The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-12

ripe for being unjust in great matters dur;n.
our revolution. Neutrality in disguise-asa,.s
sins are neutral before they use the poipnsrS
The tiger in the jungle is neutral before Ia
pluDges on his victim. When you wish to d..
stroy An enemy, you first conceal your plan
Error and injustice are neutral before becom-
ing arrogant and inpudent.
GEN. BUTLER's PROCLAMATION.
A love Of fault-fnding is no proof of wis.
dom. Your criticisms on General Butler.
proclamation are as just as your pretended
love for Aemerica is honest Critics, say,
Wycherly, are like thieves who, condemns
to execution, choose the business of execu-
TONERS rather than be hung. Your distortio,
OF the New Orleans proclamation is WORTHY ~
the people that were aboltionists when tbev
thought, by preaching that doctrine, they copa
break up our Republican, proslavery adyo.
Gates when they believed that we should pr..
serve the Union. The proclamation you hay.
aisnonestiy translated. Do you mean to saw
that you believed that General Butler issnos
the order for immoral pusposes?
10 you really understand its WORDING n
SIGNIFY that unbridled license vas piyen tn
the federal army? The very idea is contr.rv
to the instincts Of cur nature, insulting to N.
American people, and outraging the senses If
our race. You give the order meaning nevsr
intended. 1t was unfortunately worded bnt
the spirit Of the order was proper one In.
dies hold the remedy. Let them remain in
doors; let them behave like women. mot liz
human tigresses. The terrible Slaughter ~
our soldiers will some day lay heavily upop
| their consciences. Women who 90 out ~
their way to insult federal officers who have
treated them with every courtesy, by pouring
| not water out Of their windows when they pas,
or throwing vitrol in their faces on the pave
ment, or SO far unsexing themselves as to
strike an otacer, ought not to object, when
martial law ls ordered, to proclamations that
enforce clvillty where rudeness was SO marked
Inc municipal law permits no disorder in the
street. Women breaking j. are sent to the cal.
aboose. That is the terrible order-uotbinr
nore--nothiDg less-that aroasss England and
provokes this debate. Lord Pslmers.on takes
advantage Of it to have another fling At the
Americans, and Gregory and Walsh are mad
with delight. Lord Carnarvon also brings OF:
Earl Russell, and all the newspapers clap .hei1
nanos IN Joy-and you, gentlemen, echo the
sentiment OF the land. Do you remember a
picture in the illustrated News during the Sepoy
revolution l do-and three features were
prominent-cannon-Eng officers and Sepov
messengers bearing fas OF truce. The pic.
ture has another sde-:he off GERS corsult-tbe
Sepoys are bound upon the muzzle of the qua.
and, with their flag Of truce tied around ,they
we're blown towards the camp from whence they
came.
Did Mr.. Seward get up in his place in the
Senate chamber, and protest against it in the
name OF humanity? The atrocities of Jour sol.
diers in India were only egualled in their brp
tality by Nena Sahib himself When British
officer enters Sepoy village and gives the Or
der to his regiment to ravish the Sepoy women,
and then level the houses TO the earth, humani.
ty shudders for civilization. Compared with
such fends, Gen. Butler is scholar, a gentle
man and christian. How forgetful Of the
rights OF civilization, for our statesmen to re.
main silent without recording their indignation
at such brutal acts! England must feel proud
OF those christian officers, and no wonder she
is indignant at Butler.
Have you forgotten the siege of Limerick,
ls it true that Englishmen rsyisned the women
before butchering the garrison and burning the
town! DO you remember the cold-blooded
slaughter Of the hcDonalds of Glencoe. under
the same dynasty? Verify, what q man was
Lord Byron:-
You are the best of cut-throatsi Do not start
The phrase in Shakspeare's, and not msapplied;
w ar's Q brain NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sitting art,
Unless her cause by right be sanet;fed.
If you have acted once generous part.
The world. not the worlds masters, will decide:
And shall be delighted to learn uho,
Save you and yours, have gained at Waterloo?
Davoust in Hamburg-Junot in Lisbon-MaL
akofi in the Algerian caves-were guilty of acts
and Wellington at st. Sebastian-worthv of
Russia in Poland or Hsynau in Austria. But.
lers ofense is words-England's otfense was
acts. Was Buffers motive good or bads Its
the motive, not the act, that blackens the crime.
England is not the land to give America exam.
pies as to the treatment of women. America il
. country where its youth are taught not to in
suit an old man or An old woman, and q woman
can 60 through the entire country without being
lnsuited America is the land where education
and religion gives tone to the morals of our
people. How careful England is to End fault
with our Federal army.
Have you seen any questions on the Parlia.
mentary paper asking if the reports are true re-
garding atrocities Of the Confederate ARMY
Has the Federal power no friend at court 70
ask those questions of Lord Palmersten: Is it
true that savages, led on By confederstes
scalped our wounded soldiers at Pea Ridge? Is
It true that Gov. Sprsgue found some of bis
aids, who were killed at Bull Run, buried with
their faces downward! Is it true that Federal
wounded on the ground at the battle of Win
chester, we're bayoneted by Confederate soldiers?
ls it true that the ladies Of . certain town in
Virginia invited one hundred Federals to their
houses to tea, and their brothers, who were in
ambush, rushed out and put them oil to death!
Surely America ought to have one friend bold
enough in Parliament, when Gregory and The
Premier are hurting their invectivss against
America, TO inquire If it is true that the skull Of
4 Federal officer 10 . BON bon for rebel LADY,
that Madame Beauregard, who was treated With
30 much politeness by Gen. Butler, wears ca
meo cut from the bone of Federal Colonel
that rebel ladies wear rings and brooches made
out OF the skulls Of our brave oficers-that the
proper thing for the rebel gentleman at Rich.
noad is to have spittoon made out Of human
head! In conclusion, let me ask if England
controls Americas sctioEr IfEngland pays our
Federal officers? II England must first be cor
'ulted before We declare martini lawP I was not
aware that Abraham Lincoln was elected Prssi.
lent Of the powerful American Republic by The
monarchies Of Europe. [Oheen and
applause.
X. g. G.