The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-21


60 in for it. Look q the amount which the
New York merchants lost BY the secession of
the South. Have they not driven Ill the
Union men out ofthe rebel States and conhsca
ted their property. Millions Of dollars worth of
property has thus gone into their Golfers BY con.
6scation. Aud you have the right to confscate
their property. You don't know what property
there il in the North belonging to Southern
rebels. Why, that infamous Buckner owns pro.
perty worth S250,00O in the City Of Chicago.
Now, supposing you only get one half of al
the property you ought to get, it will be an inn
menss sum. And believe God intends that
you shsll take oil this property to send the black
man out Of the country, and set him up in q
new home. And supposing it costs you SlO0
ahead to send them out of the country, how many
would you be able to get rid of ? / agree With
you that at the close o! this war there will be
fewer niggers N the country than now And
if you are afraid Of that-if you are 80 fond of
slavery that you don't want to see it put down,
join the army, for there will soon be only few
old stumps: left. Join the army quick, and
help to put down the rebellion, before the whole
thing is wiped out. Laughter and cheers =
That property will be converted into money
and will be the means of taking the blacks out
Of the country, without taxing the white, men
- O. q H. E
Some of you are afraid of the Intervention
of that. You ask what has been done during
the last two years want to answer that We
have done more than our fathers in the Rsvolu.
ton did, in that time. For the first two years
adversely Was upon them. We have done bet.
ter that We did in 1914 We have done better
than France or England ever did in rebellion.
We have raised an army Of over . million of
men, and that is more than England or France
can do. Immense cheering.
Why Senator Douglas said this war wss con-
cocted in the middle of James Buchanans Ad-
ministration. You know what vas done to
disperse our Navy, and scatter our munitions of
war through the South. was at Naples last
Nay year, and l saw three of our National
vessels away off there. Your Navy vas all'sent
out-scattered 90 they could not be recalled for
. length Of time. And your military supplies
we're sent South, your cannon were sent South,
your rifles were sent South, your army was in
the South, your condemned arms, condemned
because they wanted them, we're bought up and
sent down South. 1t vas all planned and con.
cocted then. And yet you know that to-day
the Stars and Stripes 6oat over one half of this
whole country. lGrest cheering) Over every
fort but two We have got round them on the
sas and into Mississippi, have possession Of New
Orleans, and have an army large enough to whip
them out, if We only stand up to the work. II
We only do our duty in elk months We will have
possession Of the whole country. You have .
million of men in the army, you have widows
and orphans all around you. and your army has
driven the enemy before it throughout the whole
West, and yet you are wicked and mean enough
to 60 round aud cay I've have done nothiDg!"
And that 10 Democracy! For shame! How
many men voted against the tax bill? There
we're sixty.two Democrats in the House, and
fourteen voted against il. Now, if you don't say
it 10 right will have to read you out of the
party;::and a. thres-fourths of the Democratic
members voted for the prosecution of the war,
if you say that it 10 not right, will have to
read you out Of the party. And if you are in
the minority, what will you do! (Immense ap-
plause) I do not think you need to fear foreign
Intervention while both sides have such large
armies in the field. will tell you when think
Europe will interfere. I am no military man,
ond may not Judge correctly; but if had had
the command there would have been no fight on
the Rsppahannock. would have let Virgins,
with her black peas, alone. would have open.
ed the Mississippi. And with the Mississippi
open, and Arkansas aud Texas cut of to itself,
the war would not last long. That grass region
leeds the rebel army. There is where the beef
comes from on which they subsist. Do you
know once made speech on grass? 1t was
after this style of argument: where there is no
grass, there is no stock; where there ia no stock,
there will be no manure; and where there ia no
manure nothing will grow. Great laughter
Gut off those regions, and guard the Mississippi
river well: and they will not be able to snbsist
their army
Now, will tell you when Europe will inter-
fere. Whenever they are compelled to resort to
guerrilla war. Do you think France and Eng
land will look on and see this country 20 into q
guerrilla war; And this would be the result.
You could not guard the line. Look at it. 1t
is not range Of mountains, or large river, OF
natural boundary of any sort; but it is . line
crossing through the country, crossing your
mountains, crossing your valleys, crossing your
impossible to guard it. Parties of robbers would
cross that line to rob your stores, and burn your
towns, and murder your people; and you would
have to fight them. Now do You think France
aud England would suffer this state of things to
occur. Whenever the war degenerates into q
guerrilla fight, then they will interfere, and
not till then. ~
ny friends, tell you, away with all party
names, and stand by your government I THINK
THERE Is NO sUcH THING AZ LOYALTY TO TIE
OoUHrRY, AND At THE SANE TINE DIsLoYALrY
TO TIE ADhIslsTRATIoN, IN TINES LIKE THESE.
lShouts Of You are sound. That 10 90, and pro.
ionged applause Abraham Lincoln 10 the
pilot of the ship, and whether l like him or not,
it is only choice between him and anarchy
What would you think of an old man praying.
during the storm at sea, for the ship? he would
be laughed at He prsys for the pilst A5ra-
ham Lincoln is your pilot. To stand by Tie pilot
is to stand by 0e ship. You may say, II am OPP
posed to this" or II am opposed to that" Well,
what are you in favor Of? "Well, / don't know.
l want to get into power" Il am very anxious
to get the pay" For shame;l let these thinge
60, and stand by your country. :
You are nearer trouble than you suppose -
! Our Congress has declared the war must be