The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-24

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4 WASHINGTON CoRRRsrOnDENcE
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The appearance Of the President In the ReI
= commander, so far as he acted in that c,
pacisy at Norfolk, has delighted the soldiel
hereabout exceedingly. They think If he ha
had actual oversight and command during th
weary months that have passed, that there woul
have been more business done, and they hsv
faith in his practical good sense and ready jude
ment They attribute to him solely the move
ment upon Norfolk. And in al this they ar
probably corrcc: In the Norfolk matter the
unquestionably are. It Was against the advic
and decided judgment Of Com. Goldsborougl
that the movement upon Sewells Point and Cra
nsy Island, with . view to cleaning out th
Herrimac and an approach upon Norfolk va
made. The story, apparently authentic, is, tha
the Commodore declared that no scientific maj
would, under existing circumstances, venture Il
attack upon Sewsll's Point, and he was great!
exercised about the result of collision viii
the xerrimac. The President, however, allow
Ing that science might all be with the Commo
dore, still insisted on shooting at the enemy
works. And with what results the world knows
suppose there is no reasonable doubt but that
| . similar order, issued Eve or six months ago
would have been attended with the same results
Still, the lesson and the stimulus impaired to
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worth to US more than all the consequences Of
an earlier capture of Norfolk, Notwithstanding
the modification It caused u.s.
An effort Is making to get Gen. Dix removed
from command At Baltimore. II oil tho reports
FROM Union men there are true, he ought to be.
The spirit Of his ''shoot him on the spot" dis.
patch to New Orleans doubtless pointed him out
as the man of proper firmness and energy to
deal with the chatting and venomous rebels at
Baltimore. But they seem to have the power
Of "honey-fugling" him completely. The Union
men there complain that he employs all his
blandness and social arts to win the secessonists
over to his side, feeling that the Union men are
oil right any how, and do not need consideration
Or particular favor at his hands They complain
that rebels are treated with more kindness and
consideration than loyal Union men, and that
they have to:bear the taunts without the means
Of retaliation and witness the treatment OF re-.
bels and the frequent determinations in their
favor with modification. I think there is at
least more truth in this representation of the
matter than there ought to be. People from
here visiting Baltimore, often confirm it. and
express indignation at the way things are man
aged there. ..,
But affairs are, unfortunately, conducted in
similar manner in most other places where our
commanders have taken possession of rebel
strongholds. A native Southerner, now at Nash
vile, man Of unusual sagacity and correctness
of observation, who is assisting in the work of
restoring Tennessee to the Union, in an official
capacity, in private letter that lately recei.
we'd from him, makes complaint of a similar
nature there. He says:
Andrew johnson has carte blanche of DOW.
er. His will is law. And yet Jefferson Davis
has more authority to day in the city of Nash
vile than johnson. You are incredulous! I
repeat it, with all the emphasis Of which am
capable. A. d in my judgment there is ample
reason Why this shonld be so. Wherein lies the
remedy! The nand Of The government must be
laid heavily on the rebels. Rebel newspapers
must be crushed. Rebels must not be permit.
ted to talk about the return of "our army.
Expressions Of disloyalty must be vigilantly
watched and promptly punished. But men are
deferred from being loyal by the Kissing threats
that fill the atmosphere, that they will be pun
ished when the rebel army returns. Men con-
tinue to be disloyal because it is safe to be SO,
let the war terminate as it may, and because it
Is unsafe to be loyal In certain contingencies"
This last clause doubtless contains the true
philosophy of the case. 1t is understood here,
however, that Gov. johnson. who did relax for
. time the vigorous treatment inaugurated at the
outset in Tennessee, which resulted as my friend
describes, has now returned to, and will here
after pursue, without any let-up, the more Wig
orous and common sense policy at first pro.
posed. III
The council of old grannies and Jeremy Did.
der politicians, under the lead Of V Valandigham,
CritteIden, and Kellogg of Illinois, having, as
its first effect, failed to do any thing except to
enlarge the dimensions of the Lovejoy bill and
insure q moro vigorous effort to pass it-an
effort which resulted in triumphant success,
while shade Of doubt hung over it in the posi-
tion that il occupied previous to the ''conserva-
tive" meeting TO defeat it-has pretty much
concluded that its mission is not SO very clear
and promising as was first believed, and the em-
inent, overshadowing. selfsacri6cing, enlarged
love of country that prompted it will hardly be
sufficient, under the circumstances, to carry on
the enterprise longer than may be necessary to
buryit with becoming decencv. IOWA.
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S ARMY.
PopE's DIVISION (LErr WMa,N |
Army of the Mississippi, Six Miles North
East Of Corintb, Miss, May IA, 1852.
4R Editor: So many rumors are put in cir
culation in the camps, aud 80 many sensation
articles are published by news mongers-of
which there are scores in the different divisions
Of the army-which are totally without founda-
ton in fact, that am determined to write no.
thing which is not we'll authenticated. Many
items have already appeared in print concerning
the army-or rather armies--for it is published
both of the Union and Rebel armies-that are
utterly false. The Rebel army has evacuated
Corinth-the Union army has occupied--the
Rebels have gone to Grand 'Junction--to Jack.
son, Nississippi, and the Union army is in full
pursuit, etc., with . thousand other rumors
equally reliable. Now the truth is that up to
the present writing, there il no truth in any Of
these statements. Both armies occupy nearly
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