The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-12

| tration in its prosecution of the war; it is
| under sense of abOlute duty to my eoun-
| try, that feel compelled to say that 10y
| al democrats should not vote for General
futile or any other man for any Office who
is not, like Caesars wife, above suspicion.
Yours truly, G. g. COLE.
| State Register.
Dickinson to the Springfield,
ILL.,. Meeting.
BINGHAMPToN, Aug. 20, 1863.
James c. Conkling, Esq, Chairman OF
Committee, Gc.:-MY DEAR SIR have
been honored by your kind invitation to
attend and address the proposed Union
Mass Meeting at Springfield, on the Sd Of
September, and heartily wish i could &C
cept it, for / should be glad to commune
with the loyal masses of Illinois upon the
questions OF the day. But I cannot, and
hence this hurried note
/ am glad to see in the terms of your
call, that you propose to meet with those,
and those only, who are unconditional
Union men. There you may find me. l
OF my life to the reconciliation of distinc-
tive questions between the North and the
South. was ready and willing to accept,
and urged and advocated and voted for any
thing and every thing which promised
to allay sectional prejudice and calm Sec
honal Irritation; for / wished to leave the
whole question Of slavery to time and the
dispensations of Providence.
| 1t would have been thus disposed of, had
the political demagogues Of the South been
satisfied with it as an institution of labor
merely. But they had learned that it had
political capacity, that it could gather and
disperse conventions-could make the
mean mighty, and the little great-and in
utter disregard of the interests of the
Southern people, they pressed it into the
political service, under the pretense that to
maintain the rights OF the slave States,
their number must be made equal with the
| free. They therefore raised this issue,
seasoned it with the cry of Abolitionism,
and inaugurated this cowardly, perjured,
and murderous rebellion. The leaders
commenced it for power and plumber. The
deluded Southern masses, to some extent,
believed it was in defense of Southern
rights, and under their knavish leadership
We're cheated or driven into war.
| There had not been a time within thirty
years when the Southern people were as Sc
! cure from disturbance in their institution,
as at the commencement of the rebellion.
| This is well known to all observing men.
But the conspiracy had been formed the
parts had been assigned; and the actors
were in rehearsal behind the curtain. The
tragedy has now begun which was to over
throw the Government Of Washington, and
let those who have sought to aid a crusade
so causeless and Internal. look upon it and
receive instruction. For such pure and
unr lloyed villainy and basene S, assert
that the records Of depravity and intamy,
from the fall of man to the present moment
INV be ranSacked in vain; and those who
remain among us, and meanly take sides
politically with wholesale murder, they
are too cowardly to help on with arms in
their hands, have my permission to take a
conspicuous place in the designations l
have given. They will certainly occupy
an important niche in the worlds pillory
4 hereafter.
l have been a lifelong Democrat, revel-
ing in the sublime theories of Jefferson,
and rejoicing in the memorable illuStra-
tons of Jackson. These eminent Demo-
Gratis taught their vOtaries that all men
were created equal, and that the Union
must be preserved. But WhIe their true
10 uo'oers are prousng their ddheremce . 10
early teachings, end illustrating their faith
6g their sCorks, q spurious edition has been
tssued, stealing the honored Democratic
name for the purpose Of giving aid G3t6 COM
fort to rebellion, as the hypocrite "stcc3S t..
tiuery Of the court Of heaUen to Se'Ye the
dev1 in.'' They issue bulls of e.rconenaatnt-
cation aOith an assurance a0htch rOutd COM
H,dnd q prensian1 on brass, and aOhite there
are some Democrats Who defy tier inlpo-
tence and scorm their falDainations, there
are get neaaey Who fear they shall be lost II
thea separate from the Democratic OTgdniza-
ton, however spurious or artificial But let
all Democrats from principle be strong IN
, their chez tshed taath. When J.tdoS passes
for u trate disciple, and Arnold for q patriot;
aUhen rats take the rank Of lions, and NOUS
ing oavls Of eagles, then those aoho tern the
cra,sks for the hand organs OF pGTtV, and
grind out political nausc during the life sL,ug-
qles of the only free government on earth,
aciU be esteemed IN the popular judgment,
aOorthy descendants Of Jefferson and Jack
This rank and rotten rebellion has been
crushed in the revolving States. 1t has, in
a great degree, been abandoned to its fate
by its pertidous accomplices abroad, and
its ignoble end is only delayed by its aid
ers and abettors in the loyal States-those
who would have war, by a million OF men
. in arm. against the Government, for the
avowed purpose of destroying it and dis
solving the Union, poulticed with propo-
sitions for peace, or, at most, sought with
mixed preparations of politics and powder.
The loyal mind is for an out and out, up
and down, horizontal and diagonal over
throw of the rebellion, without any condi-
ton or compromise of any name or kind
TO the ninth part Of q hair; and while it
does not want to see the Government go
, out OF its way to look after incidents, it will
rejoice to see the alleged cause of the REBEL
ion fall with it, that wicked men and dew
lis, hereafter, may not be tempted to re-
peat, in the next century, the experiments
, of this. We have only to carry a firm and
steady hand, support, untiinchingly, the
President Of the United States, in his poll
cy, and in one year the rebellion will live
; only in the remembrance of its atrocities;
, in the oceans of blood it has shed-in the
rivers OF tears it has caused to flown the
hearts it has crushed and broken-in the
signs it has wafted-in the hearths it has
a made desolate.
Remember me to the meeting as one who
, viii act with all or any, who will demand
unconditional submission to the authority
OF the Government, and who is not alarm
ed by names or epithets or sentences of pc.
litical oulawry. Yours truly,
Il D. 8. DICKINSON,
= AN ELOPEMgNT AND rRR ARREST OF
q THE PARTIEs.-On the 18th ultimo, a DR.
Henry Buello, Of this place, went to St
| Louis in company with the wife of Captain
George Wendt, who was then on recruiting
service for the 9th regiment of Ohio cavalry