The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-28

eousaiuiuS threats to me, hereafter, allow me to
add, that in no degree will they change the
course either OF punishment or of justice, which
my Judgment may determine.
have failed to find any other thing in your
note which requires reply.
have the honor to be,
Your obedent servant,
lSignedI B. F. BUTLER,
MAJOR General Commanding.
Colonel Ogden left last evening on bis return
to Jackson, Mississippi, General Lovelrs head
quarters.
Mr.. Yancey on a High Horse.
Some OF Mr.. Yancey's admirers at Montgom-
cry, Ala.-where he remains in inglorious ease
and safety. allowing the ''poor white trash" of
the South to fight his battles-lately presented
him with magnificent black horse, costing four
hundred and fifty dollars in confederate paper.
The donors tell Mr.. Yancey that the horse, being
fifteen hands and two inches high, is designed
ITO represent in some faint degree those high
moral attributes which have adorned your (Yan.
cey's) character as the leader of the great move.
ment for southern independence" This may
have been meant as sly hint to Mr.. Yancey
that he had better add high military to his moral
attributes, seeing the desperate enterprise he
has started needs all the help it can get at this
crisis. But Mr.. Yancey did not so understand
it, and in his long and windy letter of acknowl.
edgment for the horse he does not even intimate
that in any emergency he may use him on the
battle field. But he improves the opportunity
to revamp and reissue some of the malignant
falsehoods in which secession had its birth, and
to add few original ones got up for the occa-
sion. He says there is no longer in the South
any respect for the flag of the United States or
tor the men that rally beneath it, and adds:
"The war is clearly no longer war to reinstate
the constitution and the Union, but q war to re.
duce the states of the South to territorial con.
dition-to establish over each military dcta-
torship, as in Tennessee-to disfranchise our
citizens-to reduce them to level with negroes
to con6scate our property-to subject our in
dustry for untold years to exorbitant taxation to
pay the enormous war debt of the North"
Of course Mr.. Yancey knows how entirely false
all this is, and be admits it in the assertion that
the war lie mo longer" war for the restoration
of the Union. This isseqavalent to saying that
such was the object of the war at the start, but
that the general government has perverted it to
war of subjugstion and robbery. This state.
ment also implies the existence of q Union par y
still in the South, for it is to them that Yancey
addresses his lying appeal, hoping that if they
can be made to feel that the war has degener-
ated to mere struggle Of sections and that the
restoration of the old Union is hopeless, the en-
tire people of the South may be united in the
desperate purpose to stand by their treacherous
leaders to the last, and so make any return Of
the southern people to their former loyalty i'm
possible.
But the people of the South cannot fail to see
how utterly false all these representations of the
secession leaders are. The Government has
never deviated one iota from the ayowed object
with which it began the war, and no single act
of the administration can be pointed to which
indicates any intention to subjugate the South,
to reduce the States to territorial condition,
or in the slightest degree to impair the powers
or Interfere with the institutions of the States.
There has been much loose talk of that sort,
and it has done immense mischief by giving an
appearance of truth to the declarations of the
Southern leaders, but not single act or word
of the administration furnishes the least basis
for any such charge. The military government
of the States, in the interval between the ex-
pulsion of the usurping and disloyal State off.
GERS and the substitution Of loyal men in their
places, is a matter Of necessity, and ia justified
by the recognized principles and practices of
all governments. 1t gives no color Of support
to Mr.. Yancey's bold lie.
But Mr.. Yancey and his associate conspirators
may create a necessity for something like the
treatment they now falsely charge upon the
Government. If they succeed in inspiring the
Southern people generally with their own reck.
lessness and desperation; if after the rebel ar
mics are defeated, and the attempted revolu-
ton is proved to be failure and an impossible.
ity, they still keep up the hopeless struggle, and
90 into barbarous and malignant guerrilla
warfare, as they threaten; if they are neither
BUNDLED by the power, nor sottened by the
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course that must bring desolation upon the
South, then the Government will have no choice
but to use the most severe and effective meas
ures. Guerrillas cannot be treated as soldiers,
but as murderers and land pirates, and summa-
rily disposed of, and any use that can be made
of the negroes of the South in the suppression
of such rebellion will be fully and universally
justified. The object of the war will never be
changed, but if the means for its prosecution to
complete success are enlarged to the extent now
falsely alleged by Mr.. Yancey, upon him and
bis associates in crime will rest the responsible
ty. The loyal men of the country Will do their
duty in the premises, in strict accordance with
the Constitution and the Laws-it remains for |
Mr.. Yancey and the people he leads to say how
much more slavery and the South shall be dam.
aged by the acknowledgements Republican.
SrANLy AND MISUNDERSTANDING to the
following statement, which we find in the Bos-
ton Traveller, from it's correspondence at New
bern, it appears that General Burnside has de.
clared that his army shall not be used for ne
gro catching and that Governor stanly has
Withdrawn from the contest:
"Goverror Stanly has been applied to by cit
liens of this county, to return to them runa-
ways, He tried it once, butthe fugitlves came
into town again the next day, when the Gov
ernor declined to interfere, saying that ne had
no machinery, for executing civil process, and no
military force at his disposal for that purpose,
and he could not again interfere. General
Burnside says that his army shall not be used
Is negro catchers. He(General Burnside) was
4 BreckiIridge Democrat" y