The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-25
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pie to be the support of a vigorous prosecution
of the war; The platform of a vigorous piose-
cution of the war requires vigorous prosecu-
ton Of the war to maintain its hold on the people.
The most powerful battery at the popular and of
the magnetic national cable, is unavailing II, at
the executive terminus, the current is lost IN
vague pulsations, like those which so long abb
sorbed the mysterious De Sauty or De Sanity
1t the determination expressed by the popular
will is not carried into action by the President,
it cannot expect the unavailing perseverance Of
the people. The support which the Union Rep
resentativos received is due to their zeal and
fidelity IN the cause of the Government against
and to the persevering confiding dis
position OF the people under encouragement,
and to their distrust of the Democratic candi-
dates. Had these taken q decided patriotic
stand, and declared their determination for q
vigorous war policy, and the suppression of the
rebellion at all costs, hardly Supporter of the
President would have been in Ohio and Indiana.
The support of the President needs to be re-
ciprocal or it must decline. The President and
his supporters have been playing at cross pur-
poses They whose election Union men regard
as vital to the support of the Government in
the vigorous prosecution Of the war, have not
had the chief weight in the counsels of him who
wields the war power of the Government. They
whom the earnest supporters of the Government
oppose at the elections, from the conviction that
they are hostile to it, are indorsed and support
ed by those whose influence preponderates in
the counsels of the President. Tho influence,
and clamor of these controls our war policy
A popular support of the Government in the
war is met In the Government by the superior
influence of those whom the people believe to
have no desire that the war should be prosecu-
ted to success. The people only take the Press
iAent OF hiu unrd accnrd;pO tn bis oxproaaad
preference, when they elect Representatives who
will do all they can to cripple the prosecution
of the war, waste the energies OF the country,
and sustain executive and military failure.
Wei have spoken thus plainly because a coun-
try on the declivity to ruin demands it: and
justice to the long suffering supporters of the
President requires that the reason for their de.
feat at the popular elections be truly stated
The people are depressed by the interminable
nature of this war; as go far conducted, and by
the rapid exhaustion of the national resources
without progress, and by the terrible expendi-
ture of blood, and the immense additional sac
rifces demanded of them, all apparently going
into the same vortex. The manhood which be-
longs to people capable of such patriotic sa-
crfces, requires that the responsibility for this
terrible failure be placed on the man to whom
they have confded all, and who has exercised
absolute control over the power Of the nation.
Nor A FAlLURE-The New York Evening
Pos. had an article on Monday in answer to the
question, Has the administration been a fail
ure ?" in which it recounted the victories Of the
year, to prove the negative answer to the ques-
ton to be the true one. 1t winds up the en-
couraging view as follows:- -
"Sharpsburg, Antietam, Iuxa and Corinth,
have already made brilliant record for the first
months of autumn. The nation s animated with
the feeling that it has re.entered on the career
of success, and never was in fuller vigor or
higher hope than at his hour. The credit Of the
country is unimpaired, its finances we'll organ
lied and exhaustless. The loyalty of Maryland
is assured that of Missouri and Kentucky ra-
pidy tending to the same condition. New Or
leans having enjoyed for six months the benef-
cent eway Of the Federal Government, is fast
eubsiding into contentment and loyalty. The
Mississippi, the Potomac, and almost the entire
Atlantic seaboard, are in our possession. After
eighteen months Of war, the Government has at
its command the most magnificent army and
navy ever on foot or ahoat. =
The administration has not been failure
1t has been a grand and brilliant success. His
tory will so account it. We challenge the an
nails of the past to furnish an example of equal
achievement in the same time and under such
stupendous difficulties. The American people
ara proving that they 80 regard it by the gen
erous and enthusiastic loyalty with which they
are putting their treasure and blood. at its dis
posa And it remains only for the President to
push forward our armies at once upon the rebels;
to continue to move upon the enemy's werks >
to give rein to the enterprise, skill, the daring
and the patriotic determination which has been
developed and trained during the past year Of
war, to speedily make an end Of the gigantic
iniquity; and the name of Abraham Lincoln
will stand on the future annals Of his country,
illustrated by renown as pure and uDdying as;
that of George Washington" -
ARCHBISHOP HUGHES THREATENED WITH
AssAssINATIoN.-The New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes:
I am credibly informed that Archbishop
Hughes has been in receipt Of sundry anony-
nous epistles from Baltimore, during the past
fortnight, threatening him with poison or as
sassination for his recent able address in favor
of the war, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and for
his efficient defense of the Union and the Gov.
ernment from the commencement of the rebel q
ion till the present time. The threat has been
accompanied by certain circumstances which
lead 70 the belief that the Secessionists are IN
earnest, and hence the venerable prelate has
declared it his duty to make distant alluslon
thereto in his newspaper organ, the Metro-
politan Record. of to-day. The Arcbbishopit
seems has discovered the authorship of at least
one of the communications or "warnings' re-
ferred 10. which was signed Mount st.
NJarv's." The Record says: The author has
three weeks to withdraw it in his own name,
and as ..Mount St. Mary's" II he will not do
so, he will have the consolation of reading it in
priut-"