The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-13
How it would Work.

The Copperheads say that the war is
wrong. They proclaim that it ought to
cease. They profess to want PEACE"
and such "peace' as an immediate ces-
sation of the war would give us. They
profess, too, to speak for the Democracy,
and affirm that a man who is ''tor the war"
who believes in suppressing this foul re-
volt, is not and cannot be a Democrat, but,
on the contrary, is an "Abolitionist Of the
most violent and radical sort.''
Let us look at this idea of stopping the
war, and see what it means-or at least O
part ofaits meaning. To stop the war in
this way requires that we shall withdraw
our armies from New Orleans, from Port
Hudson, from Pensacola, from Port Royal,
from Newberne, from Norfolk, from Fort
ress Monroe, from Vicksburg. 1t requires
that Rosecrans shall retire from Tennessee,
Burnside from Kentucky, Schofield from
Missouri, Hooker from Virginia, Schenck
from Baltimore. 1t demands that we shall
abandon all the Forts on the coast of Flori-
da, and elsewhere, and surrender them in
to tho hands of the rebels. 1t demands
that the blockade be terminated. It re.
quires that all the armies in the States
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Della
ware, shall be ANONYMOUSLY withdrawn
and that all the Union men in those States
shall abandon their homes and all their
immovable property, and become exiles tc
the free States. More than this, it requires
that the President and his Cabinet, and all
the public officers Of the Nation shall
shamefally fee from Washington, and
taking the countrv's archives with them,
should leave the City and our public mon
nments to the tender care Of the rebels. II
requires, at the very first step, that all we
have thus far accomplished in the prosecu-
ton Of the war shall be wholly given up,
and that every slave State shall be surren-
dered to the control of jeff Davis. Unless
oil this is done, the actual hostilities-act-
i've warfare, cannot be ended. five should
attempt to stop the war everywhere else
and still seek to hold Washington, or Della
ware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri,
or any single forte to maintain the block
AIDE, that point would still be assailed by
the rebels and We WOULD be compelled
either to fight or to retire from it.
" All this being done, the whole territory
claimed by the rebels being yielded to their
control, the Capital Of the Nation being
transferred to their possession, having ac-
knowledged that all our expenditure OF
blood and treasure, had been for naught
would we then have peaces- All the base.
ness being submitted to, would we be al
peace with the rebels? They would be
stronger than they are now. They would
have an acknowledged Confederacy. They
would be open to the commerce OF the
world, and supplies would fow in aound'
antly. Does any one imagine that, finding
MS such dastarhs, they would kindly hall
At the line, and refrain from active aggres-
sion? Have they proved so Christian-ilke
heretofore, that We can expect them TO con
troll their passions and their ambitions, and
forego such an opportunity OF furnishing
the ..Vandal Yankees7" After they have
thus destroyed the Union out OF sheer NAL
ice and insatiate ambition, are they likely
10 nause when such an opportune occasion
presents itself to "cry, Havoc! and let silE
the dogs of war; among those VINO nave
dared to stand in the way of their desires
Is not such An assumption simply absurd
Don't they tell US that to carry the war mt
the North, there to ravsge and Destroy Il
the very ''top-sparkle" of the cup OF KIND
ness they would present to usf Wonl'
they change when their desire might o.
rratified, and their hate INDUCED to tn
uttermost?
This is but an imperfect idea Of the frs
step towards Copperhead "peace." Thi
first step, it will be seen, not only destroy
the Union, and debases every man in tn
North, but when it is fully made, leaves q
gust as far from '.peace" as .se are to-da,
The ''peace'' we can have after all this TO
ly and dishonor, depends, just as it doe
now, on the malice and strength Of tt
rebelsI 1t is the traitors who made an
make the war. They began it and the
persist in it. WE must defend the Natio
justso long as anyar found assailing it.
we do not, the Nation will be blotted GU
and it would then be fortunate for Il
world if its memory could be blotted OF
with it. Peace, it is plain, can only con
of submission 10 the laws. That secures
at once. Nothing else can. In view I