The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15

REBEL DEsPERATIoN.-BW for the des-
peration which appears to have lately TIA
ken possession of the rebel mind, and for
the usual exaggerated tone of Southern
proclamations,1w 1--WE should hesitate to re-
ceive as genuine the address from jeff. Da-
Wis to the soldiers of the Confederacy, con-
tanned in the Richmond papers of the 9th
inst. 1t is an atrocious document, stopping
not at the most fragrant and bare-taced
falsehOods with regard to the purposes OF
the Federal Government. When Mr.. Da-
Wis says that the 'enemies' of the South,
in their malignant rage" "aim at moth
ing less than the determination of your
slaves, wives and children, and seeking to
destroy what they cannot plunder,' he ut
ters miserable lie, which ought to bring
the blush of shame to the cheek of one ma
king not half the pretentions to Christian
ity that he does. The assertion is utterly
and unqualifiedly false, and DAVIS knows
it. And the address is replete with similar
diabolical misrepresentation. There may
be few who would "incite seryile insur-
rection, and light the fires of incendiar-
ism" as this so-called President solemnly
declares to be the design Of the whole mass
of Union adherents; bat Davis knows
that, SO far as the assertion quoted relates
to the great body Of our people, it is Bills
tering untruth. And SO of other reckless
anu HlOSt oXUFaVdgdf1U cUdTEoS.
By this disgraceful address, meant to
work upon the passions OF a people cruel
ly deceived for a long period by designing
leaders, who are getting to be altogether
destitute Of moral principle, jeff. Davis
gives the best evidence of the terrible cri-
sis in which the rebellion is now placed
Defeated and respondent, these "head dev.
ils'' resort to the vilest means to arouse
whatever spark of confidence may be
oil har in ha nf
citizens, and infuriate their victims thro h
the most shameless cant, dishonesty and
fabrication. Weak, indeed, must be the
cause that requires such mendacity to up
hold it. And yet, in giving this almost ir-
refragable proof of the drained resources
of the rebellion, Mr.. Davis has the singu-
lar audacity, speaking of the war;, to say
that the Confederate final triumph must
be inevitable" If SO, why do we find the
rebel newspapers daily lecturing 'croak-
ers," and filling their columns with arti-
cles exhorting every remaining man in the
South, Of whatever age or condition, to go
into the army. Why does Gen. Lee him.
self appeal to the people of the States to
|send forth every man capable OF bearing
arms, to strike for the "safety of their
homes,' unless the rebellion is in d,ticuto
morris ? What means these peculiar voices,
showing distrust of the stability OF the
Richmond Government that reach us from
North Carolina, Georgia, and other parts
of the Confederacy? Mr.. Davis says we
are ''unduly elated with recent successes"
Have our reioicings been greater in pro-
portion than the lamentations going up
from every part of the South? Did not
Davis himself, call Vicksburg vital point?
Was not the Mississippi river. which. has
been recovered throughout its whole length
the great artery supplying the rebellion
with life? Was not Lees army, which was
defeated in Pennsylvania and driven back
into Virginia beyond the RapidaD, the most
formidable in the disunion service? Are
not our enemies now trembling for Mobile
and Charleston The rebel government
can do nothing to repair these calanlities.
It's communications with the outside world
are now almost cut off. With gold at 1900
per cent. premium at home, it finds its
Stock gone down to next to nothing abroad.
The long and short of it is that, unless aid
ed by powerful. European combinations,
the doom of the rebellion is fixed. BY it
self it cannot stand but must go down be-
fore the accommodating forces of the Union.
Republican.
The communication money paid by those
drafted will amount, it is supposed, to
some forty or fifty millions of dollars
throughout the country. The United States
Collector at Lancaster, Pa, has received
SIS, 500, and exempted two hundred and
sixty-five men in consequence.
A. NJ. Ramsey, a clerk in the Office of
the Commissary General, committed sui
eide by taking laudanum, on hearing he
had been drafted in Washington. He was
native of Scotland, and man ofscholarly