The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-06

luton OF the TWO 6ouseS OF congress, al It's
recent session, this Aavh asbeeE 'designat-
cd by tho President to be observed by 6ll
the people as q day. Of haspsi.tatsonf GH.d
prayer. AS such it will be observed eve
,4'ywtsre4 And just insproportion az men
razs animated by truly patriotic impalses
ma motives WIN Be the sincerity and zesl
az that observance. aaa lsrbusya ~
/ The thoughtful will notfail to find in the
pa1tI and present much that challenges The
Nation Humiliation. Ifan3 people shou,d
evsr Arspe thsmselves in sachOloth and
bow their heads in the dust, st - surely
this. In despotic countries the national
sins axe principally those Of tie rulers.7r
The great mass Of the people are not ~
sptuslSlsfor them. Hero 1t isedinerent
Hithsfto our officers have been chosen By
- people their acts and policies have
mostly been dictated or sanctioned by the
people, and The people have thereby, as q
whole, taken upon themselves the respon-
ability for thsir good or evil character. Il
Ne nation has studiously persisted in =
course Of wrong doing.-if it has failed to
do risht and administer justice. where it
could, q has bsen the guilt Of the people -
much u that Of the more immediate actors
Of the wreng. as w ss H..
!; And, ~. chief Gin Of this nation has been
thati while protesting to glorify frssdom
ana 70 10 ! nation Of freemen, it has re-
duced . whole race to abject slavery, it haa
sought 70 convert men into cAattels. and by
MI possibls modes has endeavored to make
mare brutes Of those who. % much as any,
were created in the image Of their Maker,
and possessed of the Same rights - are
claimed, b. those who sanctioned the out
rage and dsliberately persisted in the Of.
fort to make i perpetual. The gpilt-ths
unspeakable crime, II - much ours a. It ID
that Of the actual manstealer, inasmuch q
1or many years We neglected doing what
we might have done to restrain the evil, to
redress the wrong, and At last to remove
the offence against right and humanity al.
together. - srsm ~
Il was natural that % hsinousl . sin %
this should breed . thousand others; and
It he's done 30, not merely IN the. South,
where its result has been treason and
armed revolt, but here in the North like.
wise. 1t has corrupted and depraved as as
. we'll those who were in immediate con-
tact with the evil. It has made too many
Of the people Indifferent to human rights,
REGARDLESS Of public duty, anxious seeksrs
for mere sordid and individual aims, has
made men reckl0s of the public liberty;
and Of the national honor, reduced them
10 the bassness Of blind partizans and ut
tsr careiessnees potmersly Of tho freedom OF
others but OF their own. It has extin-
guished in the hearts Of thousands every
patriotic emotion ,and made them the will
ling tools OF traitors in their purpose OF
finally disEupting and Destroying the Re-
It Is true that there have always been men
in our midst who have seen the enormity
Of The national ain and have sought to cor
rect it. But they did NOT succeed in chang
ing the general current Of public acts. Al
. people We Of the North have constant
y sanctioned the worst schemes Of the
slave-mongers, and probably would have
continued to do 30, had they not culmina-
ted in rebellion which has brought many
to realizing sense Of the peril Of the
country and pointed out the only mode Of
securing its continued existence. "a
Il not the present condition Of the coun-
try most humiliating one? Is it moi
proper that we confess these our unspeak-
able humiliations, and earnestly pray foz
that wisdom, devotion, courage, pa
triotism, and sense Of our past short
comings, which are required to carry M
through this terrible crisis, and make N
worthy Of the enjoyment Of those infinite
blessings which we have hitherto proved
Uurselves incompetent to estimate justly I
II We would maintain 3 free and repub-
loan govsfninent, We must prove our.
selves entitled 70 it BY our devotion to it,
principles. II W would b frso men. NJ
must banish slavery. II W would have
jusdee, We rnusk deal Justly. II We would
not hare our government corrupt Ne must
keep corrupt and Incompetent men OFT d
o6ae6. II w desire to Ct out Of this oval.
10y of Humiliation" in which We have
long been walking. yainly imagining, thai
Al waswsn with ., W must dsvote our
sslvss, nom this time onward, 70 repair.
Ing the svil We have done, permitted, o,
sanctioned. It ID not enough that We &C.
knowledge the humiliation. of wrong done.
We must cheerfully bear the penalty II
has brought upon ~, confess IT. justice,
and prove that we ars sincere By our IA.
turs efforts to repair the mischief and aus
tain the right. II We fail in doing justice
what right have We to claim II for our.
telvss3 Five make the nation an instru-
nsnt Of oppression, why should It not op.
press us3 Humiliation and prayer are
proper for o.. II We are sincsre and earn.
eft who en- tell what light may penetrate
the darkness % long overshadowing us?
A-In the Chicago Tribune, Of Tuesday,
We find seven-column expose OF. thu
Northern Conspiracy ~ it exists in .Indi.
ana, under the alluring title Of ''Sons o,
Idberty." Tits altogether too long tor oul
columns. It 10 SUBSTANTIALLY the same q
the Missouri order, has the same @. L. Val.
landigham - Supreme Commander, and