The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-28
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.
The RiehnOnd Enquirer ON Peace.
From the Richmond ENQUIRER, March5.

E, The W1e00O0O ENQUIRER Oh TcoCos
From the Richmond Enquirer, March IS.
From Of old it was held periIous for men to
cry peace! peacel when there vas no peace
The dangers Off for US at this moment are man
fold Il encourages the planting Of cotton in
stead of corr; it unsettles the minds of our SOL
liers in the field, which is demon alization; it
Stimulates the enemy to more vigorous pros :
ecution of the war, by the idea that ne are so
tired Of it.
There are some who repreach the Enquirer
with being an advocate of war, and not of peace.
This is somewhat unreasonable. 10 any one Of
feripg US peace? Look round our whole horizon
cterc is it, on sea or land, that you discern any
faintest futter of the "white wingsi" 1t is all
war; all one bottomIess gulf of blood, one uni
versal carnival Of slaughter, and ravage and ruin.
True, there is one way by which the Southern
Confederates could Immediately regain all the
blessings of peace; it is by enthusiastically re-
construction desisting from the rebellion, /"
and delivering up our ing-leaders to the pun
ishment Of the laws they have trampled upon.
Is there, indeed, one single citizen of this Con-
federacy who would have peace at any price
Well, here is the price; say at once-are We to
pay it?
But the symptoms of breach between the
East and Northwest! May not they be managed
and turned to account, perhaps? Why "repep'
the Northwest by harsh and cutting lauguage?-
Truly, We admit the language is q very inade-
quate weapon against those armed and brutal
invaders; they would never be ''repelled" BY
vituperstive epithets; and all the bayonets and
columbiads we can muster are scarcely enough
to repel the brigands. But let US help and en-
courage, you say, their intestine divisions. Yes,
We are willing; in the way we gave rise to those
divisions at first, we wish to encourage them
now. That is to say, by desperate resistance and
defiance
To be plain, we fear and distrust far more
these apparently friendly advances of the Dem
ocrats, than the open atrocity of philanthropists
of Massachusetts,. That Democratic party al
ways was our worst enemy; and but for its poi-
sonous embrace these States would have been
free and clear of the unnatural Union twenty
years ago. 1t is not the Stewards and Summers,
the Black Republicans and Abolitionists, who
have hurt VA They we're right all along; there
was an irrepressible conflict; between two differ.
ent civilizations, two opposite social organizes
tions. They we're no more able to live peaceably
together in one government than two hands can
wear one glove. If we did not consider so soon
as the Abolitionists, this great truth, it was be-
cause the Democratic party, neutral as it was in
principle, false to both sides, and wholly indif-
terent to the morale of either Of the opposing
communities, placed itself between, raised the
banner of "spOils," and-we all the rest The
idea OF that odious party coming to life again,
and holding out its arms to u.s. makes US shiver.
Its foul breath is malaria; its touch is death.
Give US the open foeman; let him be as Zero
cious and greedy as you will. Let our enemy
appear as an exterminatiDg Yankee host, we
pray, and not as Democratic Convention. Let
him take any shape but that Already we have
visions OF the men of feeble knees, tender feet
and undulating spines, losing their sense and
manhoodsby the contact, as they did, alas /! so
often before. We scent from afar off the old
dead conpromises-absh omen! and seem to feel
upon our throats the strangulation of uncean
fingers. But it is dream nobody lives in this
Confederacy who will dare to propose, or to hint
even at distance, that We should sacrifice at
that abominable shrine all the gallant blood
freely poured out to sanctify our nationhood.
For it comes to this We can have no peace
nou, save by submission no peace now save by
making once more an afiIation with Northern
party, and making the Democracy present Of
all that inestmable treasure of the dearest blood
that flowed in Southern veins.
Peace! Does the monstrous host before
Vicksburg bring US peace ? Is it peace that
Rosecraus is making in Tennessee Does the
military dispersion Of public meetings in Ken
lucky bode peace? The now Northern con-
scription, enrolling three millions, and making
provision for instantly commanding their SER
vice, or ezscting heavy exemption tax-does
this look like peaces TIE deliberate vesting in
Abraham Lincoln Of all the military power Of
dictator, with the treasure of the whole nation
opened to him without stint-is it to enable him
to make peace, or war-which
Where, then, ere those indications of peace,
which we are said to be recklessly resisting and
disdaining? Oh the great speech of Vallan-
diGham the touching invitation Of tuneful Cox
We greatly fear that those two wooers of the
South, 80 fond and fain, will very soon be found
like John Van Buren,. shrieking out for war to
the knife and if they delay or decline to recan.
their great and noble peace speeches, why they
will see the inside of Lincoln's jails We wish
from our hearts they we're both already safely
chained up at the present writing; they have
done US more harm, they and their like, than ten
thousand Stewards and Summers. We tremble
to see their unwholesome advances; still more
to see sort Of morbid craving here to respond
to them, under the deluslve idea of promoting
intestine division at the North.
Oh Dictator Dincoln lock We ND those two
peace ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with Richardson-in
some of your military prisons!
TIE FRANKLIH FIsHr.-As the history of the
light at Franklin, TENN, is being revealed, we
are grati6ed to learn that Brig Gen. q. C. Gill
bert is relieved from the blame of the failure OF
the expedition under Col Coburn As we are
informed, the reconnaissance was undertaken
against Gen. Gibert's advice, against a force
which he had reason to believe was larger than
the whole OF his comm ,ud; that the brigade un-
der Coburp, when withdrawn, left him go weak =
ened that j. Was impossible to ford the sssis-s
lance which it is generally believed he should
have sent.
When the fight began between Col Coburn
and the rebels, with the enthusiasm and ardor
peculiar to volunteers, our men rushed on, re
CARELESS OF danger, carrying the enemy before
them. The rebels seemed to be completely
whipped, running for their lives, throwing away
their guns, and showing every evidence OF com
plete generalization. This proved to be strategy
on the part Of the enemy-for the impetuosity
of our men, as well az their commanders, led
them to follow further than prudence would
dictate. just where the disaster took place, TIE
roads came together in a very dense cedar wood.
Our men took the middle road, neglectfng to
shell the woods or reconnoiter the aide roads