The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-17

million to q million men maintaining that
line for four continuous years. this country
presents Spectacle which II unparalleled
In the history Of nations Show me snoth-
or people that have carried on such q war
for % lone period and let down NO. one
single industrial interest, not one sing ed
i1cntional interest. The North has not
dropped q stitch! Not one common school
has gone out; not one academy has been
squelched; not one college has been starved
to death; not one loom has stopped except
that manufacturers MIGHT not lose money
AFTER having made Il. During the last four
years every religious, moral, Intellectual
and industrial interest has prospered in
our nidet. and that while we have had on
our hands this gigantic conflict Rgains.
Aristocratic rebellion. And where ia there
4 nation that has ever exhibited q parallel
to this spectacle? tsse .H&
Consider. too. that while this has been 10
there has been in the North q division Of
sentiment. We have had enemies behind
aud enemies before, open and secret-and
the secret enemies have been the worst, be-
cause they have chilled; they have bred
doubt and suspicion; they have caused our
courage to quail they have weakened our
hands and strengthened tho hands Of our
open enemies. Giveme ten men that can
see; fear one man that cannot see more
than the whole Of them. And a secret trail
tor is more dangerous than an army with
banners. ss NJ
Now, with divided sentiment at the
North; with vast extent of territory over
which tits attempted to re-es.ablish the au-
thority Of the Government; with people
very largely leavened with foreign ele-
foreign prejudiccs and miseducation, the
power OF the common people has been
manifested In maintaining law and order
to an extent that has heretofore been un-
known in the world. And never more
than in the four years last past has the
State been safe and sound. The North
never was 80 democratic as 1t IS to-day.
Look At that grand conspiracy that has
been uncapped like crater in tha West.
and about which no man has any longer
any doubt, believe. Sec what ramiica-
tions It had. In the mids. of our other
troubles, this broke ont and the Govern
|'ment put q snuder over 1t, and It went out.
Right on the eve of the most exciting
election in the history Q! this continent,
win say. infamous and cruel as were ever
concocted in pandenoniurD. were discov-
cred. I believe nobody denies these now.
And what is the resnlt7 Every body was
indignant; but nobody was scared. Not q
planet lodged or winked! And the nation
has trndged right straight along. When 2
man comes home At twilight. 4 bat in in
against his back. he does not stagger, tho
he be tired; and this old democracy, tho
tired, II struck by theee ilI-omened birds
Of fraud, does not stagger, and nobody
would know that II had been struck from
any effect that It produced.
Where else but here can you ind = ma
ton tina. could carry on . war like that
which we are waging ut the same time tina.
the whole apparatus Of peace was assailed
from within by such lazars and sores,
throwing these things OF by. the health
that In inherent in its O0nstitutionf What
q spectacle IL this nation presenting to.the
world of the fruits Of Christian dem0cfa.
III were q despot, would shake. II
wore a crown, would hate you. do moi
wonder that the wind from this Govern
| ment gives chills and fever to every man
thut loves power and does not love the peo.
pie. t...t .i9'sas.. go
Europe believes that only .stronggoyern.
ments can successfully make war. Il i
supposed that war requires such secrecy
such dispatch, and such arbitrary power
that rulers Of . free people are 50 In fear o.
that people that they cannot have warlike
qualities. But what II the people insist
that the Government shall have those
qualities9 What IL they say TO those in
authority. "be spcret, take arbitrary pow.
or, WELD that power ~ long ~ Il is neces-
sary 70 defend us, and then return It 70 usf''
ernment - monarchy to make war. Tell
me, have there not been as many fizxlei
\ under monarchy - there ever were under
democracy1 It depends upon who wearl
| the crown whether . monarchy 10 success
| ful In making war or not II he Is q fool,
he fails: but ii he happens to be y Napole.
on or = Frederick the Great he succeeds.- ~
l hu IN 1n u vxynY a N
then he makes war successfully ~ mon
arch. And II President happens to he an
Andrew jackson, he can make warjnst as
encCeesfnlly as though his name was
King. The success OF government In
making wardoes not depend upon whether
it II absolute or democratic: It depends
upon the nature OF the men by whom it Is
administered. And when you come to
look at the common people as factors oi
lawAr; as. creatures OF munitions; ~ the
sourceof allsof thoee;;elements by which jus:
laws and right institutions are TO be main
| tained1 a government formed and carried
on BY them is ~ we'll adapted 70 making
war as any other. No other government
on earth could prosecute such war as we
are prosecuting % successfully as we are
doing i. And In this we are evfncing the
superiority Of democracy. 3S1<. es
But, above AL these; we point with graft
tude and with Joy, In the midst Of The
| great trials, through which we are passing,
70 the virtue, to the happiness. and TO the
prosperity Of the twenty millfons OF citi-
zens that are scattered ,throughont the
North. 10 be sure. We have some troub.
les. II u attempted by many 10 make the
people believe that they, are. burdened. ]
know tha. there are thosa who. living On
latated incomes and SALARIES, feel the rise il
\ the coAt Of the necesaafies of life. But
such are q small minority. The wages 81
the great mass Of cauzehs have risen In
proportion 10 prices have risen. And the
people among ~ meyer suffered 90, little
rom taxation ~ TO- day. AZ the 9upply Ia
1.-The Labor. market ID deficient, and as men
can charge for their service neatly what
they please, the suffering Of the comnauni-
y is lees than ct almost any former period
And many Of theee that are said 70 b bur,
dened are In the condition Of tho man in
court who, hearing his lawyer enpnerate
the trials and haEdahips that he bad en-
i dured, burstinto tears, and said, ~ nogel
knew how much / had snfferedl, This
people have heard 20 much about what
they have been called to submit TO and g<
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