The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-04-27
The Immediate Seat of War and the
General Field.

Washington is safe. Fourteen thousand
troops, with large proportion Of artillery, are
now there to defend it, and ten thousand more
are within twenty four hours of the city by land
and sea- Our Geographic and railway communi-
cations between the northern border of Mary
land and Baltimore being cut off, our chances of
news are reduced to the lucky passenger or cour
Ter who has succeeded or may succeed in ran
ming the gauntlet of the rebels Terrorism
reirns in Baltimore, and its insurgents threaten
an assault upon Fort McHenry; but as the fort
is within easy range, and as its black muzzed
bull dogs have poked out their ugly noses to
look upon the town, the besiegers, we think, VIII
keen their distance. Better still, the garrison
has been reinforced, and the fort may therefore
be considered secure. Thousands of men, of
all arms, are pouring down by the Harrisburg
road for the occupation of that line to Baltimore
The bay route for steam vessels from Havre
de Grace to Annapolis, cannot be disturbed, and
from Annapolis to Washington the railway, we
doubt not, is under the protection of sufficient
military force to keep it open. Maryland is
still in the Union, and within "A very few days,
from the presence of an overpowering force in
side of her borders and on every side of her
disorderiy commercial capital, we hope for a
reaction against the miserable mob of ruttans
which have usurped the control. of the State
She must stand by the Union as good child, or
sbe will be soundly thrashed into submission as
bad one, This is as true as that the sun will
rise to morrow morning; aud we spprehend that
this alternative OF repentance or terrible Mi
-"'.- ... apply to all the seeded States
Virginia, next to Maryland will be subjected 70
| this test She has seeded, and hence she VIA
| probably risk the breaking Of every lone IN ner
| body. If so, we fear that every bone IN her
| body will be broken, including her back bone OIL
| slavery. Twelve hundred men are in Fortress
| Monroe. which commands the passage to Nor.
| folk and Richmond. At her Richmond foun'
| dries some Of the seavy cannon which lombard
| ed Fort Sumter we're cast. Those foundres are
| in danger. The Government Is bound to look
| after them, aud in ten days one hundred thou
| eand Union men can be mustered to look into
them. There will, we suspect, be fearful sha
king among the dry bones of old Virginia be
| fore the FIRST frost. In waking up to rebellion
she will surely be ''shaken as a fg tree BY an IN
| timely wind"
| South Carolina, excepting a blockade, will b
allowed little rest after her late arduous Ia
bors The "Confederate State" troops in from
| at Fort Pickens will most likely be reduced t,
| alligator beef before they gain victory in tina
ouarter, The piratical steamer bobbing in ant
ont of che Mississippi river is hardly worth In
suriny. We predict the re-occupation Of Texa
by the United States troops within short time
and the possible descent of . Western fotill
down tie Mississippi may require all the revolt
tionists Of Mississippi and Louisiana TO proven
the re-occupatiou of the United States Mint .
New Orleans by its rightful owners