The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-26
THE NOETE.

IOial, 4, l,iss,J42 oS,2oO 10. =,
Total Continual forces and militia, 6e.37e
Here we find in the North q population
OF l.7.a.ctO furnished al, ,l25 men for the
military service Of the Revolution, while
IN the South a population of Lie. .342 fur
nishet 6o, o,s'79 TO the army Of American lib
erty. The South with slightly more than
two-thirds Of the population of the North,
fighting men. In the light of such facts,
how looks the present rebellion? Let the
Copperheads answer that.
Had the North furnished no more men in
proportion to her population than the South
the independence OF this country could not
have been secured. Had no more support
, come from the North than came frotn the
South, IL all probability no aid would have
come from lafayette or from France, for
the cause would have looked hopeless.
| In short the North sacrificed fifty per
| cent. more Of her gallant sons 10 secure
American nationality than the South, and
as If the Southern States wished 10 be re-
venged upon us for assisting them to ;nde-
penderce Of foreign domination, bv giving
three Of our Sons TO their two to the cause
! III proportion to the population, they COM
nenced this rebellion in which two hun
Creo thousand more of our people have
either gone Gown 10 soldiers graves, or
been crippled for life. Such is the homage
OF their gratitude. Such is the recon,pense
pendence OF the Southern States, without
which they could not have maintained the
| peculiar institution.
| II was slavery that held the Scutheners
in terror during the revolution, and many
did not leave their families for the army
lest the negroes should rebel at home. It
| is true that several Of the Northern States
had slaves--indeed all but ore-but the
number was SO few that they created no
alarm.
/ We know no: how many slaves there
| were during the revolution; but IN 1890
there were 40,3 in the Northern States,
and 657 ,57 in the Southern States. Had
there been the same number OF people in
! the Colonies, and no slaves, the free pOpu-
latiOn OF the two sections would have been
about equal and the South would have been
able to furnish as many men as the North.
! Accordingly, the Continental force and mi-
! litia instead of being less than OO, 600,
| would have been over 1000, SO that the
revolution could have been waged with a
stronger force ut the commencement and
independence, probably, have been secured
with half the suffering and bloodshed. In
consequence of slavery therefore our faith
ers were compelled 10 retreat across the
Delaware, amid the greatest winter suffer
ings and under the deepest gloom, and with
pendence. Slavery, then, was guilty Of the
Slaughter Of thousands Of non n-slaveholding
freemen. because it contributed nothing but
weakness to the colonies. And while this
institution came near losing all then, it has
during this rebellion, come near, with the
aid of Northern Copperheads, destroying
all the fathers secured in spite of it.
After the Revolutionary War and previ-
Gus to 1870, when the first census was TAX
en-, Maine and Vermont on the North, and
Tennessee and Kentucky on the South,
were added to the Union. The population
of the two former was ISL, l46, and that of
the latter was 93,146; but as these figures
would not materially vary the above de-
ductions they are not added 70 The table,
which embraces only the names the Thir-
teen Colonies.
II we take New England separately, we
find population of S92, Isl, including Maine
and Vermont, furnished l47,744 Continen-
tai and militia forces; that is, little more
than one-half the population in States,
which are so hated by the traitors and the
copperheads, furnished over two-;hirds OF
all the forces supplied by the Northern
States!
Thus we draw another interesting con-
clusion, to-wit: that rs the Southern trait
ors hate the North for having given them
their independence, so Northern Copper