The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-27
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seems peculiarly to deserve that name. It
is the estre.ne bluff Of the Cumberland
Mountains Rising one thousand feet
above the ocean, it looked out upon the
''sonny plains" (aunny enough when we
were there) aud fertile 6elde Of the Su:ith.
Perhaps the knights Of the South may az :
claim, when looking upon Tho. Yankee
office. on Monte Sano, As Ro,1exick Dhu
sa;S 10 Fit1 jaines:
saxon, syCn yOnaes monniA;n high.
nafk tn&e send de itghted ego.
Wy to the srGtu and east where lay,
G8tendt1 Ia eeBiOn 9HJ,
Desp waving neiis aud pa&tcYAs green,
With gentle Opee aud grove. between;
Those fertile plains. that sosiened vale.
We're once the hirthr,gE. Of the Gael;
Toe stranger came with iS,n s.rn..,
Add from - fAlGeYb fetl t'e ltsDG.'
hande by ccutis cation: bu', practically, the
Northiuan will realize the picture. drawn
by Eoderick. Nispy an officer and soldier
have marked the iaDde they mean to take;
and II there be no other mode OF getting
them, the not very unpleasant way OF Ia
king With the incumbYance Of rebel maid
or widow, is open 70 them. These rebel
,uaids are dangerous in war, but in love
are abundantly loyal The South wanse
mind and enterprise. The North vii. give
them these fcy lands and maidsns. Few
persons will understand without going
into the social and political history Of the
Southern States. how much Of ;ts mind
and enterprise have already been fu.nlsh.
ed fYom the North, and bow largely the
New England States have ehared IN both
the guilt and the profits Of slavery. At the
time We were there, the Chief = nssioe. and,
We believe eeveral officers Of State were
Northern men. IN Huntsville q superior
fomalo academy wae carried on. By two
accomplished lsdjee of Connecticut. and In
Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. this
was generally the case. II Connecticut
sent tin pedlars 70 the South, she sent more
teachers; and they were generally Of q eu-
perioY class-not ct all Of the order John
Randolph described a. going there. RAN
about the close Of the last century, with
U-iah Tracy, sof Litchtield,) Senator from
Connecticut A drove OF mules was going
by, when Randolph, with bic usual bitter
meas, said: 'There, Tracy. are some Of
your constituentsi" "Yee," sale Tracy
.go,ao .Scat! 10 teach echool'" 1t il due to
the ,:lsoesnment Of Southern gentlemen to
sa3, that, though they bought good many
mules, ,hey much preferred Connecticut
~ say that they were not uug -aietll for
such preference. They lAboyed we'll bn the
south. and successfully. TO hying their
5eminaries ard iAstit utions. 70 a high degree
Of homo. and usefulness. Enn;ssllse. Au-
l. ,.sta. Savannah, Franklin, TeDn., and
many :owns of the South pointed o these
Te1uale Seminayies 40 the creates. orna-
mtn:s. And when the war began, many
!Ad1es OF Connecticut, New jersey and
other Northern S:ates, we're found teach
ing at the South, and had to IND theis way
home AZ thew sonld.
VIVA: demon must 10 the epiri: 81 Sla.
very, oSof Oligarchy, or Of State SoyeY1
eighty, Whatever Il may be calle5, which
Gould break ap all the beautiful harnoniel
cfieocietv-spur ,he milk Of human kind
nsss-make ruin Of schools, and OF
hearth e,ones, and replace verdure and
beauty with ashee and desoiatioDi But,
it ie done ! They would hsye conquest,
and il bae co3,o.
The stranger cnrne with IRON hnn1,
and iyoui our IL .he,e refs the Jana
Monte sano Gill raises ite head amidst O
lovely land, and in another generation all
that is ruined will give place TO whatever
ia beautiful in art and nature. II liz fine
passage Of Byron'a Childe Harold, wherein
describes the eternal beauty Of nature %
surviving and locking down upon the
ruins Of Greece. Bat our country is too
young to b. ruined. The bligh. OF the re-
". We have already to meet an enemy
quite as strong and fearful as any
spirit of var. The epirit of corruption
which proceeds from the sel6shness Of
trade and the ambition Of leaders and the
con flict Of parties-will, We sadly feaf,
teach as too eoOn that war is not the only
calamity Of nationA
It was in Jolly Of hot summer. when
Huntsville seeined quite as hot Ne com,n
sinners ought I'D bear, that We were 1nvi-
t..ti 10 visit Monte Bano. The gentry OF
Huntsville hid their summer cabins On
the mountains brow, and 1t vsscooled by
the gentle haze of the upper atmosphere.
Thew wore wiser than Northern people in
no inord;na;s display in o
merely rural residence. In fact, their cab
ina were cahins-pla;n, log-huil; houses. =
They were occupied by the first people of
Alahs ma, who probably lived the-e bat q
short time. in summer. From tho summit
we looksd of upon . wide extent OF fertile
country; most Of II was level plain, and
much war already white with cotton
Euntsvi,le lies la tho great bend of the
Tennesse<,. and eIcep: where the mDuo-
tain Ridge comes down, ia surrounded by
rich. level lands It wa then conpara-
lively small village butthars were veal
.hy planters there, soma Of whom removed
to Mississipp!. In riding shrouga the corn
lands below. and the FIELDS of grain, we
could sec the negroes lheld hanos perfect
" black) cnltivs'ing N piatoons. ~ ~
more than likely New England furnished
tho oyerseers. Ia an extensive plantation
this mode of culture is profitable, but only
in large estates. A distinguished planter
there told us shat cotton could be- raised at
thyee cents pcr pound. prime cost. He
thonpht the American cotton planter could
not he undersold, hnt DR.. Livingston shows
that cotton can b raised and sold In Lon
don nt ewo cents a pound For time
American cotton VIII retain it, supremacy.
INT tloa time win como when Africa Will
sseerf ia natural fights-when the reGen-
erstior Of her people give supremacy g her
natural products. and be. people s VII VIII Re. e,
turn to their native land that sney may NJ