The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-27

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M EDrSse eemocI1ey haJs hada mass
Osavensson In Dawn county. Thsy hsve re
solvsa 70 oppose Observation-Disclosures They have
denounced Nosth1~ fanatics, and they have en-.
dorsed Lincolns aanialssnton II biz acts are
sossshsaosal: If NOT Why tbsn they don't en-
aessss the qusstioa = - determined BY the
Supreme Coust, of coufse. Ia 49,. ri
But thsy have leterninsd that The Block Re,
psblieap party must be ermhed and the Democ-
ssey restored % power. Finding the Baltimore
phaorm played out and Equatter Sovereignty
done for. they have determined 10 70 In on their
muscle, and have adopted = policy to support
tas Adninistration until Il ID determined to use
ne army for the psrposs Of libsrating the slaves
in the Slave States and then they are deter
mined TO drop 1t like hot potatoe.
What aa odd Institution this Democratic
party Of the Hairy Nation i, drunken with the
success Of 1860. they propose 70 90 on bender.
IN 1851. They are organising in every town.
ship party secreuy opposed to the pres
snt war In: al IL forms, while the party
leaders are clubbing absut the Constitutional
sscts of the President, and preparing the minds
of the rank and file Of the party to take bold
and defiant stand against the Administration
and the country. Id
& The last issue Of the Democratic Clarion con.
tsins criticism of two columns on the Pr-si-
dents message, in which the writer (who pur-
.ports TO be a correspondent undertakes to prove
that Lincoln is carrying on the war for the pur-
pose Of freeing the negroes in the Slave States,
and that Lincoln says the RepaQ;ea,.s alone
must fight the battles Of the present war Of
course no one who. has read the message for
himself could be mislead BY such blatant nom
sense, but the thing II circulated as the very
careful and elaborate opinion Of an Elk Judge of
the District Court Of an adjoining county-a
good joke, on the Judee-truly there is an in.
consistency about the professions of some men
that needs but little to expose their intentions,
20 with the platform makers Of our Democracy.
They pretend to be ardent supporters of the
war for the suppressioniof the rebellion, but in
oil their speeches, resolutions, and prcambles
you will not find one word condemning the
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course of extreme men South, but on the other
hsnd they give them aid and comfort by holding
/ up the Republican party and the vast majority
Of the loyal people Of the Northern States as
abolitionists, negro thieves and violators Of the
Consttution--thus justifying the acts Of JEFF.
Davis Go. Nothing but the fear of an indig-
nant populace would prevent such men from at
once insisting on the Independence of the South
ern Confedcracy being acknowledged. Is
A unien of all true and loyal men is much to
de desired in these times, but such union can
never be produced while these bigoted and sell
fish leaders dictate political principles to the
people. There is one thing, however, Of which
| you may rest assured. That is whenever the
Democracy of Davis county come out openly
against the suppression Of this stupendous hum
bos-the Sou ern Confederacy-which they
will do in short time-so soon as they can
hatch up pretext for it. You will find them
a miserable remnant of party leaders, with few
of the rank and file. Ourpeople are right
The Clarion has rugged telegraph Of its own.
! 1t is ahead of the Hawk-Eye on sensation dis.
patches You hadn't orter" told 'em how the
plaguey thing worked--they thought it went on
| horseback.
s Yours, A BLACK REPUBLICAN.