The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-03

i COMMERCIAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH on
YANKEE FOES, AND THE RICHMOND Sci
TINEL.-Our readers will remember that
tract from an article of the Richmond Ser
tinel upon the subject Of peace. This ps
per, the reputsd organ Of the Administrs
ton, threw out propositions for q reunion
Of the Confederate States, leaving out Nev
England, and usurpation Of power owe
the institution Of slavery in the adjustmen
4 Of terms Of peace with the United States
This article = folloxed ny anothsf on II
publish at length for the perusal of oul
readers. It contains . very shallow apol'
i qgy for European nations, in not recogniz
ing the independence of the Confederate
States, ian Independence which stands
recognised in the countries Of GreatBritaiE
and Fr9nce more than eighty years ago,
construction of our former commercial
union with the United States.
When South Carolina seeded from the
United States she invited her sister States
of the South to form with her - slave
holding COnfederacy." Bitter experience
had proved that slaveh0lding and nom
slaveholding States could not live in har-
Great Britain, France, and Holland, had
sacrificed their slaveholding colonies, while
under the Government of the United States
perpetual strife had proved perpetual ire
cOncilability. The Constitution of the
United States established union between
the slaveholding and non-slaveholding
States, in two great vital particulars-union
foreign nations. The latter was for defense,
and produced, in but one instance (the war
Of 1872 any dissatisfaction amongst the
States. It was the former union in COM
merce which finally drove us from the
Northern States. It was this which pro-
duced the contentious about protective
tarlns, internal improvements, and banks.
1t was because free and unrestricted trade
existed among the States that the manu-
facturers OF the North endeavored, by pro.
hibltory duties on foreign importatiOns, to
monopOlize the markets Of the South for
their manufactured commodities. It was
our "union in commerce - which induced
usurpations over internal improvements to
facilitate and carry it on and for the same
purpose United States banks were estab.
lished. 1t was "uniOn in commerce"
which introduced the locust hordes Of Yam
KEGS into every city, town, and hamlet in
the South, and brought them in contact
with our slaves, and raised up that spirit
OF intermeddling and assumption which
eliminated in Abolitionism. It is . union
in commerce" which has produced the war
now waged against rs. The Yankees want
our markets-Our trade-our subordination
to their commercial greed end enterprise.
Give them this, and they have got all they
have desolated our country, and murdered
our people to obtain. Give them this, and
our peace and independence 10 . sham.
We will have few years Of hypocritical
difference and forbearance; and then, with
more assumed power, and a deeper hate,
our doomed posterity must fight over
again the great battle of independence and
liberty.
The Sentinel argues that ~ We might,
with safety, give peculiar commercial ad-
vaDtages to other foreign nations, we might
grant them also to our Yankee foes. Not
30. Commercial privileges to the Europe
an nations may be only carrying out the
natural order Of things. They may give
US the. cheapest MANUFACTURED productions
advantages bestowed on our Yankee neigh
bors, with tl,eir dearer commodities, will
only be Antagonism with interest. Besides
European nations are 1900 miles apart
from us, and will not be disposed to inter-
fere with our institutions. Not 50 the prag.
NAUTICAL, unscrupulous Yankees. They are
on our borders, and there can be no peace
which gives them peculiar intimacy and
advantages. Nor haye European nations
passed through our country, ike our Yam
kee foes, and left corpse in every house.
There il but one way to be at peace with
this false and bloody race. They must be
kept at the utmost distance the laws of ma
tons will allow. But we are opposed 70
any peculiar commercial advantages being
granted to any nation of the world. All
the nations Of Europe have 50 acted toward
us N to make it our policy-a policy reQui-
red alike by our dignity and our interests
to be utterly independent Of them all.
Peace with all, and entangling alliances
with none," was the course Gen. WASH
ington prescribed for the United States.
when they commenced their career among
the nations of the world. The wisdom Of
this great man now blazons the path we of
the Confederate States ought to pursue
Charleston Mercury. Aug. 18th.
TIE LAST ACT IN TIE TRAGEDY OF THE
POLISH REBELL1oN.-The Car Of Russia,
having crushed out the Polish rebellion and
the Revolutionary Government about Z
year ago, is now engaged in the work of
hanging the leaders of the revolt. It will
be remembered that while that great re-
bellion was In actual progress, it main
tanned profound secresy as to who were its
leaders, and 40 to its means and agencies of
operation. The !" Revolutionary Commit
mittee," or National Government" was
secret affair-secret as toits members and
as to its plans, while it's edicts were issued
in secret and executed secretly by mystic
rious agents. It issued orders for the as
sassination of obnoxious persons, and vast
numbers were suddenly and unexpectedly
slain by they knew not whom. Some of its
active military chiefs were of course known
but both in field and cabinet it tried to
wrap itself in mystery. 1t assumed for q
time very formidable proportions, and had
It got the assistance tnat was promised from
England and France, it might have achie-
we'd SUCCESS. But the immense armios of