The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-24

tence there is not single instsnce where nstion
Of ten millions has been subdued Such nation
can never be conquered.
The people will resist, BY force and arms, sny
further encroachments on the Consultation
Every stream flowing southwark is tinged with
blood. The people will take no more stock in
this abolition war.
He says that be has no particular like or dis
like to slavery. He finds slavery protected under
ure of morality for himself than did the founders
of the Constitution. Whether the Constitution
is predicated in right and justice be neither
knows nor cares. Mr.. Lincoln has in bis admin.
istration violated every principle Of right and
justice. He finds that the party in power are
trsmpling under foot the most sacred provisions
Of the Constitution. See the Executive sigling
unconstitutional bills, and giving q reason, the
desire to benefit his friends. The country is on
the eve Of bankruptcy. They are spending three
millions day to free the niger.
The people ask what is to be done? Il is the
duty which We owe to our country to lift up our
voices for immediate peace. He says that he
may be censured for what he has said-he may
be considered a secessionist. He don't care. He
loves his country and would see her declare an
armistice, aud finally peace. Military power can't
do it-let diplomacy do it
There is treason in the sermon on the mount
If Jesus Christ should come into the court house
at Upton and deliver this holy and sublime pro-
duction, some spy would telegraph to Secretary
stanton, and Secretary Stanton would send an
order to imprison him in Fort Lafayette. Mr.
Lincoln has told US that We cannot fight always
There was peace in hell and there will be until
the soolitlonists 60 there and raise revolt.
The war must end hoDorably or dishouorably
the north. honOeeh he hv hnoor. hlo nnano
-dishonorably BY an abolition war. The Eas-
tern manufacturers and Eastern owners of Wes-
tern railroads, demand more blood and more
money. Our national calamity is filling the pur
ses of such men to the brim.
The times demand men. The country demands
peace. All that it wants is Leaders man like
Seymour of New York. man who will sound
the first bugle blast. The response will 20 4
from millions. We have tried war long enough.
So long % We fought for the Constitution, 90
long Was there hope Of reconstruction. But the
moment the olive branch was withdrawn, and
the Union armies devastated the South and freed
the negroes, that hope was Withdrawn. Talk as
We may with this proclamation before them, We
could not with the aid of the united armies of
England and France, subdue them. Let the
people instruct their representatives. to vote for
peace measures. We cannot expect to bring
back the south 10 week or . month. but We can
ultimately do so. Selfintersst will bring peace,
and peace is what we want
In the Democratic party there is yet hope
For three ,fourtbs of century it has piloted the
old ship. 1t mas carried her safely through two
wars To be enabled to do this the Democrats
must rally around the old ship aud swear that
she ehall not be sunk BY Abolition Pirates. The
angelic choirs would rejoice at the advent Of
peace, and the whole land would send up shouts
Of thanksgiving. Tho interests of the nation,
and the manifest advantages arising from one
Union, call tor peace. Let % unite then in rid :
ding the country Of Abolitionists and Secession.
ists Peace We must have and peace We will
have.
Loyal Democrats of Iowa, this is not the
feast to which you were invited in October
Then Judge Thsyer and the other nominees ;of
that party we're loudly for more vigorous
prosecution Of the war. Then they denounced
the lmbecility Of the Administration. Now
they propose to stop the war 10 any way they
can sud wait for the seeded States to come
back into the Union Of their own accord /,
What DO Republicans think Of the in
tentions Of these leaders Of the oppo-
sition from the glimpse given above. The
coed easy souls who are counting their gains
by the last years business. if they are wise,
may see that the country has other work for
them to do. They can readily discover in this
speech ,hst the same programme has been
adopted for the Northern States, and the same
means will be used q were 90 effective two
years ago in the Rebel States. II the eLin.
colnpoops," - Dennis Mshony 80 beautifully
calls the Republicans, continue in their SOM
nolent condition Of quietuds, waiting for some
thing to turn up or for miracle to be wrought,
they will not have long to wait before bloody
treason will hold high carnival oyer them, ..
it has done in Dixie. These leaders of tho on
position mean all that is foreshadowed in this
speech and more. Their hate is unbounded
Their malice is sleepless and untirinr. And
their acts will only be limited BY their .bilit,
to carry popular approval, or. what may ps,,
for it, with them. Is it not about time =,
were waking up to the dangers which bose,
US! Is it not about time We were arriving a,
correct understanding Of the situ.tion'
~ The New York House of Represents.
tives 10 still without Speaker. It continues
balIoting daily with the same result, tie, thu
far.
PEfRoLEvH-Ths absurdity of the recent in
ordinate increase Of the price Of coal oil, ma
be judged BY the quantity now reported in th
New York Market The stock on hand on tn
18th inst, was sO4, 900 gallons. crude and 8,
ss4, 900 refined. Thsexports from that port frol
the lst to the 10th inssants were 40, $50 gallon
Under this state of supply. We arc not SURPRISED
and do not At oil regret, that the speculation
only succeeded in depicting their own pocksta