The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-25

eei'"es HSnI. tnlnk our country demands
tne services OF our young men, and although
tn'nk there are others better able to 90 than
you, yet will throw no impedims0 ke way.
believe God is about to chastis ION for
she great national sin, and we know mat He can
preserve from all harm those engaged in a
righteous cause. If our leaders are good men.
fearing God, We have nothing to fear.
4 You have read the life of Captain Wears; 1
would advise you to follow in his Footsteps
Take your little bible in your knapsack and do
not be ashamed to read it.
Remember that Christ says Of such, he will
be ashamed when they appear before him. All!
/ -, you know nothing Of mothers love for
her children Their growing up and going out
into the world but increases the anxious mind of
mother. Your father says nothing about your
going, but think feels badly about it. l wish
you not to remember anything that is past, but
treat him respectfully; it will be better.
Now my boy, one word more would have
you remember what Cromwell said to his SOL
diers: Trust in God and keep your powder
dry" II you are called into the field fgIa man.
fully, and if you fall, fall fighting near your flag
with your face toward the enemy, and rest you
assured that a mothers prayer will follow.
the Military Policy OF the Two Govern-
The successful issue of great military strug.
| gle more often depends upon preliminary eau
ton and foresight than upon bravery in action
or superiority Of force. The battle is not un-
| frequently won more by the advance measures
Of the leader than by the actual conflict in the
field. 1mpetuosity may carry a victory, or it
may hasten defeat; but the military chieftain
is always wise who makes his preparations
calmly and surely, and depends upon the valor
and efficiency of his army to carry them out.
The policy of the United States government
| in tho % o g a.
character. General Scott, while concentrating
sufficient force in the vicinity of the capital
to protect it, is slowly but securely fortifying
| his position at various points, encircling Mary.
| land and Virginia with strong bodies of men
from the camps of York, Perryville and the Re-
| lay House, down to Annapolis and Fortress
Monroe, and in such immediate communication
with each other that junction may be made
| at any other point within brief time if neces-
| sary. The mouths of the Chesapeake and the
| Potomac river are efectually blockaded, the
former by the United States vessels of war living
off Fortress Monroe, and the latter by the line
of river steamers chartered and armed in the
| service of the government. Meantime large
| bodies OF men are every day being sent for
ward from the North, thus enabling the govern
ment to occupy every strategical situation with
out decreasing the force necessary for the imme-
diate protection of Washington.
The military ardor which prevails all over
| the Northern States will place at the disposal
of the government three hundred thousand men
within six weeks time, and will enable the CON-
ma"ding general to occupy the line of the Poto-
| mac at every required point from Harper's Fer
| ry to Alexandria with force of 100000 men.
| Slowly and calmly this strong military position
| is being obtained, and the troops concentrating
at all points moreover, are well equipped, fairly
drilled, supplied with artillery, and not badly
provisoned, considering the large number of
men to be taken care of Every hour gained,
therefore, in prolonging the opening of the con-
test is a positive benefit to the government.
While such is the disposition of the Northern
army around Washington, there is not less eau
ton and sagacty manifested in the South and
| West. Pensacola is well protected by United
| States troops, and Fort Pickens is considered
safe, fresh reinforcements being constantly
thrown in there. Cairo the most important po-
sition in the Northwest, standing as it does at
the junction Of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
and commanding both, has been placed In con-
diton of perfect security from any attack from
the South The Northwest, with its hardy back
woodsmen and sharpshooters can, in fact, defend
itself without embarrassing the government by
Withdrawing any of its resources from other
| quarters, and can, besides supply, out of the
abundance of its cereal wealth. by means of the
lakes and railroads to the East, the wants of the
army concentrated around the federal capital.
| Now how stands il with the rebel army The
| mail lines aud telegraphs all over the South are
| in the hands Of the secessonists, and therefore
we more or less in the dark as to their move
ments but sufficient information reaches US, in
various ways, to know that small bodies of troops
are continually marching from the extreme South
| from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas,
! and concentrating ut two three points in Vir-
| ginia and Maryland, principally at Lynchburg.
Richmond, Petersburg, Harper's Ferry and AL
exandria. These men are not sufficiently armed;
they are supplied, it is true, with guns and bowie
knives, both of which they know how too use
cipline in all probabilitymost incomplete. Then
they are FESTIVE and impetuous-hard to control,
and discontented with the slow policy of their
| leaders. They have Joined the movement eager
| for instant confict-for an immediate attack
| upon Washington, and q hand to hand fight.
Most of them are still laborng under the delu-
sion that the North is divided, and that the SYM
| patty with the cause of the South has expert
enced no revolution. As they arrive at their
| various points of destination in Virginia they
will be undeceived upon this question, and their
| discomfort will increase. Thus while the leaders
of the rebel movement are taking counsel as to
| their mode of operations, the rebel army is be-
| coming demorazed.
Such is the policy Of the two contending pow
ers. That of the North is slow and secure, NOV
ing like machine, under cool and experienced
engineer, with regularity and caution, clcarin G
all obstacles from the track, and making every
thing sure as it advances its force gradually, first
into Maryland, and reducing that State to SUBJ
mission, and then into Virginia, with fair pres
pect of similar result, owing to the disunion Of
the western and eastern portions of the State
;, The policy of the South, on the other hand, ap.
pears to be unsettled, hasty, irregular. The
, materials at the comiuand of the leaders, though
fierce and valiant, are difficult of control and
imperfect in organization Such at least appears
to us to be the condition of things on both sides;
and if we are correct as regards the Sonth, it is
| not difficult to predict that the conflict will be
one of short durA'ion..[N.Y Herald.
The NONSENSE OF STATE SUPREMAcY.-The
silly abstraction Of State Supremacy, which has
done more than anything else to give shape,
, consistency and strength to our Southern rebel
lion, appears still to be entertainedin many quar-.
tiers where it ought to be utterly repudiated.-
!, This abstraction was limited for many years to
, South Carolina; but now the Governor Of every
, border slave State sets up this miserable scare,
crow against "federal invasion.' Thus Govern.
, or Hicks, known as conservative old line South,
ern whg issued his edicts short time ago
against the passage of United States troops over
the sovereign soil of Maryland. Had his-edict,
been obeyed Warrington would now have been
. occupied by JET Davis and his government
Next, Governor Letcher patroniziugly gave no
tice that he would protect Washington from a
Southern invasion only with the understanding
that there should be no invasion of Virginia by
federal troops. Still later certain Kentucky
commissioners have waited Cairo to arrange
with the authorities of Illinois the terms of some
sort Of neutrality between the two States.
This is all exceedingly ridiculous and insoleni
The authority of the United States and the laws
!. emanating from Washington are the supreme
law of the land-supreme in every State and in
every Territory-and the supreme right to move
a body of our federal troops all over Virginia
. or Kentucky, or New York, or South Carolina
! is the same. Every State Governor who pre-
,, sumes to set up different construction Of Che
|, Constitution should be answered according t
his folly BY the supreme government at Wash
, ington. We have had quite enough Of thi.
Sta Qrv,rnvr.cv The only national GOVERN