The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-24

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4 lsppsovs Of every aos Of JEFF Davis 1 Co. They
| deny the charge Of being disloyal bat contend
hat they have 4 right . taks y arms gains,
Abe Lincolns soldiers (aa shey AN then, I'D
DsaehT and drive them from their soil: 10
4 They deny being guilty Of treason, yet they
provide the Bush. .vhackers with bread, NEST and
vhiskey (which 10 an indispsnsibis articla,l and
give them aid and comfort TO their utnstkAhil.
ity. They deny being guilty of o1agtbgs va
sgaipst the Federal Government, yst they %
in gangs hanging from Avs to . hundred
- an army committing dspredations of every
kind, also destroying Federal property and shoot.
| Ing Federal troops - they pass over their Rail
roads or through their country es7g7 s4afats
81 Again, they complain very bitterly Of the
States, Iowa and Minois, for sending their SOL
diers to invade the State Of Missouri, and thus
answer the call Of Abe Lincoln, and support
him in his atrocicus war against the South. The
ignorant secesh do not know that the troops
who invade their soil are in the employ of the
United States, and that the United States has
the right to send her troops any place within her
borders. They are blinded by their leaders who
preach TO them the State Right doctrine. TOO
It is all Abe Lincoln's fault that the Nation is
in troubis-he has declared war-hs has called
forth volunteers he is guilty Of treason, and
al his acts and proceedings are unconstitutional!
Unconstitutional according to the secession
version Of the law. Congress has power to de-
clare war, but secesh says Abe Lincoln has done
it; hence be cries sssypat;oni uawpation! Con-
gress has power to cary on war; but secesh
says Abe Lincoln carries it on, and sends his
d-d Dutch and blue .bellied Yankees to overun
our country, hence secesh cries tyre,ryi tyrasnyi
Claib jackson can call for So, 900 State troops
contrary to all power given him, yet secesh does
not cry uneonstit.tionall unconstitutional! but
chuckles in his sleeve, and says it 10 all right
yes, al right jackson has stolen United States
property and appropriated the State School
Funds to wage war against the Federal Govern
ment contrary to the power vested in him, but
We do not hear secesh cry usurpationl usurpa-7
ton! but We hear him cry at the top Of his voice
hurrah for Jackson, JET. Davis / Co. a.
Jackson gets troops from Southern States and
with those Of his own State, overuns the coun-
try, and commits depredations Of Ill kinds such
as burning bridges and ware houses and destroy
ing public property, and abusing Union men and
their families and driving hundreds from the
State, yet we never hear secesh cry tyranny!
tyranny! but we hear him rejoicing over the
traitorous conduct Of the Rebel Governor.
When the Governor sent his men to burn the
Charlton bridge, he got some seven Of them shot,
then we hear secesh cry out m.rder, murderi
and he made the same cry when some of the
rebels got shot in St. Louis on the day of the
taking Of Camp Jackson, but when the rebels
hung the wounded men, Sharp and Gaeger, &C.
cesh does not cry murder murderl but says it
IL good for them-Abe Lincoln had better keep
his Dutch at home.
When the Government officers arrested some
of the rebels on account of their traitorous con.
duct-such as feeding and arming men, who
were engaged in the destruction of our country
we hear secesh cry out. military despotism
military despotism But secesh can 60 With his
clique and arrest an innocent, highly respectable
mana man who has lived in the neighborhood
for thirty years, without single enemy-s man
who has always been considered friend to the
poor, and friend Of the fatherless, a man Of
intelligence, who has represented his people for
q number of years in the Legislature where he
always acquitted himself with honor-add to all
this man protesting christianity. Yet secesh
with his hand takes such man from his house,
at the dead hour of night, without law or with
out charge, (save he is Union man, and guards
him.in the woods for several days At such
conduct, we do not hear secesh cry, military des-
potism but sanctions all such work.
'REBEL, !" TRAITOR" yet why call him by such
names, when he says he is not entitled to them,
but merely guilty of destroying United States
property-and those who take up arms against
the country, and shooting Federal troops as they
psss over Nissouri's "sacred soil" It is ungen-
.lemanly, indeed, If not libelous, to call such a
man rebel or traitor, when he assures you that
he is only State Right man, which is simply
the doctrine that makes Miesouri's, power and
laws superior to those of the General Govern
ment Hence the right is denied to the Federal
government, to send her troops into Aissouris
borders This sending Of troops BY the United
states is what bothers secesh very much-he
says he was perfectly loyal before the soldiers
came, but it occurs to US that Uncle Sans men
have made him more SO.
Secesh says to the Union man, let Abe Lin.
coin take his Dutch soldiers out Of our State,
and we will be all right and perfectly peaceabe.
But secesh turns right round to his secesh friend
and says: "just wait until these Union savers,
(meaning Federal soldiers,) leave, and we will
| give these Union men hell, what the present
ia we leave the reader to interpret, but it occurs
to US it means, they will hang, shoot or drive all
Union nen out Of the State.
Secesh says he is in favor Of the Constitution
Of the United States, but not in favor Of Abe
Lincoln's constitution. He is also in favor Of
Union; not the big one, but the little one
meaning thereby, the secesh Confederacy. He
takes the oath to support the Constitution Of the
United States, but the officers have compelled
hin 70 take the oath to support Abe Lincoln's
constitution, and as Abe Lincoln 10 usurper,
he has no right to make him take such an oath,
hence secesh considers the oath not at all bind
ing. Here is where the schoolmaster is greatly
to blame for not furnishing secesh proper books
especially copy Of the Constitution, of which
secesh 10 often at loss to know what kind of q
document it is-having never had the opportu-
nifty of seeing one. 1855 $500
Il lis q serious and lamentabe fact that there
are not only plenty Of young men, but old ones,
In the State Of Missouri, who have never read
the Constitution nothing of studying it
vet such are the men who cry, unconstitutional
unconstitutional military despotism military
despotism murder! murder But to be lit.
tie more plain about the matter. for the special
benefit of those who are secesh sympathixers
We would say that it ID . fact, that no man, Al
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