The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-25
stories from Southern Papers.

Stories from Southern Papers.
FoRrREss MONROE, Oct. 19.-The Petersburgh
Express of the 18th, says, 1000 Yankee prison
ers are expected to arrive in Petersburgh for
the North.
Wild goose and wild duck, plenty on the
James river, but there are no sportsman to
shoot them.
Wheat has declined considerably, being now
held at 50 rs per bushel.
We fear much trouble and vast suffering from
the scarcity of coal.
The Richmond Dispatch of Oct. 16th, says we
infer the Federals will soon make desperate
effort to force Iron cads past Drury's Bluff.
battle occurred in Perryvilie Oh the 14th
inst, which Kentucky will mourn for many
years. The Federal loss was heavy. Premise
says it was drawn battle, the rebel forces fell
back six miles.
VIM. T. Shoemaker, Geo. Welch, Peter q.
Miles and Chas. S. Racker, members of Co. A.,
first Mary land cavalry, Yankee organization,
were received at the Confederate prison yester-
day to be tried for murder committed in the
valley of Virginia.
| The Richmond Examiner of the 18th says
The good people of Charleston, S. c., have had
a celebration in their city to bsptze marine
ram or ladies gunboat, built there AS Con-
gress has failed to make any enactments about
martial law, it follows that lit has no longer
any existence in this Confederacy, and any at
tempt to continue martial law, in any form or
disguise, is in derogation of the law making the
power Of the Government and in defiance of the
Constitution.
The Examiner of the 18th claims the victory
at the battle of Perryville. 1t says the Federal
loss in killed, wounded and captured was over
10000. The Confederate loss was $4,000.
THE MORAL OF THE ELECTIONS.
From the Cincinnati Gazette
1t is notifying to the Administration that in
a great war which demands the united energies
of the people to save the national existence, its
supporters should be defeated at the popular
elections, by a party which has carefully avoid
ed putting on record in the usual party form
any declarations of its intention to support the
Government in the means necessary to put an
end to the rebellion. IF we have those attri-
butes of popular wisdom and capacity for self
government which we are won't to boast above
ell other peoples, we must have also the cour-
age to look into the causes of the defeat of the
supporters of the Government, and to apply the
lesson.
The most desperate and hopeless reason that
could be alleged, would be to charge this de-
feat to the growing coldness of the people iD
the prosecution OF the war. We have no doubt
that great majority of the people of the North
are determined supporters of the war to crush
the rebellion. The managers of the Democratic
party do not profess to be so; therefore we do
not give them credit for it. We will credit them
with all they will profess. Yet on the stump
they found it necessary to cover up their hos
l tility to the prosecution Of the war with cum
ming subterfuges and deceptive generalities
about their devotion to the preservation of the
| Union and their determination that it should
never be dissolved, which to the confding
seemed like zeal for subduing the rebellion; and
there are none of them-not even Vallandigham
Who did not resort occasionally to the simula-
tibn of leonine war roars. This, however false
! in the candidates, is evidence of their estima-
tion of the loyalty of the people.
But in such peril and public anxiety as
this, when the nation is divided by civil war,
and not only the existence of the Government,
but the safety OF our homes is at stake, and
when the slaughter of our soldiers covers the
land with mourning, the fact that candidates
for the control of the Government, of party
rather noted for it's propensity tor platform de.
clarations, carefully avoided making any party
declaration of purpose to support the Govern
ment in the war for the submission of the Reb
els to the Constitution, ought to be sufficient to
excite the distrust Of the people, and TO drive
away their support So undoubtedly it would
if an alternative which offered decided relief
had been presented
The friends Of the Administration waived all
party antecedents, sunk all previous party ques-
tions made the support of the Government 10
the war their sole principle, and invited a union
of the whole people. When the existence of the
Government hangs on the success of military
operations, and when the entire energies, lives,
and property Of the nation are placed in the
hands OF the President to carry on the war, he,
as Commander-in Chief of the army and navy,
is for the time being the controller of its dssti
nies. He Is responsible tor the wise direction
of these means And whether the rapidly ex-
hausting effort which this war demands of the
people is wisely directed to success, or frittered
away, depends on him. Therefore the support
Of the Government in the prosecution of the
war, is the support of the President who con-
trolls the prosecution of the war.
The President has had this popular support
Never were people so confding and patient
under the most depressing circumstances. But
it is the popular conviction that the military
results have been inadequate to the vast ener'
gies expended. Where the subordinate respon-
} siblity is, the President must Judge; out tue
people must hold him responsible. his power
| is absolute over his subordnates. Inc peopie
cannot INQUIRE into the details, nor execute
their iudpment on subordinates. if they should
tnd where the failure lies. They unavodahly
and ;nstlv hold the President responsible for
bo oxnonditure of the vast resources of patriot.
;sr, means and life in this war through a year
md a half without any decisive results or ade-
nata re.urns Nor can it be said that, under
. his direction, there is prospect of anything
. better in the future.
ITn5er these conditions the support of th,
President cannot be made to appear 10 the peo-