The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-28

if all the others sell cheap he will have the
more to sell dear. We will praise with our
whole might the virtue of patriotic self
sacrifice; and are most happy to see it ex-
emplified in other men; and unaffectedly
wonder whether those who trade and make
money upon the necessities of their coun-
try, think they have souls to be saved. Of
late there has been great manifestation of
patriotic rage against every sort of iniquity,
and, to judge by our newspapers, never
was surely a community in this world so
welded to purity and virtue, so scandal
lied at the shadow of vice. In the very
crisis and paroxysm of the French revolu-
ton, when aristocrats were threatening an
INVASION across the Rhine, and farmers
worst Of al) were hiding their grain in
stead of bringing it into market, a decree
was proposed by conventioner ''for the
arrest OF all the scoundrels and thieves"
He hoped that his zeal would exempt him
at least from the arrest Richmond En-
Quirer. 8
JUDGE McCUNN, OF New YoRK.-The
New York Tribune gives the following
sketch of the military career Of this noto-
rious disgrace to the bench:
''Who can have forgotten McCunn's ca
reer as Colonel? It was in the early part
of the war, when army correspondents
were complaisant. They listened with ten
der sympathy each morning to the gallant
ColonePs recital of the number of his men
varying from two to thirty-who had
been killed the preceding night on picket
duty. They listened with beautiful SIM
plicity to the descriptions given by the
same officer of his single-handed forays
into and all around the enemy's lines.-
They saw him in their minds eye pursued
by innumerable squadrons, battalions and
brigades of "Black Horse Cavalry" urg-'
ing his fiery steed over stone-walls upon
which Charles O'Malley would have turn
ed his back, or forcing his way, sword in
hand, through opposing squares of rebel
infantry. The slaughter of his men on
picket duty was more than avenged by the
single sword of their epauletted Colonel
According to army kilograms and letters
of those old days, McCunn must have
friends bite the bloody dust-this loss to
the enemy being about compensated by
the fact that, out of a regiment of some
seven hundred men, he could not, accord
ing to his own account, have had less than
twenty six or twenty-eight hundred killed
son picket duty" alone.
The brilliant services, all will remember,
were brought to SUDDEN close by the in
gratitude and personal jealousy of Gener-
al Mcclellan, who warmly approved the
finding Court-martial, which sentenced
Col. McCunn to be cashiered."
ITEMS FROM THE CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
nv, the South will be a desolate wilder
kess," said man the other day. We
might answer '1dt j,tstitia, rudt cCelanp;"
but there is another response. Slaves were
freed in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Rhode
in these States now? If there is any will
derness in the South, it will be due to the
rebellion; and freedom will soon make it
"blossom as the rose" when the war is over.
BRAN AND WATER.
The rebels supply their prisoners in
Richmond with bran and water. Their
Catholic friends, the pro-slavery editors,
supply their readers with the same article.
Though given in abundance, it isn't Of
much account.
The Enquirer of Saturday quotes, at
great length, an article from New York
sol disant Catholic paper, in which the
Pastoral letter of the Council of Cincinnati
is used for political capital. The Bishops
there deprecate the agitation of the slavery
question, and exhort Catholics not to break
the bond of charity between the North and
South. The quotation is made knavishly
or foolishly. For it does not apply to the
present at all. Then there was hope of
peace, and the Church did not wish it to be
broken. Now, there is war. Then, the
negroes in the rebel States were slaves
Now, by the treason of their masters, they
are forfeit, and by the proclamation of the
President they are free. Then, to agitate
the slavery question was revolutionary
Now, the shareholders and their abettors
are the revolutionists. Then, the abolition
lists were meddling with what did not con-
Germ them. NoU, Shareholders want to
domineer over the free men OF the North,
as well as their former slaves. Then, the
Enquirer admitted slavery to be an evil,
but said disunion was worse. NOW, the
Enquirer, if we understand him, says that
slavery is blessing, of more value than
the United States Government.
In word, since the slave autocrats COM
menced their revolution, the position of
Northern parties is reversed. What was
conservative now opposes law and order,
and what was radical now supports gov
eminent.
The exhortation of the prelates of
the Cincinnati Council, therefore, is an
encouragement to those Catholics, who,
Drawing the abuses of demagogues, have
been true in this crisis to law, govern
ment, liberty and the Church. EE>
It would not appear from the following
that the Catholic Telegraph has suffered
materially from the position it has ta-
ken on the state of the country. The Tele- |
graph says: a.us
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