The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-08

re- ''Now is the time for peace says
the New York 1Neaos. II, it is, why don't 4
its friends in Dixie lay down their arms
and have it9 Do they do that? Do they
hint that they will doit? Does Jeff's call
for every white man between Is and As
years old look particularly peaceful? fit
does squint that way, we can't see it. It
has an opposite appearance to us. 1t real
lv seems as if it meant something very des-
perate-that the rebels were beginning to
realize that by the call of a few more men
to the field, and the aid of the Copperhead
Neaos and its fellows, success may vet
crown their reasonable efforts. They don't
talk of peace But the Nea0s does. Isn't
it surprising that the scoundrels who incite
riots, who have just sacrificed a hecatomb
of their fellows in vain attempt to resist
the laws, should all at once discover that
''now is the time for peace" How pious
they are! How they do abhor the she'd
ding of blood, What christian-like hui
mainly they manifest! They exhort the
authorities to give them peace-by submit
ting to the demands of treason, and tell
| lence in order to make submission Ger
| tain! That is the way TO preach ''peace'
with vengeance What a ''peace' ii VOID
be, How it would delight the Copper
heads and the rebels.
Mg~ How many ofour Democratic friends
would have been loyal bat for the Consti-
tuition? When we look back over the last
three years, we are amazed to see how these
pure patriots have been turned back i'll
their ardor for the Union by the Constitu-
ton. That devotee Of the Union and lover
of Bourbon Whisky, Old Mr.. Buchanan,
would have squelched the Rebels in the
start, as he could easily have done, but the
! Constitution forbade it. He could find no
authority for coercing State, and thus the
conspiracy was permitted to ripen into re-
bellion. Mr.. Lincoln called out seventy
five thousand men. That was unconstitu-
tional. He called for more men, and of
course made more and larger rents in the
Constitution. These Patriots asserted that
our Government was Democratic one,
based upon the consent of the governed.
This was the ground work of the Constitu-
ton, and therefore there could be no coer-
cion-no Constitutional war upon REBEL
ious States-they all had sovereign and
Constitutional right to rebel when they
pleased.
We very well recollect when the First
> Iowa left the State, one of our most distin-
gnished Democratic jurists stood upon the
corner of the street, as our brave boys
marched by, and hoped not one of them
would return alive, because they We're go
ing South to inunde the Sovereign State o.
Missouri in violation of the Constitution.
And thus it has been ever since. Moth
ing is Constitutional. When we took the
negroes belonging to the rebels and pu
, them at work upon our Notifications, tina
; was unconstitutional. When we enacted
: laws for the confiscation of rebel property
r that was unconstitutional. Whenwe Levied
v taxes to pay the expenses of the war, tina
b was unconstitutional. The Conscriptiol
and the Emancipation PROCLAMATION, ar
n both unconstitutional!
i Is it at all strange that these men, havin:
il been outraged in their tenderest point, tim
d and again, are now Copperheads? If w
y believed one half that they assert. we woul,
s move down into Dixie where Constitution
i are respected, join the Sioux Indians 0
Il commit suicide. How they have thus 70
o survived is mystery.