The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-11
THE DUTY OF LOYAL MEN.

At the election Tuesday next there can be no
question as to the duty Of every loyal voter. II
10 70 sustain Mr.. Lincoln, right. Or wrong. II
mstters not what our opinions may be of his acts
lt-.of the wisdom of his course, or Of the efcien-
cy Of his war policy. It is the Presidents pre-
what the policy shall be, and it is our duty to
sustain him in it-presenting to the enemies Of
the country, at home and abroad, an unbroken
front. There is no hope but in unity-and no
possibility of unity except in rallying around
the President and Strengthening bis hands in
this hour of peril. Parties and politicians are
nothing. Let US cast our votes so as to destroy
the last hope of traitors. They will take cour.
age at sny thing like division. A close vote
even, will be hailed by them joyfully. The
election of anti-administration members of Con.
gress from Iowa would give them more heart
and courage than victory in the field. We
therefore call upon all loyal men of all parties
to rally around Mr.. Lincoln to a man-to give
him their encouraging voice by supporting the
State and Congressional tickets. The issue is
really between Abraham Lincoln and JEFF. Davis
between the legitimate government of the
United States and the bogus Southern Confed-
eracy. Look the matter square in the face and
cast such vote as you will not be ashamed of
hereafter. Don't allow demagogues to throw
dust in your eyes-don't let fanatics mislead or
blind you to the momentous issues before the
country. Whether you have been Republican
or Democrat, an Abolitionist or q pro-slavery
Breckenridge Democrat, if you are loyal man
meaning to profess your allegiance to country
over every thing else, your duty is to support
Abraham Lincoln, which you can only do by
voting the Republican ticket. 1v ag
The Time for Action.
The election which takes place Mt 1t Tuesday
is the most important in which the people Of
Iowa were ever called upon to act q part. Our
country is engaged in desperate and deadly
struggle for. it's existence. A fierce rebellion,
spreading over more. than half of the Territory
occupied by the States, and in which nearly one
third of the people of the Union, either will
lingly or by compulsion, are participants, is
traitorously striving. to destroy the life of the
Republic. go
The loyal and patriotic people of the Northern
States, are, with unparalleled devotion, striving
to overpower and suppress the treason. The
rebels have insisted upon but one alternative
They demand and insist that the independence
Of their pretended Confederacy shall be acknow
lodged. They offer no other terms,-wiil &C
cept of no other conditions. They assert that
they are already separate and distinct nation
atty. They jeer at the Union, trample con.
temptuously on its flag, and threaten a war of
determination, until their aims are accomplish
ed, and their demands are granted.
On the other hand, the administration and
the people of the North, demand nothing of the
rebels but that they lay down their arms, return
to their homes and submit themselves to the
Constitution, which they, as we'll as ourselves,
have always proclaimed the palladium of human
liberties, and to those laws which they them
selves enacted.
Insane ambition and irrecaimable malice,
thus far have sustained the rebellion in it's dew.
ilish purposes; as universal CONSUMPTION and the
most unbounded tyranny, have enabled them to
muster immense armies, and hurl them against
the self-devoted men of the North, who have
voluntarily gathered themselves together for the
maintenance of the Union and their country.
Is it too much for US to assume that it is the
duty, plain and imperative, of every man who
thinks the Nation worth saving, sor republican
institutions real blessing, and not a mere pre-
tence and delusion, to stand by and support the
Administration through whose efforts the Ma
ton can alone be saved from eternal wreck and
ruin? Do not all good and true men, however
opposite or diverse their other opinions, concur
in the belief that, in order to save the Union,
the President must be made strong by the cor
dial and unanimous support of all who love their
country as it should be loved, and who mean to
assert its integrity to the end of time?
If this be so,-and it cannot be reasonably
disputed,-wha is the action which honest pa
triots in Iowa should carry out in the coming
election Should they vote for that class of
all his acts, or for those who endorse them
Should they assist into positions of influence,
those who talk fpeace-meaning thereby either
the acknowledgment of Confederate nationality
and independence, or the subsection of the whole
Union to its malignant and barbarous system of
savery-or those who manfuly stand by the
Union and the laws, and support the admins
tration in its efforts to wipe out the treason
which has reared its borrid front amongst US
We are not of those who believe there is a
great number among US who knowingly intend
to aid in electing to Congress- or to other places
of trust, such base caricatures of manhood as
are set up by the Mahonyites in Iowa. We ex-
pect their defeat, Notwithstanding their clamor-
GUS and false pretences of patriotism, to be sig
nal and overwhelming. It should be Water
loo rout, and it will be. That this result may
be secured it is only requisite that the true men
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