The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-03
FA1sr,xLp Iowa. july asth. 1881.

E0k0f HACK Eye :-Un0er the cOffups Az.
ministrations of Pierce and Buchanan, treason
has permeated Gil official channels and the
price Of Office seems to have been the loss of
patriotism, with but few honorable andnoble ex.
ceptions; whenever yon find an old ofice.hol-
der. you will find man whose love for his flag
and country is cold aud whose sympathies are all
for the Rebels. Such men boast Of their devo.
ton to the Union, but arc open and undisguised
in their opposition to the prosecution of the war
by our Governments war commenced by the
rebels. They never utter word against the
attempt OF the rebels to coerce rs INTO submist
sion to JEFF Davis l. Co., but are loud agains
who they declare must be impeached They
claim the right Of ''free speech, and Of free
press" to abuse and denounce the constitution.
al acts of our government, and they demand
that the army raised to defend the government
shall be Immediately disbandel. With the same
breath they denounce those who, in the legiti-
mate use Of free speech, denounce them as enc
mics to their country.
fatt.ned upon the government, out Of Land OF.
fees, Mail Contracts and the like, until their
very thrift has left them souess ; and now vi. b
craven nature and base ingratitude turn upon
and rend it, because, iorsooth, their cry of gire,
gise," is no longer needed.
In all communities they are the fomenters Of
contentious and strife among the people. They
are misunderstanding the streets, frequent
ing the saloons and public places from morning
until night sowing the seeds of treason and dis
cord. Their forte is loud and boisterous grum-
bling, not at jeff Davis, not Of the unconstitu-
tional acts Of the r bells, but of the constitu.
tional acts of Abraham Lincoln. No man hears
one Of this kind condemn any act OF the traitors
hut they always seem glad and in fine spirits
when the Traitors gain victory. and gloomy
and morose at the news of any decided success
on the part Of our government. TIA man hap.
pens to say in their hearing that traitors ought
to he hung, they take it as personal insult, and
become boisterously indignant, and soon after
report around the country, evidently to make
capital and crave sympathy, that they, poor
devils, have been threatened with hanging.
These pestilential fellows thus manage to
keep up feverish state of excitement in town
and country. Whilst men who earn an honest
living BY daily toll, attend to their own affairs,
the wealth that they have greedily accumulated
by the aids of unscrup"lpus Office holding, af-
fords them leisure to work mischief and disturb
the public quiet and peace. Any community
cursed with few idle aud mi<chievous men of
this kind is peculiarly unfortunate, as there
seems to be no method short Of violence to hush
their reasonable lips Such men invite violence
at time when all good citizens are anxious to
sustain our government by word and act.
Our people are law.abiding and patient and
will wait until waiting is no longer virtue, and
il those who hate our government outrage al
forbearaGce, let the consequences be upon
them alone. l thank God the masses, both
Democrats and Republicans are incorruptible
and true to their flag and country.