The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-16
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Yreu ~ LsaAon Tines, July IA.
such an overslkow0e thesU niA army hae re:
o.ived before Richmond cannot 1T hsva had IN
instantaneous OBJECT thfbughoutthe whole Of ne
9outh. Whgsver il that vastarea Ethe nSNs
Of the great success has been conveyed, BY tele-
graph OF steamboat, by horsemen or runner, We
nay be sure that the EMULATION has been wild
and frantic. Even to our sober English eyes the
battlss on the Chickahominy seem like q crown.
ing victory; 70 the excitable Southerner, burn.
ing With rage and hate at the invasion of his
soil and the atrocities With which II is accompa.
MED, the description Of the six days fighting and
the successive ''stampedes" of his enemies must
have been 20 inspiriting % to make inaction i'm
possible. s.ii lag4egq ts9
We may, then, it seems to vs, expect move.
men.s Of the highest importance all through the
South. It 10 not easy TO discover what q Dos.
sing in that convulsed, but silent region. IM
Coafsdsyates haze learnt to- Sniis tie most fervid
ssthssiasm wiM secvesy saaic1 not sven Russia
has realized IN modern ,oayfare. Their enemies
never see them till they feel them; never know
what is their strength, their position, or their
resources, until the dawn Of some morning
brings IN irresistible attack, or reveals their
position, or reveals the facts that whole Con.
federate army has made OF without the loss of .
man, gun, or barrel Of powder. So We our.
selves can know little for certain of their plans
bat We nay yet make very shrswd guess.
There 10 every reason TO believe that the Yves.
tern Confederate States will become in q week
or, two-perhaps have: already beooms-the
scene Of new struggles, far wider and Asrcer
than that:of the psst Spring. The news rsceiv-
cd yesterday Of the capture Of Hurfreesborough
BY the Oonfederates shows the work has already
begun in Tennessee, and, unless the Unionists
are reinforced far more largely than We think
them likely 70 bs, tits possible that before the
month Of July 10 over the whole Of Tennessee
viii be in blaze. The situation Of this State
q, indeed, most unhappy. II had to bear the
Union movement that has been made during the
var. .sau.t9hll issat5 9.1
While the Confsderates were unvissly disper.
sing thsir forces along the coast, or msssing
them on the Potomse, they left unguarded this
important Stats, relying, perhaps on the proteo-
ton afforded BY the extent of the country and
the sympathy Of the Kentuckiana But BY .
series Of operations which no impartial observer
will desire TO depreciate, the Unionists, support
ing their army BY their gunboats, gained posses.
1ion Of the principal places In Tennessee, and
may be said to have almost Conquered the State
But the contest ID far from an end. The battles
befofe Richmond have como just in time 70
rouse Tennessee 90 the new campaign, for which
it, leaders are said TO have been preparing. q!
M The white people Of Tennessee number about
q . million; they are throughout nearly the whole
State bitter Secessionists the only Unioniat Sec
zion being the eastern, where . certain number
Of Union sympathiEers are to be found; though
from the silence Of the Northern prees on the
subject We are inclined to think that even here
the number of Union men has been greatly
overrated Tennessee 10 represented as having
suffered more than any other Southern popula.
tion from the tyranny of Union commanders,
and the rapine of the mercenaries who form 80
large portion Of the Union afmies It may be
that now the time of retribution 10 at hand, and
that the Federal Government will expiate by
serious disasters its fault in allowing such afro
cities to be practiced on people which 1t still
affects to consider "a its own. 5s,u q. = 4
The capture Of Aurfreesboro lis an event Of
considerable importance, if We look upon it as
the prelude to general renewal of the Western
campaign. Nurffeesboro 10 almost exactly in
the middle of the State, and less than forty
miles from Nashville, the Capital, where the
Federal Military Governor has been putting
clergymen in jail for refusing to take an oath
of bis own dictation. 5, The fact that Nurfrees-
boro should be in the hands of the Oonfederates
shows that the rising must have made great
head, and it 10 quite within probability that the
threatened attack on Nashville may succeed in
throwing the Union corps, which holds it back,
On to the fronti9r1 of Kentucky, and in resto-
ring Central Tennessee once more to the Con-
federacy. fii5g 9a s.st ~. 54a g
eq.l.1 From the Daily News, July s1a: sas :
,ef The recent reverse in the Union armsbefore
Richmond brings out once more in their true
character those partsans Of the South in this
country who have endeavored to influence
opinion by protesting themselves the impartial,
disinterested, and sincere friends Of the United
States. For three or four months, the old ran
cor and violence of this section Of English so.
ciety and English journalism had conspicuously
abated, 90 far ct least 40 any public expression
of these feelings was concerned. During the
long series of Union victories that ended in the
expulsion of the Confederates from the Border
States and the command Of the Western from
tier and chief ports Of the South, We heard very
little indeed Of that reckless abuse Of the North.
ern Government and Northern people which had
previously been % common. ~ ,71o'n li2al &.
3 Success worked it's usual marvels, and the
open foes Of the Union suddenly became its
candid, plausible and considersts friends. They
now frankly admitted that the cause which the
Union had taken arms 70 defend Was we'll worth
fighting for, and that chose to psrDevers in the
struggle, the SUPERIOR numbers, wealth and re-
sources Of the North would undoubtedly secure
ito ultimate success. But these friends of hu-'
manity, and especially Of America, appealed to
che prudence and moderation of the North
whether II would b desirable to carry matters
20 thie extreme-whether il would not be better
20 part at once, and live hereafter together az
powerful and friendly neighbours. A. pledge
Of their dsinteressedness 10 offering this advice,
these candid oou6selors paraded the purity of
their motives 5ls 3!9sl2sss 8 i';jga'9 4
A selfish policy, they urged, would have die.
tated . wish for theconiinpance off, .destruc.
tive and exhaustive war. But, being superior
to al selfish considerations, they had no such
desire,. and in their pacific advice had really
nothing 30 much ct heart Is the greatness and
glory Of the American people. No sooner,
however, Is the Union repulse before Richmond
confirmed than the mask of disinterested friend
chip is not only thrown of, but thrown off with
indecent and shameless precipitancy. The Sou
them sympathizers in Parliament, who had for
months lurked together in the lobby and framed
resolutions they had not the courage to propose,