The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-26

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We are on the eve Of another great battle
upon which hangs the fate Of the Mississippi
Valley. Gen. Halleck 10 in command Of An
army Of immense proportions, having under him
Generals Buel, Pope, Lew. Wallace, and host
Of Others. On the other side Beauregard, Bragg,
Hardee, the ablest rebel Generals, with large
army will make their last desperate stand, the
fate of the G. 8 A. clearly depending upon the
result We shall await the result with conf
dence, though there is much At stake, and much
anxiety must be felt.
STATE HAHKExAHN AssooIArIoH.-We have
received. the circular call for convention to
meet at Davenport on "Wednesday, the alst Of
May proximo, to form an Iowa Hahnemann A.,
ISOLATION. The call is quite numerously signed,
and is dated at Dubuque. From the enthusiasm
manifested, and the character of those whose
names are appended to the call, no doubt large
meeting will obtain. The inaugural address will
be delivered by DR.. E. A. Guilbert of that city.
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Geo. d. Allen, deserter from Captain
Lef6ngwell's Company, LIST Cavalry, was caught
here yesterday by Capt. Newman, and sent up
to the gridiron for safe keeping.
The Tone Of the Rebis Year Ago.
The Columbia, Is. CO. Guardian just about q
year ago, had an article which was generally
copied and approved by the secesh press, showing
how easy it would be for the Confederates to
whip and destroy the soldiers of the Union. We
quote the following:
Months ago the minds of our people had set.
tied resolvedly to meet any issue. Now the
people Of the North are in all the wild panic and
confusion of wars first alarms. We confront
them, a cool, collected foe, that will never give
them time to recover from their surprise. We
are ready for action--they are getting ready to
prepare to act They may raise plenty OF men
men who prefer enlisting to starvation scurvy
fellows from the back slums of cities, whom Fall
staff would not have marched through Coventry
Without these recruits are not soldiers, least
of all the soldiers to meet the hotblooded, thor
oughbred, impetuous men Of the South. Tren
cher soldiers, who enlisted to war on their ra-
tions, not on men, they are-such as marched
through Baltimore-squallid, wretched, ragged
and halfnaked, as the newspapers Of that city
report them. Fellows who do not know the
breech of musket from the muzzle, and had
rather Mich nan0kercnleI tnan nSnt an enemy
in manly open combat. White slaves, peddling
wretches, small change kuaves and Migrants,
the off.scourings of the populaee-atee are the
levied "forces" ,ohom Lincoln suddenly arrays as
candidates for tie honor of being slaughtered By
qentlemen-saeh as Mobile sent to battle yesterday
Let them come South, and ne ,vW pta our negroes
to the dirty cork of Killing them But the! ,cM
not come South. Not wretch Of them min me on
this side of The border longer than IL will take as to
reach the ground and drire them over.
Mobile is sending forth to wage this war of in.
dependence the noblest and bravest of her sons.
His expensive, ertraragant to put such material
against the riff raft mercenaries mhom the Abo'i
ton power has called ont We could almost hope
that better class of men would fall into the
Northern ranks that our ge,tten,c,, might find foe
men worthy of their steel, whom it would be
more difficult to conquer, and whom conquering
would be more honorable. For the present.
however, must not expect to find any foe scorM
fighting, 'cih the exception OF tew regiments, for
The North is Just getting ready, and wW likely be
schigped before ills repdy.
This was public opinion among the rebels a
year ago They are probably undeceived as to
the stuff of which Union soldiers are composed
by this time.