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

equally traitor to the Republic? II it
remained loyal, it was evident that North
ern manufactures could better sustain
themselves, deprived Of Southern mar
ket, than could the South without their
producers. The south sDeered at the pos
sibility Of a blockade, but the north knew
that it was coming. Her people never con-
templated the consequences of then shut
ting out New England, and of oar shut
ting out all Europe. But they predicted
the establishment Of southern manufac-
lures as defiantly as they foreshadowed
the destruction of ours. Yet, in the face of
these insane predictions, from the first gun
OF Sumter to the present hour every lying
trlck That treason can devise has been put
| In practice to smuggle into the south the
products Of those Northern workshops
which were to haye been ndepopuIated three
/ years ago. Then they We're lofty and inn
perious. Now they are not only the beg
gars they sought to make Of us, but living
ones in addition. A perjury is cheap that
cnssion caps. No false swearing is too
black TO obtain an ounce of quinine. The
dearth of northern products compels the
southern women to remain at home or to
90 abroad in meaner stutts than are worn
/ by paupers IN Northern aims house.
| Every intercepted letter Of a southern wo-
man calls Tor clothing as a necessity, pins
and needles as blessings, and bonnets as
the greatest Of nercies
| AS these predictions have been falsitied.
so must be the hopes and expectations of
those who made them. 1t is evident that
1 the over Sanguine temperament OF the
South now feels discouragement propor-
| toned TO the extravaganza OF her anticipa-
uons. 1t IS the over sanguine who most
| quickly sink under reverses. But the de-
| iiant arrogance which so repelled the North
| Is having its legitimate reward. The scorn-
iul sneer at Yankee Abolitionists would
m a nj i,i IL,
We're not held out with imploring ell
ergy TO clutch at whatever Yankee indus
try may have 10 sell. The prejudice against
Yankee wares is gone. Intervention is a
iaiiure, Europe has had a scorching expert
ence Of the clOseness of the blockade and
rebel authorities declare that not one block
| ade runner has reached a Southern port in
| whole month. Hence foreign goods are
unattainable, and hence the increasing re-
turn to the old dependence on the North
len years ago, it was staple with the
slaveholding demagogue that free-trade
between the North and South the former at
the expense OF the latter. But for three
years there has been no such trade. and
where is the South? Not provided for by
Europe, not providing for herself, not pro-
vided for at all. During the whole Of this
nterregnum, her main dependence has
been upon clandestine supplies from u.s.
As time passed, she found all other depen.
dence futile, until now she leans wholly
upon US. ragged. pitiable but criminal
supplant for necessaries which nothing
but dishoneht intercourse can bring to her.
W hat commentary is this condition of
things upon the yet recent prophecies Of
her impetuous sneers! What lessons of
silence il should teach them for the future!
What stores Of wisdom il contains for the
multitudes who became their willing
dupes.-N. Y. Tribune.
The ECONFEDERACY A MILITARY DESPOr-
IsM.-Mr. Brown of Mississippi made a
speech i'll the Confederate Senate. one dav
last week, more bold and frank than anv-
thing previously spoken in that body. He
was advocating the most radical measures
| such as forced loan and general conscrip.
| ton. and, in the style of some of our he'll
ter-skelter politicians, he argued that the
Confederate government may violate it's
own Constitution 10 any extent in order to
save II; hence that i is no objection to any
/, proposed act Of legislation to say that it Is
unconstitutional. He gets at this conclu-
sion by viciously confusing military with
civil authority, and making the maxim
"Iater drmo silent le9eS'' to mean that all
constitutions and laws may he set aside in
time Of war by the civil at well as the mil
ltary arm OF the government. But Mr..
Brown goes further before he concludes his
speech, and advocates . military despot-
ism for the Confederacy while the war
lasts. And indeed the government at Rich
mona might as we'll be that in name since
! it has become so in fact.
| The rebel leaders have great confidence
III the subDlissiveneSS Of the Southern peO.
| pie, or they would not venture upon such
arbitrary acts as they are now attempting.
| No government ever attempted bOlder
| assault upon the rights Of its citizens and
| its own plighted faith than the act which
| has passed the rebel Senate, and will
doubtless be accepted by the House. to
hold Till the end OF the war all the soldiers
| now in the rebel armies, without regard
to their terms Of enlistment. Ii the rebel
soldiers had not already been reduced to
| state Of subjectiOn not far removed
from absolute slavery, there would be 4
general and successful mutiny against so
gross an outrage as this. The Injustice is
50 palpable that the only defense made of
the act is its necessity. 1t is "a military
necessity. Doubtless it is, but what a pre-
cious confession is this for the rebel leaders
to make; their people will no longer fight
lor independence and slavery voluntarily.
or upon any available inducement. and 81
tney must hight upon cOmpulsion. Equally
significant is the proposition to raise .the
sinews Of war hy forced loan; to rob the
people OF the money which they will nei.
iher give nor loan TO the Confederate gov
eminent, because OF their lack OF faith in
is success. how great is the contrast in
both respects with our own government.
whose credit IS uninpaired and investment
IN It's deot eagerly sought, while TIE veter-
ans who nave won SO many battles are
freely re-enlisting for the war, and coming
nome on furloughs for rest and rt,,reation
before the great and final contests of the
Spring campaign. How many Of the rebel
veterans Wonld ever appear again if they
should be allowed to visit their homes?
not one IN ten. This is now the difference
between the armies Of the Union and those
o1 the Southern despotism-the latter are
conscrlpts. unwiilingly held; the former
or all OF them OF any real value, are volun-
teers: and henceforth the government will
rely upon the patriotism of the people to
Keep the ranks good, and may do so with
perfect confidence, while the rebel armies
grow constantly less from desertions and
resistance to compulsory service.-prang-
feM Republican.
An. eminen. physician, speaking of
our chairs, remarks that they are too high,
and too nearly horizontal. We slide for
ward, and our spines ache. The seat should
be fifteen or sixteen inches high in front