The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29

have affected, IN some mode, Inc lie OF
every person living during this period. Is
it also to be written of him, that the Re-
public established in his youth was rent
asunder and destroyed in his old age, that
his own life was longer than that of the
nation ,-that what patriots built up for the
safety Eof the people, traitors in his own
time destroyed to satisfy an inordinate
ambition? We shall see,-some Of us, at
all events. ra ~
The WAR'PowER.-A pamphlet OF thir-
ty pages, discussing ''The Power Of the
President of the United States in Times of
War;" printed at Muscatine has reached
us. 1t was prepared by Messrs. D. G.
Cloud and John H. Power, a Committee
appointed by the citizens OF Muscatine for
that purpose, with view of presenting
the public, in condensed form, the pro-
visions Of the Constitution and Laws, the
decisions of the Courts and opinions of
Statesmen upon this vital subject. We
have not had leisure to examine the PAM
phlet, but we are certain that the more
our people investigate these powers, the
more throughly will they be satisfied that
they are ample for any emergen cy, and as
necessary as they are sufficient. The
pamphlet may be ordered from the Mus
catine Journal office at g per hundred.
NEGRO SUPERIoRITY.-Recent events
have satisfied us that the negro is
superior in point OF civilization to the
Sepoys who sacked Lawrence-tot the rebel
hordes who are robbing women and chill
the seeded States who inaugurated a reign
of terror in the beginning of the war, re-
pudiated their honest debts, and have
plundered and robbed from that time to
this. We are satisfied that they are more
civilized and in all respects, better citizens
and better men than Ben and Fernando
Woods thieves and Governor Seymour's
friends who recently plundered, burned
and murdered during three days in New
York, sacking an Orphan Asylum, burn
ing houses over the heads of woman and
children and numbering parents in the
presence of their children, and in one or
two instances roasting their victims over
slow fires! We are satisfied the negro is
more intelligent than the stupid fools who
are scared out Of their wits and cheated
out of their humanity and manhood by
the parrot cry of ''Negro Equalityr' Abo-
lition p 1.-THE Constitution We are GER
tain he is more courageous and more pa
triotic than the Copperheads, because he
enlists and fights bravely in war, where,
to be taken prisoner, is to be murdered in
cold blood.
We invite the pestilent crew of blatant
secessionists, North and South, to take
particular notice that we are in favor of
Negro Superiority over all such scallawags.
We invite them to use this important fact
their stupid dupes-to print it in the
reeking columns Of their villainous, lying,
debauched, butternut sheets.
~ An expedition sent out from Natchez
by Gen. Ransom, recently captured one
thousand bales Of Cotton marked C. s. A.
1t is supposed to be part Of the pledge for
the redemption of the loan obtained in
neutral England. We guess it was Con-
stitutional ITO confscate that" If we
don't have bad luck, we viii get the whole
after q while. What will the English
snobs do about their money in that case,
Will they invite Us to pay it,
~The Dubuque Herald appears to be
highly gratifed with Quantrells raid upon
Lawrence. 1t says, "7Aat is independent
partisan fighting!" 1t compares this Guer-
rilla, just after he has been guilty of the
most atrocious barbarities, to Marion,
Sumter and Wayne! It repeats, what it
has often said before, that "if resolved on
independence, nine millions of people
cannot be put down." Where it finds that
thine Millions in the "Confederacy" we
don't know. But its remarks show it's
animus. 1t is delighted with Quantrells
raid, and would like to hear Of more Of
them. 1t likes that sort of partisan fight
ing" 1t was greatly enraged the sother
day because single rebel family was
murdered by some negroes in vengeance
of individual wrongs. It had q column of
complaint about that. The murderers
were "ghouls" set on by Federal officers"
The wholesale murders OF Quantrell do not
extort q word of oensure. He ia an indie
pendent partisan. His murders are oil
right. He is compared to Marion and Sum
ter And the Herald glories in his atroci-
ties-and goes in for Gen. Tnttlei
Ii He CONFEDERATE WITH REBKIs9-
Fifty copies OF Ben Woods New York
News were seized, the other day, on board
the boat bound for Davids' Island, where
large number OF rebel prisoners are held
in custody. On the INSIDE OF the wrapper
was written. "To the soldiers OF tho c. S. A.,
with compliments of Ben Wood" 1fthat
don't signify that Ben is q traitor, and is
determined that his "confederatS5" shall
know it. what 10 Its meaning.