The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-03

J, heroic who love life too much, or very
much. They who know how, virtuously
to despise life are the only class that live
j brook, hard and still and sometimes
hearts i've as weeds do, rank and succul.
snt, growing only for useiessness. But
some hearts grow an do the blossoms or
the fruit trees, falling in order that the
fruit beneath shall prosper and grow into
beauty and use. Such blossom hearts have
lhll 30 soon, I'VE are richer for their exist.
fence, for we hold the fruit, and have lost
the Blossoms only. We should weep with
tthoee that weep, but only tears OF gladnese
i-of sympathy and kindness. should be
shed. The speaker was thankful for this
i historical period. These characters, which
We are writing in blood, shall never be eff
higher sphere than heretofore. It will be
nobler now than ever before to be virtu-
Gus and true. Still, however, the passions
will appear, the feline nature of selfish
ness will crouch and new; but there is q
new inspiration in the land; manhood is
no longer an abstraction, but is concrete.
II II well that We should sympathize with
the great train Of sufferers, but We should
not forget that their pain is of the kind
which the angels remember and recon-
pense. It 10 nevertheless true that this
great national suffering will work out the
000On'0 righteousness.
Let rs consider some Of our national af-
fairs which demand Thanksgiving. First,
We may mention tho health Of the country
and the profusion Of benefits We have en-
joyed in this direction. Who would have
ventured to prophecy that four years Of
trouble, with war, could have passed with.
out any visitation in the summer or au-
tumn, of wasting disease? The health Of
our armies has been extraordinary. How
nd tv&A h~~ <h ;o1x
ness Of our soldiers. even with those in the
Southern ports which we hold. The
speaker regarded 1t AZ nothing less than a
dispensatiOn Of Providence. In the North
ern States it has been uniformly healthy
everywhere; and We should not forget that
our four harvests have been most album
dart. Surely, God has forbidden the dark
days nom falling upon our hemisphere.-
At the close OF four years we are also at
peace, and likely to continue at peace, with
foreign nations. Nations are yet but actu.
ated by selfish motives. There is always
a better class In nations who rise to the
true understanding Of affairs, but the ex.
ceptional class are In the majotity inevery
nation. Nations yet follow their selfish
instincts whenever they can do It in safety.
Whether we are better than European ma.
tons does not appear. We have not been
Tor the last forty years, for we never saw
weakness on our borders, and at the same
time forebore to pounce upon it. There
cannot be doubt that we owed immunity
rom attack BY foreign powers TO the salu-
tary foroe OF the fact that we can make war
dangerous to them. The speaker thought
that we owed nothing to the justice of Eng
land or France, but much to the calibre Of
our own artillery, and to the size of our
own population. We have been for years
In the lions den, but God has shut the lie
on's mouth.
1t will not do TO pass over that which we
owe to our ministers at foreign courts. Mr..
Adams, at st. James's, has distinguished
himself by patience, courage and wisdom.
And while we are grateful to him, We
should remember the hand by which we
avail ourselves of his services, and 10 which
the nation has owed its John Adams and
John Quincy Adams, of whom Charles
Francis Is 80 worthy a descendant. Mr..
Dayton has also been jealous in his mis-
seys and It 10 always dangerous to export
the best part Of your commodities. Buthe
is plain, simple man, who abhors all
trick and cunning, and stands in that god
less capital Of brave people AZ the pyra-
mids stand on their desert sands. All
around the imperial ears have buzzed the
musketo swarm Of Southern traitors, while
sincere, wicked Slidell has glided, as If to
give remarkable contrast to the open and
fair-minded AnglO-Saxon Dayton. We
have in these the two poles of manhood,
which may show what q man should be
and what he should not be. Meanwhile,
somewhere between the two courts wan.
ders the Virginian Mason, with a commits
sion without court at which to present it. |
Hanging somewhere between earth and
heaven-or rather between earth and hell |
I'VE find this ambitious and violent man.
tuil OF the force Of passion without the in. |
nuence Of the reason or the moral sense, in |
cafes haunted by needy discontents, spend
ing his naughty. useless life like the smoke
OF the gipsey's camp when the gipseys have |
gone away. The speaker also mentioned |
our other ministers IN Europe who have
oeen 30 Jealous In the cause Of their cOun.
try.
in regard to the recent election: now that
the heat Of the canvass is over, the struggle |
appears to us even more important than
before It was decided. When, on the pre-
ceding year, the speaker had visited Eu-
lion from the election which was then ap.
We were in the midst Of a ter.
rife war; we were bathing in the field, and
apparently divided at home; and it was
expected that the election would eventual
" divide us. But the election was abso-
lutely free, and 1t transpired. in the final
event, to the success of the Union cause.
turbance, and the acquiescence which had
been made in the will of the
majority was q sublime spectacle. We
should be proud of the conduct Of the mi
noiity on this occasion, as its acquiescence
was the result Of one Of the theories for
which we commended. They (the minority
may have been right or wrong before the ,
election. but they are all right now. And
It seemed that not, for the last two years.
had there been such signs and tokens Of
unity, except with few Questions Of de-
tails, ~ there was to-day. There are some
would be to relinquish some Of the bene-
fits Of victory. One Of these is that, in the
recent election, we have learned there is ,
such . thing In the people as Capitalization II
Of power. We had been used to hear that II
ws must have consolidated, centralized
Government or We could mot exist; but We
have demonstrated that the people are the +,
power, and that this, with the intermedia-
lion Of our State sovereignty, 10 sufficient.
no Government ever before had heart I