The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-27

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81 The oppoHents Of the sssbellion in the 60sth,
who have been for some silcnced by the .reig6
| Of terror are beginning tofind codrsge 70 tpeAk
again. The New Orleans True Delta, which Wig
ofoasly opposed secession until Louisiana vosed
ttAelf out Of the Union, but has since argued on
the rebel side, has begun again 70 express its
dissatisfaction with the course Of tSings.s IL
uses language now thas it would not have dared
use one month ago, and 1t dou6tless expresses
| the thoughts and feelings Of large portion OF
the people Of New Orleans and Loussiana. The
following paragraphs from q late number Of the
Delta show that they are getting glimpses Of the
true state Of things -" The people themselves
have, IN to this time, in spite Of the iguorance
and cupidity Of local, AMI the passiveness q
general authority done all that the greatest zeal
and Intelligence and lberality could accomplish,
but they cannot go on doing 80, while, too, they
see their substance daily lavishly wasted, and
their material resources squandered without
| any thing to show for it. If this State is TO be
taken q 4 sample Of the way things have
beve beei conducted, what do We see Z. "A
treasury, which few months ago was full to
repletion, now collapsed, great city compars-
lively defenselees, people full Of chivalrous
feeling discouraged, an ardent and jealous local
militia disappointed and disguised, and while all
this is notoriously SO, the imbecility which has
produced it is perpetualy taxing its ingenuity to
devise some new expedients, finding fresh pre-
texts for rewarding hangers-on Of disgfacefui an.
tecedents, or effete and useless appendages OF
the old militia system. We have incontr0vert-
bly, shown that the men who have managed to
get the country into the war have shown them
selves incapable of carrying it safely and honor.
ably through it, and so far since it's initation all
that has been done has sprung from the zeal, en-
thusiasn and generous liberality of the people !;
while in tl,is and other States much of the bur-
den and the performance, too, have been manly
assumed and borne by those who were uncon-
vinced of the propriety or wisdom of what has
been done At the very outset OF their proceed
ings, our readers will recollect how urgently we
pressed the provisional managers OF the revoiu'
tionary movement to make adequate exertions
to preserve the country, then committed to q
war of uncertain duration and enormous magni
tude from the possibility of disaster, defeat and
Disgrace, by at once making suitable provision
for placing an army in the field and sustaining
it there. We implored the body which, without
popular warrant has constituted itself the gov.
eminent, not only to be guilty of the dangerous
folly Of provoking bloody and ruthless war,
without making all the provision necessary to
conduct it with energy, intelligence and success.
They re-enactcd the Ubiquitous tariff system,
saddled the country with an army Of useless sti-
pendlarles, and sent three missionaries Upon 0o0t-
less Grand and aciM a rowing. con,nassson to Ea-
rope. Il it proposed to continue such men 10
power, or are the people to awake to the neces-
sity of finding the men for the cabinet and the
field who are capable of extricating them with
honor and success from the difficulties which
surround them? The men in possession of pow
er have, it will be seen, absolutely established,
by their own acts, their utter un6tness for the
places they have succeeded somehow or other
in reaching and at this very moment, when
the enemy occupies our territory and desecrates
the home of our brethren; when force of two
hundred thousand hostile bayonets are estab-
fishing themselves at vulnerable points on our
frontiers, they seem to be without any other
plan for repenishing the exchequer of the Con-
federate States than the eeemosynary scheme
of persuadng a few planters to promise to in
vest portion of their unsaleable crops in the
bonds they are issuing, without any real guaran-
ty of current interest or ultimate redemption."