The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01
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defeated the Army of the Potomac
| Davis's letter enables us to estimate tho
| Confederate military force. Buckner. who
was probably intending an invasion from
East Tennessee, had Been called upon to
reinforce Bragg, who was yet unable n
resist Rosecrans. Beauregard had been
called on to help Johnston, but could not
Johnston had but $1,000 or 10000 men. of
whom many are represented as impressed
for temporary service. Mobile, we Know
by the cry of distress raised by Aaurv
to have been stripped of troops. Al eve,
ry point on the eastern coast our force was
| then superlor;, Richmond was thrown into
panic by the troops we had on the Peninsu
Ia, and Lee was calling for help, and was
answered that there was no help for him.
Since Mr.. Davis made this exhibit Of the
Confederate situation, Lees army has
been repulsed with great slaughter; Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson have surrendered.
giving us the Mississippi, the "vital i'm.
portance'' of holding which had been one
of Davis chief reasons for inability to re-
inforce Lee; Bragg, in spite of aid from
Buckner, has been compelled to continue
falling back, giving up "his intrenched DO
| sition at Tullahoma;" Price has been twice
repulsed at Helena, with severe loss; John
Morgan has invaded Kentucky and the
North where his force is now captive. and
another cavalry raid from East Tennessee
has been repulsed and probably, ere this
captured.
In it's extremity the Confederate leader
has ordered a CONSUMPTION of every man
from Is to As years of age. But as this will
reach but small class besides those who.
| by various means, have contriyed to escape
the previous very comprehensive conscrip-
| ton, 1t does not seem to promise a great
force. The most liberal Southern estimate
that we have seen is 10000. But this may
be double the amount realized. Besides,
the reverses of the rebel cause and the dis
couragement of the people, make the SUBJ
jects much more unwilling, and weaken
the moral power of the rebel Government
| to carry out the CONSUMPTION.
1t is doubtful 1t the new levy will more
than replace the rebel losses during the
month of July. 1t is evident that the Con-
| federacy is exhausted of men. But what
ever the new levy may furnish will soon
| be available. The Confederate measures
are conveniently Invested of all the diff
culties and delays of law and discrimina-
| ton. When every man is declared con
script, and deserter if he does not prompt
ly report himself, the burden of proof falls
| on the man who is at large. Within three
days after the levy was proclaimed, its en-
fOrcement was begun, and the men it pro-
duces will be in the service this season.
In all this we may see the desperate condi-
ton of the Confederacy, and the desperate
determination of its despotic leaders. One
shows us that the rebellion is subject to the
fate of it's armies, and that it can be put
down by the earnest use of our abundant
means: and the other that earnestness, de-
termination, and perseverance are necessa-
ry on our part to follow up our successes
and push them to afinaltriumph.-CIn.G Gag
KENTUCKY ELECTIoN.-Through the bal
lot-boX the Union men of Kentucky have
spoken, and by the decisive majority of
twenty to twenty-five thousand, the esti-
mate at Frankfort last night, they have
elected their ticket This is a gratifying
result, rcreditable to the men of Kentucky
who stand by the Government, and cheer
ing to the loyal people of the nation. 1t is
all the more gratifying because different
result was apprehended; and because the
success of the so-called Democratic ticket
would have led to civil war, in which riv-
ers of blood would have been shed, and the
State devastated by fire and sword. By
the patriotic action of the loyal people the
State Government is to be controlled by
men about whose loyalty there is no ques
ton; men who are terribly in earnest, in
their determination to crush this wicked
and causeless rebellion, and from whom no
uncertain sound is to be apprehended. The
majority for Governor warrants the con-
clusion that a majority of loyal men are
elected to the Legislature; and that in all
departments of the State Government the
not-a- man and not-a-dollar party, other
wise called Vallandigham Democrats, 9TH
erwise styled Copperheads, are in a minor
ity that will render them harmless. They
may hiss and snap at loyal men, as they
have done heretofore, but beyond this they
are powerless.
For Congress, those reliable men, Brutus
j. Clay and Greene Clay Smith, are elect
ed by heavy majorities; the former having
two thousand, and the latter three thou
sand over the highest of their competitors.
Gen. Boyle, who had the vanity, if nothing
worse, to insist that the Union Convention
which nominated Mr.. Clay, misrepresent-
ed the people, is badly defeated. The re-
bells, toward the last, gave him helping
hand, but to no purpose. The verdict
him is righteous one. The fate of Men,
zies, in the sixth district, who also repudi-
ated the Convention, because it had the
courage and the patriotism TO nominate a
reliable and outspoken man, is even worse
than that of Gen. Boyle; Green Clay
Smiths majority being in the neighbor-
had the opposition of nearly all the papers
in Kentucky; he has been denounced as an
abolitionist, and hooteG at by traitors and
weak-kneed Union men, as the candidate
of the Republican papers of Cincinnati,
but right nobly did the people rally to his
support, and triumphantly have they car
AISu hAi Vic SohICSt. pIoSco
that the people of Kentucky are true, and
that they are ready to follow bold and reli-
able leaders, while they are prompt, when
opportunity offers, to spew out and cast to
the ground false representatives of the
Menzies stamp. In the Maysville district
Mr.. WadswOrth is elected, and in tho
Louisville district Mr.. Mallory is success
full. Both were members of the last Con-
gress, where they did badly; but with the
reputation of MenZies before them, and
the Union majority in the State, they will
not be likely to act in the next Congress
with the Vallandigham Democracy, as this
is the same party which has been so deci-
dedly defeated, and against which their
constituents have recorded solemn and
emphatic verdict. At any rate, q clear
working Union majority in the next Con-
gress is now fully assured. Kentucky has
increased it, and Maryland, which also
elects on the 8th of this month, viii still
further extend the margin.
Copperheadism has been defeated in
Kentucky. Let the people rejoioe.-Ci~.
Gazette.