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


the parapets of the fort 300 men stream
ed from their safe hiding places, where
they had been concealed during the day,
and fresh and strong, were prepared to
drive us back. We then found to our sor-
row that the l5-inch shot from the mont
tors, even when fired at distance OF but
1850 yards, had not injured them in the
least. Only the parapets of the fort had
been knocked into sand heaps.
In their proper places | forgot to mem
ton that the gunboatS Wissahickon, Capt
Davis, the Chippewa, Capt. Harris, the
Paul Jones, Capt Buyer, and the Ottawa,
were also engaged in the bombardment at
long range, and that during every day of
the week, from the 10th to the 18th, had
been more or less engaged with the work.
The amount of shell thrown at Fort Wag-
ner would almost build another Ironsides.
Cor. ~. Y. Tribune.
GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN ON THE
CAUSE OF THE CoUNTRY.-On his unex-
pected arrival at Cairo, the other day, from
Vicksburg, Major General Logan address,
ed circle of welcoming friends in sub
stance a S follows:
ssIt makes no difference whether you
call me Democrat, Republican or, Aboti-
tionist-as some hare of late named me. 1t
does not change my feelings-does not al
ter my action. L am for my country every
time-for my country first, last and al
ways-and am fighting for the right of that
country to be numbered among the honor
ed nations of the earth. Until that is
brought about, and this rebellion crushed
out, am but an American citizen. When
that right shall have been asserted, then;
should we find that there is something
wrong in the fabric that our fathers reared,
something we desire to change, it will be
time enough to come up and demand
the change. Nop we have this accursed
rebellion to root out. 1t must be rooted
out. 1 am for using every means, and ALL
means for putting it to an end. If the peo--
pie of the North would use the same force
jeff. Davis and his minions use-and were
as unanimous as they are-for in the South
force of arms cOmpetS every man to act as
| though he sanctioned the rebellion, wheth-
er he feels inclined or not-this VOr ,Uo,ttd
| be successfully terminated in Tess than Sir
| months.
| Every mothers son who is opposed to the
| war should be compelled either to take up
arms against or for us. Then there would
be no talk of peace here in the North, no
| talk of resistance, no such men as pd1ta1-
| dighdD,, no such coaOards as those Who sup
port all such men, and say these things.
Vallandigham says he has Travelled over
the C0nfeaerdcy-u the term "Confed-
eracy'-not the phrase so-called COnfeder-
acy, flor 1 do not acknowledge the exist
| ence of any authority or Government in
| America ASIDE from tnaC Oh the united
| States land has not met man, woman or
child who does not sustain the war, and
who is not determined to fight it out to the
bitter end. TdtJ0ndighnm here simply lies.
He tells what is not true, and he knows it.
! Fallandigham, aside from the leading men
jeff Davis, Toombs and Stephens-did
not, 1 venture to say, speak with dozen
through Dixie. Had he done so his report
would have a different color. The people
who are fighting against the Governments
the poor whites comprising the rank and
file of the rebellion-nine-tenths of them
do not know what they are fighting for,
do not know what they are fighting
against. A majority of them do not know
anything-and hundreds of them never
saw the American flag in their lives until
they saw it march into Vicksburg in tri-
umph. They do not know tie Fourth of
July, or anything else that is good. But
poor and ignorant as they are, let them ex-
press their own free minds, and they will,
almost to a man, demand speedy termin-
alton of this war-would submit to almost
anything rather than fight one day longer
as they have been fighting. II is only by
the force of bdyonets their army is kept to-
gether. Even that cannot prevent their
deserters from flocking into Jackson by
,. hundreds, to take tho oath of allegiance or
to join the Union ranks. And tell you
what know when 1 say that it will not be
many days ere the entire States of Missis-
sippi and Tennessee will be knocking
loudly for readmission to a Union which
not long since they thought their puny eff
forts could quickly dissolve. They are
talking of it even now.
: Speaking of being united, i tell you, by
the Eternal God, there was never a more
truthful sentence than that of Douglas:
"those who are not WITH us are AGAINST
u.s. and reitera&e it, and add that those
| | ,rl,r ,Df Oh r.
should be NTH their Soathern brethren, fight
ing With them.
| Let them either aid the Government, or
go where they can bolster up the lettering
fortunes of rebeldom. Better have dozen
, foes in the field than one fighting us behind
our backs.
, To all cvpperheads, peace men, agitators,
: anti-war men-be they Republicans or
Democrats-for we have them, here, pre-
tending to be both-I have a word to say
on the behalf of our brave soldiers. You
,, have undoubtedly been told that the war
has its opposers in the ranks of the Union
army. 1t is an accursed and foul asper-
sion upon the fair fame of men who are
: willing to spill their blood and give their
D lives for the country. They are for our
Union. They fight for the people and their
! country-for the suppression OF the rebel
i lion. Let me say to all opposers OF the
5 war: The time aoiU come when men eOmpo-
10 sing TINS great army VIII come TO thelI
e homes. They have closely watched the
progress of events with interest. They
II have had their eyes upon these unmitiga-
% ted towards, theseopponentso of the country
e and the Administrations the ADMIN,
J. istration, contend, Is the conntryCandi
y when they return, it will do the soul on
IS every truly loyal man good to see the sum
IF mary manner in which they Will cause
these sneaks and peace agitators TO seek
e their holes.
d You will excuse me, gentlemen, If, in
r saying what have said, have been rath-
s, er profuse and heavy in the way OF empha-
q sis. Two years away from civilization,
q with my men, has made me rather en-
) phatic in all nv thoughts and words in re-
v gard to certain things. Ispeak emphatical-
e ~ because emphatically feel that which
10 my tongue finds to say.