The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-21
The 18th Iowa to the Copperbeaa.
FORT BRowH, SPRINGFIELD, Mo-;
March 4th. lS63 I


Z FORT BRowS, SPRINGFIELD, Mo-;
March 4th, 1868 (
At meeting of the officers of the 18th re,i.
ment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry for The Dur.
pose Of taking into consideration the condition
of the country, Capt. D. P. Long, Capt. G.
c. Glover, and Lieut. A. B. Conway were An
pointed to draft resolutions, to be presented AZ
the next dress parade of the regiment on the
4th inst. After said parade was dismissed
the regiment was deployed in column, closed
in mass, by order of Colonel John Edwards
who then entertained the audience with very
lucid and logical discourse, denouncing in the
strongest terms, those Northern Doughfaces
and rebels who are keeping up sire in the
rear waging war of words against the
Government, trying to discourage the Union.
list and encouragelthe enemy in arms; and de.
clared that should there be any such sentiment
IN our army, the sooner they are DISCHARGED
and drummed out Of camp the better for the
cause of our country; and offered these resola-
lions IS test of this regiment, to prove to
their friends at home that that patriotism
which prompted them to leave home and all
its endearments to face and fight the enemy iu
the field has not in the least abated, and We
are as ever resolute.
He argued that to propose an armistice or
treaty With those rebels in arms who have re-
peasedly refused any compromise, would be
virtually falling down and asking jeff Davis
to receive as into his so-caled Confeieracy,
an idea which every friend OF the Union posses.
sing spark of patriotism would resent. He
reviewed the conniving conduct of the rebel,
lious States in first running of cur ships into
foreign ports, in robbing our National treasury,
in stealing our arms and munitions of war,
and then turning them against US and crying
out ''all We ask is to be let alone" lie closed
by administering scathing rebuke to all such
in the North as are secretly or openly conspiriug
against vigorous war policy. Lieut.. Dunlap
then read the following resolutions which were
unanimously ratified, after which three euthu-
siastic cheers were sent up for the Union
(Sgned) Lieut.. A. H. DUNLAP, Secy.
| WHEREAS, The present formidable rebellion
against the government OF the United States
was in contemplation for series of gears By
the conspirators, who seized upon the intense
partisanship and imbeclity of the Buchanan
| Administration as the favorable moment to
strike for the dissolution of the Union, thereby
involving the country in all the caiamities
and cruellies of civil war aud
WHEREAS, in order to accomplish their uu-
holy designs, they took good care to weaken
our means of national defense by robbiug the
national treasury, &C.: aud
WHEREAS, Jatses Buchanan, being the Con-
stitutona! head Of the Government, it was with
pain anu modification that we endured bis con-
nivances with the rebel onspirators but as
loyal, law abiding ctizeus we had no alternative
but to SUBMIT aud
WHEREAS, The present Administration assum-
| ed the reins of Government under the then ex-
isting foregoing state of facts and has steadily
pursued the purpose to crush this wicked rebel,
lion ard preserve the Union intact; and
WHEREAS, Under the many complications
which unavoidably attend war conducted on
such vast scale as the present, i. is not to be
expected that every act or policy adopted by the
Administration will fully meet the appreciation
Of every friend of the Government, be he Repub.
lican or Democrat but it is the bounden duty of
every citizen to sustain the Government, which
for limited time is committed to the keeping
of our present Chief Executive, and
WHEREAS We, the officers and men of the
18Th Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, have viewed
with shame and regret, the action of parsons We
left behind US, safe in the protection and enjoy
ment OF lite, property and the comforts of home,
who are aiding and abetting the enemy we are
confronting face to face, while they do not pos
sess the courage to do so, but continue to keep
up fire in our rear" Therefore be it
Resolced, Thatevery citizen Of the United States
is either for or against the Governments; that
| traitor residing in loyal State is meaner and
| as culpable as the one residing in reoellious
State, and both deserve the same fate
I'd That the cry for peace (when there is no
prospect Of it under the existing facts) is base
subterfuge, resorted to by designing demagogues
who seek in an indirect and covert way to be-
tray the Government into the hands of JEFF.
Davis, through an armistice and National
| Convention, mode Of settling our troubles
which the rebels in arms against the Govern.
ment have never sought for, but have actually
! repudiated the overtures of their Northern all
| lies time and again.
| Sd. 1t would be an act of bad faith on our
part to abandon, in such q shameful masuer as
is proposed by the Northern doughtaces, the
thousands of true and loyal citizens scattered
throughout the rebelous States, who have been
and are being murdered and dcspoied OF their
property, their families driven from their homes
anu mace wandering exiles, for no offence save
that of loyalty and patriotism.
4th. We want no treaty with JEFF Davis no
truce with the rebellion: We demand that our
dearly earned advantages be retained, and that
The whole power OF the Government De put
forth to crust. the treason aud traitors, Norm
and South. 1s t. .s...
i 9Th. We regard the rebel who opposes L; 10
arms as foe to be conquered, aud ne may ae"
serve TO oe treated as generous enemy; but the
man who proposes a truce is reptile to De
crushed-he would concede TO the rebels all
;aat they have vainly hoped from foreign inter
|, vention-his motive is plain, and hs vii! be
branded with the hatred of pos,erity.
9th. Ali We ask is an open field and taIr
i fight, with vigorous prosecution OF the war
against all the enemies OF the Government, with
the undying motto our banner, The Unloo,
, il must be preserved"
, 7th That copy Of the foregoing preamble
and resolutions be forwarded to the Burlington