The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-11
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK.EYE.

EEKLY HAWK-EYE.
|ef. [iord and no|opged applause ] Theron
~ repl! ~hich'he made, 80 long iss he coald
make any, to these statements a. to the weak
ness OF Democracy, was: Gentlemen, by the
time you get through with Uncle Sam, you will
lind u strong enough for common use" loud
cheers He had been what was called q lovaI
MAN to the institution Of Slavery, but the mo-
ment the old flag was torn down, he had told
them that they would make him not only an Al.
clifton sympathizer, but An active practical
Abolitionist Enthusiastic cheering.1 He
feared that there were those who still fancied
that by some conciliatory measures the South
could be brought back to the old Governments
There could be no greater fallacy. Applause.
The loyal men of the South we're praying to get
back into the Union without any condition or
Cancellation. Would any loyal men consent
that JEFF. Davis should ever be President Of the
United States? [''No, no."] Mr.. Hamilton
continued: do want to see the old Govern.
ment when it shall have asserted its power
make wise and just discrimination between
the guilty and the deluded. [cheers.l want
the really responsible traitors punished. loud
fering, the ignorant to be allowed to come back
like the prodigal son and be forgiven. [Cheers
If we cannot concliate these men, what can we
do? Shall history record it that twenty seven
millions of ireemen and women, and children,
have not the moral and physical power to
strange treason in fifteen hundred thousand!
ls Republicanism to fail upon this continent be-
cause that twenty seven millions are not suff
ciently conscious Of their duty to themseIves,t to
the Government of their fathers, to humanity
the wide world over, to realize the fact that this
Rebellion can alone be crushed by physical
force? have not doubt but peace PROPOSE.
lions will come from the Confederate or Rebel
Government but they will not come in the
shape OF an unconditional proposition to
assume the Union as it was, leaving the elective
franchise as it was. We have already seen some
of the conditions, or what would probably be
the conditions, if hostiities we're to cease. do
not think they would even emanate from the
Cabinet-if may be allowed the expression-as
Richmond. They know that if the Government
of the Uuited States should, in its mercy, par
don their offenses and restore them to their
rights under the Constitution, their own fellow
citizens who have been their victims would
sparn them away, and they are as effectually cut
off from preferment as if they had been convict
edsof high treason. The very desperation with
which they are struggling ought to prove to you
aud the world that they will never stop while
they can get men to bleed; they will never cease
to fight as long as there is hope of success,
because it is the only hope of salvation to them.
They do not feel for the sufferings of the wives
and the children that are made widows and Or.
phans by this unholy war; it never has entered
the mind of one man in this rebellion who under
stood its object, to shed tear for all the blood
shed, misery and woe which it involved. The
war must be put down by bsyonet-, by powder
and ball, by brave hearts and strong arms =
Cheers. do not say this because have suf-
tered-it is because thousands of brave men are
suffering now. 1t is trae, ha6 I not suffered and
witnessed suffering, l might not, and probably
would not, have been so earnest in my feelings
We are all sufficiently selfish, and am no ex-
ception. If secession is an accomplished fact,
and the Government that has resulted from it an
established Government among the nations of
the earth, do you believe that secession would
stop there? Ara there not men even in the En-
pire State, in your goodly city, who would listen
to treasony Wood, Wood, Wood There
may be such men in all New York, but, fellow
citizens, would dislike exceedingly to think
that my hopes of the future depended upon the
fact of there being no such men. [Laughter.1-
say that I do not question the loyalty of the
great heart of New York. I mean that man has
not, even here in New York, attained to human
periectability. There are men doubtless here
who would be willing to be the great particular
magnate here in New York at the expense of the
Government at Washington. TCheers] 1t is
certain to my mind that once it is established
that it is possible thing to tear asunder the
States, there will be men tugging at day by
day and year by year, and you will not have the
cop hod thot atfco IL
should be resisted, and you may be led to ask
whether, to escape anarchy at last, yon had not
better have a stronger Government. There is
safety tor US and fallen humanity throughout the
world in the preservation of the Government of
our fathers Loud cheers We have conf
dence in TIE flag which floats over the soil of
New York to-. day. but when the one shall have
been destroyed and the other trailing in the
dust, what confidence shall we have in equal
success? / at home felt that I was degraded
man because was a son of the South, and the
people with whom had lived so long had for
feited their birthright, and turned away from me,
and was too big coward to make myself q
martyr. I was compelled to leave my home IN
der circumstances painful at any time. The An
gel of Death had just passed over my house.
But why should be allowed to remain and weep
with my wife over the tomb of little daughter
II, an OLD Wretcn VINO 0are0 10 TELL my neigh
bors that the solemn oath had taken to support
the Constitution Of the United States was still
binding? had done too much to be permitted
to live peaceably at home. had robbed no
man in the land; there we're those who at times
had fed, and they were first to cry "Crucify him,
apg him." In Mexico there are now 500 men
who left a. left. They are in the mountain
Businesses, hunted like wolves. Are they to
have help? Give them chance and they will
bleed for their country, die for it, redeem II; and
there are men enough there to-day to redeem it
if they were organized and had arms in their
hands. Let 10 man be permitted to live 10 the
Government who will dare again to strut his
little hour upon any stage and preach treason to
his tellow.man. Loud applause.] Restore
the Government. its Constitution, and its laws
to all, fellow citizens. With all my heart. Re.
store the Union as it existed for the year just
preceding the Rebellion? God forbid. Loud,
prolonged and repeated applause.] Am to be
RENTED back to the soil of Texas, to be hunted
by assassins the little remnant of my life p
(''No, no ri Am to 60 there to teach my lit.
flo son that the chief blessing of his great fu-