The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-16

1861. You have learned but too quickly
to face death aud to kill, and what yol
have learned you will not nnlearn. You
| Will not return to your former situation.
But while We 60 not expect again 10 sec
your effective force at ten thousand men
we do hope that effective forces which
are now Numbered by hundreds Of thou
sands VIII no. long be witnessed ca Anne
rican sol.
Courage You have before you one O.
the most noble works. the most sublime
which can be accomplished here below-a
work in the success of which we are as in
terested as yourselves-a work the success
OF which will be the honor and The conso-
lation Of our time.
This generation viii have seen nothing
more grand than the Abolition of Slavery
| IN destroying ii with you, you destroy it
everyw here, ana the energetic uprising OF
a people which in the mids. OF lis growing
prosperit. was visibiy sinking under the
weight Of the tyranny Of the South. the
coinp!lcity of the North, odioas laws and
compromises.
Now, AT the COS. OF Immense sacrifices.
yon have stood mp against the evil; you
have chosen rather 70 pour out your blood
and your dollars titan 10 descend farther
the slope Of degradatlon, where rich. UNI
Il
which is Tar noble- than wealth or uuion,
/ or power.
Well hurop" begins to understand,
willingly or unwillingiy, what you have
done. In France, in England, everywhere
your cause gains ground, and be il said for
the nonor OF the nineteenth century. the
obstacle which our ll-wiii and our evil
passions could not overcome, the obstacle
which the intrigues Of the South could not
surinouNt IS an IDEA. q principle. Hatred
oi slavery las been Your champion in the
Old World. a poor champion seemingly
laughed "a, scorned, i. seems weak and
onely. But what matters il. ere the ne.
count ne closed principles viii stand for
lsometh.ng, and conscience, ii all human
alta lrs, will have the last word.
This, Gentlemen j. what we would s.y
II ven in the name OF all who with lis, and
better than ourselves. defend vonr cause
III Europe. Your words have chenred us
may our II turn cheer You! You have
We. - eruss many = dark valley. More
than once the imposSi bllty ot success will
be demonstrated 10 you; more than once
IN me face OF some military check or polit-
ioai difficulty, the cry viii be raised that
all IS lost. What matter Il TO yCuP-
Strengthen your cause daily Inv daily max
inc IL more just and tear not: there j. q
Sod above.
We love to contemplate in hope the no.
Bile future which seems 10 stretch itsel
defore you. The day you emerge at las
from the anguish OF civil war. and yov
will surely come out freed rom the odous
Institution which corrupted your public
manners, and degraded your domestic as
! well as your foreign policy, that day youl
whole country, South as well North
, and the South perhaps more fully than tho
North, viii enter upon wholly new pros
perlty European emigration will haster
towards your ports, and will learn tht
road to those whom until now il has feared
; toapproach. Cultivation, now abandoned
will renew its yield. L!berty-for these
are Eer miracles-will veVivify by hel
touch the soil which Slavery had rendered
barren.
| Then there will be born unto you
greatness nobler and more stable than tn,
old, for in this greatness there viii be n,
sacrifice of Justice.
, AGENOR De GASPARIN,
, AUGUSTIN COCHIN,
EDOUARD LABOuLAYF, Member 0
the institute Of France
HENRI MARTIN.
Paris. October. 81, 1869
speech of Cen. CAN'T, of Ark.
On the evening Of the It'll inst, Genera
, CAN'T, Of Arkansas, addressed the peop
of Cincinnati. The following is brief out
, line of his speech:
LADIES AND FELLOW cITlzENs- regre
my inability to adress you on this occasion
to the length to which l would like to.
regret that my duties in trying TO impress
upon the people of Arkansas their dutie
to the great Government. prevent me from
: speaking to the people Of the North as
would like to.
have been engaged, as you know, in al
dressing the people and soldiers Of tn
South. ! desired that my appeals M gh
reach the hearts of my fellow citizens
And | know that my words did reach sol
diers in Mr.. Prices 1--WE call him Mr.. Pric
i'll Arkansas) army, and had their effec.
,, , They reached too, beyond Mr.. Prices ar
my, and have had many letters from Un
. ion men ameng the rebels, assuring ~
that my words had brought 10 them
!, bright ray Of hope III the future, and ha;
nerved them with comfort and courage. :
And they call upon me, on every hand t
pursue the course ] have started in. An,
t ! shall pursue it, my friends. Applause.
, In writing my letter to the people of Ar
kansas, ! gave great ofyense to the leader
: of the rebellion; and it could not have beel
t otherwise. ! struggled hard not to writ
2 that letter, for am Southern man. Blu
4 ] saw that the rebellion was only u strug
0 gle to extend and perpetuate negro oslavery
g ! saw my people, whom ] love so well
j groaning beneath the despotism of JET
: Davis and his minions, and / could not b
: silent. ] desired to retire from tho strug
gle and seek some corner where coul,
4 live in peace, unobserved. But with thes
i facts before ME, how could but speak,
Q Then, when spoke, through that letter
e there was raised against me, by the copper
! heads OF the North, a cry that ! did it Wit
I Il view to office. But told them, as no,
! tell you, that would not accept any otfic
!. or cmolument which it is in the powe. 3
r the people or their President 10 give.
r wanted only to see peace restored to IN
Y people. / would that God would blast al
: deinugogues, and place true men in office.
0 III the first days of this Government
when the ship of State started out on it
= voyage, our Fathers had ever before then
: a warning that it might be wreckedon tn
a rock Of slavery. 1t has been to the peopl
v of the South the root of all their cvils--thi
: slayery-asubject Of continual commotion
: In 1880 when the people were so agitate'
on the subject, did all in my power to al
Q lay the excitement. ! called upon them t
: bear in mind that the Constitution CAV
n thela sufficient guarantees for the safety 0
n slavery lut they wanted new and add