The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1864-06-25

thousand liars, we advise him TO turn out
Manhattan" to his creditor, pay his debt,
and get q credit for the balance in his favor.
IN. Y. Tribune.
McClell1n'o Wherefore.
To your shallow theorist, your maunder-
er among commonplace fallacies and cur
rent delusions, there is nothing 50 en-
barrassing as great, plain fact. II annoys
and disconcerts him, prompting him to all
manner Of cuttle-fish dodges and devices.
Unable to abolish or even ignore it, he has
no resource but to muddle and mystify it
to the extent Of his capacity. f- IS
The Southern rebellion is the despair Of
Northern pro-slavery politicians. Their
most direct and natural resort Is to pro-
nouuce It no rebellion ut all, buta conserv-
alive and landablc assertion Of reserved
rights, based on the Constitution and justi-
hed by 'sthe Resolutions Of 'S6'1in short,
discipline administered by the people to
Thomas III. Seymour, Vallandigham, and
other such, the public profession Of this
faith is restricted to the cabal who follow
the desperate fortunes of Fernando Wood.
But what is the alternative?
Here is the most bloody, devastating, de-
structive, horrible war id modern history
"a war not between alien races or peoples,
but brethren-one that devils should blush
to have originated. How and why is it,
that such a war should have broken out
aud 30 long ragged in the latter half Of the
Nineteenth Century?
The secessionist-the avowed Northern
sympathizeT with secession-the Abolition
ist-the Nationalist who holds the bonn
1r tNf Gt,v ~ huH- Sn6 th.a
knell of slavery-each gives an answer 10
this question which is at least coherent and
plausible. None of them asks you to de-
duce something from nothing. But the
pro-slavery Unionist, who cannot afford to
own his predilection for a Reconstruction"
through q surrender at discretion to JEFF.
Davis, is obliged to tumble and humble
and stumble over the facts as follows,
ssThe same elements of discOrd, sectional
prejudices, interests and institutions,
which had rendered the formation of the
Constitution so difficult, threatened more
than once to destroy it. But for q long
time the nation was so fortunate as to pos
sess q series Of political leaders, who, to the
highest abilities, united in the same spirit
Of conciliation which animated the found
ers Of this Republic; and thus for many
years the threatened evils were averted.-
Time. and the long continuance Of good
fortune, obliterated the recollection o. the
calamitles of years preceding the adop-
ton of the Constitution. They forget that
concllat1on, common lnteIests, anu mu
tua! charlty nao Deen the Iosnoauon, },
ana must oe tne supP0rt. o. our Goveln
menI ana an .ne Te.auoIs emu s % n,; .ns; a. y
Ienstn, men aPpeaInu WIN aouses es'louai ..a
aud personal preJudlces ana intrests, out,
weighing all Considerations Of the general
good. Extremists of one section furnished
the occasion, eagerly seized as pretext by
equally extreme men IN t9e otner, 10.
aOanoonng tne Pacanc Iemeoies InoIueu
oy Inc Constitutlon. otF1PPeu Oi au sopn-
istry aud side-lssues, tne oirect cause OF
tne war as II Presenteo itsei. 70 Ine nonest
ana patrlouc catlzens OF the Nortn was SIM
ply tnss:
"certd'n n.dtcs, or rdtncr P0TtsOn o.
me !nn0ottGntS o. ceTt0tn STATES. !c0red, or
progressed 70 Jear, ta0t INJURY s0out0 resntt 70
thear '1ghts ana properly from ne ctcO0no3s
q GPdTt.cutar party TO Po'oer. Although
the Constitutlon anu sne actuai conoltion
OF the government PROVIDED tnem win
a peaceabie and sure protection against the
security IN the destruction OF the Govern
ment wnicn woulo protect tnem, ana IN
the use OF iorce against National troops,
nolding NatlonaI lOrtress. 10 euace Inc
Insult offered 10 our nag, 70 save ourselves
from the Iate OF tne 0ivloeu hePuoncs OF
1."Ay onu oVG.AA c = - - w
government from oesIruction, 20 lnIorce us
Just power anu laws, 10 haintain our very
existence as nauon-tnese were tne
causes "nich lmPcne1 US 10 ofaw tne
sw0ro; -Mcttet.an NeSt ROM AddreSS.
we nave COPIED Al greater Iengtn tnan
was neediui 70 our purpose, ID order That
Gen. McCielian,s view OF the rebellion ana
us cause snoulo ce lu,iy before our read,
ers: 1nat cause. II VIII pc seen, IS FOUND
IN tne Iear ielt or proiessed oy tne Save
noidels OF injury 10 tneir rights ana prop
e1Iy rom the eieVation OF particular par
". 20 power. .,,
NOW we oppose 70 TINS anegation, nrss,
tne great, conspicuous. aoundantIy esiab-
i!snea i's iact 5nas sne eng1neers oi !ne reoei-
non ueslreG ana iaporea @ ior tnat very re-
publican an triumph OF isoo wnicn IS mere
nade tne cause OF tneir revolt. II was to
.nls ena ~. .nat lhey lorcea through me sen
ats OF tnat year the Jen. DAVIS platform
whereby Mr.. Douglas and his friends were
virtually read on. Oh the Democranc party.
u was 10 TINS ena tnat they deliberately
ana 0eterminediy competed t1e over
tnfow OF tnaI party py oolnng from the
Gnarieston COnventlon ana nominating
brecklnrldge ana Lane against Douglas