The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-05

upon the corrupt and implacable politi-
clans of the North, who profess to be DEM
ocrats, would suffice to make it apparent to
the lowest understanding. Their leaders,
always mere demagogues, were base
enough before. They were never possessed
of any honorable impulses. Formany years
past the seething political chaldron, has
been throwing the vile, the malignant, the
utterly unprincipled, to the surface, un-
til, at last, the places which ought TO be
posts of honor, were occupied, almost with
out exception, by the most depraved and
God-forsaken men in our midst. The or
binary decencies of life, the commonest OBJ
Of honor, the slightest regard for
were apparently ignored by the
men who had control Of the political ma
chine, which, in the interest of the slaveo-
Gratis, was persistently used to destroy the
last vestige of political integrity in our
country. It must be confessed that the
Southern traitors judged wisely in the pol
icy they adopted. They knew that honor
able and patriotic men would not yield to
their dictations, would not sanction their
purposes. Hence they felt their way along
the path to open revolt, by steps more ana no
more atrocious, gradually ousting the bet
ter class of Democrats who neither could
or would endorse them, until they succeed
ed in giving absolute control Of the party
in the North to men upon whose baseness
and ignoble subserviency to their masters
they could thoroughly depend. And so it
happened that, when the rebellion reared
its horred front, we had buchanan for
President, traitors acting, for the most part,
as his counseuors, and fellow conspirators
all over the land, ready to assist in the
work Of blood and desolation. +".
But the outbreak startled the PEOPLE,
every where, from their dream of security.
They had been deluded by false doctrines,
had been lead to sanction pernicious poll
cies under the honest impression that they
were best for the peace and honor of the
Nation-the prosperity and perpetual we'll
being of the whole people. They did not
mean to destroy the Republic. They in
tended to preserve it. They did not love
treason or traitors. They were the enemies
of both. Hence, when the purpose Of the
South became apparent, when treachery
eliminated at Sumter, and the Flag of the
Union, for the first time, was trampled in
the dust by the foul gang, who had COM
bined to destroy, now and forever, true
democratic institutions, the great mass Of
our citizens rose as one man against the
atrocity, and the Northern wing of the con-
spiracy was, for the time, compelled to hunt
its hole, and conceal as much as possible
its completely with the most terrible CRIME
written in the Book of Time.
But this popular voice had no effect upon
the minds of the villains who were parties
to the crime. They were only the more
confirmed in their iniquity. They only
studied how they might gradually regain
the influence they saw had departed from
them. They bent to the gale, waited until
it had spent its fury, and then set them
selves to work to undermine and pervert
the popular will. 1t brought expenditures,
trials, Observation-Disclosures policies, new
purposes, new opinions. These they avail
ed themselves Of to SOW discord, dissatis-
faction, and doubt among the people. They
assailed the Government on all sides-talk-
ed Of the beatitudes of "peace," and when
trials and hardships came home to the peo-
pie, ascribed them all, not to the traitors,
for whom they acted, but to the Govern
ment which sought to avert them.
In all this time, nothing has induced
them to swerye from their course. The no.
BILE patriotism, courage and gallantry of
our soldiers, the devotion Of the mass Of
the people, their trials, their woes, their
anxieties and their sutierings, have failed
to inspire in the souls of these execrable
enemies of the country and mankind, a
solitary impulse of honor, single throb of
remorse. They have only become more
and more bitter and malignant. AS they
have been enraged by their defeat, like
Satan in He'll, they only foster their hate,
and study nothing but revenge.
Even now, when the prospects have
grown SO cheering to the hearts Of patriots
their malice works with increased venom.
They traduce, with internal glee, all that is
good, honorable, patriotic, in the land
They labor with venom Of despair to foster
discord, to promote dissatisfaction, and
thereby hinder or prevent entirely the en-
listment of volunteers. They jeer at those
who encourage the recruiting Of the army,
and denounce all who, in act or word,
with voice and pen, seek to give success to
the veterans who have GLoRlFIED our
arms. -G..seg -a. ag%e hlE-
All this is astounding. But it is true
We all hno,o it. The influence oftreason,
has made DEVILS Of the men who lead the
trajtorous faction, who give voice to it's
purposes, who control its press. There is
no sign of manhoodleft tothem. They are
given up to demoniac impulses, heightened
by despair. They would destroy the coun-
try, and, to do this, would destroy them
selves. They are living proofs Of the fact
that those who are III s.alsr -.
Damned like the devil, devil-like viii DAMN
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~ The telegraph told us, yesterday
morning that Gunther was elected Mayor
of New York. The only satisfaction we
have in the matter is in the fact that it was