The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-04-27


met yesterday and resolved to tender to Gov.
Yates the sum of 100000 for war purposes in
advance of the assembling of the Legislature
TIE following are the sums assumed by the
banks respectively:
Marine Bank. ............... 5000, 900
Holman &c lpcke... $4,000
Merchants Loan and Trust Co. ...... $4,000
d. j. carver g. 20. 0u,ooo
Western Marine Fire Insurance Co.. $4,000
II. A. Tucker l. Co.. $4,000
L. l. Tinkham & Co.. $4,000
A dispatch from Springfield last evening an
nounces that over $780, 600 have been subscribed
III that city. Without doubt the other cities in
the State will pile up the sum to u million in
very few days.
This action is most timely and patriotic. 1t
is equal to the emergency; it is equal to the
volunteers who daily and nightly filling our
companies. 1t puts the sinews of war in the
hands of the State authorities, and enables
them to respond immediately to the requisition
trcm Washington. And SO We COL Chicago
Tribune.
Two NOTABLE EvENTs-LINcoLNs RISING
CcURAGE.-On the day of the surrender OF Sum
ter, we had the Presidents answer to the Com
mittee of the Virginia Convention, and. short
as it is, it would compensate for the fall OF many
tortresses. These measured words of the Chief
Magistrate of thirty millions of people, unfurl
the stars and stripes to the breeze, full high ad-
vai:ced, at the very moment of the crisis, and
when the wavering opinions of men demand
leader. While the storm is raging, it is with
the reassuring sound of the trumpet that the
heimsman OF the ship of State announces his
mistaken purposes. He viii everywhere repel
foc e by force; and since this last unprovoked
assault upon the National flag, he will retake
such positions, essential to the National safety,
as have been lost.
Tim President meets augmenting difficulties
with augmenting courage. Never was a man
| placed in circumstances OF more tremendous re-
| sponSibty; and never has a man confronted
| circumstances with fortitude more heroic
! The destnes of nations often hang upon the
| qualities OF a single man, and i'll this trying
| juncture, it is Mr. Lincoln who has saved his
country by the promptness and vigor of his de-
| Examinations. 1t is only by sure anticipation
| Of events that the nation may be said to be al
ready saved, when the ringing words Of the
President are now echoing back from the hills
and valleys Of country, invincible if it only
wills to be SOW Washington National Repub.
| The session of the New York East Methodist
| Conference yesterday was opened by the follow
ing prayer:
"Grant, 0 God, that all the efforts now being
made to overthrow rebellion i'll our distracted
country, may be met with every success. Let
the forces that have risen against our Govern
ment, and Thy law, be scattered to the winds,
and may no enemies be allowed to prevail against
U.S. Grant, o God, that those who have aimed
at the very heart of the Republic may be over
thrown. We ask Thee to bring these men to
destruction, and wipe them from the face of the
countryw
A Committee was appointed to prepare reso-
luions expressive OF the sense of the Conference
at the present crisis, WHO reported series which
were adopted with great enthusiasm, and copy
ordered to be sent to the President OF the Uni
ted States. BY these resolutions the Confer
ence, representing one of the most numerous
religious organizations in the country, declare
their earnest and entire sympathy with the
cause of our country in this conflict, and our
purpose to use all means legitimate to our call
ing, to sustain the Government Of the United
States in its defense and support of the Censti
tuition and of the Nations welfare. IN. Y
Tribune.