The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-27

hold on the END OF tie or fall, ana Lnen
Strengthening up, would literally hit the
track from its bed, completely capsizing it.
Then, piling the ties together and setting
them on fire, we laid the rails across the
top, rendering them unfit for future use.'
The Contempt in which the Rebels
hold the Northern ''Peace" Cow.
ards.
Two YEARS HENCE.-In two years, as
many persons hope, we may possibly have
peace-that is. always provided we cOntin-
ue to repulse and defeat the invading enc
my. The Yankee Democracy is certain
ly rousing itself, and preparing for new
struggle Cat the ballot-box) in the great
| cause of the ''spoiLs," or, as they call it, the
cause of Constitutional Liberty. Those
Democrats are evidently to raise Peace
platform for their next Presidential cleo
| tiOn," and if they have the good luck to be
serious disasters of the Yankee army in the
field, there is no doubt the present devour-
| ers of the said spoils at Washington may
soon be so discredited and deserted that our
enemy's country would be ripe for such
peaceful ballot-box revolution.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that those ear
nest champions of constitutional freedom
will be hel ped on and sustained in the
manner they require-namely, by contin-
ued and severe reverses in the field and it
| is the first and most urgent duty OF our
| countrymen so to help and sustain that
| Democratic party. tits nothing to us which
of their factions may devOur their ''spoils;'
just as little does it signify to US whether
they recover or do not recover that cOnst-
tutional liberty which they so wantonly
threw away in the mad pursuit of South
ern conquest and plumber. Bat 1t is of the
| utmost Importance to as to AID IN stimulating
disafection among Yankees against hel,
oUn Government, and IN denor0ttzing and
disintegrdting society IN that God-dbGndoned
country We can do this only in one way
namely, by thrashing their armies and car
rying the war to their own tiresides. Then,
indeed, conscientious constitutional prin-
ciples will hold sway; peace platforms will
! look attractive; arbitrary arrests will be-
come odious, and ha6eGs corpus be quoted
at a premium. This is the only way we can
help them. In this sense, and to this ertent,
those Democrats are truly oar allies, and zoe
shall endeGUOr to do oar duty by them.
But they evidently look for other and
further help at our hands, and of quite a
different sort. No doubt they are pleased
for the present, with the efficient aid which
the Confederate army is affording them.-
Charlottesville was a God-send to them
and the tremendous repulse at Port Hud-
son is quite plank in their platform. Yet
they understand very well that no matter
how soundly their armies may be happily
beaten; no matter how completely Lin
coins present war policy may be con-
demned by its results, yet all this will not
be enough to enable the unter9IfeG Denaoc-
rdcy to clutch the ''spoits''-or, as they
phrase it, to restore the Constitution OF
their fathers. This, of itself, would never
give them Peace Democrat President
and Cabinet; it would only result in
another AboIitionist Administration, with
a new Secretary of War, and a new Com
mander-in- Chief, and a slightly differ
ent programme for crushing the rebel
lion" Those Black Republicans are in
power, after long waiting, pining, in
triguing in the cold shade OF the oppo-
sition; and they have now the numerical
preponderance SO decidedly that they both
| can and viii hold on to the office with
clutch like death. The Democrats can
do absolutely nothing without 'the South, y
as they persist in terming these Con-
federate States; and they cannot bring
| themselves to admit the thought that ut
ap0uid refuse to u,iite arith them las alas! we
used to do) in q grand Universal Presi-
| dental campaign, for q Democratic Pres
ident, pith q Peace Platform, and tht
"Constitution as 1T Isl In fact, this whole
two years war, and the two years more
war which has yet to be gone through
is itself, in their eyes, only Presidential
campaign, only somewhat more vivaeious
than ordinary. .-fa... g.m
This explains the Vallandigham Peace
Meetings in New York and New Jersey
and the ''manly declarations of Mr.. Ho
ratio Seymour and other patriots. "Do no
let US forget" says Fernando Wood, wri
ting to the Philadelphia meeting, tina
those who perpetrate such outrages as thu
arrest and Punishment of Mr.. Vallandig
!. ham, do so as necessary war measures
Let us, therefore, strike at the cause, ant
declare for peace and against the a0ar."
This would sound very well if the sait
: declaring for peace" could have any effec
whatever in bringing about peace. If
man falling from tower could arrest hi
fall by declaring againstit, then the declar
ations of Democrats against the war nigh
be of some avail. AS it is, they resembl
that emphatic OfMr. Wash
ington HINT: "Let it be proclaimed apo,
the houSetOpS, that no citizen of New 9orl
1 shall be arrested without process of law.
There is no use in bawling from the house
tops what everybody knows to benonsense
Or this resolution OF the New Jersey meet
ing: as y aa aaar,
ResolUcd, That, in the illegal seizure an
Punishment of the Hon. G. l.. Vallandig
Q ham, the laws of our country have beef
f outraged, the name of the United State
disgraced, and the rights of every citizel
menaced, and that it is now the duty OF
3 law-respecting people TO demand of the Ad
r ministration that it at once and forever de
sist from such deeds of despotisns and crime
Enthusiasm.
Demand, quotha! The startling that Mr.
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