The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-26

IT, "a shonld ~ IL rsnasndeti TO the planta-
tiou. and LEFT TO the influence ofthoee chris
tianixine methods which overseers habitu-
allv emnlov sTakO the negro out OF poll
tics." Was their reiterated cry. Mr.. Web
eter was not more anxious to separate re-
lioion from politics than we're his Southern
friends to decree perpetual divorce be-
ssssnce 81 tSis person son Of African descent
Was counted upon % panacea for all ma
tional ailments. Unable to secure It 9TH
erwise, the Southlseceded and Get up Con-
4ress 0fits own-the same body which now
assemblies at Richmond. In that select
council It was fondly supposed there was
- b no negro In any form. Discussions
we're to b carried on perfectly free rom
his ungainly intrusion. The cMvalry were
m agreed that the negro was good on the
plantation and not good In tho legislative
halls. He was to support the Confederacy
nv hin toll. but he was not to be mentioned
e ! matter Of dispute. Indeed the public
opinion Of the seeding States wasso unan-
imous on this question, II not on Others,
that there was no possibility OF discord,
and could be no need for debate.
But alas, humanexpectations are doomed
disappointment. 1tis with afeelingof an
g1ish that we announce thefailure Of those
too fond hopes, and with something akin
70 despair that we are forced to admit the
sudden omergence in the Richmond Con-
grees of the identical African who was
went to set the Washington concern by the
ears. He Is aghost that will not down
Not the potent exorcism Of rebellion even
has Gained this unquiet spirit. There have
been, there IL at this moment, p0rtentiOus
discussions Of him among those very men
whom he put to flight from the National
Capitol. It appears that he is positively
viewed by some fanatical enthusiasts of the
South ~ human being, capable Of carry
ing musket, and of fighting for the indie
pendence of that Coniederacy which was
established in order to prove that he was
not human being at all.
The project Of enlisting the negro has in
deed been suggested, though discOunte-
nanced in all quarters, IL prolific of quar-
relsome talk, and of q discussion that al
ready re0pens the question which secession
was thought to have disposed of forever
But Mr.. Davis, who has acted in this in
stance as ckaperon to the negro, il assailed
pions. He it 10 who has been guilty Of
treating the question as an open one, for
which he IL rOundly taken to task by the
Richmond WING, and il informed-perhaps
with rather less politeness than usually
distinguishes the courtly utterances of q
Virginian jouYnal-that s'the question is
not At this time before the country, The
y
Davis IL s'practical and intelligible," and
hints that already congress and the coun-
try" are needleesly .agitated" by the Reb.
al-Presidential address. JEFF. il told in
ret terms that be "has chosen to open up
questions both deep and dangerous )" and
il is ''truly astonishing that Tin the fourth
year of our independence he should haye
in our innocence, had supposed Mr.. jeff
erson Davis pretty thorough going pro-
slavery man, yet We are assured that he
has intimated that slavery is an ''evii,"
and that the slave may look forward to
Emancipation as q boon. Well may the
Wing exclaim that if such a view is to
prevail, ''then Slavery is originally, radi-
cally. inc9rably wrong and sinful, and the
nm OF all barbarism." Nay, the Wing,
Searching after the most bitter invective to
be launched at the Presidential offender,
does not quail to declare that Mr.. Davis lie
no better than Mr.. Sumner, and it there
upon reads him such Q lecture as in the
palmies days of 1.-THE Union as it was"
might have been Numbered in the ears Of
. Northern doughface politician who in a
moment of accidental virtue had ventured
on an opinion of his own touching the
morality Of the peculiar institution. The
echo of the lash which Mr.. jefferson Da-
Wis used to crack about the ears of his fell
low Democrats in the United States Sem
ate, resounds now In his own. He is
warned" IS if he were servant girl
paid by the week, to "mind his own busi-
1ese, and the tone of the WHO il much
that Of . mistress with whom rests the
power Of absolute discharge of her domes-
Tic from service. ;.
Well, it = true that the negro cannot be
quite kept ont even Of Southern politics, or
q Southern war, or Of Southern existence.
Casting desperately about for some last
means to uphold its sinking fortunes, the
rebellion falls upon the slave, and de-
mands that he shall fight for his own slave
~. Mr.. Davis knows, and the Wing knows.
and all the rebel press knows, that they
cannot trust their cause to the keeping OF
the sole class which has no hope in its sue
cess, and no reason to wish for anything
but its defeat. Yet there are degrees in
their desperation, and they who cling long
est to the dream Of success are grasping at
the impossible straws which those who are
shade less crazy refuse TO clutch. The
same doom stares both in the face.