The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-08
The Moral OOWardAce OF Peace P0lltiear
Prom the Cincinnati Commercial.

me MSIAA OOWaTO1ce OF Feace FOlNelcAn,
Prom the Cincinnati Commercial.
Putting aside all political consideration, and
making full allowance for the license ofsn exci..
ing political campaign, there is something abso.
lutely humiliating in the attitude taken by such
men as Horatio Seymour John Van Buren,,
James Brooks, and other leading men of the
conservative party in New York. They are
absolutely whining for peace, aAd not partic-
ular about the terms, profess to be alarmed at
the prospect Of foreign Intervention, and when
not abjectly shiveriDg in their moral coward
ice, devote the remainder Of their time to de-
nuncistions oft Administration, of its finan-
cial and war policy, and talk eternally about
the constitutional rights ofthe scoundrels who
would rejoice at nothing so much as the des-
truction of the Constitution, and who are now
in arms its aginst authority. They are not for
confscation, because that is unconstitutional:
nor for coercion because that is impolitic:
nor emancipation, because that is not only
unconstitutional, and inpolitic, but bar
barous in its designs and ruinous in its re-
suits. The only difference between their talk
and that Of the Richmond Examiner and En-
quirer, is the difference of living, the one un-
der the United States, and the other under the
rebel Government. In sentiment and hostility
to the Administration they are one
They tell the people that secession and the
war which it entailed are the offspring of the
Republican party. Governor Rhett, of s. C.
tells them that ''the election of Lincoln was not
the cause Of secession" and that disunion has
been cherished project for the last 80 years. :"
They hold out The hope of union by compro.
mise and concession when the Secession Conn
missioners of Richmond assure them that s.if a
blank page of paper were offered us, we would
not write our terms of union;" when the Rich
mond Dispatch, in response to John Van Bu>
ren's cringiDg and whining speech. simply re-
spends that "union with the North is impossi-
ble" Instead Of urging the people of the
adheling States to aid in restoring to the 10y
alsts of the South the rights which have been
taken from them by violence, these apologists
busy themselves in discovering the rights
which traitors have forfeited and are protect
ing them in their exercise of privileges which
they have Voluntarily thrown away.
Never since the foundation of the world was
there seen such an exhibition of low partisan
devotion and entire absence of patriotic spirit.
Refugees from the South, men like Hon. A. j.
Hamilton, of Texas, 7. J. Boynton, Of Florida,
Rev. W. B. Carter and Parson Brownlow, Of
Tennessee, who have suffered martyrdom in
the cause Of civil and religious liberty IS es.
tablished under the government Of the United
States-in vain do these patriots tell them that
slavery must perish, that Liberty may sur
7ive, that the Proclamation is the '.irrepress.
IDLE and inexorable logic Of events"-a Mill
tary Measure, not aimed at Slavery, nor the
rights OF States, but at the rebellion;" that, in
their opinion sit Is eminently just and Consti-
tutional," and should be strictly enforced, and
that "any terms of compromise or peace short
Sopo al low Of yho 10 IN
the authorities of the United States would be
degrading to its sovereignty, and destruction
of the rights and liberties of the loyal men of
the South" 1t Is in vain that these patriots
plead that the war shall be prosecuted vigor-
ously, and that all means be resorted to cuush
the rebellion. Seymour, Van Buren, g. Co.,
like Vsllandlgham and his partisans in the
west devote their sympathies and their inau-
ence exclusively to the interests Of those who
have committed the unpsrdonCole sin of re-
bellion against the Constitution and laws of
their native land. Appealing to the prejudices
of the multitude, magoifyng the errors of an
Administration, whose very weakness only the
more imperatively calls for the support of 10y
81 men; belittling the great questions at stake
upon the battle fields of the Republic; and
doing all that partisan and personal influence
can accomplish to divide and stract the
North, these men labor-not to save the nation,
but to save party-not to restore the Union
and the glory of the Union, but the power and
patronage of themselves and their camp fol
lowers. five are not contemplate in the
eyes of the world, it will not be the fault of
these miserable drivelers for dishonorable
peace and return to the abject servitude to
Southern dictation, to which they yielded an
unmurmuring subservience for forty years.
MORE BARD KNOCKS FOR THE BEBELs.-One
hundred and fifty recruits for the old Iowa Reg
iments left for Dixie yesterday on the Kate Kas-
sci. They were divided as follows: 70 for the
9Th Iowa Cavalry, under the charge of Sergeant
Stewart; 50 for fhe 7th Iowa Infantry, under
Sergt s Brown, and IS for the 10Th Iowa In
fantry, under Sergt. Macarthur. Captain Littler
expects to send off two other detachments next
Thursday for Helena, Ark, being recruits for the
Attn Infantry and 4th Cavalry. These brave men