The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-22
FLAG PRESENTATION.

ful Regimantal Flag was presented to the s4th
Iowa Regiment at Camp Lauman, in this city.
The fsg was donated by the citizens Of Bur.
lington, and was made at the establishment OF
Messrs. Greenbaum, Schroeder & Co., was of the
frst quality of silk, regulation pattern, fringed
and embroidered with gold, and the hsndsomest
we have yet seen. A large crowd of our citi
zens were present.
The presentation was made BY Charles Il.
Phelps, Esq, of this city, whose remarks we're
substantially as follows:
Dol. Clark and Officers and Soldiers Of tie s4M
Iopa Regiment of Volunteers: ,sqa
/ In behalf, of the citizens of Burlington, am
requested to present you regimental flag.
appreciate the honor, and have only to re
greet that so interesting ceremony has not been
committed to ADLER hands.
From the commencement of this gigantic re-
bellion it has been the universal custom TO pre.
sent to each regiment as 1t went forth to the
field, as its regimental colors and the insignia of
its power and patriotism, the magnificent Star
Spangled Banner.
The custom is an appropriate and significant.
one. We are engaged in the most remarkable
war the world has ever seen, in endeavoring to
crush the rebellion of q portion of our people
| against Government of the peopte, and who
are presenting to the world the singular specta.
| Gle of people warning against themselves
striving to commit a National telo de Sc.
A war more utterly groundless in its origin,
and more suicidal in its policy, has never exist.
ed since the fall of Lucifer from Heaven.
You have nobly volunteered your aid to pre-
serve the Government, and have taken your
lives 10 your hands to offer them Up, if need be,
70. the salvation of our country, for the main
tenance of the only free Government on the face
of the globe.
What token of our confidence. then is SO be-
fitting as the Star Spangled Banner whose SUI
premacy you 60 forth to maintain, the beloved
dag Of our country to whose defence you have
devoted your lvesl
What can so constantly remind you of the
cause in which you fight, or 60 strongly nerve
your arms in the terrific storm of battl!
feel it to be unnecessary to exhort YOU to do
your duty under it. Iowa soldiers have long
since craven their names indelibly in the annals
Of fame Their bones lie bleaching upon our
bloodiest battle>helds, while Wilson's Creek,
and Belmont. and Shiloh, and Pea Ridge, and
Donelson, and the war worn skeletons of the
"Bloody 7th," and the daring and determined
Second, attest that they have never yet turned
q deaf ear to their countrys call nor their backs
to the foe.
Your bravery has not yet been so sorely tried,
but the high character you have maintained du.
ring your encampment here, assures US that in
the severe trials that await you, you will be fully
equal to the hopes we have OF you.
Take then this banner, and Gods blessing 90
with 1t and you and may He who presides over
the destinies of battles and of nations, grant
q adv Nd 70 = A.
OF war, but under the happier auspices of peace,
and may you long be spared to witness in your
own handiwork a peaceful, newly strengthened
permanent and glorious Union
Whereupon Col Clark, on behalf of his re-
giment, replied as follows:
S1R:'
On behalf of the 34th Iowa Regiment, I
am happy to accept this beautiful flag. l
know but family utter the sentiment of the
| entire regiment, when say we are sincerely
| thankful to the generous doners for this
manifestation Of your interest in US. We will
not however, so far disparage your patriotic
ardor, as to claim this present as an exhibi-
ton merely OF your personal regard. We are
its grateful recipients and shall ever be proud
of 1t. Yet we are only small part of an i'm
mense army battling for the most momentous
cause For that army and that cause we &C
cept this as protestation of your sympathy
| ana DEVOTION At the same time we are not
Indifferent to the compliment you show US as
| q regiment.
Our pleasant sojourn in your midst is at an
end. We 60 to engage in more stirring scenes
We will bear at the head of our column this
glorious ensign of our once happy republic
We shall ever remember the good and patriot
ic people at whose hands we received it. Slim
ulsted by the old prestige of the Stars and
Stripes and by the lofty deeds Of valor per-
formed by the heroic Iowa soldiers on every
battle field in the Mississippi valley, zoe
solemnty swedr that zoe aciU neuer ,d,shonor the
colors NTH ,chich you entrust us, that ,ce riH
neven falter before the foe or surrender into his
foul hands. Give US q thousand deaths on the
battlefield in preference to one in rebel pri-
son. Our motto is, 'the quickest way to end
this sanguanary struggle is to make it fierce
and terrible" There is no patriotism in par
leying with traitors. This is the spirit of the
94th and shall continue to be. We love our
country and we love Cur flag. We have un-
abated confidence in the power of our govern
ment to crush out this unholy and unnatural
rebellion. We have an abiding faith that this
glorious banner of liberty will ultimately
triumph, and that it will again float over a
happy, peaceful and united land To this
sublime end, We leave our homes and friends,
and 'pledge our lives, our fortunes and sa.
cred honor s." Whatever our career may be we
will cling to this flag, aud when our work has
been done and We are permitted to return to
our own loved State of Iowa, we will bring
this flag back VITA US. Though it may be
weather beaten and bullet rent, its uusulied
folds will testify that it was never trailed in
the dust.
AT the close of Col. Clark's speech, Lieut.
Col. DUNCAN proposed three cheers for the
patriotic citizens of Burlington, which were
given with hearty good will.
Major Kellogg then proposed three cheers
for The Flag, which were given by citizens
and soldiers, with which the agreeable cere-
monies terminated, the whole being highly
| satisfactory to all concerned.
Comparative Strength OF European Ma.
lions.
Under the title "Puissance Comparee des
dicers Estats de Z Europe" NJ. Maurice Block,