The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01
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driving them out of for the last two years.
Now, 10 that the kind Of peace we WANT
[Cries of"no," ''no."J want to know
These fellows either mean that they are
afraid TO fight themselves and they want to
stop the war for fear they will have to fght,
or else the war don't suit them because it
is whipping their friends, or they don't
like to see blood for fear they will faint, or
they are afraid of some thing, can not tell
what The reason that speak of these
things is because 1 have heard of them.
have seen these arguments made IN the pa
pers, and like to meet them. 6uch argu-
Ements oughtto be met-Ought to be refuted.
But, fellow citizens, so far as that ques-
ton is concerned in reference to the right
and the power of the Government to prose-
] cute this war, no sensible man on earth
who is loyal to his. country will doubt for
one single moment. If he is not very
loyal man he will find all sorts of difficult
ties and objections that can be mustered
up to try to stop the war in every pos
sible way.
THE ARMY OUGHT TO Be INCREAsED.-
Now, llOw-citizens, 1 want to talk to you
about something else. In talking about
that, 1 want to encourage you that you
may enroll the names of all the men in this
Il
may increase our army. l can give you a
reason for it. believe to-day believe it
honestly-that if the people of the North
were united and all stood upon one plat
form, as we do in the army, that this re-
belliOn wonld be crushed in ninety days.
Our platform is this: we are for our Gov
eminent, right or wrong. We are for re-
i storing that Government. We are not for
the Union as it was and the Constitution
as it is" we are for the Union anyhow
any way we can get it, and get it we will in
some shape or other. I want to show you
the reason why more troops ought to be
raised. If the people were united, there
would be no trouble about getting troops.
There would be no trouble at home. We
would have the sympathy of the whole peo-
pie. The soldier would be cheered and
comforted by knowing that he had the
sympathy of the people at home. He
would not be rejecting, before going into
battle, that his neighbors at home thought
he was doing wrong, and that he had not
with stouter and Drawer HEARTH buoyed
up with the assurance that his friends and
neighbors Endorsed him in his course and
wished him God speed. Wee crush this
rebellion. [ know it. Why, we have
marched little army clear from Cairo to
VIcksburg; below, small one has march
ed from New Orleans to Port Hudson
We have opened the Mississippi River
We have split the Confederacy in two,
leaving on one side Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Missouri-more territory than
is on the eastern side. We have made a
gulf that is impossible for them. We have
cut them IN two-separated them, one
half from the other. We can hurl our
strength upon one half and whip them,
then upon the other and whip that. Their
idea that one of them is as good as five of
US, is pretty well played out; they are sat
isfied of that fact. They are pretty well
satisfied that one Yankee is just as good as
one gentleman from the South, and when
they get into close quarters they think he
is a little better. [Applause.
We have the men and the means to crush
out the rebellion and restore the Union.
All we want is the sympathy of the people.
When they are crushed out, hope the Pre-
sident of the United States will have the
nerve to say, jeff, come forth; you have
forfeited your head by your treason to your
country, and it shall come off your Shout
ders." [Appiause.l When that is done,
there will be no more treason in this coun-
try. There will be no more rebels in the
United States-no more foul conspirators
against the Government. Let us do that,
and when we have done it, we have another
LOB before us. We see to-day that France
is growing at the United States Govern
: ment. We see that France, during a time
when we were engaged in a civil war, took
advantage of that and poured her troops
into Mexico. She has captured it, and is
about to establish an empire and place an
! Emperor upon the throne. Because we
had our divisions at home and could not
attend to him, Napoleon did this. While
he has gone into Mexico and taken possess
sion there, he has got round on our right,
round by Texas, where it is easy for him
to invade the soil of the United States-easy
to march his army into Texas and other
| or To ha
rebels. pledge you my word, my coun-
trymen, to-day, that JEFF. Davis and his
pretended Government have asked and So
licited Napoleon BOnaparte to come to their
rescue and save them. They have prom
lsed to become subjects of France rather
than be forced to be citizens of the United
States Government. One of the officers of
their army told me that their Minister was
authorized to make the proposition, and
that the high officials of the Confederate
Government are in favor of it, and would
do it before they would ever submit to the
United States Government any more. But
when you come to talk to the common peo-
pie they say quite differently. When you
catch the men who are forced to fight the
battles of the South, they say, whenever it
happens we are with you. 1t shows that
there are men there who have not lost all
Il their feeling for the old flag and the old
Government; there are men there who love
Isay, by the preparations that are being
made in France, am perfectly satisfied it
is the intention to unite with the South and
attempt to coerce us into measures to re-
cognize the independence of the South, and
allow them to become a dependency of
France. We ought to have an army to not
only crush out the rebellion but to take
France by the head and heels, and throttle
her until she squeals. [Applause.l don't
know whether there are men in the North
\ who would like to see France have part
4 of this country or not. But, for the reasons
l have named, we ought to have this large
army. believe we have men enough in
the field to whip the rebels, but we ought
to have large army. Whenever we have,
you will see that the rebels will begin to
lay down their arms. Toombs, Yancey and
the leaders Of the conspiracy will begin to
make for some other country, for their own
personal safety.
i THB VICKsRURG SuRRENDER.-The ar
my is injured by these reports. Yet while
it has been injured by these false state