The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

Dan1cl Es SISAIcSs
Gen. Dan. E. Sickles attended meeting
at Cooper Institute Monday nlSht, IN re-
sponse to call Of the Freedmen's Relief
Association. DR.. Tying presided. An
address was read by the Rev. w. s. Fiske.
Gen. Daniel 4. Sickles was introduced,
and received with three cheers. He came
on the stage on crutches, and spoke us fol-
lows:
W.. President. Ladies and Gentlemen Il
am very Glad to have the opportunity to
contribute my humble assistance TO Gen.
Grant. n great commander, in the solution
of one of the administrative difficulties of
his department, and also to evince my ear
nest sympathy with the object which has
brought together so large AN assembly of
the worth and intelligence of New York
very much regret that my health is not
sufficiently restored to justify me in at
tempting ANYTHING more than a brief ac-
Acknowledgement OF the kind invitation
which brought me here, and the express
sion of my good wishes for the measures
you have adopted tonight, in behalf of the
freedmen. The destination Of millions who
will be elevated to freedom by the procla-
nation is one of the greatest questions of
the time. 1t is a delusion to suppose that
the decree will be revoked. lApplause.l [
am one of those, perhaps, who, if l had
been consulted, would have hesitated to adj
wise the measure but l am one of those
who, it having been done, viii maintain it.
That evidence, of course, as has been SO
eloquently developed to you tonight,
brings with it great responsibilities, not
only upon the Government, but upon the
people Thousands and thousands of the
emancipated have gone into the army as
soldiers. In this respect l feel peculiar
interest in them, and in kindred; they have
won the respect of the army by their cour-
age and devotion. It cannot be long be-
fore hundred thousand African soldiers
will be in arms for the Union. While the
war lasts, think there cannot be too many
of them in arms. [Applause.] And they
and their kindred, those who are depen-
dent on them, are entitled to the same be-
nevolent regard that our soldiers of the
Union have received from the people,
IApplause If the war is for elnancipa
ton, as many assert, then surely it is
right that the enfranchiSed race should
share the sacrifices of the struggle. If
it is not for emancipation, if it is for the
restoration of the Union as it was, then
surely we must all admire the nnselfish
heroism which prompts men to give their
lives in struggle to which they are stran
spared to remove the disquietude which
exists in the minds of the white laboring
masses, North and South, as to the practi-
cal effect Of emancipation upon them
Popular sentiment in the country has been
swayed against the war, in Il great degree,
Dy tUe apprehension tudb eillJllClpdllOil
would depreciate wages and degrade white
labor. You and / know that there can be
no greater error than this; but while the
error lasts, and it prevails to a lamentable
extent, there can be no greater misfortune.
But, my friends, l am exceeding, and l
have already exceeded, the prudent limits
imposed upon myself when l came here,
and I did not cortte with any purpose OF
making an address. My strength would
not enable me even to approach the great
question which is before you for action to-
night, even ifmy opportunities to study it
had enabled me to do it any thing like JUS
tice \ word more and | will take nv
leave. The Immediate eNigency to be con-
sidered, the condition of many thousands
who have liberty without a home, who
have freedom without bread or raiment,
may be disposed OF by temporary eXpedi-
ents, For this purpose, no other, perhaps,
could be better than the Sanitary Commits
sion, that good angel of the Union army,
which brings 10 every battlefield the gifts
of the applause]-represented here
tonight land am glad to meet him) by its
estnlable President. When the President
of the United States issued his proclama-
ton, he invoked for it the blessings OF
Heaven as means suppressing the re-
bellion, the most imposing event in our
history. Let us trust that our efforts for
the restoration and tranquility will be
guided by the inspiration of God and a
kind Providence. We have to reconcile
interests with duty, policy with humanity,
parties with destiny. IApplausel
WHAT THE SOUTHERN LEADERS ARE
FIaETING FoR.-Gen. Garfield, late of the
army of the Cumberland, spoke at the
great Union meeting at Baltimore, on
Wednesday evening, taking strong anti
slavery ground. Among other things he
said, ''For these Two and half years /
have been where i could see something OF
these men who are attempting to bear
down our country. l have talked with
many of them, and they are bold to avow
that they propose to build up, as the Right
Reverend General Polk told me. not q
common government, but a government Of
gentlemen, eff men of money, men Of
means, who hold slaves; a government,
such as the people of the Old World will
/ not laugh al. They intend to have theil
! Count Bragg and their My Lord Beaure.
gard. You mud-sills, who rejoice that Goo
has given you strong hands and stou,
9 hearts-who were not born with silver
spoons in your mouths-are to be mud-sill
a long time, This is the dream those fran
tic men have before them"
Ibaye to record an extraordinary episod
that occurred during the battle. Some tw
hundred mules, parked near Gen. HOOK
er's lines. broke loose and charged furious
ly across the field toward where Georgi
regiment was stationed. Thinking it wa
cavalry. or something else, the regimen
I broke in confusion, and ran, leaving on
thousand Enfield rifles of the best descrip
ton behind them, which Gen. HOOKER ma
4 to show in proof Of the incident. A parai
lei case is not believed to be on record
Who will suitably write of this mianigh
charge Of the Mule Brigade9 ard who
4 the panic of the Georgia regiment!
ETHE CAMERON ARREST TRIAL.-Th
Hon. Simon Cameron is at present in Bal
Gmore responding to the actions brough
against him by the late Baltimore Polc
Commissioners, Howard Davis and Catch
L ell, in the u. S. Circuit Court, for iliega
arrests and false imprisonments when Sec
re.ery of War, The Northern Central Rail
road IL garnishee in the causes.