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

10 such narrow proportions that should it
ever become a distinct Confederation ac-
cepted as such from WEAKNESS Of war, the
Contederacy thus created will not be born
with the functions of life. Neither Euro
pean recognition nor your avn could give
It a serious chance of duration. 1t would
END III return to you. But we delight to
believe the re-estab ablishment of the Union
less distant. And, in the presence Of that
prospect which thrills our hearts with JOY,
permit us, rs your friends, to offer YOU
some sincere advice. The dangers of vic
Tory, you are aware, are not less than those
OF the combat. We give you. therefore, our
loyal, frank olinoN, sure that in the Elain
II Wlll agree With your own, and feeling.
also, that these communications between
Us have an air more serious than Il simple
exchange OF words or sympathy.
We hold i to he Of the first Importance
| lhat tie cause OF The war shall not survive
the war that Your real foe Slavery. shall
not remain upon the field. We have often
asked ourselves these last three years, why
God permitted the prolongation OF this
| bloody struggle. Was il not that the real
issue might present itself with perfect
clearness. Conquering earlier, the Feder-
al Government would, perhaps, have been
Ieu 10 make concessions, 10 enter :.peW up
on the fatal path of compromise. To-day
AZ eyes, not willingly bind, see clearly
| The New York riot. breaking ou. at an
appointed day to aid the invasion Of Lee,
ana falling instantly upon the negro III Il
way To show to every witness Of its COW
ardly terocity what kind of spirit anima-
ted certain friends o. the South-the New
York riot was supreme warning 10 your
country. Your line Of action is clearly
traced. So long as anything of Slavery re-
man, there will be a cause of antagonisrn
in the bosom OF the Union. There must be
no longer any question OF Slavery. j;
must be 50 ordered and settled as never 10
return. An 09tend,ae3t 10 tAt ConStttst.on
TO this end must be proposed ana adopted
before the return of the States.
The condition of the free blacks must al
50 he secured against the iniquites which
they have SO long endured. No plans OF
colonization abroad. no more disabling
laws, no more Inequality. These whom
you have armed, who fought SO bravely
before The walls OF Port Hudson and Fort
Wagner, an never be other than citizens
Leave the problem OF the races 10 rs own
solution = the most natural solutions
are always the best. Under the ruie Of the
common haw, the free blacks OF the south
aud Of the North VIII find their Legitimate.
place IN your society. OF which they will
become useful members, honorable and
honored.
! In thus ordering IN & detintiye manner
race you viii have done more than is gem
eraily imagined tor the lasting paciiication
/ OF the South. What remains for yous 10 do
OF TINS point may be stated in three words
Moderation, Generosity. Liberty.
There can be no question, as you have
often said, of an occupation of the South, OF
conquest Of the South, of reducing the
Southern States to the condition of proyin-
ces where the conquerer will maintain his
garrlsons and the public life will be sus-
pended. Save in the districts yet ravaged
| by guerrillas and in the heart Of which the
Federal troops must finish their work. vic
tory viii everywhe bring with the re- es-
tablishment of the Mon, the re-establsh-
ment, as promptly as possible, OF Consti-
tutlonal rights. You hope, Gentlemen. that
those whom you conquer to-day will to-
morrow meet you in debate, and Won will
accept in all their truth the struggle o; the
press, of the legislative hall, aud Of the
ballot which will replace the strife Of the
battle e-field.
We all feel it is much better that YOU
should have to encounter difficulties fruit
fu OF liberty. than that you should seek
| for yourselves the deceitul advantages OF
a dlctatorlal regime. Toapply to the South
an exceptional rule would be, alas, quite
easy. 1t would be easy also TO pronounce
the death penalty. 20 outlaw, TO execute
confiscation bills; but in treading this path
OF vulgar tyranny you would sacrifice two
things-your high renown in the present, a
lasting union with the South in the future.
But if, on the other hand, you show the
world the novel spectacle Of victory with.
out reprisals. Of liberty strong enough ia
survive civil war; if your Constitution re-
main, and Slavery alone fall in such a con-
tiict; If on the morrow Of the struggle the
law remain supreme, if elections for the
Senate and House of Representative yes be
again open as IN old time, if the represen-
tatiyes of the Southern States re-appear al
Washington, if taking the oath to be faith
ful to the Union, and To support the modi-
fled Constitution, they find themselves on
a footing OF perfect equality with the repre-
sentatives of the North, if it be permitted
TO them to attack and to e1nbarrass the
Government, you will have won the mos,
glorious of victories, and assured to your
country the best chance CT prosperity and
greatness.
Accept, gentlemen, in the ADVICE we ten.
| Ger to you proof OF our esteem. II is not
Of every Government, it is not OF every
people that such things can be asked. Pro-
tracted civil wars tend to arbitrary GUS
toms, stir up passions and hates, aud a,
last engender Il development Of military
power and irresponsible authoity which
generally hinders a return to control. &c
free opinion and to the strict letter of the
law. We honor the United States enough
to believe that they will be capable of set
ting US this, too, after SO many other exam
pies.
u The moderation which we hope for from
you at home, we look for also from YOU
abroad. Assuredly on the morrow Of tn.
submission of the South there Will not b.
wanting a class Of persons eager to recall
to you wrongs, rca! or iancied, suffered al
the hands Of this or that power. They will
point 10 your armies and disposable fleets
They will prove to you that a foreign wal
is perhaps the surest way to draw together
the two sections so lately hostile. The,
will tell you that a common enm;ty. com
mon dangers. are the cement needed tt
strengthen yonr shattered cditice
You will not believe them, gentie,nen.-
You Will feel that after these jars, it is need
ful before all else TO restore TO Aneric:
peace and liberty. You will not seek new
adventures and thus lengthen the .empta
ton OF relationships the peril Of eS ception
al rule.
i You will fear q return to the aggressiy.
policy which with its iIyasions and turbu-
lence the influence Of the South forced upcl
you, the day when to assure The extension
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