The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-03
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.

EKLY HAWK-EYE.
DxPIrvrxa THE SOLDIERS OF THEIR VoTEs -
Several Of the Democratic candidates for Con-
gress, who we're defeated by the votes of the sol.
diers, in such of the States as provided for
taking the votes of the soldiers. propose to dis
unconstitutional, and, therefore, that the vote
of the soldiers is void William ]. Cullen, 10
the Second Minnesota District; Henry Martin,
in the Fourth Iowa District, and James q. Birch,
in the Sixth Missouri District, have initiated
contest with the members elect, on this ground,
and several other cases are reported. And we
presume no one doubts that if the Democrats
and Border Neutrals should be strong enough
in the next House they would deprive these
Representatives whose majorities were made by
our patriotic soldiers of their seats, and put in
those who will do all in their power to save the
rebellion from subm ssion.
It is easy to see that under tLis Democratic
principle of DISTINGUISHING the volunteers who
are fighting against rebellion, if the war can be
sufficiently protracted and expanded BY Demo.
cratic management and encouragement, to call
enough of the loyal voters to the field, while the
enemies of the Government stay OF home to
vote, in due time the control of the Government
and army may be voted into the hands of the
rebels.
It will be new development of the beauty of
Republican institutions, if the Democratic doc
trine shall prevail that in time of great public
danger the loyal who rally to the defense Of the
nation shall lose their political rights, and the
control Of the Government shall pass into the
hands of the allies of the traitors. Although
Democrats may affect to deny that they are al
lies of the enemy, yet they cannot deny that this
is the working and the inevitable result of their
DISTINGUISHING the soldiers in time of war, if car
ried out.
They are good reasons why the regular army
should not vote. The regular soldier has no
local residence, and if he voted would neces-
sarily vote in the place where he happened to
be; and thus the regular army might be shifted
to places according to partisan emergencies, and
made the means of controlling the elections py
the Administration.
But the volunteers enlist only Is save the
country in the present danger, and they retain
their previous residence. They are enrolled in
separate regiments in their several States =
There is no practical difficulty in the way of
their voting. On the contrary the muster rolls
of the regiments furnish means for preventing
and contesting fraudulent voting which do not
exist at home And whatever reasons the right
of franchise in the mass of the people is found
ed on, are much stronger in the case of the
volunteer. No man can understand the natute
of the cause at issue better than he who is fight.
idg for it, and no man can have greater stake
in the country than the volunteer who offers his
life for it.-Cin Gaz.
JEFF. DAVIS RETALIATION The very long
and wordy proclamation of Jefferson Davis
against Major General Butler, the commander of
the United States forces in Louisiana, will at.
tract attention. 1t is in the nature of a bill of
indictment, and Butler is accused of atrocities
that people in New Orleans have never heard of.
By way of Furnishing him, Davis declares that
when he is captured, the officer in command of
the capturing force shall hang him Immediately,
without trial. The commissioned officers of bis
army, who map be captured, shall be preserved
for execution" and that the same course shall
be pursued with respect to all United States
commissioned officers who may be found serving
in company with slaves in instruction
On the principle of catching your hare before
you cook it, there need be no sneasiness about
Gen. Butler. But the fury and barbarity that
inspired the proclamation are as Infamous as if
the intention were fulfilled. Davis and the re-
bel authorities have never recovered from the
modification of losing New Orleans It has been
the bitterest pill they have had since the war
began, and the impotence of al! their plans and
efforts to recover that important city, constants
ly aggravates their rage. The case of Mumford.
whom Gen Butter caused to be executed. is a
mere pretext; it is not the real cause of the
proposed measures. The real cause will be
found in that paragraph of the proclamation in
which Davis speaks of President Lincoln's
Emancipation There is the true source oil
alarm and passionate fury which dictated this
last a'rocious manifesto. The first of January is
univ pSrH AND A.. f. |
the President will proceed to the fulfllment of
his determination to free the slaves of the rebel
States. 1t is IN last desperate hope that he
may be frightened out of this determination,
chat Davis has issued this extraordinary docu-
ment against Gen. Butler. Emancipation
touches the rebellion in vital part and many |
OF those who have dlsopproved of the Presidents
resolve; must see, from Jefferson Davis present
fury, that as a mere military measure, and with
out reference even to the commoDest abstract
principles of humanity, the proclamation is 60
ing to do a great deal of good.
1t was hardly to be expected that in choosing |
a commander of the United States forces in New
Orleans, President Lincoln would conault the |
feelings of Jefferson Davis It was as little to |
be expected that any policy he might adopt with |
to slavery would suit Mr.. Davis. The |
very circumstance that Buffers course and the |
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such state of insane fairy as that shown in his |
new manifesto, shows that the President was |
right in sending Butler to New Orleans, and in I
issuing his Emancipation proclamation. If Da-
Wis thinks that his barbarous decree against |
Butler is going to intimidate either the Presi-
dent or the people of the United States. he will
be dsappointed.-Phil Bulletin.
Ut course, As the events of the terrible battle |
OF Fredericksburg are canvassed. hundreds of in.
stances come to light of individual gallantry,
daring, and GOODNESS Col. Burns regiment Of
the Irish Brigade went into the fight With about
700 men, and came out with $50. One after
another the standsrd-besrers were shot down. |
until tee"ty men had been killed at the duty, and
the colors were torn to rags by the storm Of fire
through which they we're so galantly borne
Seven different times did the Colonel seize the |
colors from the ground, and hand them to the |
nearest man. And iat the last, after even all |
this, the colors were lost, after 500 men had |
fallen in their defense. After the battle II is |
said that the Colonel aak down and want h;tto.