The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-29
TeO rlnNfrOTENTfAntes.

II TWO RlRNfR0TkNT1Anf1es.
We learn from sources in which we place per
feet confidence, that the Hon. r. n. r. Hunter
| Of Virginia, and the Hon. James A Bayard, Of
Delaware. have both been in this city within the
! past ten days, on mission TO the Hon. Fernan
! do Wood and the leaders of the Democratic par
ty,- and to various magnates of the financial
werld in Wall street. Indeed, for aught we
know, they are still here. II is almost unneces
sary that we should add that their mission is q
secret one, and that both those distinguished
gentlemen have conducted their negotiations
with all possible privacy Ia fact, from prudent
regard to their personal convenience, they were
both disguised, and went about their business
under the cover of darkness, and in the secrecy
of close coaches and back parlors.
The business was nothing else than to arrange
the terms Of q new compromise for satisfying the
rebels and settling the rebellion, to be presented
to Congress at its session next month. How far
the Plenipotentaries were furnished with evil
dence of their authority to speak in the name OF
JEFF. Davis, we do not pretend to know but
that they did assume to speak in his name there
is not the least reason to doubt. The PROPOSE.
tions made by them in behalf of jeff DAVIS &
Co., in which firm Hunter is full partner and
Bayard a sleeping partner only-were as fol.
lows:
/ I. That the independence Of the seeding
States be admitted and recognized or else,
/ II. That the United States give perfect con.
stitutional guaranty for the maintenance and
perpetuation of slavery in all the present and
future Territories south of the parallel of So de-
grees 80 minutes, north latitude; that complete
amnesty for every offence connected with the
rebellion be agreed upon. with guaranty to ev
cry former citizen of all rights of citizenship,
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that Hunter still hopes to be President and to
every military and naval officer of his appro-
pirate rank in the service. On the bass of
these guarantees Messrs. Hunter and Bayard say
that the insurgent States will lay down their
arms and return into the Union. They would
much prefer separation and independence, but
they will put up with this compromise.
| Under the inspiration of these eminent states
men petition has already been prepared and
secretly circulated for signatures praying Con-
| gress to make peace on these terms; the gentle.
| man who gives us this information estimates that
when it was offered to him for signature it al
ready bore more than thousand names. He
kicked the bearer of it out of his place of bust
ness We know also of one leading banker in
Wall street who refused to meet the plenipoten.
tiarics, and even declined to be told who they
were.
In bringing these facts to the knowledge Of
the public, we say frankly that we have no fear
that terms SO fatal and degrading will ever be
adopted by the American people, and for the
following reasons:
I. The American people ale not SO foolish or
so weak as to submit to the Mexican system of
reversing by rebellion the decision of regular
legal election. If the Insurgent States want
new guarantees for Slavery, let them begin by
disbanding their armies, arresting their leading
traitors, and leaving them for trial. and returning
to full obedience to the Constitution and the
laws of the Union Then let them seek the
new guarantees which they desire, by an appeal
to public opinion, and through the ballot-box
And we warn them that the longer they continue
In their present attitude the less likely will they
be to meet with attention in their subsequent
peaceful appeal for the guarantees they so long
for. This war does not tend to make people
more in love with Slavery, but the contrary.
Ii. the American people, being thoroughly
in earnest, mean that Secession shall not be
bought off, but that it shall be suppressed SO
thoroughly that it will never again be heard of
III. The American people are not SO anxious
about speedy termination Of the war, though
they are by means Indifferent on that subject,
as they are that, when the business is once set
tied, it shall be settled forever. They do not
mean to leave any loophole open through which
their children or grandchildren will again be
exposed to the enormous losses and the bitter
sufferings which this atrocious and causeless re
belion has now produced. To this end, in their
Judgment, negotiation is now out of place, and
an immediate advance on Richmond is the only
fit answer to these propositions
". Finally, however willing Messrs Hunter,
Davis, Bhyard Co., may be to get out of the
dangers that now beset their paths as traitors
against the mldest and most benifcent Govern
ment in the world it does not follow that the
chvalry of South Carolina, Alabama and Geor-
gia will be Jealous in the same cause
They mean to fight; to fog the Yankees is
their indomi.able purpose. They are not yet
alarmed as Davis and Hunter are and till they
have learned the lesson of defeat and humilia.
ton, they will not be ready for peace, no mat
ter what compromise you propose.
We dare say that some of these statements
will be disputed; but we repeat that we have
them from authority which which with us is con-
elusive; that they are confirmed from various
quarters; and that no denial which can come
from the rebel camp can be received as evil
dence against them.-[N Y. Tribune.
SHAREHOLDERS HoNoR.-Dr. William H. Rus
sell, the peripatetic philosopher and friend of
the London Times, complains, if we may credit
telegram from Cairo, ILL.,, shat his correspon-
dence has been tempered with by the Rebels,
his letters being altered, and in some cases not
sent at ALL" Had this fact come sooner to the
knowledge of Mr. Russell, it would, we fear,
have diminished his relish for that celebrated
| bottle of Old Madeira which he drank near
Charleston, and his appetite for the excellent
official dinners eaten by him in Montgomery. If
| any thing could diminish the self-satisfacton of
| The Thunderer, it would be the publication of
| the fact that, for so many weeks, and upon such
subject, its sacred columns have been con-
trolled by Davis, Cobb and Benjamin. If any
thing could change to something like an inclna-
| ton that stern neutrality which has puzzled US
all, it would be the discovery that in its august
| person it has been made the victim of petty
larceny by the descendants of Prince Rupert
and other English cavaliers. 1t may be an ex.
tenuaton, when man intends to pick your
pocket, that in pursuit of his purpose, he asks
| you to dinner, and accomplishes his nefarious
project while you are cutting his mutton and
slipping his champagne. We wish the Times
joy of its heightened thieves, of its larcenous
cavaliers, of its cutpurses all Of ancient fami-
| lies, of its sneaks with unexceptionable pedI-
grees. Mr.. Russell is already at the West, and
will soon be again at the North. We can prom
Use that in neither quarter will his letters be in
danger. He may write them with the perfect
assurance that they will go forward to their des
tination unopened, and Of course unatered-
We may be fanatics, but we do not steal; we may
be mere shop-keepers, bot we do not tamper
|
are opened in our post-offices, as they are in
those Of England and Russia.-[N. Y. Tribune
TIE WHEELING COMMEMORATIVE provisional
government for the estate of Virginia" organ
lied at Wheeling, starts off with strong moral
sentiment in its favor not only among the Union
men of the ancient commonwealth, but every
where among the people Of the North. The
scenes of Thursday the Goth, when the ord-
nance was engrossed on parchment and signed
by the eighty-two delegates, and the election of
State officers Immediately following, will live in
history. The State officers are
Gove,mm-Frank II. Pierpont of Marion Co.
Lieut. Goc.--Daaie Paisley Of Mason.
CouaciNors-Wm. Lazear of Mongolia, Daniel
Lamb of Ohio. James W. Paxton of Ohio, Peter
G. Van Wrinkle OF Wood, w. Fl. Harrison of
| Harrison.
State AAorney-James S. Wheat of Ohio.
On Friday the Convention adopted an ordi.
nance relating to the disbursement Of public
moneys, and providing for the appointment of
an Auditor, Treasurer and Secretary of the Com
| monYealth: also an ordinance fixing the salaries