The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-22
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them up with round turn-whe,, they
hdvc 90: done. say that any President
would have acted as Lincoln did-ex-
oepting old Buchanan! lCheers.l We
have had riots suppressed ere this
Look at the Pennsylvania whisky riot
Look at matters in South Carolina in
1881. Jackson interfered with South Caro-
lima and stopped notification, and said if
It did not stop he would stop the breath Of
the rioters, by means of one-and-a-half.
inch rope. tLaughter.] That was all
right! That was exactly proper! The
people endorsed all that Andrew jackson
did, But things have changed somewhat,
l suppose, since '32,-then 9 man could be
q patriot, and sustain the Government,
and sustain the President, and still be re-
spected. Also look at the war of 1872. look
at the war in Florida-where we acquired
territory for these hell-hounds, who, by
their act of treason and rebellion have dis
graced it. ICheers.l Look at the war with
Mexico. In these things, these acts, the
people sustained the Government to the
very letter. Now there seems change has
come over some sections of the country
Now, if we come here with the Constitu-
ton in one hand and our glorious old
flag in the other, and propose to speak IN
favor of the acts of the constituted author
tiles in putting down wicked and &C
cursed mob or rebellion, they call a man
''fool," "Idiot;;" "Abolitionist," and such
hard names. [Cheers.l
We have had two years Of bloody, devas-
tating war. We have been engaged in do
ing, what? Endeavoring to preserve the
Constitution, put down the rebellion
meeting force as it can only be met success
fully, with force, and men with armed
men, and learning insurgents to respect
the mandates of the law-givers of the land.
At first, when war was just upon us, there
was heard a shout, as though from one man
from the entire North-from Democrats,
Republicans, calling for men
and money and arms to put down the re-
belllon. The purpose was engaged in will
hngly. The object was MOTTO kill and sweep
away traitors. And for aiding in this work
for serving in our army, what reward do
some mete out to our soldiers? Because
men have fought, because the Government
has tried its strength with treason, what is
now the cry? Why, "You destroy the
Constitution % When returned to my
could take all by the hand-thought that
all loved their country to the death, as l
had done. But found it different. Men
who Of late were for our country-and said
no other flag should wave over it excepting
that bearing the stars and stripes-had be-
come afraid that the Constitution was be-
ing hurt, and the war should be brought to
al Gnu, anu peaCe PIopoSiIioiis suoOiu ne
made. A man cannot put foot upon ILL
nois soil before he is slandered and lied
upon. / had not been at home a day be-
fore letter was sent to me from this place,
in which it was stated that ] had returned
for the purpose of putting down the 'D-n
fool Irish" At least had made such a re-
mark in this place. 1t want to say that the
author Of that is base liar and a Sound
rel. He is large man, but he dare not
look mo in tho faca and SayS that 7 nffarQ6
such sentence. Cries of "his name! his
name! "a Copperhead"'] But, gentlemen,
I'll settle that matter myself. l feel fully
competent to the task. Laughter.l
But l desire to answer some of the OBJ
jections urged against the vigorous prose-
cutiOn of the war. / want to answer some
who have slandered me because / have
talked in favor of the protection of the
Constitution and the prosecution of all and
every means for the speedy crushing out
of the rebellion. lCries of chang them v']
say first there is no doubt of the power
the President has to put down treason, and
OF the right to call out troops to do it. But
those who wish to throw obstacles in our
way, raise objections, and their first one is,
that war is unconstitutional-tha putting
down an armed mob with force of bayo-
nets is outside of the laws-that we are
fighting nationality the same as our
selves; and they add hundred other SIM
ilarly weak and silly Inventions of the
enemy" These men must be sujugated.-
If a man steals your horse, don't you sub
jugate him? Don't you deprive him of his
ony and punished by imprisonment, does
he not forfeit his right to vote or sit upon
jury forever thereafter? Is he not COM
pletely subjugatedf Isn't it strange that
you can do this, and yet be demonstrations
al for US to subjugate those Southern trait
ors, these men in arms againstthe country
Those who talk this to you, my friends,
do not want to take up musket or sword,
and go down there and meet these gentle
men of the South! That's what's the mat
ter with them! Laughter Yet these men
say we are invading the rights OF States,--
the rights Of individuals, and q thousand
other thing. But please to answer me, tell
me, where, either written or spoken, you
are able tofind thatsucho DIRECTORS to the war
policy of the Government have ever COM
mitted themselves or said anything against
reasonable army. Tell me when or where
they have said, by word or act, that jeff
and his hell-hounds are invading and in
validating sacred rights Never! No,my
countrymen, they'll object to the war, OBJ
ject to anything, object to all the opera
tons of the authorities calculated to end
and crush out the rebellion; but not soil
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hear to JEFF. Davis. And either JEFF. Davis
is sustaining or violating the Constitution.
If he is sustaining it, we are not; If he is
not sustaining it, but fighting against I've
are sustaining it, and fighting for it. And
for giving my hand to the aid Of my coun-
try, you will hear it said, probably have
heard it said, that logan has turned Alb
olitionistr' (Laughter.l And whys I
sustain my country right, or wrong. l
sustain the President in his effort to put
down wrong. The President, these men
say, is an Abolitionist; hence must / be
one also. tLaughter.] 1 wonder if these
men lived in the time of James X. Polk
The people sustained him in the war with
Mexico. Did that make us all Democratsf
Did that make me Democrat9 The ma
iority did it, and then in the very next
canvass turned about and elected a Wing
as the next President lIaughter.l If all
who elected and sustained Polk, they rea-
son, were Democrats, those who elected
and now sustain Lincoln are Lincolnites.
[Cries of "about right, old boy."l Now the
truth is Just here: do not care who is
President. If His Supreme Highness,
Beelzebub, were President, and were pros
ecuting this war, would give him for once
NV full sanction and support. [Cheers.
People may talk about Democrats, Re-