The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-09-28

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THE TRAITORS DESPAIR or MARYDAND-
SHARP cRITIcIsM ON JEFF. DAVIS
srARvArIoN IN THE TRAITOR CAMP
BALTIMORE, Saturday, Sept. 81, '6l.
The Americas has been furnished viii
late Richmond papers BY . virgiuian 10
fugee, from which the following interest
ing items and correspondence are taken:
The Richmond Esaminer of the 12tl
inst. says:
at is evident to every intelligent Oh
server that the embittered remnant of til,
Submissionist party, which was fully rep
resented in the Virginia Convention, i
bent on organizing q regular opposition :,
the Government. Under al the name,
that it has borne, that element in our poll
tics has been invariably against Southern
interests; and although the events Of las
Spring annihilated its material form, or q
least caused it to disappear from public
view, it exists with undiminished viru
ience, and awaitsthe opportunity to spring
into existence again."
The following article appears in thu
Richmond Whig, under the initials of ssF
NJ" no doubt from the pen Of franklin
Minor:
ITO WHOM 1T MAY CoNcERN: Ths
following private letter to the editor i,
from an old personal friend, but long sep
arated BY party, and one first in position
and intellect in the great County Of Allie.
marie. 1t was obviously not designed fol
publication; but, on that very account, il
may be the better sign Of things unseen,
and the better serve to enlighten the Ad.
ministration respecting the temper of the
public mind:
"ALBEMARLE, Thursday, Aug. 20, 81.
"DEAR MosELY: / am utterly disgust.
ed with your men-Jeff. Davis and his
man Walker-and / want to know If you
will publish my spleen if utter it.
81 have letter just from Manassas
Our troops there one day last week had
nothing for breakfast but salt and pota-
toes; we're sent eight miles at double
quick to meet false alarm, and got neith-
or dinner nor supper when they came
back to camp. Now, Mosely, it is evident
to me that your Government is rotten in
the head. Davis ought to be spiked up
where men can see him. You have won
. great victory and got no fruits from it
You have had charge Of the Government
for six months and done nothing. No
meat, no bread, no powder, no wagons, no
anything but salt aud potatoes, and yet
you sing out, The Government has the
entire confidence of the whole people,
Now, it has not mine, and want to know
whether can get fair hearing. The
only smart thing l have seen is your pro.
position to postpone the Presidential Elec-
ton.
"That is excellent, most excellent. I
trust that it may save us. If was in
Congress, l would refuse appropriations
for the war, holy though it is, until Walk
er was turned out, and somebody put in
his place with sense enough to attend to
the duties of it. l don't know either
Davis or Walker, but have seen enough
to raise suspicious in my mind that Meth
er is the right man in the right place
Why, then, talk about the confidence of
the people in the Administration? don't
feel any such confidence myself. be-
lieve am not singular in my distrust. If
you editors would only speak out full-toned
about the abuses which stink under your
nostrils, things would get right. 1t is a
shame which cries to Heaven for vengeance
when you men of the pen are talking
about confidence, etc, aud our soldiers are
made to trot sixteen miles on one meal of
potatoes and salt
"There is rottenness enough in the
medical staff alone to damn any Admins
tration. Why hoodwink the people p
Your Government is rotten and it stinks
We must smell it at last, and the sooner
the better. You will not smell any strong
er to Yankee nostrils after you turn Walk
er out and make Davis toe the mark
They know you cannot advance upon
them for want of victuals and vehicles,
and your weakness remains patent to them
until you reform the abuses of your Ad-
ministration The smartest thing that
England did in the Crimean war was the
reformation of abuses in full view of the
enemy, and her rival too. Your enemies
know you are rotten. You will not tell
them anything new by turning out Davis
and his whole crew, which / am decidedly
in favor of, if they do not show them.
selves more efficient.
"But all you editors sing hallelujahs to
Davis T. Co. It frets me. Your soldiers
are starving, but SO long as the President
and Generals can wear fiue linen, &C., you
sing 10 p@sns, &c. 1t will not do, my
friend. Somebody must tell the people
the plain truth or we are ruined. Freez-
ing and starvation stare you in the face
for the next Winter, and you call on the
women and children to give up their blank
cts and bread for the soldiers.
"The women have supported the war SO
far. You could not be in the field to-day
but for their needles. You have had the
Government for seven months, and you
confess your inability to do anything by
your daily ways, and still you speak of
confidence. 1t is waning hourly, l assure
you, and unless the press speaks out plain
", and that soon, all is lost. do not
know any politicians, and do not care
for any; but do care for my country and
the brave men who are fighting for us,
and it stirs my gall to see them treated
worse than treat my dogs and hogs
Do not be afraid of showing your weak
ness to the Yankees, for they know it.
Show your strength by putting things to
rights at home, and you will be feared
abroad.
every Truly Yours,
F. NJ"
An Exciting Battle Scene.
The correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial gives the following picture