The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-17
Jesse d. Bright on the War ana Sena.or
ship.


Jesse ID. Bright on the War ana Sena.or.
Any thing more eminently Pecksniffan than
| the letter of Hon. Jesse D. Bright to GER
tain members of the indiana Legislature, in
answer to q letter asking permission to use his
name in connection with the United States
| Senate, has not come under our notice. If
| is their pleasure to offer him the unexpired
term for which he was elected, he expresses
willingness to take it, but it must be done by
"a vote that approaches unanimity," or Barkis
is not willing. We have reason to believe the
Hon. Jesse would have taken the unexpired
| term on any conditions, and would not have
stickled about the unapimity of the profFer.-
It is notorious that he has been hanging abou
Indianapolis, with no other purpose than to
secure the nomination, and called to his assist
ance such influence as squad of secession
toadies from Cincinnati could bring him.
Mr.. Bright calls his expulsion from the Sen.
ate an outrage against freedom of speech and
of action. He admits that he then, as now de.
MED the right of the Federal Government to
| prosecute the war against the seeded States
In other words, he denied the right of the
Government to assert its authority or preserve
its existence, and was for placing it PROSTATE
and defenceless at the feet of those who had
conspired to destroy it. If this was not the
essence of treason-if it was not jdstifying
and encouraging treason-then treason cannot
be committed against Government. Why
! should he wish to stay, or why wish to return
to the Senate of q Government to which be
grants the form of Constitution and law, but
denies all rightful authority to enforce the Oh.
Legations of either? s.f. KS s-gE .s-E,---4
Mr.. Bright sayshe is for peace. Exactly.
Who is not 2 But if portion of the people
persist in making war upon the Government
to overthrow it, is the Government to sue for
clemency at their hands? or shall it compel
them to beg for it from the Government to
which they owe an allegiance? And, why, We
should like to know, is it an ''inhuman cru.
SADIE" for Government to crush rebellion
/ against its authority? Are the people upon
: any capricious pretext, to be permitted to VIC.
lently pull to pieces fabric of Government,
the fairest and most glorious ever erected 81
4 human intelligence The value of Govern
/ ments depend in large degree upon their
stability, and an assurance that they can per-
4 manently secure che freedom. happiness and
4 prosperity Of the citizen; and their stability
, depends upon their rightful power to assert
their supremacy and vindicatethei authority
When Mr.. Bright talks about compromise as
means Of restoring the Union, he knows that
be is taking insicnerely, and that:there lie not
rebel in authority or cut fit no is not agaiDst
all compromise, and determined to wage the
war to the bitter end, or untilthe Government
will consent to permanent separation Of the
South and its recognition as Confederate
sovereignty. Mr.. Bright has but to read the
Southern journals and the speeches Of the lead
: ing minds of the Confederate Congress, to know
that all this prattle about compromise is stuff.
: They tell him and all the peace and compro-
mise kidney, they need not hug such q delu.
SIGN any longer. IS e"
With the views expressed by Mr.. Bright in
his letter, and his assurance that if elected to
the Senate, he should vote against all leglsla.
tive acts in aid of this war, seems TO have been
! to much for the Democrats in the Indiana Leg
y islature, and they accordingly shelved him,
!. without giving the Hon. Jesse D. Bright an
:. opportunity for knowing whether there was
I yany, unapimiiy in favor of his nomination
Whatever else the Democratic members Of The
: Legislature may d.. they certainly deserve
tcredt for their action in regard 70 Bright, and
:, their implied rebuke Of the extreme anti.na-
!, tioLal views to which he has given utteranGe,
!. Kicked out Of the Senate for his disloyalty, ne
! as regarded with just contempt by bis pouucsi
: associates, who refuse to sanction his course
q teyen BY q complimentary res9lurt aon;
: ceh'n'sfciai = ID o. La ,d3lw
. WOMEN rS DEMAND Fifty damsels, sent out
Q from England:o vaneouver's Island, had, upon
J. arrival, to be housed in government building
6 and a guard put over them, in order to protect
e them from the rush Of smorous SWANS. Iney
were allsooni disposed of; 1but whether by lot OF
r TO the highest bidders, does not appear. Ins
Vancouver paper clamors for more, but prefers
u dairy maids to govesnesseaYlaH Bob.N
r Lag A prisoner in Missouri, John Lebam, was
/. recently sentenced to the State prison for W,
Z for some. heineous crime, and Afterwards AZ
! sddia0sal eight years for horse stealing
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