The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

It is said that there is Peace party; and,
if this be SO, why does it not put out
manifesto of its principles, if principles tt
to do anything? Talking iseasy. Writing
is not difficult. Many men naturally
rrumble with great skill. Fault-fnding is
! the cheap resource of the factious. What
we want to know is, how these amiable
gentlemen, if, tomorrow, the whole power,
might and authority of the Government
were confided to them, would go to work to
carry out their lovely scheme of pacifica-
ton. They may place great deal OF de-
pendence upon the power or SOFT speeches.
| to turn away wrath: yet long ago. as eve
rybody knows, before actual hostllltles, we
certainly did all that could be done, by
dulcet talk, to ward them off; yet, humble
| and conciliatory as we We're, our genu-
| tieXions were simply sneered at and all our
remonstrances received with ridicule. We
held Conference Conventions; but nothing
came Of them save speeches without pur-
pose and resolutions without point
We have since discovered, what then
we did not know so well, that the conSpi-
| racy against the Constitution is of ancient
date-that the Southern traitors had long
been watching for their opportunity-that
Southern otfice-holders, tUmbling with
| rapture into the slough of perjury, had
/ been using the power Of the Union TO sub
vert the Union, and carrying on with each
other a secret correspondence for the pro-
| motion, by any means however unscrupu-
| lOus, OF their secret and infamous purposes.
We have the very letters in print. We
have proof positive that the Rebellion was
determined upon long before Mr.. Lincoln's
election. The men who long plodded and
| burrowed in these crooked and devious
t,11- to- nnI n
now. You may conquer, but you cannot
coax them. Their purposes are fixed
| their intentions are definite-their passions
are fully aroused-their ambition is fear
! fully simulated-they have set their lives
upon the cost, and they will stand the haz-
ard of the die. Those who please may bow
4 down before them, but it will be loves la
Dor lost indeed.
| What we want from the Opposition is
definite and Ineligible statements Of the
policy which they mean to pursue. IT
need not be elongated or elaborated; but,
before the people of the United States COM
nit themselves to ''peace,' they should be
sure that peace does not mean poltroonery,
or the violation of the national faith: 1t
will no. do to rely upon the generalities of
politicians. III matter of life and death
to the nation, we have right to know
what the Copperheads want. And this IS
just what we cannot get. Perhaps, howev-
tenter hooks Of suspense. For behold, we
find the following cheering communication
in the Journal Of Commerce.:
'- BRooKLYN, Nov. II, 1868.
To the EdttC rs Of tie Journal Of Commerce:
Will you please inform a reader the day
IF it has been appointed) upon which the
National Democratic Convention meets IN
order to nominate a candidate for Presl-
. dent of the United States, to be voted for
at the election on November s, 1854. and
oblige,
Respectfully yours, A READER.
Does the benighted reader begin to have
, glimpse OF daylight? Why not? Is not
the newspaper to which this anxious letter
, is sent good enough to inform US, that Mr..
, Belmont, Chairman of the Democratic
| General Committee, still designs TO watch
, over the destines Of the land, and means
to summon, canvoke and convene a Ma
ftional Democratic Convention, some time
, next year? Now, as months are to elapse
before this august body of sages and patri-
OTIS is to be brought together, we recon-
! mend all who expect to be delegates there
to to go into systematic training for the
: tolls, ext gences and struggles of the mo-
mentous occasion-to practice the sublime
= art OF making talsehood seem like truth
to acquire skill in the science of saying
I nothing in a great many words-to train
5 themselves in all the ingenuity of grovel.
ing, and bow like Sir Archy McSarcasm
t with humility like that Of Uriah Heep.-
But we warn them that they must seek in
ventions of ,prostration and novelties o.
: sycophancy. The old forms are worn out
The ancient humiliations are obsolete.
j But, alas! what can they devise which
: has not already been tried? viii they sc
: upon their knees? They have been there
e already! VIII they go upon their hands
e and knees? They have been there already
}. viii they eat dust? They have already
r eaten it! VIII they crawl upon their bel
$ lies? They have already crawled! They
). must find a lower deep, if there be a lower
: one-but is there? And, if there were
b what would it avail them? Are they
! hungry for fresh sneers, and for larger ant
t. bitterer pieces Of plantation humble pie
). Their business will be to make peace. W.
|, are curious to see how they will go abou
Il TN. Y. Tribune.