The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-06
The Work Before Cs.--Speech of
Hon. Montgomery Blair.

The Postmaster-General, Montgomery
Blair, delivered 4 speech on Friday the I'D
ult., before the members Of the Maryland
Legislature, at Annapolis, of which we
present the prominent points.
He commenced by quoting from the Pre-
sidents Message, ana cordially approving
the Proclamation OF Amnesty, saying,
this is more than pardon; not only
does the President spare the lives of the
unfortunate dupes OF conspirators, but be
restores them their property The invi-
tation of the President u the people of the
rebellious States 20 participate again in the
Government on assuming the relations of
loyalty. he regarded rs another indulgence,
which they should appreciate. Another
step of the President looked to the perfect
restoration OF State rights by recognizing
their old Constitutions in ali respects, ex-
cept Slavery, which made the war. Heck
planned the policy of the President to be
the reference of the whole subject of Sla-
very to the people for their disposal.
He said that the President was no Crom-
well !; Congress no military council, but
felt that the suppression of the rebellion
|and the elimination OF Slavery from this
country was the hercu.ean labor before it.
He then pointed out monopoly as the true
cause OF Our difficulties; monopoly by an
OlIXdTcUN Oh Tie ldDOT Oh OtUefS. LII WAS
this monopoly that constituted the severest
charge against Great Britain in the Decla-
ration of Independence. He continued:
lis it not amazing that the Slave States
having up to the hour of pronounced indie
pendence made war on the slave trade and
the power that compelled submission to it's
aggravated lnischiets, should recoil from
its denuncations in that great State paper
written cx pressi y to sum up the grievan-
ces suffered under the Government it was
designed to renounce as the only mode OF
deiiverance from them? The whole South
soon perceived that al Oligarchy OF slave
holders could easily persOnate the King
and profit by the lessons of the MONOPOLY
he esLa blished. How we'll they have APP
piled and improved upon the presidents
Of their royal master 70 which we have adj
verified, their course after they have ex-
plunged from our Magma Chartd the pas
sage provided to insure the extinction of
the Slave trade and Slavery, will show.
The first step Of the shareholders after
assuming the royal prerogative in refer
ence to slavery, was the demand to set
aside the Congressional interdict against
the slave trade. This was enforced by
threats Of dissOlvng the Union, so neces-
sary to the establishment Of our free insti-
tutIons.
He continued TO describe the ambition of
the Southern Oligarchs and their success
III suDSIuIIiilS TIC NOTln 10 It's Will. cum.-
mating in the pledge which Attorney Gen.
eral Black made the South, in the name OF
his master, James Buchanan:
- Whittier thom goest, mN 30: ,ohere
thou 1odgest, aoiN fodge; thu people shat
DC ny people, and the God 7ay God
The conspiracy against the Union was
we'll understood by Mr.. Buchanan long be-
fore this VOW was made t. its principal au-
thors. It's decisive overt act, in violation
OF the Missouri compact, and the seizure Of
Kansas, was then fragrant, and this scrip
turai ad]uration was TO mark, with signal
force. his adhesion to the treason; and he
was not found false to this fellowship
Mr. Blair traced the movements Of this
last Democratic President in assisting the
traitors to the contamination of their pur-
pose, and concluded on this point:
Slavery was to become the sure founda-
ton Of their Republic, and it is. we see.
the basis Of the despotc military rule
which subjects the South under a dictator.
and sheds the blood of the North in torrents
to defend itself and the whole Union against
the trenzied ambition Of the chiyalry that
hoped to make cotton king oyer the cahi-
nets of Europe, and the negro institution
the throne or king over this continent. It
was 10 this spirit that it sent out its filli-
busters into Cuba, in Central America. and
sought an alliance with Revolutionary