The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-09-13


booming Of Rebel cannon at some point, and
although Grant is cursed from Major Generals
down to privates, our forces will doubtless fght
well and give old Sterling warm reception.
Rosecrans is reported by the papers as march
ing Southwest with thirty or forty thousand
men. This 10 al hunbug. A couple Of weeks
ago Buell. sent:.h for two divisions. Rose
Grams, with shirty or forty Regiments Twelve Or
fifteen thousand messy moved. east and now lies
in supporting distance of both Buell. and Us. he
is reported to have had a.brush near Tuscumbia
and taken some prisoners. Buell. is also re-
ported having fought two days and taken 5000
prisoners. Passengers from Columbus, last
night, said it was rumored there that Stonewall
Jackson and 81, 900 Of his troops we're captured.
We all hope and pray that these reports are
true, but dare not yet believe them. Again we
urge, with oil the earnestness We can summon,
the imperative duty of filing up the Old Rsgi-
ments. If you leave US to be crushed the new
;evies will be driven back and the North. west in
vaded- Look in Kentucky. New troops re.
pulsed, Legislature fed from Frankfort to Louis
Vile, anu VInClu0AIl CnEc8teneO.
If we are crushed here, let the; blame rest
where it belongs. The country has been warned
in time-McC lellan, Burnside, Rosecrans and
others have urged the duty Of. first filling up the
old regiments, yet.not o''e single recruit have We
seen. Our recruiting officers are sent home to
recruit for their regiments in the field, not to
spend their time slectioneerig for positions in tie
ewreginssnts % some are now doing. When the
rebels want . regiment replenished they draft
mon and put them. in, without making any ado
about it. Their regiments are filed to repletion
by CONSUMPTION; ours wasted to skeletons, prin.
cipally BY discharges given BY rascslly surgeons.
Ten are discharged where one falls BY the sword
or disease used to know q certain surgeon
: whom, it was currently reported, would make
out certificates Of disability for anybody for the
, sum of $25. know men, too, who went home
as sound a they we're tho. day they enlisted i
spoke Of this thing, in. letter to the Haw k.Eye
;, year ago, snd repeat, 'Iet them be received
J ii home with scorn." s'' - ~ ~ ~ n
The work on3ths Potomac il frightful, but
We feel confident of success. Halleck will save
the country if any man can. We put our trust
3 in Old Abe and Halleck. This country is not K
y be saved BY agitating the slave question. 1t on
" tends to distract and divide the people. Lei
!. US let it alone and prosecute the war. SLAYER
! dies with Secession. The .black headed cancer,
vii: be rooted out "a We need never mention it
name, only prosec'sss Tie oar honestly. and faith
fully and it dIes. American slavery, whic
mskss chattels:.of human beings, rending asun
= der the family.,sie and blooming husband an
a wife to ceibacy or adultery; which forbids edu
cation, shutting out the light Of knowledge fro,
!. the understanding; which subjects female yrtu
:. to the. beastly lust Of the master and drive
it and than cells tie otsprsg; all this. must cease.
70 Hits Gods work, England once crowded OF
ds markets with African chattels; her operative
= now starvs., /, Virgins bought the first cargo
"a slaves and cursed our new territories with cha
10 tells from her breeding. death and destru,
en- ton now desolate her. Missouri. for ten thoui
10. and slaves, once shook this Union from cent
to circumference andlforced . dlsgraceful coz
he promise upon the country; almost every coun
lie, is now marked with blood. Kentucky, at fl
hit reasonably neutral, and Afterwards only respo
ol. ding feebly in behalf of her country Is nc
md ground between the upper and neither milston
INV Such seems to be the viii Of Provideaes,
,.y never makes mistakes We are all guilty q
md all suffer- But We trust that Ill is for the be
rhe We trust that our. country VIII come forth
the gold from the furnace Of the re6ner-twice |
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