The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-19
Jemerson Dayis, Messago.

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ment Of the military situation, which is
dition by liberal use of Davis habitual
bluster. We remember that when he was
on his way to Montgomery, to take the
leadership Of the rebelliOn-an Office whose
duties he had until that time discharged in
the Senate Of the United States, assisted in
all his course by the very men who have
Just been defeated intheir purpose totrans.
fer the Government to the rebellion by the
election Of McClellan-he told bis au-
diences on the route that they would soon
make the Northern people smell South
ern powder and feel Southern STEEL
That smell has been pretty closely confined
to Southern atmosphere, and that iron has
thoroughly entered the Southern soul.
Two years after that, in his tour to the
Southwest, he told bis audiences that their
hope Of peace must come from the North
west. Eosecrans' brilliant campaign, the
playing out OF Bragg, and the occupation
of Chattanooga, which he then regarded as
one of the vital points Of the rebellion, fol-
lowed that; and the recent election, in
which the Northwestern majorities in ia
vcr Of the Government have greatly ex-
baselessness of the hope Of peace from
Democratic cooperation in the Northwest.
He confesses also that all hope of aid from
foreign Intervention is gone, and that the
Confederacy Is left to its own resources
Thus all the great expectations on which
the rebellion started have failed, and his
only resources is to draw favorable view
OF the military situation. He is equal to
this emergency. The pen Of the COnfed.
crate leader is lnightier weapon than
"Southern powder, or Southern steel"
But the Northern public understand the
military situation quite as well as jefferson
Davis, and it is unnecessary for US to oc-
cupy space in showing how much of it ID
false, or to notice the nature Of that guer-
RI LA anarchy which he calls recovery of
territory, but which is fast working that
complete desOlati0n and determination
that will reduce the South to the condition
which will revOlutiOnize society and prop
erty from the bottom, and make way 70
people the South with q new race. He de-
ciares that the capture Of Atlanta, Rich
mond, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah
and Mobile will not effect the purpose of
the Confederate leaders. In fact, places,
and the defeats by which places are lost,
are made of no consequence to this exag-
gerated "TOOts'' of the rebellion. This is
hedging against continued disaster by
allowing liberal margin for our progress.
nor the leading traitors with him to give
up and be hung, 30 long as they can keep
out Of our clutches, 30 long as they can
force men to fight to keep their necks from
the halter, yet with this progress time
will come when the Confederate power to
force men to the slaughter will cease, when
States reoccupied and people released from
the peace and prosperity they once en-
ijoyed.
Aftertheir military view Mr.. Davis, more
hity than he intends, gives foreign Govern
ments an elaborate scOlding for not inter-
vening in favor Of the Confederacy. Hav-
ing failed to maintain their cause by fight
ing, it 10 natural that he should fall foul OF
foreign powers for not doing il for them.-
1t would be making rebellion easy II for
eign powers we're to stand ready to give q
helping hand to every revolt. But Mr..
Davis complaint against foreign powers is
quite inconsistent with his bluster over the
rebel military power, success, and deter
mination for Independence. II able to win
9eir own Independence, why whine be-
cause foreign powers do not aid them 1t
is certainly q liberal view that the Con.
federate Democracy take OF international
obligations, that all foreign powers are in
and are, therefore, bound to give moral
and material aid to any revolt in it.
Mr.. Davis next comes to the rebel fnan-
ces, which under his statement, az under
the touch of the philosophers stone, are
turned to golden hue. Mr.. Trenholm, the
rebel Secretary of the Treasury, reports to
the rebel Congressional the finances are in a
sue OF Confederate notes until they sank TO
little or nothing, and then legislatel to wipe
them Out at fixed date. They then issued
Few, and these have Travelled more rapidly
the same sliding scale. He says that in re-
ceivinE them for bonds the rebel govern
ment gets just six dollars in value for q
bond Of 800. He says these financial ex-
vroS1ion<a ovh0Netn7 and ko rocOvu.
Inends the abandonment Of bonds, the vir-
tual wiping out OF the notes, and the lay.
ing Of the Confeder&cy's "broad hand on
the property Of the people, in such qanti-
ties az the military necessity demands, un-
der the name q taxes in kind"
sTaxes in kind" il q new name for it. It
means that the notes which the Confedera-
cy issues, and forces the people to receive
for their produce, it will not receive back
for taxes therefore they are demanded in
kind. Certainly strong financial practice
can 20 no further than this. But inasmuch
as the forcing of Confederate notes has be-
come rather AN old trick, after one accom-
plished and another proposed reputation
Of them, it is now proposed that when the
Richmond concern lays its light fingers on
a farmers crops, setting OF TO him short
ratiOns, it shall he called taxes in kind. So
in ancient times the flash term for stealing
was conveying"
But jefferson Davis says Of the Secreta-
rvs report: 1.-THE facts therein disclosed
are far from discouraging." 1t would be
hard to discourage this original repudiato-,
so long as the recourse of reputation re-
mains. He finds that things are in shape
for another Reputation, and he is encour-
aged. But Trenholm thinks that, as three
removes are equal to a fire, so about three
repudiations Of the Confederate promises
TO pay, will play out the game. Mr.. Da-
Wis regards this as dismal view, and that
reputation is compensated by keeping
down the public debt. But in order to
have this compensation, it is requisite TO
stop at once the receiving Of this currency
for bonds, for at the rate Of 800 for &6, q
debt even of q thousand or two millions
will seem large. This is what Trenholm
proposes to do, but he lacks the mora.
courage to state that they will 60 right on
issuing notes, and Davis also tries TO leave
this disagreeable but inevitable recourse to
the deluge to which they look TO settle all
their difficulties. We remember that when
Davis began TO financier for the rebels, and
invented the paper device, after the man
ner OF the Hindoo cosmogony, by which
currency notes were to be based on bonds