The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-24

ESTABLISHED
t. The newspaper accounts Of The bsttlea
skirmishes, sieges and marches are most unjust
and unfair In three cases out Of Eve. We have
he'd il we'll illustrated in the West in the 90.
counts Of the various battles given TO the.public
through the medium Of Chicago pspars. Ihe
real heroes wers never heard Of through these
mendacious historians The praise vas uniforu'
~ bestowed upon some fsvorits Regiment or
Division and upon offers who had bought and
paid for their fayors Al the recent battle of
Williamsburgh the same thing occurred. The
public we're led 70 believe that Gen. Hancock
did all the Sighting. which consisted simply in
one gallant bayonet charge. This Is very uu-
just and unfair, and the correspondents who
wrote these lying accounts ought to be kicked
out of the srmy,-drummed out Of camp The
truth is Hancock had only between twenty and
thirty killed and wounded, aud only four regi.
| ments engaged. His affair was but skirmieh.
On the left, Heintzelman was compelled TO fight
great battle, Of vastly more consequence than
Bull Run, and be won it, too. He had seven
enteen regiments engaged from first to last
twelve of Hooker's and Eve Of Kearney's; and
his loss in killed, wounded and missing, was
t'co 0ousand aud forty-sixi The facts are that
the courage Of our men enabled Heintselman to
fight for six hours against the odds Of three TO
one, and agsinst other and greater odds than
disciplined troops ever before encountered
And wider and wider spreads the opinion through
the army every hour that it only needed that
Sumner should have spared Heintselman
third or half Of his force standing Idle in the
woods, only mile OF, to have enabled him to
crush the enemy right at Williamsburgh, and
have taken or dispersed the great force which
We may now have to fight again In the Chicka-
hominy swamp.
Fatal Accident In Jefferson County...
Three PersOns Drowned.
We are panied to hear of an accident in JEFF
fsrson county, Sunday evening last, by which
three persons lost their lives. Ar. Ed. w. Cul.
bertson, son Of Col Culbertson of Fairfield,
Miss Maggie Nesbitt and Miss HAMMER, in
carriage, while attempting to cross Cedar Greek,
Sunday evening ats o'clock, were oil drowned.
Young Nr. Culbertsou could easily have saved
his own life, but he undertook to rescue the
young ladies' and was drowned with them. A
large number of the citizens Of Fairfield and
Jefferson county were out Yesterday and sue.
ceeded in finding the bodies.
a. The coming political campaign in this
State promises to be one of considerable inter.
est The following officers are to be elected
Six Members of Congress; Secretary, Treasurer |
and Auditor OF State, Register of the State |
Land Office, and Attorney General; II District
Judges, and IL District Attorneys.
a. How exceedingly mean our Iowa secesh
Resurrectionists must feel, at their dirty work,
when they see the people Of the border States
moving vigorously in the cause of emancipation,
while they are trying to agtate in the interest,
and restore the dominion and power of slavery
as political institution. How very chssp the |
corner grocery politicians in Iowa must feel
while bowling "Abolitionist," seeing sensible
men OF ali parties in Missouri earnestly moving |
to rid that State Of the curse of slavery. We |
hardly wonder that Southern people hold iu ut. |
ter contempt and detestation all Nor rthern peo.
pie. Their ideas Of Northern men have been |
formed by intercourse with the mercensry horde |
of doughface politicians. They believe all |
Northern people as mean and despicable, as un-
principled and time serving, as dsstardly and |
infamous as these Godforsaken wretches.
Here is an extract from the Palmyra, Missou-
ri, Courier paper never accused of abolition
ism. We invite Jones, Mshony, Hendershot,
Dean, Steward and their sweet-scented cola.
borers to read it and howl After reviewing
the wretched condition of the finances of Mis-.
souri,, with public debt Of $27, ,00O, 900, the
Courier remarks:
Bankruptcy, or the introduction Of labor and
capital, then, are the issues before us. Either
the State must be developed in her resources,
or it must sink. Let us look then, for capital
and labor. Where shall they be found? Thew
are not within the State. Capital and labor,
to great extent, have been driven from the
State BY the rebellion, and will not return until
thelG safety shall have been guaranteed. lslns
Shall we look to the border Slave Statesp-
They, too, sretn similar condition:
Ills 10 the FREE States, tnen, that, n0twlth-
standing our prejudices, we must turn for what
we need and must have. They only have the Ia
Dor and capital to save Us. But in procuring
from them that which We want as necessary for
our deliverance from insupportable burdens,
there comes the necessity for the making of an.
other cboice-a choice between the surrender of
our prgudicss against free labor, or Tie ruin of
the STATE IF we triumph over our prejudices,
the State will be saved. If our prejudices tri-
umph over US, all is lost.
As to the cause Of the war, it says:
We shall be content with the single remark
that ss the rebellion has found its 6rmest foot.
hold where slavery most predominates, and has 4
ragged wherever slavery has existed-from the
Northern boundaries Of Maryland and Missouri,
place ,ctdteyer il will henceforth be difficult to
convince free labor and free capital that they
are permanently secure in any State in which
the institution Of slavery permanently exists. 1
a. The President, it will be seen, sets Gen.
Hunter back . notch or two. Our Military
Commanders are very unfortunate in their pro.
clamations. 1t is not their forte and they ought
to learn - much BY and by. Gen. Hunters
proclamation, like Gen. Phelps and others, il .
very harmless document which can do neither
harm nor good. II will not free negro, and
the idea that il 10 going to exaspsrats the rebels
is al nonsense. No body cares whether they
like il or not. II 10 about time We gave up the
idea Of conciliation. They have clearly shown
that nothing will conciliate them but heavy
blows well laid on. There IA but one Iasua-ona