The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-11
~ What the rebels think of the Presidents

II What the rebels think of the Presidents
Proclamation may be safely inferred from their
conduct in relation oit.' II tits, % some wise
acres assert . mere frnitless act, nom. would
know it more certainly than those whom it is
attended to affect. They may surely be allowed
10 comprehend its operations upon rebel inter
ssts and those they hold in bondage.
The Confederate Congress has already mani
Tested its dread of the terrible blow now i'm
pending, and only to be avoided by prompt
return to duty, and obedisnce to the Const'tu-
ton and the law. They do not, it seems, pro-
pose as yet to lay down their arms and return
to their allegiance. They, on the contrary, talk
Of raising the black flag, and utterly extermins-
ting all Union men who may hereafter unfortu-
nately fall into their power They also propose
a compulsory removal Of all negroes from the
region exposed to our forces.
These propositions indicate two things. One
is that they are as determined as ever to persist
in their insane and diabolical treason The Sc
cond is, that they apprehend great danger and
damage to themselves from the operation OF
measure which they denounce as earnestly as
the Mahonys and vallandighams of the North.
1t is not to be supposed that so chivalrous
race,-men Of such large humanity, so christian
lied and philanthropic in their sentiments, poll
cies and actions, would fight under "PIRATIcAL
FLAG" and announce that purpose to the world,
unless they we're "Aurt" by something! It's the
Proclamation that induces them to declare that
hereafter they ignore civilized warfare, and
adopt those of savages and pirates. A decent
sentiment of sef..espect would deter any civil
lied men from making such declaration under
any possible circumstances Nothing but the
fact that slavery has already bsrbarized even the
highest class in the South, can account for their
present assumption of the most distinguishable
evidence of bsrbarism.
But these men know the opinion of mankind
full we'll, and would not outrage it unless they
were seriously damaged. They see that the axe
is at last laid at the root of the Rebellion-that
treason is about to receive its death blow
Being but savages, they threaten q savage re-
venge. They will raise the Black Flag Las if
any flag could be blacker or more Infamous
than that which is Haunted BY traitors =,
na~ Those who. may have entertained any
doubts of the close utilization of Mshony, Dodge
& CO., with the traitors of the South, will do
well to consult the report of the Rebel House
Committee on the Cancellation of the Northwest.
That Committee says that "high-spirited public
men in several of the Northwestern States have,
become exceedingly active in their endeayors to
discourage and suppress the ferocious war spirit
heretofore. raging among their fellow-citizens, and
that their honest and patriotic efforts hare been al
ready attended with the most marked success"
It wanted no ghost from the grave, nor even
the assertions of this committee of traitors. to
satisfy any one Of intelligence that the deliber-
ate purpose of the whole batch of political
scoundrels, who are now prostituting the name
Of Democracy, by claiming it as their own, is to
secure the same result as that aimed at by their
more daring Southern fellows,-the destruction
of the Union. Here We have it, however, as
the rebels understand it. The arguments of the
Chicoga Times and its fellows are reproduced
by this Committee with remarkable distinctness
and fidelity.
They talk with as much fuency as the Times
of the opposition of interests between the East
and the Northwest, and have no doubt in their
own minds tina. we are actuated by the same
I obi ob bo~ :,l, kl,o
to perjure their souls and seek the ruin of their
country. They have SO long net such trucking
tools as the Representatives of the Northwest
in Congress until recently that representation
being of the meanest and most worthless of the
old Democracy,-that they imagine the whole
region is filled with men of no nobler character.
They are no doubt fully advised of the doings
Of the K. G. C's. in this region, and of their pre-
sun,ed prospects in the approaching elections
prospects which only fools and idiots count
upon, and only traitors would deem fattering
This "peace party" of the Northwest is expected
to pave the way for the acknowledgment Of the
Confederacy, the separation of the Union, and
the perpetuity of the slave system! And all
this for the promised free navigation of the Mis-
sissippi! The bid is as rich as the object is
damnahle. A traitors promise, is weighed
against Nations safety! Verify these 'high.
spirited public men" have sold themselves for
infinitely less than mess of pottage! They are
laborng for the ruin of their country, and their
reward is the hooking approval Of band of
traitors, who only intend to make slaves Of
them!
y PRAIsEwoRTHY-We tbin!: the 34th Iowa In
fantry merits special notice. 1t has now been
at Camp Lauman, which is within our city limits,
for about three weeks. During that time we
hardly remember having met one of the pr;vates
out of camp, unless on military duty. There
has been no disturbance, no noise. nothing dis
orderly among them. The officers and men ap-
pear to understand, and to act upon the under
standing, that they are in the service of their
country and that it is their duty to fit them
selves for its performance as thoroughly and
speedily as possible. The men of this Regiment
are a remarkably fine body, perhaps the finest