The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-02

pable that Congress had nothing to do with
It. It was the business OF the States.-
Congress had no more right to put penal.
ties on the men who assisted him to escape
than it had to punish the man who put a
stray horse in his stable. Congress
created q crime which did not ex-
list, and usurped authority which the
Constitution did not give. To fur
nish this dark iniquity, with machinery
which, the inquisition might envy, it cre-
ated a new set of courts. II appointed an
American Star Chamber Of commissioners
and made it the duty as (if such u thing
could ever be duty y for all officers and
citizens to assist in kidnapping a poor
wanderer, or exile from no : Q and human
itv,'and bring him back TO chains and. d.dun-
geons. Did ever Spanish InQuisitions ex-
ceea that in the fact, or the imagination of
its atrocities? That is the law-which
Messrs. George Pendleton, Chiffon White,
Bliss, Mckinney & Co., all voted to keep
up; and that vote is one of the evidences,
which they will send down to posterity Of
their progress in political sciencew Anx-
ions are they-very anxious-to advance
political science; and they have doneit
We need add no more. To the free, gen.
erous, intelligent people of Ohio and the
West, we commit the issue. 1fthey are for
crimes like this, let them say so. Ii not,
let them send their men into powerless,
deserved oblivion. Z. D. Nj.
-Cn. Gazette.
EMIGRATIoN-THE RECOVERY OF THE
WASTE PLACEs.-Nearly 200, 600 foreign
emigrants landed in the United States dur
ing the past year. This year the number
will be still larger. So large and constant
an influx Of population from Europe, at q
time when our country is convulsed with
civil war, is one OF the most remarkable
signs Of the times. II shows that notwith-
standing the hostility OF the ruling classes
Of Europe and their professed belief in the
overthrow Of our government and a future
reign Of discord and anarchy on this conti-
nent, there is in the hearts Of the common
people q frm faith in the stability Of our
institutions and our power to recover our
selves from the present great calamity
The emigrants now coming are represented
to be Of a much higher character than in
former years-thrif.y mechanics and farm
ers OF the better sort, who bring not only
stout hands for labor, and Skill in various
handicraft, but little fortunes for invest
ment, and habits of economy and thrift
Every such man added to the population is
equivalent to the addition OF eight or ten
thousand dollars to the productive capital
of the country, if he bring only his capacity
for labor and no capital. A large proper
ton of the emigrants now coming are young
working men and women. Suppose but
one third Of them to be productive laborers
and those who came to us last year are good
for the production Of three or four million
dollars annually. They will necessarily
payment Of the national debt, and will thus
help to compensate for some Of the desOla-
tions made by the war.
With enough men from abroad added ev-
cry year TO our population to settle state,
We have the losses of the war very rapidly
replaced, and we have an army of indus
trious workers ready TO occupy and culti-
vate the desolate lands OF the South as fast
as they are reclaimed from the rebellion
The loyal men Of the South invite such an
emigration. The reason for the dissatis-
faction in. Tennessee with the Presidents
amnesty proclamation is, that the loyal
people there do not want the rebel citizens
to return. They are very undesirable
population, ignorant, vicious and thrift
less. They would be glad to see them
driven into the Atlantic and Gulf states, to
remain there, such Of them as survive the
war, and to see Tennessee occupied by en-
igrants from the North and from Europe.
This is Andy Johnson's plan, and he
speaks for the loyal and intelligent people
OF Tennessee, who understand the valae of
free institutions, and mean that their state
shall be compensated fer its sufferings in
the war by q social renovation. And there
are on the continent 10 more advantageous
openings for emigrants than Tennessee and
the other border states will offer when sla-
very is driven out and peace established.
Nor is there any danger that the labor mar
ket will be overstocked for a century to
come. The middle and southern states
have never been half reclaimed from the
native wilderness, and can support a pepu-
lation three or four times as large as at
present. without beginning to find the linn
1t of their capacity; indeed, without be-
coming what European would call popu-
lOus. There IS every reason, therefore, to
welcome the emigrents from Europe
There cannot be too many OF them. They
are to act a q important part in the future
career of tie nation, after the Union has
been re-established upon the basis OF free
dom and justice for all working men. And
with popular education following in the
wake OF freedom over the whole land,
there is no fear that our democratic institu-
t.ons will be in danger from the foreign ele-
ment in the population.-SpTsnAfetd Re
publican.
BACK AGAIN.-We notice that Capt. j.
H. Wickizer has just returned to his post,
looking slightly careworn but vigorous and
fit for duty. Along with him came rumors
of a nearly fatal aftray which occurred dur
ing his visit home, and as it is certain the
facts will find their way TO the public
some time, tney may as well pe StdteO al
once. DIR. A. H. Luce was believed to have
so availed himself of his delicate position
as family physician as to attempt improp-
er liberties in the family of Capt. Wicki-
ger. The Captain determin ed to be aveng-
ed, and accordingly shot the doctor pub
licly and, it is presumed, mortally, at
Bloomington, Illinois, the place OF resi-.
dence of both parties. He then gave him.
self up to the authorities, and, without ex.
animation, was released on his recogniz-
ance.
of spotless character until this affair, and
the bosom friend OF Capt. Wickizer for the
last seventeen years, and his confidential
family physician for some twelve years:
We have long known Mrs. w. She is a
beautiful and accom- plishe<i la6y. devoted