The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29
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Itisn Of East Tennessee, and the Other ia tn
opening Of the Mississippi river to it's mouth =
The loyal people Of the North w estern State
are far in advance Of the President and his Cab
! met and even bis army af6cers. The people de
mand that an army shall be marched through
the States now in rebellion, to confiscste Is,
property Of Rebels, Of whatever name or nature
ana 70 call upon Union men everywhere the ar
1 my passes, to rally around the national flag.
have defended the President.in eyery speech
! have made, and excused, as best could. biz
forbearance policy; butt venture the prediction
that II twelve months more of the sloy. do NOTHING
policy Of the past shall pc carried out. the Ad-
ministeation will not be able to carry one State
IN the Union. The people are sick and tired OF
this tame policy of the Government, and Of the
creeping negligence of the men in command of the
army There is an end to human endurance.
and that end bas been reached by the, people *
home. Action is now, the word. The people do
not doubt but what M. Lincoln is honest. patri.
otlc, and Jealous in the cause Of his country. but
they doubt his having enough of the baci. bone
that characterized old Hickory Jackson. They
want MIN to run roughsbod over the do-nothine
advice Of q portion Of his Cabinet officers, and
tospurn the counsels of all peace-makine dema.
gosues. The country calls for war in earnest,
or peace upon some terms-the most honorable
tnas can be obtained. At any rate, all true
friends Of the Administration demand that The
OLD policy OF insction and neglect IN the field
shall give way to new and energetic measures.-
And II there is not visible change, without
further delay. all the journals in the country
cane save the present Administrator from going
| the board. : 90 80
The friends of the Union, and of the President
| ana MS Cabnet, owe it to the one, to the other.
and TO themselves, to speak out plainly. and 10
DO It before 1t ID too late. Let The Government
at Washington feel, what every man of sense Who
mixes With the people of the States sees. name
~, that nothing short Of series Of vigorous and
comprehensive measures instantly insugurated,
and firmly carried out by the President ard his
cnief omcers IN command, can save the country
from disunor, and the North from disgrace.
which would surely follow the achievement Of
Southern independence.
The men elected to Congress in the several
loyal States, few days since, falsely called
Democrats, are pledged to the vigorous prosecu-
ton Of the war, until the rebellion is crushed
oat, and the political unity of the country is re-
stored. In many cases these pledges were in
tended to deceive, and they were successful in
umbuggiDg honest voters. The President, By
means OF this deception, will be made to contend
against powerful and openly disloyal force, q
/ set OF bad men IN sympathy with the Southern
leaders, as soon as the next Congress shall meet
The people placed confidence in the sincerity o,
these bad men. were deceived by the charmed
name OF Democracy, and cast their votes accord
ing to their convictions of right.
There exists deep-laid scheme to defeat this
Government here at the North, and the pro-
gramme of treason is widening and deepening
daily, while the leaders at the South are kept
Il m Tod in all hos oe
tors. These allies of JEFF. Davis are becoming
more bold every day, and more fierce and out
spoken in their advocacy of treason They
have their newspapers in Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Penn.
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Con
necticut. and other States, penetrating all the
various rami6cations of society, and talking out
treason. rank and infamous. They have grown
insolent since the fall elections, and now wage
war against the Government in detiaIt tone.
And what ia strange, the Government tamely
submits to their hostility. That many of thest
papers are in the pay Of the Southern Confed
eracy have no douot, and hence the game o.
treason is a deep one, we'll played out. The
Louisville papers speak of the arrest Of mar
in that city, by Gen. Boyle, who had in bis pos
session sl5e,ooO, which he alleged was the mo-
ney of loyal persons in Augusta, Georgia, WHIT
in bank for them Will any sane man believ,
one word of this story. That amount of money
will sustain half dozen of these tory papers
at the North for another year.
repeat, deep game is being played out By
the South aud her Northern allies, and war;
all true men, of all parties, against their ma
chinations. B,cked up with that infamous or
ganization, the Knights of the Golden Circle
|, these traitors have now got . network spreaG
over the entire nation, 90 minute in details, ant
80 inexplicabe in its nature, that even the devi
with all his arts and subtlety, could not elud'
their grasp. Northern Democracy are falling
, into it by thousands. Thousands of them ar,
honest and deceived, having no idea of the ex-
; tent and purposes of the conspiracy they ar
; going into. Thousands of these voters are &C.
} ting in good faith toward the Federal Govern
ment. and if they had the most distant idea tha
they are going gradually, but certainly, into th
victorious camps OF Jef Davis they would in.
dguantly cease to be co-workers with such trsi
tors as are now leading them astray.
. Mr.. Editor. warn the honest masses agains
: ven for them, and exhort them, while they may
into which they are unconsciously plungin
themselves and their country!
The Arrival Of Gen. Hooker and Dspar
ture Of eien. Porter.
Correspondence ofNev York Tribune
!, WARRESron, Va, Nov. IA, 1861 I
, Headquarters of Gen. Franklin.(
Gen. Hooker, or fighting Joe, as the soldier
: of his old division in the Peninsula called hiu
( arrived at the Warren Green House yesterda,