels in his heart the contempt for
the race which the word conveys. is .
brute. There 10 moro confederation for the
negro among the shareholders themselves
than among those lOw-lived and beastly
northern men who imagine that they say .
seveNe thing Of . man when they call him
by some name which shows that he has re-
spect for the rights Of the white man.
It 10 quite the habit Of loyal and humane
men to speak Of the necessity Of destroying
slavery, in order to save the republic. We
follow the lead Of the President himself in
this, who. in his famous letter TO Mr.. Gree
ley, said that he held the negro question SO
far subordinate to the Union that If 1t be-
came necessary, in order to save the Union,
he would save slavery. As President Of
the United States, he did not feel ut liberty
to take any other ground. Since then, he
has determined that the destruction of sla-
very Is essential to the salvation of the Re-
public. This is . military judgment, or q
political or state decision, and we believe
1t to be thoroughly sound. 1t has nothing
to do with the rights or wrongs of slavery.
It has nothing whatever to do with moral
principles. It has no connection with the
humane impulses Of the nation, or with the
Christian teachings Of universal brother
hood. It is matter of policy altogether,
and the rebellion now Keeling under blows
which the negro arm has helped to strike
is proving every day that the policy is the
true one. There is, undoubtedly, q respect
slavery in the heart OF the President; but
| the decision is political matter entirely,
and must stand or fall on its merits as the
policy of war and craftsmanship.
The people, however, are at liberty to
look upon this matter in another light
They are ut liberty to respect the negro as
as a man, to count his natural rights to be
l
as q great personal, social aud moral
wrong, and to hold az unsafe all those
counsellors who treat him with persistent
contempt. They have been trying to learn
the lesson OF this war. They believe that
it has lesson. and that it has cost them
too much to be disregarded or lightly lost.
They know that to slavery, and to slavery
horrors. They know that the slave power
il the only foe Of the republic. They know
that the war was instituted in behalf oi
slavery; and they believe that this terrible
couAict is Gods judgment on a nation that
has grown fat on wrongs inflicted upon
millions Of slaves. They have watched the
negro a. he has assumed the position Of .
man. They have seen him plunging into
the thickest Of the fight. and maintaing his
position by the side Of his white brethren,
and CALAMITY defendin6 the dag that de-
tends him. They have learned to spell his
name with single Q.
| What can Christian Government hope
for from set of men who will learn noth-
| ing from such a war as this? What can
hope for from men who glory in trampling
upon the rights OF four millions of theil
| fellow beings? What can it hope for from
those who have always been in league with
the slave power-for whose success~in this
campaign the slave power Ii praying, who
have no word Of cheer for the negro who
4 0sS 0CutS VeO Las AUCEVye 0uU 10 INV nSAt>
| ing for the maintenance OF the Govern
ment, who count it calamity that slavery
il to be disturbed, who are willing and anx-
ious to have it remain for their political
benefit? A way has been made by this
war for the progress Of ideas. Slavery haz
forfeited every RICH, which it held under
the Constitution of the United States
Slavery itself has no rights. It has thrown
away every legal right it ever had. It has
proved itself the enemy Of the republic
| It IL an open, bloody rebel. Its hands arr
red with the best blood Of this nation. And
now, political obligation to treat slavery
tenderly all gone, we have right to bring
i humanity and Christianity into full play,
aud to declare that slavery shall die-tha,
it shall never have another opportunity &c
destroy our national life, and that those
who spell negro with two g arc not safe
men to trust with the Government. Con.
tempt Of the negro has been the crying sin
of the North, for which the North is nov
suffering with the still more contemptuous
South. Let us respect him and his rights
and claim it as a glory Of the RepU blicar
party that it is struggling for the freedom
and the rights Ofevery man, of every color
in all these States, over which the stars and
stripes have doated-over which in Gown
ling triumph they shall soon float again.
Springfield Republican.
TIE Two CANDIDATEs.-GeOrge Francis
Train has made another great speech, IL
| which he destroys both candidates. Tht
following 10 specimen Of his style:
! One is old Abe and the other Is not
rLaughterl The people pay their money
but the politicians gives them no choice
George and Abram are very much alike
especially George. George goes In fol
wipiug out States. So does Abram.-
j A6rum goes ia for the draft. So doe
George goes in for illegal arrests. So doe
I Abram. Abram goes in for manumittine
the slaves ~ military necessity. So doel
George. George goes in for suspension Q
habeas corpus. So does Abram. Abran
/ goes in for military interference Ut thu
polls. SO does George. George goes in fol
spoils. So does Abram. Abram goes il
1 tor prosecuting the war. George dodgel
4 the question, but would wade through
lnationa. graveyard to get to the Whitl
I House. George is surrounded by corrup