The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-13

nation. Certain changes, however, Shave
come over their programme. Maryland.
Kentucky and Missouri are now left out.
They feel pretty sure of retaining Virginia,
and have strong hopes of keeping what
they hold, and OF recovering what they
have lost OF Tennessee. Still, 1t seems that
the possibility of being obliged to yield
Virginia and Tennessee has some sort of
recognition IN their conversation. But,
even in that case, and though they should
be shut out from the coast at all points.
still they are, or imagine themselves Q be.
resolved to concentrate in the
interior, and there fight it out to the bitter
end, or till they come to the well known
'last ditch a3 -
/. asked the captain whether the Southern
people had much to say of late on the sub
ject of their peculiar institution?' He
replied that their talk was constantly fill
ed with it. Their tongues seem spell bound
to it; it is standing and almost inevitable
theme with them; wherever their CONVEX
sation starts, it pretty sure to fetch up
there; in word they can't let that topic
alone. They have fixed persuasion, an
invincible faith, that the Confederacy is to
gain its indepenpence-that in their temple
OF state 1.-THE stone which the old builders
rejected is to remain where the new build
ers have placed it, as the "chief stone of
the corner, though all the world be against
them; that on the settlement of peace, the
United States shall subscribe an everiast-
ing bond to return without aualifica-
ton or reserve fugitives from Slavery; and
that as an earnest of good faith in this sssol-
emn league and covenant all the human
chattels strayed or stolen during the war
shall be restored forthwith. This, to be
sure smells like pretty strong meat for
Uncle Sans children to digest; neverthe-
lnSc scsf1 Hn n Of hi nh
bors are insisting that those poor babes
must thankfully put up with.
Perhaps it will not be amiss to add, that
the Captains statement herein agrees, pre-
clsely with a sermon preached and pub
ilshed, not long since by Bishop Elliot Of
Georgia, in which that remarkably,illu-
minated shepherd instructs his flock that for
the last fifty years Divine Providence has
been especially exercised in care ofSlavery,
and that the events of the world have been
ordered and shaped chiefly with a view to
pickle and preserve tina: followed relic.-
All this would indeed be Ridiculous enough
were it not so much more horrible.
As to the general iftand course of things
in Southern society, our Captain says the
rich are rapidly growing richer, and the
poor poorer; that the farmers have heaps
of Confederate paper, which, as it is now at
a discount of seven hundred per cent, in
Savannah, they are investing as fast as pos
sible in lands and negroes; while the latter,
under the dreadful pressure of the times,
are in process of selling out all they have,
in order to keep up their existence for the
time being. Thus the large proprietors are
fast eating up the smaller ones; while the
latter are utterly helpless for the present.
and equally hopeless for the future. The
Captain declares it to be his firm beliefthat,
as things are now going, the poor whites
must sink, and quickly too, into a eondi-
hor Il soIn III
colored bondmen, and not at all preferable
to it. And all this, be it observed, is just
what the large proprietors are avowedly
aiming at and longing to see. A few lords,
who, like the kings Of by-gone days, can
do no wrong, and a great many serfs and
thralls who can do nothing but what the
lords say-this is what these great, wise
benefactors of the race have long been as
piring to, and what they are now in swift
process Of realizing. 1'.t III,
Our Captain says there are now but few
troops, comparatively, at Charleston and
Savannah, most of them having gone to re-
enforce the rebel armies in the Southwest.
Beauregard, also, has gone to the same field
of service. The rebels now feel perfectly
secure about Charleston, and have no fear.ef
anything the Government can enterprise
against that place. Such being the case,
they could, of course, well spare their great
engineer for service elsewhere. saaf .'ns
Another noteworthy point is that the
Southerners are reckoning good deal on
their chances for this summer. They make
much Of the fact that our enlistments of
two years and of nine months are about to
expire. thinking they will have time to do
something important before the Govern
ment can avail itself of the CONSUMPTION to
replace the out-goers. This, to be sure, is
so evident as to be hardly worth mention
ing, but that its very obviousness may have
nj 6nr1v, pv>Sxr .x.A
add that our Captain thinks the consorip-
ton is near its end at the South, having al
ready swept into the rebel armies about all
it can catch. And, as regards supplies, he
thinks that if the rebels can hold their
ground for the next three months they will
then be good for another year or two.-Cbr.
N. Y. Evening Post. = .a,.~.rv. Nv,
INsID1oUs TREAsoN.-The organ of JEFF.
Davis holds that no treason can be COM
mitted by words spoken or printed, and in
order to demonstrate the correctness Of it's
hypothesis, deliberately puts forth the fol-
lowing in its leading editorial of q recent
date: af bi,.o,y - t... ....- -,.
$50 long as the present political poll
cies of the war are persisted in-so long
as the war is continued as the war of q POI
litical party-every dollar expended in it
is wasted, and worse than wasted, AND
EVERY LIFE LOST IN IT rs AN
SACn1F1CE AMI A
MURDER, indeed, by those upon whom
the responsibility rests of the prevailing
policies. The man who does not wash his
hands of all participation in such a war
SHARES THE GUILT OFTHOSE BY
WHOM 1T is Prosecuted. Support
Of this war and hostility to it show the di-
yiding line between the enemies and
friends of the Union. HE WHO SUP
PORTS THE WAR IS AGAINST THE
UNION, because the war is the most ter.
rible engine for the destruction Of the
Union which Beelzebub himself could
have invented. .a.s,s.g nan-urF
The protested Democrat, therefore, who
has his senses about him, and is deliberate
ly for the war, is not a Democrat, in fact,
but an Abolitionist of the most radical,
violent and destructive kind" gE- iss#
1t is here charged that the President and
every man who Supports the war is
against the Union," and is murderer"
No paper published in the seeded States
has ever uttered more false, disloyal ::or
atrocious sentiments. Gen. Burnside d.
reefs that no more such Internal issues
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