The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-01

and gatner strength before striking blow for lite
destruction. i!3uz Rt
You cannot be ignorant Of the design Of
these men. He that runs may read it. They
see that We are drifting towards Emancipation.
Tney see that the demand from the masses of
our people for this great measure i becoming,
DAY by day, more importunate. They know that
majority Of your Cabinet favor it. They feel
assured, az to yourself, that if the option re-
main with you, 1t is but question of time and
form when and bow Proclamation Of Eman.
c'pat'on will be issued. They perceive but one
power that has any chance successfully to arrest
tnis stream ana coefce your action. Openly
they appeal to 1t. Openly they declare that
cabinet Ministers must be imposed upon you by
military dictation. No other course is left to
them to effect their great object, namely, to per
petuste among Us that Slavery which the Ma
ZION, with determination which increases from
DAY to day, is resolved to uproot
one blow may be dealt by you against these
men that will crush, for ever, their reasonable
csoais. III the same that lays the foundation
of peace, and assures, beyond possible perad-
venture, the downfall of the Rebellion. They,
know their danger. They read "Emancipation"
IN all the signs of the times. II is to them the
hand writing on the wall, foreshadowing their
pohtlcal late What wonder that they resort to
desperate means to arrest its advent?
onaH they be allowed time, by insidious argu.
ment, to entice the unwary into the ranks of &C.
oinon BY prompt action alone can you pre-
vent 1t. 1t is idle to await unauimity. Men &C
quiesce in thousand things, once righteously
ana boldly done, to which, if proposed to them
IN advance, they might find endles objections.
Do you hesitate! Will you delay the blow?
See to it, that when, at last your resolution is
taken, the power may not already have passed
away from your hands.
The 23d Of September approaches-the date
when the sixty>day notice you have given to
the Rebels will expire--with or without other
replyto your warning than the invasion Of
Maryland and menace to Pennsylvania. Is
1t to rest therei Patiently We have waited the
time. Is nothing to follow? Are our enemies
to boast that We speak brave words-.and there
4 an end of its ..a;sRl rs -.s3. 80 80,
What day, if you but will it, may that 23d
Of September become! The very turning point
in the nations fatel A day to the Rebels of
despair; to every loyal heart, of exultant res
joicing! A day of which the anniversary will
be celebrated with jubilee while the American
Union endures Adsy to be remembered not in
our land alone, but wherever Humanity mourns
over the wrongs Of the slave, or rejoices in his
liberation! glylg 4J "a .3l5 + Z
You are the first President to whom the op-
portunity was ever offered constitutionslly to
linaugurate such day. If you fail us now,
you may be the last. Lift, then, the weight
from the heart of this people. Let them
breathe free once more. Extirpate the blight-
] ing cause, living threat .throughoug long
years past, that has smitten at last with DESC
lation land to which God had granted every
thing but wisdom and justice. Give back to
the nation its Hope and Faith in Future of
nd 1sc<,, pknl
you can more than fulfll-the brightest antic.
ipatious of those who, in the name of Human
Freedom, and in the face of threats that have
ripened into terrible realities since, fought
that battle which placed you where you now
stand. l,I isG .
ROBERT DALE OWEN. -
+ New York, Sept. II, 1862 5..t& =
Tho War upon Gen. Mcclellan. 81
Geo. Wilkes writes long Washington letter
to his esprit" Of last week, from which We
extract the following:- H.,ya e5st a.r.s
Seward and Blair who for a long time past have
been Little Macs only supporters in the supreme
council of the nation, are now very doubtful of
his qualifications or availability. Mr.. Blair, who
was formerly 80 hot in his behalf, that he could
hardly restrain himself within the bounds of
courtesy when the qualities Of his Pocket Napo
leon we're discussed, now charges upon Sew ard
the mistake of retaining him in command, while
Seward, for himself, preserves logged silence
on the subject, and will not respond to any con.
versation which relates to the Evil Genius of the
war. Halleck merely shrugs his shoulders, as IL
. to say, l have done my duty in the natter
: He would have been impeached ere this, had
not been restrained )" while the President, OIL
his part, tells the story for Stuart, of three
times round and out" but relapsing into his
strong common sense, solaces himself with the
: consolation that all things are for the hest
: That if, in short, he had dismissed Mcclellan
from the army after his failure in the PENN
sula, there would have sprung up mighty effor,
for his restoration, which would have seriously
+ complicated public operations, and had mos
disastrous effect upon the coming State elections
t His Excellency now, however, doubtless think,
from the universal verdict of every military man
and even from the action Of the previous Nc
u Clellanism in the Cabinet, that when true sol
, der is ready for the place the bogus Caesar ma,
{ be as quietly put aside, as some broken piece
China, and no one ever speak of him again, ex
+ cept when looking over the curiosities of thu
: household 900 - "s=i',2 5@s 81" f-
!. The President, we are sure, feels deeply NOR
{ tilted at the blistering disgrace upon our arm,
by this last uninterrupted raid. In his good ma
3 tured way, he assumed the responsibility of re
storing Mcclellan to station after the failures
|. the Chickahominy and it was therefore impor
,tant to him personally, that his future acts
! should Justify the venture. The battle q
Antietam, where with double the troops, he al
lowed the enemy to sleep upon the field, ant
, then quietly retire without annoyance to Vir
ginia, was hardly such proof as a doubtful case
required; while the strange apatby which bound
, him for weeks to the vicinity Of Sharpsburp
: soon became an object of ALARM ~
Thus impressed, the President, after consult
ing with the Cabinet, set out for Sharpsburg, to
= Stir up the spellbound commander with the un-
E animous desire of the Government, that be
i should press forward after Lee The Presidep,
was graciously received by Mcclellan he hon
ored him with salvos of artillery, and when he
passed with him alone into his tent, and the fal
leu canvass yelled the two great mysteries Of
r the Nation from vulgar eyes, heavy line Of
guards preserved the sacred vicinity for forty
yards around, from any profane or impertinen,
/ intrusion. There was no person present a,
| that momentous interview but Mr.. Lincoln and
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