The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29


ture. We non-concur. We have great
and momentOus war on our hands, which
for two years has taxed all our energies.
We have had no fleets nor armies to spare
for operations in and around Mexico; and
we think our Government has consulted
its own dignity and the Nations interest
been misinterpreted. Nobody believes our
Government reoonciled or Indifferent to
the subjugation of Mexico by the French
arms; and a diplomatic protest with moth
ing behind it would have been confession
Of impotence. Let us calmly bide our
time.-N. Y. Tribune.
OUR VETERAN voLUNTEERs.-The dis
charged veterans of the Army of the Poto-
mac, who, after two years of faithful ser
vice, have returned to'the pursuits Of CIV
il life, present q spectacle of which old
Rome in her proudest days might well
have been proud. We never meet one OF
these bronzed warriors in the street with
out feeling inclined to grasp his brown
right hand and congratulate him. Wives
may well honor such husbands, sisters ad-
mire such brothers, mothers point trlum-
phantly to such sons. They remind us OF
Vernets pictures and Levers description
of the war worn heroes of the "Old Guard
Their storm fraye batt1e-stained uniforms
put W SildAle Vic puTp PIE dllu uuc AhiAlcH VI
Broadway. Few of us have any idea what
these men have endured. Some of them
have been in as many as fifteen pitched
battles, besides skirmishes innumerable.-
Such forced marches ar many of them
have performed were never paralleled in
military history. Up to the hips in mud
and water, with the rays of an almost YER
teal sun beating down upon their heads;
they have accomplished such miracles of
locomotion, that if the literal truth were
told. the silk stocking world at home
would pronunce it Incredible. Nay, these
se-hardened heroes, themselves, would
have refused To believe the counterpart of
! their own stories eighteen months ago.
| Night after night, for many a weary week
they dropped, at the conclusion of day g
march, on the water soaked earth, and
slept Without cover under the drenching
rain until the lurid morn broke on, the
starless midnight. Then up and away
with the first CLEAN. For thirty nights in
| succession some of the regiments OF the
| Army of the Potomac lay on their arms,
blanketless on the wet ground. Their fare
during these terrible marches was on.a par
| with their sleeping accommodations. No
coffee no meat-nothing but hard tack and
water. and occasionally aoate, only. Du-
ring Lees late invasion some of our troops
were entirely without food for two days;
and but for the blackberries, with which
Heaven more provident than military
purveyors, had covered the soil, they must
have utterly succumbed. And let it be
remembered no small proportion of these
men had never known hardsphis before
they enlisted in their country's service
OF course hundreds fell by the wayside.-
The survivors, Who have come back to us,
are the salamanders, the amphibii, the
waterproof, sun-prOof, hunger and thirst
proof, champion at whom war and tenn
pest, and the fiery beavers launched their
Shafts in vain. Can we honor them toe
much? Is there courtly drawing room
in the city that their presence would not
oracee Let them preserve their ragged
and discolored uniforms, and transmit
them as precious heir-looms to their chill.
dren. The descendants of our Revolution
airy soldiers are justly proud OF their an
cestry, and the sons of our patriotic veter-
ans of the present day will have no less
reason to boast of their indomitable sires.-
N. Y. Ledger.
A SOLDIER OF THE 81 Iowa kILLDY BY A
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES A, T. Alloway
of Co. II. Sd Iowa Infantry, was killed al
Peoria, in this county, on Saturday last, by
Copperhead named Myres, of Forrest
Home. The particulars, as we learn them
| from those present, are as follows:
| Some time ago, the now notorious Ialley
made an appointment 10 speak at Peoria
! Providence interfered, Talley failed, anc
his place was filed by a speaker from this
place. The Copperheads gathered in con-
siderable force, armed as usual. Captain
Gary, of Co. II, Sd Iowa, who lives at PEG
ria. and is now at home recovering from 6
severe wound received in battle near Jack
| son, Miss, was on the ground looking FOL
some old acquaintance, when he was pro.
voked to take a Butternut pin from off :
Copperhead who insultingly tainted hin
with it. Some time after, as Gary and hi
Sergeant were going away from the crowC
they were followed by the Copperheads
who cursed them and called them coward
ly Abolition soldiers. One of them finally
called Gary "a id abolition captain
Gary turned and asked "who said that
At the same moment Aloway turned also
upon the crowd, and said if there wal
| fighting to be done he would do it as tn,
Captain was wounded. Myres thrust {
butternut pin in the face of Aloway and
dared him to touch it. Aloway, stung by
this insult,a struck Myres slight blow
whereupon Myres drew a revolver ant
shot Aloway through the lungs. He fired
a second shot when Aloway also drew {
revolver and fired, but did not hit his as
sailant. Several other shots wered fred
Capt. Gary was wounded in the wrist, an(
George Spain, another Union man, in tn,
leg. Aloway was carried from the grount
and died, from the effects OF the nrst shot
in about an hour. On Sunday Myres anC
one of his accomplices were arrested ant
brought to Oskaloosa. Another one wa
arrested on Monday, Myres was under
going preliminary examination yester
day. The others were admitted to bail.
On Monday Sergeant Aloway's funera
was attended by large concourse of PEG
pie. The scene was solemn and impress
i've. The people felt that a soldier, one wht
volunteered when the first call was made
more than two years ago, had been wan
tonIy murdered for no other reason thai
that he was soldier and true to his coun
try and her cause.
Gary and Aloway were unarmed, excep
an old revolver each that were handel
them after the trouble commenced. The,
evidently acted under the impulse of tn
mement and not until they had been mos
outrageously insulted and abused by trait
orous Coppe-heads. On the other hand tn
Copperheads came fully armed, and appa
| rently intent On committing some fou
| deed. The innocent blood of a brave sol
) der must forever rest on their guilty souls
l-Oskdloosd Herald.