The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-25
Tne Fallacies Of The NortA.

our Struggle vas 10 1OnSoA ~. a0u0k,eAN
ence, bn. TO pYotrsct, for q brief space, an
existence which seemed to be menaced
with destruction, and to avert the lmpend.
ing vengeance Of the conquering NORTH
He could not, therefore, understand the
universal determination of our people to
enter into no terms of accommodation
which did not involve the recognition of
Southern independence ~ q precedent con-
diticn. He imagined that after four years
Of bloody and cruel war, waged by us IN
defense Of ourseparate existence, we would
greet 40 q boon what We had sought % es-
cape from ~ curse; that the object tor
which we were fighting was 70 get back
into the Union, on easy terms, fearing, In
deed, that we might never Ge suffered to
erahle severity and hardship. The logical
result Of all which would be. that whereas
the Yankees commenced tho war IN order
to force the South back into the Union, and
the South resisted In order TO msintain the
Independence which she had asserted, now
on the contrary the South was Struggling
TO restore the Union, and the North-or ct
leesf = norton OF the North-to prevent &
reconstruction. With q view Of Yeconciling
q little misconception, which he considered
to prevail among IN, and to convince us
that the North and the Northern Govern
ment would really consent to recOnstzuc-
ton, Mr.. Blair came to Richmond.
With his opinions 1t that time, it was no
FOOLS errand. He only found it to be q
his astonishment, that the very thing we
did not want was the very thing he had
come to oder. It 10 understood that while
Mr.. Blair was In this city, he declared ni,a-.
self really unable TO account for the i,ste.as.tv
If the GntGgo1isns, amounting to positive hG-
tired, which he found TO prevail among OR
people. He did not know any thing Of the
srh oil No, h
hss prosecuted the war, Of the ruin and
desoiatlon which had, Ike twin demons,
attended the march Of Linco!n's armies; CT
the. thousand nalneless atrocities which his
soldiers had committed in the name OF the
s'sacred' Union. OF these things be was
totally ignorant; and he thought il woald
be an easy matter to soften The hearts Of
the Southern people toward the enemy VINO
had done nothing more than blockade their
ports. invade their territory, anG erdesyor
10 s:a-ve them into submission 70 gov
ercmen: which they had repu0is.e6. AL
me PCS. was TO be forgotten, even the lnem-
CRY OF the hundred thousand heroes whose
graves dot the surface of the Lane, and all
lhe future was to be one perenn Jubilee
over the triumph go fortunately gained OF
the one side and the wrongs 60 happily ior-
given on the other. When Mr.. 8lair lei.
Richmond, be was persuaded, j. % SAID,
that what he considered the TEN porery hal
lucination Of the South might 90 dispelled
by conciliatory policy on Lincoln's part.
accept so benign IN offer would puf her
conspicuously in the wrong, and deprive
the ro-called peace men Of the North OF
their sole pretext for opposing the deter
mined war policy Of the Washington Adj
miuistration. This, AFTER ali, 40 We Esye
more than once declared, was the object
ained at by Lincoln end Seward in The
~. 81 ~1vnsa
They know that the population Of the
Noyth-politicians, editors and duct,le
nob-shared the delusion which posses-
sed Blair and Singleton, and the Kirkee
and JaQuessee, who ct various timee have
undertaken the business Of bringing this
cbdurate Confederacy to terms. They
knew it was supposed that nothing was
wanting 70 put an end to the wax but .
simple o11er OF amnesty to the rebellous
S.Ates; and that this very delusion had
weakened the zeal Of the Northern people
for the prosecution Of the war precisely to
the extent that an early peace was mag
iped TO b attainable. The dominion
which this hallucination had obtained
over The Northern mind 10 testified by the
hard-not peace such as s0me credulous
people here believe might be made-but q
peace resulting, in the opinion Of some,
IRON q kind Of indrscribab1e reconstruct
ton, and Of others, from the unqualified
submission Of the Confederate States
Hence the .hitter bitter disappointment"
with which the news Of the result Of the
Fortress Monroe conference was received
IN New York and hence, likewise, the
expressions Of rage and amortization,
mingled with those Of unQuestionable de-
spondency' which come 70 us from al
parts Of the North.
TIE ..pe0ee'' men snd themselves forced to
s4cex,n6 to THIS pcpntar tide. They can no
LONGER pretend that negotiation might ~
store tho Union, Just - peace men here can
no longer contend that negotiation At this
time might secure our Independence. For
nando Wood. thanks to Lincoln for the
honest EFFORT he has made 10 stop the war,
declares that the peace party viii now join
hands with their political adversarsee an
tafen Mr.. Fernando and his friends four
years TO discover thas the South meant
what abe said when she went out OF the
Union. and that there was something more
than that sound and fury which signify
cothing. in the thunder Of the gune Of Ma
nassss and Fredericksbufg, Malvern ELL
and the Wilderness. Tho Baltimore Aaaey.
lean, true 70 the bloody instincts Of i;s par
", and faithful TO tho preconcsr;ed pro.
Eramme, now calls loudly for the ex;ermi-
nation Of the whole people Of the South
Not . universal c0ntiscation, not the ban
lshment Of some, and the execution Of 9TH
.ers, viii fill the measure OF adequate re.
venge. Nothing shor. oftotA annihilatlon
viii b Z sufficient punishment for the per-
sistent wickedness Of the South. "She has
refused 70 bow down before the tootstool Of
Lincoln she has rejected the Yankee ~ .
master; aho has ridiculed the old Nag; she
viii not suffer her lands TO be occupied By
the New Highlander, and her homes to Do
p0sseesed BY the Pennsylvanian; abe viii