The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-04-20
BURLINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 90, 1861
Nr. PLrAsANr. April Is. b,p, M

Nr. PLEASANT, April l5, bp. m.
Ed. HAwK-EYE: :-Immensc excitement pre-
vailing here. Upon the reception Of the news,
this morning, of the taking Of Sumter, the stars
and stripes were unfuried At the College, the
Public School, across the principal streets, md
from number of business houses. At 8 O'Clock
an impromptu meeting assembled in the Public
Square. s. Mcfarland presided, and upon ia
king the stand made few remarks. Tho meet
ing was then addressed by, II. 9. Dean, Colonel
Saunders, Mitchell and Brooks (studentsl Col.
Elliott, Col. ]. n. Randolph, Dr.. Scott, and L.
G. Palmer. They all said that the Union must
be preserved, the Constitution obeyed and the
laws executed. Some of the speakers were
Douglas and Bell men at the last election and
deplored the war, but said that the Administra-
ton must be sustained. DR.. Scott and Randolph
we're virginians by birth and still loved their
native State, but said that now there was but
one side and that was the Government Col.
Randolph was IS years old--would go az prl-
vate or commander to put down rebellion.
just as the meeting was about to close, your
evening extra was received and the Presidents
Proclamation was read amid enthusiastic ap-
plause, throwing of hats, yelling, &c.
The College students turned out en- n,asse. The
meeting was one of the largest have ever seen
assembled in the Square as a citizens meeting.
The following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
r Resolved, That we, the citizens of Mount
Pleasant, will sustain the President in preserving
the Union by enforcing the laws, and that
Mount Pleasant is ready to furnish men and
bayonets for this purpose.
LArER-s o'clock p. m.-The Greys were out
at their drill room to night and received about
80 volunteers. There is but one feeling here,
and that is for sustaining the laws. We are
with Bolts of Virginia: Grape for the rebel
ranks and hemp for the leaders. N.
cT The following bears out our statement
made few days since respecting Mr. Gregory
and his motion in the British House of Com
mons. We should have been glad not to have
had our first paragraph verified. The matter is
of little consequence, however:
The English correspondent of The Commercial
advertiser ("Spectator'o says:
"On the reassembling of Parliament after the
Easter recess, Mr.. Gregory, the member for Gal
way. and formerly member for Dublin, proposes
to raise the question of the desrableness of
prompt recognition of the seeded slave states.
1t will be interesting to observe how far he may
be supported by his Irish colleagues; but unless
they back him he is likely to stand alone."
HARD FARE OF EAST TENNESSEE SEcEssIoNIsrs.
East Tennessee is evidently no place for Seces.
sionists, whether the following letter from Knox.
vile to the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser is to
be believed or not:
Here we have had the very devil to fight. We
had to fight him in every form, and in every
attitude Many of our number have
been burnt, and hung, and kicked in efigy. We
have been branded and treated as traitors-in
some instances our orators forbidden to speak,
and not unfrequently pelted withrotten eggs In
one locality in this region, women, mounted on
an OK wagon, and driving the team themselves,
carried the efigy of one of our most talented
Lawyers, and hung him up to the limb of tree
in the woods! At the same time and place
they hung another clever gentleman, cut him
down, and then kicked him higher than kite.
eY-It is said that an organization exists for
running off slaves in the first place, and betray-
ing them in the next. 1t consists of ex.polce.
men ond Others, has its seat in St. Louis and was
the means of returning the Harris family to
bondage after receiving $3.50 for aiding their
escane