The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1863-05-23
From our Lady Correspondent.
WAsHIN0roN May l3, 1853.

From our Lady Correspondents.
| WASHINGTON, May l3, 1853.
Our DEAR HAwK-EYE: The smoke of
another battle has assembled, like our angel
of darkness, bearing upon its wings na-
tional sacrifice, and the God of battle alone
must judge what has been gained by this
1 effort. Before gun had been fired by the
North at our "Southern brethren,' except
the gallant defence of . Fort Sumter by
Maj. Anderson, in conversation with Gen.
Scott, he remarked to me, "Better resort
to anything to settle our national difficult
ties than the battle-field-the least accident
turns the tide-"gambling, gambling, the
whole of it; let's talk about something else."
| A prominent officer remarked since the late
battles, Had Hooker been supported by
| the German regiments, he would mt have
lost that ground" Apanic seized them for
| a time, but 1t was disastrous to us. The
ablest commander, if he is not ably sup
ported, fails-the least false movement on
this horrible chessboard, and a nation
| trembles. Ye who are far away suspend
judgment awhile. Let us say our faith in
Gen. Hooker's ability is still triumphant.
| The New York Tribune says he made his
line of battle too thin and too long. A very
sagacious criticism, brother Horace, but
wounded officers have told me that every
| link in the chain that Gen. Hooker drew
around the rebels was perfect. Had he
succeeded, there would have been no escape
for them; but two of those unforeseen ac-
cidents occurred which Gen. Scott has so
often deplOred, and we were unsuccessful.
| / have not heard military man condemn
Cen. Hooker's plans. Who wouldn't suf-
fer to have one grand triumphant success
for the Army of the Potomac?-a success
by which all others shall pale and grow
dim? If there is anything consecrated on
this earth, tits the halo that surrounds every
man who has volunteered for the defence
of Republican institutions, who endures the
military despOtism of camp life and when
the hour of trial comes, faces death heroi-
cally, and finally lies wounded, dying, and
at last sinks into soldiers grave. Should
we not judge them as tenderly as an angel
might judge an erring mortal?
Whilst the press of the North is denounc-
ing Copperheads why do they not strike at
the root of that which makes Copperheads?
When man gets the erysipelas in the hos
| pital, we don't wait for the man each side
of him to get poisoned; he is removed forth
with. Why don't you drive your thunder
bolts at this old rotten City of Washington,
and never cease for a moment until the
seat of the national life is purified, and rid
of the tubercles that weakens it's existence.
1t is the foul malaria that envelopes Wash
ingtOn that has strangled the Republican
| party, ITeSNleut VIII Dc UOIu-
mated on that old wreck-the old planks
may be used with a new fastening and a
new baptism. Out of the slime of Wash
ington come the Copperheads. Whilst Sec
retary Seward is catching some little no
body that anybody never heard of and
thrusting them into Fort Lafayette with
| all the yehemence that he would take
pinch of snuff, the NeW York World and
Chicago Times and DubuqUe "Whdt Is It,"
are Haunting their bold treason in the face
of thousands.
The adherents and former associates of
the rebel Maury, still cling like barnacles
to the keel of the Navy Department. Sec
retary Chase has woven himself into CO.
coon OF ''greenbacks'' and will not be seen
until he eats his way out full-grown, fine
ly developed president" In the mean
time, traitors are swarming around the
Treasury Department, like mice around a
''Western Reserve cheese Two-thirds of
the women employed there, are the wives
and sisters of those men who left Wash
ington and have joined the rebel army
The notorious Miss Jourdan still occupies
the Office of chief clerk in the ladies' de-
partment of the Dead Letter Office The
highest office, with the most salary, occupied
by any woman in the Departments, or with
in the gift Of the Administration; and this
comes home more bitterly to an Iowa wo-
| man, because she received her appoint
ment from man whom the people of Iowa
| elevated to power. Great God, when will
the people be done with mushroom poll
ticians?' How long will we be the grind
stones for political intriguers to sharpen
their weapons on? Loyal people were
electrified only the other day, because Jno
l.. Addison, chief clerk in the Adjutant
| Generals Office, was found receiving and
| distributing rebel mail matter. What has
become of the aforesaid John? Won't the
| people up North get up good dance, then
send on to Washington and request his
head? But hear the good people inquir-
| ing, how does it happen that these men,
chosen from good loyal States, so far for
| get their duty? I will answer in two words
! social iniquity. They came here, found
| these men at their posts, and they have be-
come enveloped in their meshes. We have
got no Gen. Jackson to break up the Cabi-
net because Mrs. Cabinet officer won't re-
| best friends of the Administration will not
respect it, is it a wonder that it's opponents
| become Copperheads. Oh, my beloved
| HdWk-Eye, get the mote out of your own
eye, before you go poking your fingers in
| to the eyes of your neighbors. SATYRA.
P. S.-My letter concerning office seek
| ers and conservatives has not been publish
ed. Did it meet with an untimely death in
the Haark-Eye office.
Every letter written by our fair CORES
pondent, which has been received, has
been printed in the wk-Eye.-EDIToR
HAwK-EYE.
From the Seth Iowa.
The feeling of the Army-Erpression of sen
| hdtchte.
TALLEHATCHIE RIVER Miss March 90