The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-10
Letter from the Hen Daniel s.
Dickinson to the Cooper InSti.
tute Meeting.

BINGHAMPToN, Sept. %.
Messrs. II. Smith, John keyser, A. NJ.
Palmer, J. G. Able, John Fitch, Samuel
Sinclair, s. L. Hall-Committee.
GENTLEMEN-I have nothing to say but
what / have often said and repeated. that I
exhort all. who love our form of govern
ment, and cherish an affection for the
Union, to act together, regardless of their
previous political faith, for the purpose of
crushing the rebellion, ''totally absolutely,
and Immediately and, will add, uncon-
ditionally. While the war should be pros
ecuted for this purpose, if, incidentally, the
proposed cornerstone Of the Jack o'lantern
confederacy should slide off, let US remem-
Der that it removes blotch instead of leav-
ing one, and is the legitimate fruit of con-
spiracy and rebellion. The prospects of the
contederacy are rather sorry Just now at
home and abroad. The British Govern
ment having learned that we have suffi-
cient force to conquer rebellion and attend
to pirate-ighting neutral friends over the
water besides, has determined that aiding
''belligerents' under such circumstances,
does not promise to be profitable, and is
therefore illegal. The benevolent aristoc-
racy, seeing no hope of our destruction as
a nation, and the erection Of slaeeocracy
upon our ruins, will again become intense
ly anti-slavery in sentiment, and will in
vest largely in the Bible Society, and other
humanitarian enterprises The subtle EN-
peror of the willy French, unable to find a
piece of Confederate territory large enough
to recognize unOccupied bya Federal army,
will probably attend to the elephant re-
| Gently drawn in his Mexican lottery, and
let us alone. Some hope is yet reposed, by
the anxious and sympathetic, in the ac-
ceptance of the bogus Mexican throne by
Maximilian and should he accept, if he
| fails to pass by the Worlds fair on his way
| to regal honors, and enter a claim for the
| first premium on fools, he will neglect an
important advantage. He will be sure to
obtain it if he offers, unless some of the
English subscribers to the confederate
loan, secured upon cotton at least three
hundred feet from any building" land
probably most of it much further Off shall
also propose, in which case the competition
will be close, and the result doubtful
This is about its foreign aspect.
At home it looks as anxiously to the re-
mia and New York, as it does to the move
ments of Lee and Bragg and Beauregard;
and the rebel press in Richmond, Charles
| ton and Mobile, are urging their friends in
the loyal States to renewed energy and in
creased efforts in the cause they have es-
poused, alleging that it is the best method
Of resisting the "Lincoln Government and
subduing the Yankees" Maine and Cali
fornia have done their duty most nobly,
and the three great States yet to hold their
elections will do theirs. The Union organ
| ization, composed of the loyal of all politi-
cal parties-of those who support the Gov
ernment in vigorous prosecution of the
| war, acts openly in it's combination of those
former diverse creeds, and above all dis
guises. Its antagonist, which would not be
known unless it was called Copperhedd
doing business under the name of Democ-
| racy, is evidently engaged in new effort
| at decoctlon. Claiming to be purely and
| exclusively Democratic, it has placed
| upon it's ticket two very respectable gen.
| tlemen, who are not and never were known
| as Democrats, but who hailed from the
Whig and Know Nothing ranks. This is
doubtless for the purpose of Withdrawing
| that class of voters from the support of the
Union ticket to this. And, besides, while
expressing an unconquerable adherence
| of misunderstanding them with being
the sole cause of the war, it can be for
no other purpose than to gain the abolition
vote that they have placed upon their ticket
one of the most conspicuous, eminent and
able members of the Buffalo Convention of
| lS4S, where Mr.. Frederick Douglass and
other distinguished orators competed for
the honors. And yet they tell us that it is
the Democratic ticket, and the Democratic
party! Perhaps it is! "Weal pie,' said
Mr.. Weller, junior, sis very good, if you
| know the woman as made it, and is sure it
amt Kittens" Democracy, too, is most
excellent sentiment, and inculcates many
sublime truths, but it is well enough to
| take heed at whose hands you receive it.
and be reasonably certain that there are no
claws beneath its tempting covering Of pas
try. The shifts and devices of our oppo-
nents will all prove unavailing, however,
and by reasonable effort the Union ticket
must he elected by large majority, not
withstanding the shock the public mind
sustained in the withdrawal of the "Con-
stitutional Union'' candidates-two in
number, and the accession of the masses of
| that party, to greater number still, to the
| Copperhead cause-must be elected, / mean
| if the election is held; for should an ava
lanche come down from Ohio and Penn
| sylvania, l am not without fears that our
worthy Governor and his friends may in
sist on postponing the election in this State
until the constitutionality of the law au-
! thorizing it can be tested in the courts.
ID. S. DICKINSON.
Ms- Stewart, the great New York mer-
chant, is reported to have paid S245, 900 as
his income tax for last year! A bogus re-
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