The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-23

pean wars may arse out OF the ScnleSWlS-
r Holsten dispute; one between the Govern
? man people, and, secondly, one between
{ Germany and England and perhaps other
| Grand Powers. Both would seem to be al
: most inevitable.
A PICTURE DRAWN by A NEGRo.-We
have seen no more mastery picture of the
rebellion than the following passages from
the speech of Frederick Douglass, the COL
ored orator. to an audience in the Cooper
Institute, New York:
We are now wading deep in the third
year Of conflict with a fierce and sanguina-
ry rebellion, one which, ut the beginning of
1t, we were hopefully assured by one Of our
most sagacious and trusted political proph-
cts, would be ended in less than ninety
days; a rebellion which, in its worst fea-
lures, stands alone among rebelliOns sol
itary and CHASTITY horror, without parallel
III the history of any nation, ancient or
modern; rebellion inspired by no love of
liberty, and by no hatred of oppression, as
most other rebellions have been, and there
fore utterly indefensible upon any moral
or social grounds; rebellion which OPEN
~ and shamelessiy sets at difiance the
worlds judgment OF right and wrong, APP
peals from light to darkness, from intell-
gence to ignorance, from the ever-increas-
ing prospects and blessings of high and
glorious civilization, to the cold and wither-
ing blasts of q naked barbarism; a rebellion
which, even at this unfinished stage of it,
counts the number Of its slain not by thou
{ sands or tens Of thousands, but by hum
dreds Of thousands; n rebellion which in
the destruction OF human life and property
rivals the earthquake, the whirlwind and
the pestlence that walketh in darkness
and wasteth at MONDAY. IT has planted
agony at a million Of hcarthstoncs, and
thrOnged our streets with the weeds OF
mourning. filled our land with mere stumps
t1afp rid oil, vs1nJx
formed graves, and mantled il all over with
the shadow of death. A rebellion which,
while it has arrested the wheels of peace
fui industry, and checked the flow OF COM
+ inerce, has piled up q debt, heavier than a
mountain Of gold, 10 weigh down the necks
Of our children's children. There il no end
to the mischiefs wrought. 1t has brought
ruin at home and contempt abroad cooled
our friends, heated our enemies, and en-
dangered our existence as 4 nation.
Now, for what is all this desolation ruin,
shame. suffering and sorrow? Can any
; body want the answer? Can anybody be
ignorant of the answer? II has been given
a thousand times from this and other plat
: forms. We all know it is slavery. Less
, than half a million of Southern slavehOld-
/ ers-holding in bondage four millions of
slavesfinding themselves outvoted in the
effort to get possession of the United States
Government. in order to serve the interests
f Of slavery, have madlv resorted to the
sword-have undertaken 10 accomplish by
bullets what they failed - accomplish by
ballots. This is the answer.
Whence came the guilty ambition equal
to this atrOciOus crime. A peculiar educa-
ton was necessary to this bold wickedness.
: Here all is plain again. Slavery-the Pc
cnliar instituton-is aptly fitted to produce
Just such patriots. who first plunder and
then seek to destroy their country. A
; system which rewards labor with stripes
and chains!-which rObS the slave of his
manhood, and the master of all lust con-
t sideration for the rights of his feliew- man
: has prepared the characters male and
female-that figure in this rebelion-and
for all its cold -blooded and hellish atroci-
ties. In all the most horrid details Of tor
. t,lre, starvation and murder. in the treat
ment of our prisoners, behold the features
of the monster in whose presence was
born, and that is Slavery. From no source
less foul and wicked could such 2
rebellion come. / need not dwell
here. The country knows the story by
heart. But / am one Of those who think
this rebellion-inaugurated and carried on
for a cause so unspeakably guilty and dis
tinguished by barbarities which would ex-
tort a cry of shame from the painted saw
age--is quite enough for the whole life
time Of any nation-though that lifetime
should cover the space Of q thousand years.
We ought not to want repetition of it
nor can we wisely risk possible repeti-
ton Of it. Looking at the matter from no
higher ground than patriotism-setting
aside the high considerations of justice,
progress and civilization-the American
! people should resolve that this shall
be the last slaveholding rebellion that shall
ever curse this continent. Let the war
cost much or little-let it be long or short
the work now begun should suffer no
pause. no abatement, until 1t is done and
done forever.
The hour is one of hope MS we'll as danger.
But whatever may come to pass, one thing
is clear. The principles involved in the
contest, the necessities Of both sections of
the country, the obvious requirements Of
the age, and every suggestion of enlight-
ened policy demand the utter extirpation
of slavery from every foot Of American
soil, and the acknowledgment of the entire
colored population Of the country. Else
where we may find peace but It will be .
hollow and deceitful peace. Elsewhere We
silent prosperity. Elsewhere we may find
greatness and renown, but if these are bas-
| ed upon anything less substantial than
justice they will vanish, for righteousness
alone can permanently exalt q nation.
TROOPS GOING TO THE FIELD OUR
ARMY NOT DEPLETED.-The general i'm
preston that the furloughing of our vet
eran regiments which have re-enlisted for
the war is causing depletion Of the ranks
of our armies is confidently denied in off,
GidA YuhIVcISs Lie uunUcE OI recruits ana
veteran volunteers entering the service.
and now forward to the field, is understood
to equal IL not exceed that Of the soldiers
returning.
| II appears from the records in the United
States tluartermaster's Department in this
city that the number Of troops provided
with transportation to the various points
on the coast and in Virginia where our
armies are stationed, averages from three
to five thousand each week. One half Of
these 60 by rail and the other half by water.
They include the men enlisted in the east
ern part of this State and part of The volun-
teers ofNew England. AS the regiments
| returning compr Use only one to two
Of these organizations belonging to the dis
trict Of country above named must come
home each week to make the number Of
men leaving the army-assuming the ay-