The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-31

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washington IL making some astouneine s'sc0v'
s,;ea a. The ramiHcations Of this SousneIn -
beiIion. Most important among these c.sco.I
L. are those in references 20 certain d's''nSs
ed female rebel spies who have oeeh suu.0"'
checked in their inglorious career:
Of Csliforuis: Mn. sPhillipa, the wife 81 q,
member Of Congress PHILIPPE, OF Alaoame: s ~
Mn. Greenourh. anothst accomplished nign He
0ecessiopist. ore particularly prominen. snlOns
the rebels In crinoliue Who hare thus ieiien ~.
der the special attention Of the War Once ma
the discoveries made IN this connection, =
given in our Washtngton dispatehes, Throw =
6ood OF lisht upon the bsttle Of DulFs kun. a
Yesterday, for example, in . trunk Of Madam
Gwin, there we're found. carefully bessoweo
among : lot OF innocent looking shirts, some
verv nseful mans and plans OF alI the fortified
lions in front Of Warrington, Il may De safely
inferred that the trunk, maps and shirts were
intended for the camp Of Beauregard. Nay,
more. ne have ia THE little matter clue 70 the
mystery Of those important Government maps
and plsns which the rebels lately LETT behind
them ii their hasty flight from Fairfax court
House on the approach Of our army ana We
are ct liberty to guess how Besuregard was 50
minutely informed Of this advance, and OF our
plan Of attack upon his line, asso be ready 70
meet Il st every salient point with overwhelming
numbers The distinguished feminine rebel
confederates cd spies at w Arlington will ex-
plain it ell. y
We are at liberty now to say, too, that these
fascinating female Secessionists, and others AZ
tached TO the Cabinet and court circles OF MT:
Buchanan, were, perhaps, more instrumental
than even Cobb, Floyd and Tn mpson IN BRING
ing down the late Administration to the dogs
and our country into th terrible intestine war.
Mrs. G win, Mrs. Slideli, Mrs. Thompson, mrs
Cobb, and other accomplished and charming IA
die. Of this dominant Southern social circle. du-
r;nc the imbecile administration of Mr.. Bucha-
nan. held him, the government, and the desti-
MES of the country in their delicate little hands
Nor did the first French revolution and reign Of
| terror produce q circle of female politicians
more accomplished, sagacious and industrious
than those Who led tie poor old man OF Wheat
land, bound in garlands of roses, through VI
sions OF Paradise, down the broad road OF de-
struction
Every class and phase of society in Wash.
ington was so deeply affected BY the charming
sources. receptions and fancy balls of these ir-
resistible Southern ladies' that the sudden trans.
tion in that city from oil these social splendors
and Vaccinations to the rough simplicities Of
| sHonest Old Abe" and his hOrdes Of back-woods
Office seekers, made w Washington ripe for rebel
| lion, The general reader will thus understand
| the capacities and facilities of such an ally az
| Mrs. Gwin for the work of 'giving aid and com
| fort to the enemy" at this crisis The suspen
sion of the peculiar services she and her fe
minpe confederates in Washington have been
rendering the enemy, will, we dare say, prove a
very serious loss to JEFF Davis and correspon'
i .4sk,,,- &c
| The administration has also been making
| some very interesting discoveries in the seizure
| and examination OF various distinguished mas
cuine aiders and abettors Of this Southern re.
| belli0n; and henceforward, for some time, Fort
Lafayette, which stands in the golden gate Of
New York harbor, will be more attractive to
the historian, as the receptacle of State prison
| ers, than the Tower of London, which has pass.
| ed into mere monument of by gone days. Fort
| Lafayette has now within its walls very inter.
esting company of interesting characters of the
secession type, including the Hon. Pierce But.
| Ter, for some years the husband of Fanny KEN.
BILE, and including, also, the handsome, amiable,
but misguided secession Mayor Berret, Of Wash
ington, Baltimore policemen, rebel fnanciers
and diplomats, and maritime Adventures.
In all these things we now begin to realize
the stubborn fact that our glorious days of peace
have been superseded by positive and terrible
/ war, involving the simple issue of government
or no government. Our government, establish
ed by Washington and his contemporaries, il
menaced with destruction. The enemy's pickets
are to-day overlooking our national capital, and
/ convenient and Boosting rebel army threatens
| to occupy or to destroy it. At such a crisis il
would be folly to expect the indulgences-of a
condition of peace and security to traitors and
| their agents and emissaries, male or female. In
this struggle of life death the government
cannot stand upon technicalities or gallantries,
or any such dangerous trifes. 1t must meet this
rebellion at all points and in all its DISCUSSES,
and strip it of its false pretences wherever they
can be detected.
1t is gratifying to know that the Cabinet at
Washington has at length been aroused to TIE
| necessity of vglant search for rebel spies and
emissaries, beginning in the city of Washington;
/ and that Northern secession newspapers are
also to be reduced to the stern discipline of a
state of war. In all this business it is only ne
cessary to look beyond the Southern line of our
army to learn, to its fullest extent. the compre
hensiye vigilance which governs the rebel States
against every man and every woman suspected
of sympathies hostile to the rebel cause. OuI
people, even IN this ordeal of war, would moi
tolerate such despotism. We, at least, have
no necessity for it; but it is necessary on oul
part, as far as possible, to put an end to thi:
business of "aid and comfort" to the enemy from
this aide our army lines in every shape and form
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