The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-11
looking man suddenly jumped il front Of their

! looking man suddenly jumped in front Of their
leader and exclaimed, .'This why, beys! this
way r 1t WAS the first friendly voice they had
heard since entering Baltimore, and they stopped
10 ask no questions but followed their guide
who took them up a narrow court where they
found an open door, into which they rushed,
being met inside by powerful looking woman
VINO srnsped each one by the hand aud directed
them up stairs. The last OF their band was
knocked senseless just as he was entering the
door BY stone which struck him on the head
oat the won,ah who had welcomed them, mme-
d'ately caught up their fallen co,lrade and car
Fied him IN her arms up the stairs
You are perfectly sale here, boys" said the
Amazon, who directly proceeded to wash and
oihd up their wounds. After having done this,
sle procured them food, aud told them to strip
on their uniforms and put on the clothes she
had Drought them, motley assortment OF baize
jackets, ragged coats and old trowsers. Thus
equipped they were enabled to 60 out in search
OF their companions, without danger of attack
from the Plug Uglies and Blood. Tubs Who had
gwen them SO rough reception
They then learned the particulars Of the at
tack on the soldiers and Of their escape, and saw
iyingst the station the two men who had been
/
One OF their own band was missing and he has
not yet been found, and it is uncertain whether
/ ne has been killed or not. On going back to the
Rouse where they were so hunaneiy treated they
found that their clothes had been carefully tied
up, aud with their battered instruments had been
sent to the depot of the Philadelphia Railroad,
I where they were advised to go themselves. They
did not long hesitate, but started in the next
train, and arrived in Philadelphia just in time to
tppai fha rti,
1 teers, under the command of General Butler,
who told them to hurry back to the Old Bay
State to show their battered faces and broken
limbs and that they should yet come back
and play IL Ill Columbia in the streets of Bal
tmore, where they had been so inhumanly as.
saulted.
The noble hearted woman WHO rescued these
men is well known character in Baltimore,
and, according tn all the usages oil Christian SO
eiety, Is an outcast and polluted beng; but
she i true heroine, nevertheless, and entitled
to the grateful consider alton of the country
When Governor Hicks had put himself at
the head OF the rabble rout of miscrealits,
aud Winter Davis hau fed in dis,nay, and the
men OF wealth and official dignity had bid them
selves III their terror, and the police were pow
eriesS to prevent the handful OF in,ed stran-
gers WAC Were struggling with the infatuated
mob, tins degraded woman took them under her |
protection, dressed their wounds, fed them ut
her own cost, and sent them back in safety to
their homes. As she is too notorious in Balti |
more not to be perfectly well known by what we
have already told OF her, it viii not be exposing
her to any persecution to mention her name
Ann Maniey is the name by which she is known
III the city OF Blood Tubs, and the loyal men OF
the North, when they march again through its
streets, should remember her for her humanity
to their countrymen.
No Halfway Measures.
OF what use would be capital in foreign |
terrtof,y-a capital surrounded by treacheIous |
foes?--a capital held by standing army!-a |
capital cut Oft from all suppl es from the adja- |
Cent regens?--a capital, access to which by ev-
cry direct route is either forbidden, OF allowed
only al the risk of surveillance and insult?-a |
capital from which the President and his Cabi-
net cocld move only ut the risk of life, except |
under an armed escort, EHd TO which the Nation. |
al Congress can go, when summoned to duty,
only when under the cover Of artillery Either ne
must abo1.do,t Washington, must s.tb1ic a.
'gts0,d and pnyiuta. To hold w ashlngton with
MA siiu ana Virginia as seeded States, owing
allegiance to the Southern Couicderacy, were
absurd, Impossible. To hold Washington with
Nal! land and Virginia dsaff cted but ulsub
dued, were a hazardous expcruient--not worth |
the cost and risk oil attempting it.
But we Surrender Wa, hlngtou? Can we
as American citizens consent TO abandon to
foreign confedeiacY our national capital, en-
draied to Us by name, identified with all our
puDic history, the representative of our nation !
alty before the worlu? The day when our Fed |
eral Government shall abandon Washington,
either under stress OF fear or through conipro- |
mise with rebeon, will date the downfall OF the |
United States as power, and stamp igno-
niny upon the page Of history. That day can |
M ypr In t,,tt, tfla,, fhsf
keep the capltal-and keep 1t we wilI--we must
wipe out from Maryland and vi sinia every YES
tlge OF armed rebellion or of political urgaliZa- |
ton III opposition to the Unon. We caunot |
parley with IL rebellion that encircles the cipi-
tai. We cannot make terms OF anlly with it or |
accept from it terms OF submission. We must |
put 1T down forcibly, overwhelmingly -even, il |
need be, by hanging its every leader and ilsti-
gator, and contiscating his property to the use
OF honest and loyal citizens. IL IS idle to talk
only Of defending the capital. Of what use is |
capital that needs to be deiendpd?. We must |
either aniIihilate the rebellion OF abandon Wash |
ingion. And the rebellion will not be subdued |
till the entire military and political organization |
Of the Southern Contederacy is demolished and |
scattered to the winds. The man VINO talks of |
negotiation with such rebellion is either trail |
tor or Il fool. 1t is madness to trust in the pio-
fesSed adherence OF Mary ,and to the Union, un- |
ring the sale transit OF United States troops |
over her soil, but by contributing her quota Of !
men and for TIE dtf e,sG Of de Natio,ot |
Government and supervising he spirit OF >eces- !
sion by public sentiment aud by due forms oi |
law. We have mere u fear from the treachery |
of Maryland and Virginia, and from the d spo.
siton vi political leaders and cculscllorS to daily
with Bo. der State mt iation, than from the com
bined rebel army of the South. The people |
N II,
IT MUST BIZ PUT DOWN BY FORCE, NOW AND FOR |
EVER.
The Commercial Advertiser, eminently judi |
cious and unimpassun,d, i'll its issue Of Satu day
last puts this point with grea. cearHess and
force:
There IS report from Washington that Ger
tain persons from the Border States have solicit
ed the President To suspend hostliities until nj
ter the extra session of Congress, and that the
President promptly declined acceding TO the re-
quest He could do less. 1t is 10y listening
to the Border States, and hoping against hope
in their loyalty and fidelity that the greater pant
of the present embarrassment has been br,ush
upon the country. They have acted the pant
oil hypucrites from the very first, proposing
terms OF arrangements that they knew the Fee
States would never accept, aud to which even ,
they would not pledge themselves We have
once TWICE animated suspicion of their SIN
cerity, and we've iebuk,d sharply in man, quar-
tiers Tor doing so. The result has justified the
warnings We then gave. They have oil tn q
been playing into the hand. - aihe
dividing ,h.. y, me SetessiUnists,
- vrople of the North lay holding out
+ the possibility OF reconciliation, only III order
to give the rebels time TO organize, arm and pre-
pare for the overthrow of constitutional gov
/ ernnicnt
No. No! No! Not another word of conces
sion, or compromise, or negotiation, or truce, or
au. h, else uutii The u authority oil the Lawful
" constituted Federal Government Is establish
ed and openly recognized in every inch OF the
territory now in rebellion against it, No truce
until the leaders of the rebellion, those who
commenced the war upon our fl x and our
tionai sovereignty, Davis aud stephens, and the
whole rebel Cabinet, and Beauregard and
Twiggs and Leteher, and all other leading trai-