The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-17

ment to suppress by force OF arms the
Southern Rebellion. Not every Democrat
is Copperhead; but every Copperhead is
q Democrat: The party, as party is dis.
''The rebellion itself was the work of the
Democratic party, which, with scarcely an
interval, had governed the country for six
ty years, and was Matched by Democratic
leaders in Democratic conclaves, under the
fostering care and protection of Demo-
party originated at the South, was fostered
into life, and elevated to power by South
ern politicians, and has always been a
Southern party. AT first, under Washing
tou, it was called the Anti-Federal party;
under the elder Adams it called itself the
Republican party and continued to do so
till the Administration of the younger Ad-
ans, when it took the name of Democratic
Republican, in opposition to National Re-
publican. Since the reelection of Andrew
jackson to the Presidency, in 1882, it has
assumed and bore the name of Democratic
party. Its great strength was always in the
political power of the interest created by
negro slavery confined almost exclusively
to the Southern section. For full sixty
years from the Administration of Jefferson
in 1901 to that of Buchanan in 1861, that
interest had shaped the policy of the Gov
and controlled the politics of the Repub-
lic." a s 81
The secession was expected, by both
Northern and Southern Democrats, to be
effected peaceably, in consequence of the
assumed timidity of the Republicans, and
the influence i'll dividing the population of
the Free States, that could and would be
exerted by the Northern Democratic lead
ers. The Northern Democrats had aided,
advised, certainly connived al secession
not, however, as permanent division
of the Union, but only as a measure
to break up the the ~, RePu a5 party,
the fears and weakness of the Republicans
such concessions and guarantees to slavery
as would satisfy the South and secure their
own return to power. But the firmness of
the radical Republicans, in this concession,
and the unexpected determination OF the
Administration to put down secession by
armed force disconnected all their calcula-
tons, and placed them in dilemma from
which there was apparently, no escape
For them openly to side with the rebels
was to ruin them forever in the Free
States; and to give the Administration
full, hearty and loyal support was not only
to break their pledges to the Southern
| leaders, but to render forever impracticable
the renewal Of their old alliance with slav-
cry for the government of the Union
What should they do? The honest and
patriotic among them did what honest men
and patriotic will always doI.ptaced the
ally rushed to the support of the Govern
ment in It's war to put down the rebellion
and to save the rights and integrity of the
Republic. The rest withheld their sup
port, talked Union, and waited like
Micawber, for something to turn up
ready to avail themselves of any errors
the Administration might commit, or
, any reverses that might betall the Federal
arms.
For the Democratic party to enable it to
recover it's lost ground, two things were in
dispensable: LIST, if the Union should be
dissolved and Southern independence
gained, the odium, in the public estima
ton, must rest ON the Republican party ;
, and I'd, if the Union should be restored, it
must be done without the abolition Of sla-
very, and by a Democratic Administration.
Hence their unwearied efforts to cast the
blame of secession, and the war for the sup
preston of the Rebellion, on the Republican
party, and to prolong the war beyond the
term of office Of the present Admin,stra-
r ton.
The moment when it became evident that
the Administration was slowly, timidly and
only partially adopting an emancipation
policy as war measure, they became rab-
: id, denounced it, intrigued against it,
: threatened to GUST it by military force, and
= attempted, perhaps, as they supposed, per-
fected, arrangements IN case any Republic
q can opposition should be offered, to have
} Gen. Mcclellan unite his command with
: the rebel Gen. Lee, ndsuppress it. Proofs
e of this, some day, may be forthcoming,
and have already been limited by Lord Ly-
S ons in giving Earl Russell an account of
: the state Of things here, and OF his inter-
| views with Northern Democratic leaders,
. whose plans were much disconnected, he
b says, by the relief Of Gen. Mcclellan from
: the command of the Army Of the Potomac.
n Col. Bussey, in the course of his speech
g the other evening, mentioned an occurrence
q of the siege of Vicksburg that we do not
e remember to have heard before. He said
: that during religious services in one OF
the tho churches of that doomed city, and
,.rhi no rainiStar uras in tho Yer act nI