The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-11
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NAShiNukON, 1AP'h i'oA'
Every day brings us new reinforcements and
makes us more and more one vast military camp.
1t affords us some little Inconvenience at times.
If you wish to visit the Capitol, where now about
1000 troops are quartered, or the Patent Office,
where Gov Sprague and the Rhode Island volun'
teers are stationed, you are met by sentinel,
who says to you, "No entrance here, sir. So
with the Navy Yard and other public places
As YOU walk through the streets, every few mo-
ments you meet detachment OF soldiers,
marching to or from their meals, monopolizing
the sidewalk and forcing the civilian to step
aside into the gutter But the troops from
distance are carefully selected men, all preserv-
ing the strictest decorum. Their presence in
our streets is accompanied by none OF those dis
orderly and lawless acts, toe common among
soldiers. Any such acts here are only commit
| ted bv the local volunteers, who are not wholly
| unobiectionable So strict are the injunctions
| upon them not to make themselves obnoxious
by any disgraceful course, that at Annapolis one
| of the soldiers was taken under arrest and may
be sent home in disgrace for wantony shooting
dog.
was present at the Capitol yesterday and lis.
tened to some stirring speeches to the Massa-
csusetts Regiments BY Jim Lane and others in the
Senate Chamber. The war feeling was very
strong. Any expression of determination to
| bring the rebels against the Government to the
strictest and harsheSt punishment was vehe.
mently applauded, while any expression of hope
| 4 puht he npacpahly ailust-
ed, was met with little approval. They feel
here that "A war is inevitable, and the first to
feel its baleful influence, unless she stands up
fairly and squarcly for the Union, will be the
city of Baltimore.
Two things we are all learning, by the events
of the last few days, North as well as South
One is that beneath the surface of bargain and
SALE by which we have had too much reason OF
late wears to Judge the North, there is a deep
and abiding love for the Union, and resistess
determination to maintain it at all hazards, and
the other that the South is without the resources
to prosecute any war long or effectively. This
latter has been frequently asserted, but the last
week proves it beyond doubt Jefferson Davis
is man prompt and energetic, and anxious to
capture Washington. The time to do SO was
certainly during the past fortnight, while the
city was comparatively unprotected. Yet with
an army all prepared, with Virginia and Mary
land ready to assist he has suffered the North to
nrepare her armies and force them through q
hostile country, before he could seize the prize
MARYLAND sees this, and is learning where her in
terest should lead her. Thus the disunion spirit
which had control in the Baltimore mob, wal
the increasing feeling which Fabian policy wa
causing, because repeated successes over thu
General Government, were naturally engenderins
the opinion that we were weak and the Conted
I crate States strong. But since the late mani
! festation of Northern strength Baltimore, whcl
ia practically Maryland, is receding. She mus
do so completely and unreservedly, or ere loni
i she will be entirely invested, If not reduced t
e astes. Such is the general expression of opin
ion among the soldiery here, and this Baltimor
understands, and is beginning to declare hersel
: Internationally for the Union.
y The liberality of the Seventh Regiment
great They board themselves at Willard's tn
= National, and other Hotels, and propose to di
e tr;hutc the rations coming to them from Ne
J. York among the more needy. poor fellow
G. Massachusetts Regiment, on account OF a
y accidental shot was on Saturday compelled
If suffer amputation Of the lower part Of his LEI
is ard the Seventh promptly raised him one tho'
10 sand dollars by contribution
10 Col. Curtis is in Washington, and Senate
Is Grimes arrived on Saturday, after hard Jou
II ney, partly on foot, from Annapolis, on some II
r. portant business connected with your State:
XOX.