The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-22
A Remarkable Arlicle..ssThe Fire
and Blood Of RevolutiOn.''

We commend the careful consideration
Of the following to every reader. 1t was
published under the above title in the
charlottesville (Virginia) Rcuie,c, in April,
1861, before Virginia had passed her ordi-
nance Of Secession. In the light OF pres
ent events the writer's views seern alnos.
prophetic:
THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF REVOLUTION.
That is the cue. They propose to give
you taste Of Mr.. Yancey's medicines
1t will be nice little operation. Sowing
whea. is nothing to marking time and
walking sentry at two o'clock at night, un-
der drizzling rain. Shucking corn is fat
compared with charge Of bayonets.
You will also snake your arrangements
to have your barn-yards lit up at night
with the fires OF the revolution. Set yOnr
boots at the head osthe bed, for at any mo-
ment the same fires may be- sputtering
and cracking on the roof Of your dwelling
house.
Glistening Dayonets on the south bank
of the Potomac in front, burning straw
ricks and burning houses behind you,
something worse than that, perhaps, in the
shape OF death produced bv invisible and
uncomtorta bic agencies, the State deprived
of labor-these laoorers escaping by hund-
reds, or sold at half their value IN the
South, your fields unplowed, your public
WORKS ruined, land depressed 10 the lowest
figure, State stOcks, insurance stock, bank
stocks, railroad stocks, hawked at mere
song, these would be the immediate effects
Of the Fire and Sword" which Governor
Wise proposes in his speech at Norfolk.
A peaceabie dissolution 0J the Union is
sometimes suggested.
Let us allow that the result could be ef.
fected peaceably.
The next thing we should want would be
a standing army. The John Brown affair
cost us three hundred thousand dollars
Make the calculation.
You would maintain line Of posts all
along your frontier.
You also want . navy, Though Norfolk
the vessels built there by order of the gov
ernment.
You would pay a Southern President,
with al the ordinary Government officials.
You would pay a diplomatic corps.
vou would have to pay for an indepen-
dent Senate and House Of Representatives
and for new Judiciary.
n Perhaps you think all this would be
reat lilly managed. They tell you you are
rich. We tell you that no purely sgricul-
tural people ever was rich. The wealth of
Philadelphia alone is equal to the entire
wealth OF the State Of Virginia,
Take the Post-ofice alone. The total re-
ceipts from the Post-of6ces in Virginia, for
1858, were $2A2, ,95l; the expenditures were
$4Oo,o70. n south Carolina the receipts
were 80, LAG; the expenditures were t24S,-
GOO. In Alabama the receipts were Sll4,-
O92; the expenditures were $24S, $50. In
Mississippi the receipts were tsS,45S; the
expenditures were $S32, sos. In Arkansas
the receipts were $35, 1877; the expenditures
were $A4, $50. How is this deficiency made
up now? Part Of it is made up thus: The
receipts in the State of New York are ST.
ABS, I'll; the expenditures are 81 ,]54, ,l4l. In
Massachusetts the receipts are S565, ,633; the
expenditures are &4S5, ,Z37. IN most OF the
Northern States there is deficit. But in
all the Southern States the deficit is enor-
nous. The whole Northern deficit is some
$600, 900. The whole Southern deficit is
some S, ,000, 600.
Suppose, however, the civil war disposed
of. Suppose the Government established.
Suppose us with our army, our navy, our
Notifications. Suppose us to have survived
the shocA, with some slayes left, and our