The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07


The political conservatives Of the best
Government the sun shines upon arethreat-
enee with an urmitigated calamity. Hith-
erto secure in its exclusiveness and brown
stone fronts, yCrreaNdefGom, has gushe1
spontaneous floods of sympathy for the
mechanics, artisans and laboring classes
of the free States, whose substance, they
were shEdderingly informed, would be
eaten out and their labor cheapened, by the
mu.titudinous negro, setting northward
from The the tobacco plantations Of Vir-
ginia and Kentucky, and the cotton fields
OF Tennessee and Mississippi. TO conserve
the interests Of these unfortunate classes
OF white people, and defend them from the
invading foo. of the .ra,npipg fugitive, the
profound lawmakers, of various enlight.
ened States, hedged their imperiled consti-
tuencies round about with protective stat
utes, fo-bidding domic.le and domestica.
ton under penalty Of fine and imprison-
ment, to the gigantic Afrite, who had been
so long and securely bottled by Southern
statecraft, only 10 oe diabolically uncork-
ed and let loose through the meddlesorne
and malignant agency OF Abolitionism.
To the iimid, the visions of this black he
gira were more terrible than the coming
up of aocusts over the tat valleys of the
Nile, Or the swarming of the grasshoppers
oyer the plains OF Minnesota. Fair-skin.
| ned and blue-eyed maidens, apprehens;ve
I blackamoor, lett their modest retirement,
20 uphold in roaring and rowdyish Demo-
cratic professions, banners assuring the
world that they must. could, would and
! should have white husbands or none, and
pathe.ically appealing to their fathers and
| brothers 70 save them from the dreadful
consequences Of negro equality. But this
melancholy faulty has passed away; and
II touched with sense Of The ludic, Gus,
none, probably, are more heartily ashamed
OF the performance and the apprehensions
that prompted il, than the victims of this
swasny political iapdoodle. The mechan-
les and laborers, with their services in
greater demand than ever, and their wal
let's plethcric with Government green
backs, are now the first to sneer at such
vaticinations, and flout the politicar seer
| to their faces.
The danger that now threatens does not
concern that class of people dependent on
its labor for food. The wind sets in quite
another and unexpected quarter. A great
or than John the Baptist, making his way
out Of the Southern Wilderness, IS at hand,
and it will soon be question for the con-
servative aristocracy to decide, whether the
doors OF their gilded salons shall be shut in
the face Of one whom kings delight TO hon.
or and princes regard with admiration
Holding patent Of the highest nobility, a
king among kings in the dominions Of lit
erature, covered with decorations, mem
Der, actual or honorary, Of the most learn
ed and iuustrious societies the son of 9
General-in- Chief of the French Republic
in 1894 who was the intimate friend of
Hoche, Kleber and Moreau; who followed
i the First Consul of Egypt, and whose name
chisled on the Arc de Triomphe and faith
er Of the immortal author of La Dame aux
Camelias and La Dame aux Perles-Alex-
andre Dumas, the elder, has determined to
visit the new world, apd knock for admis-
sion at the very citadel Of our exclusive,
conservative, negro-abhorring aristocracy.
) 1t would be very simple matter to Ce-
eide upon his social entree, were Dumas
the elder descended from the same stock
as the Pilgrim Fathers, or the Huguenots
OF the Carolinas. There is not a mansion
q IN the land that would not esteem it an
honor to receive Charles Dickens, or Alfred
Iennyson, Lamartine, the poet, or De Gas.
par1n, the statesman, or Victor Hugo him
self not more ardent and stiff necked re-
publican than Dumas the elder. The snOb-
. Oery which would attend their going and
3 coming, the grand assaults that would be
made by the enthusiastic mob to catch q
glimpse of the passing author of Pick nick
0 fapers, or the Princess, or Les Miserables,
. me gossip OF the Obseq uious Jenkins, daily
chronicled in the newspapers, and eagerly
devoured by the curious public; the dinings
ana winnings, the banque.s, the orations,
8 we all know from what has happened in
the past, what would be very likely to oc-
: cur again. And now comes to our shores
man whom every one OF these notables
would willingly welcome at his own fire.
SIDE. and sit down with at his own ma.
hogany. Will he receive an co aally gen
erous welcome a. American hands and il
4 American homes?
) Dumas the elder is undou be.,.v OF Afri
can descent, though not an American ci.i
r zen. His mother was "a full bloodea ne
j. gress. Think of il, ye who have thrilled
and wept over the adventures Of the Conn
OF Monte Cristo, and followed with breath
less interest the fortunes Of the Three Mus
? keteers, is your adherence Of negro 81 ual
Is lty to be swallowed up in gush OF GdAni
- ration for this wizard of la Belle France
= 40 what shocks will the de-! nerves 0
sisnI and smell be subjected cnce yoa oper
. your doors to this Lion Of the Empire. d.
- - not imagine that you will look upon ,
y ceeuh,enance sicklied DER with the pale cas-
y OF thought, Off you dared on so muci
q Numerically with locks as golden fai
= as the cnrls that shaded tie sunnv fore