The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29
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| Not for q year have public affairs looked .,
prosperous as now. On the whole, the advers,
results Of the elections sre proving medicinal.
The Democratic party, before The war, wa,
pro slavery and Southern in it's sympathies. 1T
tendencies are unchanged. Every day it be
comes more apparent that the position and influ
ence gained BY the leaders of the Democratic
party are to be used to concilate the South, pre-
serve Slavery, parlyze the War. and induce q
Peace, even at the price of separation and Ma
| tional dismemberment
Cancellation has been the bane of this Admin.
lstration. 'it "s
Since the Democratic party Ia now, every day,
from the necessity Of it's position, coming more
aud more upon that ground, It will compel the
Administration either to 20 over to the enemy,
or to give up that delusive and ruinous policy OF
forbearance and mildness that has 90 long mug
xled tts cannon and trsnquiized its energy
There are no probable evils resulting from the
recent elections that are not overbalanced by this
result. A 1850 a&i 1854 ~ l''a 4
Undoubtedly, our President and his advisers
intended to have mild war. Civil wars are
cruel If Servile war should be added, the con-
fict would become still more swful. It was de.
termined, therefore, to are softly, and to lubri-
cate military operations, 80 that they should not
irritate.
T For, besides the worthy motives Of humanity,
there we're civil motives working in the same
direction. When subdued, the South was to
have part in future elections. The problem
was, how to defeat them In war, and vet get their
votes Afterwards. This has been the latent NH.
losophy Of the year aud half Of war.
This subtle, secret virus has pervaded the
civil and military service. We presume that
not less than four members of the Administra-
ton intend to be the next President Of the
United States. In the Army, We suspect that
at least twenty Generals have had this image
before their minds And in other posts Of SER
vice, In the States, there have been some fifty
others who have pondered the question of the
Presidential succession. We have hitherto SUP
posed General Mcclellan to have been free from
such intangements. But the course Of bis friends
| apparently With bis consent, ia making it p.oba-
| BILE that he, too, has been weakened and made
dilatory by this juggling phantom Of Cancellation
for the sake Of future preferment
Men forget that Cancellation implies Po,os-.
Weakness cannot conciliate. The very founda-
ton for Cancellation must be laid in military
success If the South defeats the North, or BAL
fes our armies, or holds them in check. in spite
of their numbers. it is a mere Insult to talk Of
Cancellation. That is an attribute of victorious
authority.
The one great gain to this nation by the de-
feat of the Government at the recent elections
is, that our rulers are driven of from this delu
sion. The army 10 put under Generals who
mean to earn victory by skill and fighting.
If the President perceives, at length, that in
his hands is the power to shape the politics OIL
the country, be will not stand anxiously consid-
ering all possible political results OF this OF
that move. The man who will carry the public
with him Is the man who shows the most energy
by skill and fighting. There is to be no more
weak waiting for fear of political reactions o,
dsplsasures. The men whom Mr. Lincoln has
most earnestly striven to placate, have now re-
turned bic kindness BY stabbing him with theil
votes. Before the election affected friendship
But, With the hope Of rising power. they are
rapidly losing even the semblance Of favor, and
scarcely care to disguise the threats which they
now make, Of disfavor, and even of revolution
| We rejoice in this. The sources of power arr
in Mr. Lincoln's keeping. Let him follow, with
boldness and with victorious energy, the plan
which be has marked out, and no machination.
can keep from him the plsudits and enthusiastic
confidence of the people. ....E-fs
| It, BY intimidation. Mr.. Lincoln could be in
duced to retract bis Proclamation, be would bt
utterly destroyed; Q new party would assume
the reins; and be, like all men csjoed to self
destruction, would be despised and rejected.
But il, like Divine Decree, the Proslsma
ton shall stand, and around it shall be gathered
the vast armies Of this yet unwasted nation, lee
by men that are in earnest, aud urged forward
BY an Administration undivided in counsels, Y,
are on the eve of greater victories than eve
graced the annals of this land. Out of sucl
success, Mr. Lincoln will come with invincibl,
strength. He will need fear no parties and n,
politics 1t will be his to MAKE the politics 0
the country.
After long and weary storm, men do no
wait till every cloud is gone from the heaven
before they rejoice. It is enough that the win,
changes aud blows steady from the quartz
where fair weather lies. tits enough that the
see the clouds thinner; that belt Of light grid
the horizon. These signs say the storm Is spent
fair weather 10 at hand And 80 to-day, though
no great victories have been gained, and NJ
events of magnitude have happened, yet tie u;n
has changed The Administration evinces nev
spirit The paralytic trider is gone from th
Army, and honest vigor has taken the leader.
ship. The signs Of War are eigns Of Peace
Cancellation is dead. There is hope, there
fore, of such . manifestation of National Pow
or a. shall command respect and submission =
This Government is at war with . Dragon tia
can be slain, but cannot be charmed
ARAR 4 sOUTHERN UNIONIsT!
PArson BrowDlow, who has been speaking i
behalf Of the persecused Unionists of the Sout
} throughout the loyal States, writes from Chicse
, on the 10th inst. TO Tho Press as follows:
. The result Of the elections 10 these North
|, Western States is the topic among sll classes q
, men, and will be the occasion of Rreat~ejoicin
I in the Southern Confederacy. have take
E some trouble to look into the cause, and my onl
{ establishment is that the Union candidates bel
their own a. we'll a. they did, or that as many {
. them we're successful at the polls! OF lOO,o
/ voters in the army from Illinois, have no doub
| that 7S 600 of them wnuld h NO votod tho TYc;o