The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-19

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the measure Of this confidence Of theS South
ern people in the ultimate Confederacy.-
II has gone down just 81 per cent. nO
strange that foreign powers do not inter-
pose to save the other six cents.
But one Of the most significant parts Is
the discussion Of the question of making
tries to circumvent this question. First he
argues the right Absolutely. The Confed-
eracy takes the property Of citizens Of the
States for the military service, why should
slave property be exempt. Il takes their
lives why should it hesitate at their prop
erty? That settles the question ia the
property light. But he says that the
slaves hold relation to the Confederate
Government as persons, and that this is
superior to their property relation to their
masters, and that in time Of war the Gov.
eminent has right to draw on this rela-
ton. This contains the gist OF the whole
argument of the power Of the Government
over the relation Of slavery in sine OF
war. John Quincy Adams did no: carry
it further, and if Ir. Davis had read and YVES
convinced by the arguments we have made
in the Gazette on this question, from tho
very outbreak Of the rebellion, he could
not have stated their conclusions stron-
ger.
But after arguing the absolute and un-
limited right 70 DRAFT and emancipate the
slaves, Mr.. Davis affects to oppose the ex.
ecutiOn of it at this time, or to approach It
gradually, by first giving forty thousand
blacks employed as adjuncts to military
operations, military training to form .
reserve force, in case 1t ts necessary to
use them; their places in the special SER
vice to be supplied by fresh draft. OF
course this necessity exists now, and will
grow; and this intermediate probation il
only to bring the thing about, while cir.
cumventing the direct proposition. But
let US note here the picture this gives Of
the military situation Of the rebellion. It
is worth more than all Of Davis buster.
In his speech at Columbia he said that
two thirds of the Southern soldiers were
absent from the army, and most Of them
without leave. It Is not becauss the whites
are exhausted, but because they will not
fight for the rebellion, that the leaders are
driven to forcing their slaves to fight to
keep the Confederacy y little longer on its
legs. This il the real military situation OF
the Confederacy; for If the necessity for
drafting the slaves to fight were not impe-
rative, none would argue it.
Mr.. Davis proposes emancipation only ut
the end Of the war. This will reduce it to
the smallest span, for they expect few to
survive. We invite the attention OF Dem.
ocratic readers to this argument OF the lea
der OF the Democratic party, on the supe-
rior relation OF slaves to the Government
as persons, and on its right to emancipate
and use them to save the Government. It
covers the whole ground taken by the Gov.
eminent. or by the most radical in thiD
war, and it silences all the clamor Of the
Democratic party against the emancipation
measures and the enlistment Of the blacks
the tricky fallacy by which Davis seeks to
stop the application Of his doctrines a: the
rebellion, and &c make out that although Il
is right to force slaves to fight against the
Government, it is wrong to enlist them to
fight against their masters. His principle
IL that Government, when necessary for its
preservation, has power to emancipate and
use the slaves in war. That is just what
the United States Government does, and It
IL the only Government that has any right
to be preserved in this country.
We omitted to notice, in its order, Davis
further proposition to recruit the rebel ar.
my by abolishing all exemption by classes,
every man, and if his profession or employ.
ment is Of public necessity-such as tele.
graphers, wOrkmen in mines, shoemaker,
tanners, editors, printers, teachers, preach.
ers, &C., who hitherto. under plea OF educa-
ton or means of intelligence or benevo-
supplies, have been exempt by classes-t0
detail such persons as are necessary to tho
public service at the discretion Of the gov
eminent. The Richmond Examiner en-
larges on the freedom of the press which
the Confederacy will enjoy, when editors
are detailed by military officer, subject
to recall into the service whenever an edi-
torial article does not suit the powers.
We commend TO our Democratic brethren
this proposed freedom OF the press IN that
COntederacy to which they would carry us
70 find relief from our intolerabls suppress
sion. We commend to their notice the con-
d!tion Of the Richmond Government rs de-
scribed by its own propositions, and the
dissoiving state Of a concern wkici, they
would have revived by an armistice, and
established in power over the whole South,
by recognizing it, power to negotiate for
all. Its financial resources all reduced to
direct robbery; its hopes Of Northern DEM
ocratic and Of foreign aid lost; it, ferocious
threats OF invading the North swallowed
in their own venom; rebellion, Under
pretense OF . popular movement, KEEP: alive
only by forcing unwilling men to tight
against their Government; two-thirds Of
their soldiers deserted; driven at last to
force their slaves into the army 10 prolonr
the desperate struggle; and justifying by
their arguments, and by the Infamous afro.
city OF forcing the slaves to fight tc perpet-
nate the power Of slavery, every emanci-
patton and Hegro-arming measure that the
Government has used in the war: making
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they upon whom Mr.. Davis sets Up the SUI
pericr relationship Of citizens Of the Con-
federacy, shall be established in the free.
dom, rights and immunities of citizens of
the United Sta;es.-CIn. Gazette.
How A LOYAL FRESHMAN FoCGEr AND
all the many soul.stirring
incidents at the polls on Tuesday, We have
read OF none more impressive and glorious
than the following, described by the Prov.
idence Journal. An instance Of devotion
like this, on the part Of an adopted citizen
OF the country, 10 in itself a sufficient ans
wer to all the cowardice of . peace party,
and all the wretched assertions that this
war against traitors has been or viii be q
failure.
In Fall river there was very touching
case. Capt. James Brady, warm hearted
and loyal Irishman, commanding u COM
pany Of the Goth Massachusetts, reg .ment,
was recently wounded in the Shenandoah
Valley, and il now ut home in Fall River.
with one leg off and three ballsin ais body.