The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-04

Vines Of commodities, defeat the plans OF
"a shrewdest tinanciers to restore the Gre.
All Of the rebel Government, derange all
the fine schemes OF Secretary of the Treas
sry Trenholm, and send gold skyward
Sith the velocity Of a rocket.
e Here is an element in monetary Affairs
nfirelv unlocked for. One way and an.
1her. the negro has given us9An infinite
mi Of trouble. He Is as uneasy ~ Ban.
snc's phost. Bury him, though in his
srrave. and pronounce him, dead, and he
Hses iresh as John Barleycorn, and elastic
= Truth; and each time more portentious,
eor.midsble and obtrusive. Churches can
IA exOrciee him; courts can not rule him
nnt. He underscOree with his black finger
~ most significant sentences Of political
sistf0rme; be thunders from the pulpit
xsafe from the rostrum, and presides over
~ deliberations Of Congress-, more con.
0icuous than the statue of Liberty over
~ dome Of the Capitol. The penetralia Of
social life 10 not secure from his intrusions.
nc laborer sees his gigantic shadow
thwart the path Of his daily toll. and fair
hrethers to defend them from the contain
ination Of lusty blsckamoors. The foot.
nrints Of the bewildering and bewildered
contraband are upon the soil Of every State
h the Union, and the tramp Of his shuck-
ine shoes is heard along every cross road
ftcm the Ohio 70 the Northern lakes.
hut Wall street has hitherto been as safe
from his intrusive presence a. Democratic
county convention. Here and there an
American citizen of African descent, with
an eye to oysters, has opened the biyalves
% some purpose, and died passing rich.--
Bootblacks and BARRIERS have been said to
shave and shine themselves into possess
aions. But none ofthem have been known
hitherto to deal professionally i'm notes they
0uld not extract from banjo, or dabble
IN stocks not familiar in the slave pens Of
/ Richmond or Charleston. But Wall street
. 40 longer safe. Ethiopia stretches out
he. arm to grasp the money bags, and the
expa;riated citizens Of Dahomey take hnld
efthe horns Of the altar in the s0Hctxna
senetorGm Of the money changers. The
migrating capitalists, who have success
hlly builed the Richmond market, will
pgesentiy bear the gold room Of New York.
nother's son Of them, and believe in the
mr. for the Union. That is Why they In
Aated gold 1t Richmond, and that il why
tAey VIII prick the swollen bubble with
tAespeaf Of lthuriel, once they have plant.
q their pleth0ric purses among the gam.
Mers Of Wall street. The white bulls at
0allagher's viii take TO their horns in
vain when these Black Bears hug them in
fatal embrace. The grizzly Spectators
Of that famous locality had better stand
nom under. The Black Bearsare coming.
They have packed their movables, realized
"a their investment in Tfenholm's paper
pgomises, and are escaping 70 the federal
hnes by fifsies and hundreds. They ars
not the first bondmen who have borrowed
teir master's ornaments Of gold and ell.
Yer before making their exodus. The
Children Of Israel pFacticed that financial
operation very successfully on the Egyp-
tans several centuries ago, and have main
tanned their reputation % ehrewd imam
.eiess ever since. The parallel may have Q
1gni6cant continuation when the soOty
capitalists Of Richmond appear among the
9erators Of New York, Look ont for the
HACK Bears !-Cin. Com.
TIE LAST BULL FROM RoMB.-The
1T papal bull is the most astonishing doc
ument Of the kind ever issued. II is de-
Hherate attempt to turn back the current
0hu1nan progress and civilization, and to
rtstore the middle ages. In this country
itsawakens little interest, even among
Caho!ics, because we consider freedom Of
thought and worship and popular institu-
Tins so much matters Of course that there
Whoever calls them in question, or seeks
tetubveyt them, we set down at once AS
Gy or insane. II Is next to impossible
lHetore, for us to appreciate the intense
nefest excited among the European ma.
gtkns By the bull Of Plus TX. In order to
|e|(et eome idea Of it, we should recollect
ut The large majority Of all the people
OtA6lic church, and believed that the
lupe has-supreme authority, not only in
almat.ers Of religion, but in all tempo
q Affairs which he chooses TO control.
10 stAnds to them in the place Of God,
md they. know Of NO way Of arriving at
ruth and duty but through him. He il
1Allible; he can no more err than the
petty himself, and what he commands
auH therefore be absolutely right, no mat
3how painfully il conflicts with all the
eochings Of reason and experience. The
eau has thrown the liberal Catholics Of
rance, where Catholics are more free than
many other country besides the Cuited
satts, into the most pitiahle CONSERVATION.
Itrives them TO the necessity Of breaking
agether with the church and putting
1enselves under the terrible ban Of the
~, or Of publicly degrading themselves
seTe the world, repudiating all the ideas
aberty and progress in which they have
olthred the hope Of the race 20 rest, and
esming the implicit subjects Of faith
violated alike by the head and heart Of
hsimmediate occasion of this. extraor-
sy demonstration Of the Pope Is the de-
Il s--9aseaOe4SSN vs. AN0 kV4SOAA W sWlAuOx0W 0yS
inps from Rome and remand the Papal
SgeEnment to the Judgment and protec-
SSaof its own people. According to the
S1b papers the bull was surprise to Ma
1oeo1. He thought the Pope would see
y e necessity Of yielding 70 the logic Of
usan and OF abandoning all claim to tenn.
?onl power except such as he could main
Mn 81 the consent Of the people Of his
eNa6tates. Instead Of this the Pope has
~. as backward and dug. up all the old
sSLns Of the papacy. and arfcgantly in-
so on their restoration. What he boldly
oaads 10 that all kings aud rulers shall
=, wledge him - their supreme head In
4as we'll 20 religious matters, and en-
ats commands; that they shall sup.l
needom Of speech and the press, and
.a heretics with the pains and penal |
Prescribed by tho church. He de-
1Ss - damnahle heresies the doctrine |
~ liberty Of conscience and worship, |
~ right of'ths people to construct their
Ssfovernment, Of the education OF the
~ outside Of the church, OF the validi.
@narriage outside Of the church. In
me Pope claims the right to control |