The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-19
IHE HAWK-EYE
y edssesday, Decesssbe, Is.
Negro Supcriorit..

The superiority of the negro over the
Copperhead is becoming daily more and
more apparent. The negro has had moth
ing to be grateful for but chains and slave
~, unreqnited toll and oppression. In this
ooasted land of freedom he has had no
rights above the OK or horse. Yet the ne
gro eniists and fights brayely to preserve
the nation which has wronged and oppres-
sea MN. Every letter from the seat of
war, which mentions the subject at all,
bears testimony to the good behavior and
courage OF the negro. Our soldiers who
nave fought side by side with them bear
testimony, without exception, to their cool
ness and courage. The men of this des-
pissed race know that to be captured by the
enemy is death-perhaps to be accompa-
MED by the horrors of slow torture. Yet
these men enlist without the large bounty
which is given to white men and fight for
less pay.
How il it with the Copperheads? They
are men who have drawn their sustenauce
manly from the Government. They have
received honors and emoluments, illy de-
served and poorly requited, it is true
They have SO long been sumptuously fed
at the public crib that they have grown to
oeileve 1T their right. In fact they never
contemplated any possible benefit to flow
from any Government except office. That
is all they want. If they can't get it, they
are ready for rebellion, revolution, even
for anarchy. They won't fight: LIST, because
they are generally towards; I'd, because
the Democratic party is not in power
and it is not their fight; Cd, because the
Rebellion is Democratic affair, gotten up
inside the Democratic party, and they be-
lieve when the ''Union as it was is resto-
red, those who fight in the war will be
spotted" by Southern Democrats, who
will run the machine again, as they be-
Heve. AS the chief end of their exist
ence is to get office-and as they
never fora moment contemplated any 9TH
er way except through the "Democrntic
party they spend their time and labor
in keeping Democrats out of the war
Every Democrat who enlists is lost to the
party in their estimation. To put down
the rebellion they fear will DESTROY the
party" They would prefer to have the
nation wiped out so ''the party could be |
spared and' could give Thorn Office under
any form of government, no matter what. |
These Copperheads wont fight. There is |
nothing at stake in this contest for which |
they are willing to risk their dirty carcass |
es. They wont go and aid their "Demo- |
cratic friends in destroying the Republic,
and they not only won't join the Repr BIZ !
cans and War Democrats in fighting
rebellion, but they labor to prevent all 9TH
ers from doing it. Where shall such men
be classed? Are we not justified in saving
that Ill tue manhood they cannot be men
toned IN tbs same category as tho freed
men? Isn't the slave fighting for the pre-
servation of nation that has only given
him stripes in times past, hoping to prove
his manhood and secure his freedom in the
future, abetter and drawer and truer man.
than the craven, sneaking, double dealing
buiternut who is neither Rebel nor a ma
triot, who has no God but ''party' and no
aspirations but for Officer