The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-05-17

name is blessed, they tell us, south Of the Po-
tomao) he's persuaded thirteen other members
of Congress to join him in his Sysphean labor
of rolling the ..Democfatic' stone to the top Of
the hill. He has succeeded in getting the
National Intelligencer to publish two columns
Of antiquated political gabble which he calls
. Democratic Address" Three Representa-.
tives from Illinois, five from Ohio, two from
Indiana and two from Pennsylvania, assist in
the ungracious service, but strange to say,
Powell Of Kentucky, whom his colleagues re-
Gently tried to expel from the Senate for trea-
son, Starke Of Oregon who is about to be ex-
PEELED for the same reason, and Wood of New
York, whose newspapers was stopped because
its chief supporters had enlisted in the seces.
sion ranks. though all good democrats" do
net sign the document. Their names are Der.
haps reserved, from motives of prudence, "to
be annexed to che pamphlet" or private
edition of the address, which is announced.
Other Democratic" names would have been
added, also, but for the military exigencies
which now control the country. Their bear
ers are engaged In the Southern army, fighting
the soldiers Of the Union, and have neither
time nor opportunity to join their colleagues
in this agreeable duty. Mr.. Jefferson Davis,
President of the rebel Confederacy, is one Of
these "Democrats" who would have been de.
lighted to put his name at the head of the list.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who are now abroad
engaged in painful effort to get the monarch
les of the old world to make war on the repub-
lie, win be dreadfully chagrined not to have
been able to cooperate with their old friends.
The eleven Democratic Governors Of States
in open rebellion, who are furnishing Beaure-
gard with ammunition and men, and urging
Johnston and Lee to kill our brave brothers on
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chimes, if they cannot be met in fair and man.
ly battle, would doubtless have taken part
in concaves by which the Address was pre-
pared, bat that the roads are obstructed and
somewhat complicated. Majors General Gus
tayus ". Smith was unhappily prevented from
participating by the stubbornness of Mellow.
ell; and the gallant General Lowell was too
much occupied by the inconsiderate movements
of Captains Fsrragut and Porter at New Or
leans. igse. o. 81. Fs,ts D
A pensive tone of dependency pervades the
address, in consequence Of the absence of these
powerful coadjutors. But the most delicate
regard for their feelings is shown. Not word
is said in deunciation of the hideous rebell-
ion of which they are masters and leaders
A stranger to public affairs, on reading it,
would learn that the republic was in the midst
of gigantic effort to saveits own life from de-
struction by parricidal hands, only by rebukes
administered to the Government which is max
ing the effort. The plot to overthrow the re-
public is nothing; but the energy which strives
to defeat the plot is tyranny and wrong. An
infamous revolt against the established order,
which arrests the prosperity Of thirty millions
Of people, which plunges them into an abyss
Of bankruptcy and ruin, whichhas robbed the
nation 70 the flower Of its youth, and desolated
thousands Of once happy homes, does not pro-
woke single phrase Of reprobation; but the
few acts of loyal administration which may
have leaped the doubtful boundaries of the law
in q strenuous endeavor to rescue the nation,
are branded as despotism The men who have
not only violated the Constitution, but who
have taken up arms to annul the Constitution,
are suffered to pass in silence or under the
gentle pseudonym Of fellow citizens, while the
defenders Of the Constitution, in q time Of un-
exampled embarrassment and peril, are sneer-
ingly berated ss enemies of the republic, who
would undermine its liberties and overthrow
the barriers of Constitutional government.
It is consistent with the other conduct of
this squad of fourteen that while they spare
the sensibilities of their absent co-workers,
and make no allowances for the extremities in
which the Government has been placed, they
should refrain from all allusion to the noble
men who are periling their lives on land and
sea in their country's defense. They can in
dulge without stint in laudations of humdrum
political parties at home; dwell with beaming
complacency on the tap-rooms won and the
polls carried by assault; exhaust the vocabula
ry of rhetoric in recounting the sixty years of
Democratic electioneering triumphs; but for
the glorious deeds of the rebel Democrats of
the land-at Mill Spring, Carthage, Henry,
Donelson, Pea Ridge, Hilton Head, Pulaski,
Roanoke, Newbern, New Orleans, Shiloh and
sWilliamsburg-they find no tongue; Ellsworth
and Baker, and Winthrop and Lyon, Wallace
and Peabody, and hundred others, might
dw!ndle into utter forgetfulness for all that
they say, and the armies of Haleck and Nc
Clellan, Banks, Hunter, Curtis, Fremont But
Ter and Mcdowell, now drawing the last folds
over the face of dyins Rebellion, might perish
where they stand, without voice of sympathy
or cheer from these model representatives of
Democracy. Their eyes are so intently fixed
upon the reconstruction of the battered ma
chinery which formerly carried them into po-
itical power, that they cannot see the tre-
mendous conflict which is waged under their
very eyebrows.
This self chosen committee talk volubly of
the constitution, of the rights of the States, of
popular supremacy, of economy and reform, of
national banks and of protective tariffs, which
were in former years the shibboleths Of party
organization; but they use the words as blind
for the defense Of human slavery. The sum
and substance of their address is, without all
disguise, that slavery shall forever rule the
Republic. All their babble Of constitutional
obligation and State rights has this meaning
and no more; unwarned by the events of the
war, they fondly imagine that the people will
go back to the times and issues which preccd.
ed the war; they dream that our stupenious
civil struggle has no Significance; that our loss
es, our expenditures, our trials an our sor-
rows have taught us nothing; and that slavery
t0dieh has been the cause cfthem all, may yet go
forth conquering and to conquer, just as it did
before six hundred thousand patriots took up
arms to repel and punish its insolent preten-
sions. '--"&' : +ss.E '-lt'--S o. a4' --'-s-
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The Chicago Post states that, In addition to
the iron-clad gunboats Of Commodore Foote's
hotills, there have been for some time in the
course of building feet Of eight steam rams,
to be added to the Mississippi feet Six Of
them are on the stocks at Pittsburg; the others
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