The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-12
Grape and Canister!

in commission in about six months time.
Cor. N. Y. Tribune. g. B.
Grape and Canister! In
The Union Guard, printed at Bloomfield,
is edited by a man who hates as heartily,
and hits as mercilessly as even Parson
Brownlow. The following are few SAM
pie shots at Copperheads and Secessionists,
taken from the last issue:
TIE LAST TRIBUTE.-It is usual, when
men of note shuttle off this mortal coil, and
bid adieu 10 time and things in this mum
dane sphere, tor their friends to perpetuate
their memory by the erection of becoming
monuments, on which are inscribed some
epitaph indicative of their character or yir-
| tues; and as Harvey Dunlavy has gone
dead, politically, and his political friends
neglect to perform this last, solemn duty,
we propose the following epitaph as "kiv-
ering'' his case
Hear lies honest Harvey Dulavy-
In life he was always topsy-turvy-
In politics he was buster,
And, though not a good man, he n,ougM have
been WuSSeT.
What has become Of the silly scare-crow
of civil war in Iowa, that was threatened
before the election by the butterhead and
coppernut orators that made night hideous
with their declamations about the destruc-
ton Of personal rights, and personal lib
erty?
How many poor simpletons were fright
| ened by the unreasonable and unfounded
assertion, that democrats were to be pre-.
vented from voting at the late election, by
force of arms? How many of the poor
misguided dupes who believe these silly
threats have been at the useless trouble and
expense of arming themselves against
their neighbors, who never dream of harm
| ing them? yet such is modern democracy
| a combination of lies from beginning to end.
SO thickly interviewer together that you
can't stick atruth in edge-ways, or even
drive one in with a sledge hammer.
| The villanous traitor, Vallandigham, a
short time ago threatened to leave New
England out in the cold, but the joke seems
to be the other way, and he, poor cuss, is
waiting and watching, from his kennel,
| over the border, like any other dog, to see
if his master jeff will have a spare bone
for him to pick after he gets through with
his little cotillion and waters his horse in
! the Hudson river.
| There are good many more, Vallandig-
hams, without the brains, in this country,
and it would do them all good to take lit
| tie spell of watching and waiting till
| they could see the solemn contempt and
condemnation of the loyal people manifest
ed as he has, and feel that they are traitors
already doomed, damned, sealed and deliv-
cred over to the father Of lies, without
mercy.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH TRAITORS ?
This question is now demanding the ac-
ton of both Church and State, and we no.
tice that the loyal Methodist ministers in
Missouri are coming boldly up to the work,
and that they rightfully deny every traitor,
and every sympathizer, place in the
church. They refuse all such admission,
and require some evidence at least that q
man is dbfrnaatirely loyal to the United
States. before he can even join the church
as a probationer.
| This is as it should be; if man is not a
good loyal citizen, he is not fit to be a
| church member, and never will make q
good christian. The man who can deliber.
ately turn against our government, and
give his aid or sympathy against it,. is no
more fit to set down at the communion Ia
! BILE with Christians, than he is fit to be ush-
cred into the visible presence of the AL
mighty, reeking with murder OF an lnno-
| cent brother. Only think of one of these
modern Gains being called into the pres
ence of the God of justice to receive the
crown of eternal glory with which the
righteous are adorned, and then think how
much more impudence he must be endow-
ed with than his deceased relative, Cain, Of
the house Of Adam, if he does not involun-
tarily shrink away to the shades OF dark
ness prepared for all such. The truth is,
there is no use in being at the expense Of
a devil, and keeping up hell for common
sinners, if such villains are to go scot free,
and blunder into heaven through loyal
church. Let the back doors of the churches
be kept well open, and turn all such into
the devils backward, without the benefit
of the clergy, or the hope of a restoration.
The room is worth a vast deal more than
their fellowship.
"PLAYED OUT,"-Played out, petered
out, pegged out, kicked the bucket, gone
up and done for, are all terms conveying
some idea of the latter end Of hard luck,
but they don't begin to do justice to the
present and future condition Of the dead,
defunct and doubly damned butternut
cain in the land Of Nod was in rather
had fix. it is true, but he was not SO entire
ly done for but God Almighty took some
notice of him: but our poor butternuts are
left entirely God-for- -saken and God
oned to work out their own damnation sol.
itary and alone.
Routed in every loyal State where the
soldiers were allowed to vote; routed in
every other State, where people vote at all,
except in New jersey, they go, wandering
on seeking rest and find none; exiled in
their own land, spurning their own COM
pany and fleeing from their own shadows
while the ghost of murdered country
haunts them on through oblivion to politi-
cal annihilation more tolerable than the
damnation to which Milton's devils were
consigned.