The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-31
BURLINGTON, sATURDA Z, AUGUST 81. 1stt 1st

III " Conventlone-Trsaeen ougar Cease1
i Saturday Last the Democratic party of Del
Hoines County held County mars meeting /,
Darlington, and resolved numetouily as d evi
/ 4. int from yesterdays Haxt-Eye. We did no,
attend, and never saw the resolutions until they
Appeared in our paper. The secrstLry Of ths
meeting took two days u report the proceed
ings, and We did not get them until Monday, and
dsd not then read them because We had taken /
ffiend's word that they we're loyal and patriotic,
which they are not 70 be sure the, persons
Who managed that Convention have been ii me
habit Of denouncing the war, and some Of them
have spoken Of our volunteers IS amurderefs
add assassins,n but have been very guarded
IN their resolutions from several prudential mo.
tives, the chief Of which il the salutary re-
bdte administered in the magnificent reception
# the Iowa First Regiment, which rather csr csr !
ried them or their feet and taught them that
The PRESENTS not ! good time for the utterance
Of reasonable sympathy with rebellion. - =
These resolutions, taken as whole, are = !
shade fatter and two or three shades more in
sipid and nonsepslcal than the average Of Des
Hoines County Democratic resolutions. They
arc milk and water, neither hot nor cold, neither
fatty reasonable, nor jet loyal, Here and there
tho Union is gingerly lauded, but only just sufR-
cientIy 70 cover up the desire Of the writer that
II may be overthrow BY the rebellion. TIE
resolution maker washes his hands Of all guilt
Of bringing 1.-The war, yet he, with the party
with which he acts, elected James Buchanan!
The writer OF these resolutions and the men
who procured their passage, for the people had
nothing to do with it, are about as much out c
ragged by Mr.. Lincoln's illegal acts as JeE Davis
and his rebels, who ptate all the time about the
Presidents violations Of the Constitution in his
efforts to put down rebellion. They are out
ragged that rebellion has not full liberty, through
il. insidious agents and sympathisers, to poison
the public mind, demoralize our troops, and
leave US at the mercy Of rebel leaders, now
against us with their armies. They
would themselves ike to harangue our troops, if
they dared, upon the beauties of peace and
''brotherly love-" and the horrors of war. This
is the kind Of liberty they are afraid is going
to be denied them. And whenever any man
breaches about peace, or about the dreadful ex.
pense of war and the high taxes it is going to
occasion, write him down traitor. The cry of
peace means disunion and nothing else. The
about the "fraticidal war" and its
great cost-high taxes, and all that sort Of thing
Is nothing but disunion, treason in disguise.
The managers of this meeting in their resolu
hon laud the Iowa First Regiment, but in the
same resolution try to make our soldiers believe
hey have been misused and neglected by our
State and National Governments. They resolve |
n favor Of the prosecution of the present War
'or the Union, but in the same resolution protest
against the disintegration and Generalization
If the Democratic party-in other words, if the |
Uaion and the Democratic party can't both be
'aved the Union may go to pieces. Yet in the |
1ery next resolve all past issues and political
parties are declared dead
The short Of it is these scurvy politicians are
or the War and for the Union, yet opposed to.
avery man who is trying to carry on the one so
Is to save the other. They are opposed to rebel
ion. yet denounce every man laboring to put it
lown, and every measure at all likely to secure
hat end. Such is the Democracy on its last
egs. Such are the filthy rags in which the Des
doines County party hacks and Court House
ats make their last appearance.
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