The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-19

sell bonds to obtain the money needed to
| the demands of the General Government
| to clothe and pay the Iowa soldiers called
to the field by the National Government;
| and also the act to enable the volunteer SOL
diers from, Io,oa to cote at elections for State
er bills on these same subjects were pre-
sented to the Legislature, those drafted by
Judge Dillon were adopted and passed with
scarcely verbal alteration.
Such are the simple facts Of Judge Dill.
Ions career. We might enlarge on them,
but there is no need. We submit them in
all their plainness to the candid cOnSidera-
ton of every Iowa voter.-Dav. Gns.
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| THE NEW ASPECTS OF THE WAR-CoM-
ING END.-The failure Of Bragg and Buck
ner to make any resistance to Rosecrans
and Burnside, has convinced the most in
credulous that what haslOng been evident
to me) the rebel Confederacy was fast
crumbling away. Indeed, so fast, that no
wise man will desire it to go faster, for
there is much yet to be done in the recon-
struction of Southern society, before it will
be so well done that the peace and well be-
ing of the country will be secured. The
great iniquity which caused the war must
| be put where no politicalquackscan revive
it to political consequence. Southern soci-
ETY. must be reconstructed on a new basis.
The great political heresies of States Rights
sovereignty must be destroyed, by the final
verdict of the American people; and in fine
we must recommence our great trust
happy-career Of glory, and prosperity un-
der new and happier. auspices. All this
can be done, in the time (short, as 1 be-
lieve) required to finish the war, in its
great parts; but, would not have been done,
| If we had finished it, as we hoped, at an
earlier period. The time will come, when
history will pronoune that even in the pro-
longation OF the war, we have had the kind
favor of Providence. There was a great
work to be done, and it must be done
thoroughly with the baptism of blood and
the publication Of fire. 10
| Let us turn to the field of war, and we
shall see how completely much that we
have said has been confirmed by events
Throughout the war the rebels have uni
formly out-brogged as, and they did more
they made us believe the bragging.-
Hence 1t was that we were made to believe
there were three times as many men a,
Bowling-Green as there were, and four
times as many at Yorktown, where Nc
Clellan brought up siege guns and dug
trenches, when he should have been march
ing on. So they have boosted of their Gen.
erals, where they have never had any Cen
eral equal to Rosecrans. So they have in
duced us to believe that they have had
means and strength far beyond the reality.
But all this is now numbered among the
great decisions with which they began the
war. It is numbered among the fctions OF
fancy. No man, Union or rebel, now fails
to see that their strength is failing, and
their Confederacy is crumbling away. The
process of exhaustion, to-. which have often
referred, is going on with increasing rapid
lity. Territories, men and resources have
been cut off in the last three months
greater than all which remain; while the
power of the Government is just develop.
ing its tremendous strength. We shall, In
our present position, get more men from
the Unionists of the South and the liberat.
ed negroes than we need; while in all the
region which furnishes these nothing will
be furnished the rebels. BY the great
swoop of Rosecrans and Burnside the
whole mountain country of Tennessee
Georgia, and North Carolina is turned ovel
to the Union. Its mountains and glens
will furnish thousands of hardy, patriotic
men to replenish the army of the Cumber.
land, which will still sweep on, till il
leaves its card at the door of Richmond.
The campaign Of Grant put hors du com
bat 10000 men; that of Rosecrans lO,OOO
and the battle of Gettysburg &c, 900; besides
the desertion, scattering, and perishing o.
! tens of thousands more in the marches anC
rout of Pemberton, j ohnston and Bragg
Thus, almost the entire rebel army Of the
| Southwest has been destroyed for any pur
pose of war. Hence, we find Johnson with
a mere body OF flying militia; Bragg re-
treating and crumbling, till he is now il
Atlanta, Ca, and Buckner, no one knows
where, flying before the mere rumor of oul
advance. In the meantime, the grain
fields, and the railroads which might have
Ieplenished and sustained them, are taker
from them. Nearly all the locomotives
from Knoxville to Natchez which coulc
avail the rebels have been taken or de
stroyed. five ask how this has happened
we reply, simply because the rebels hat
not the strength to prevent 1t. They begar
with greatly inferior strength, and from
what they had two great deductions wer,
to be made-the Union non-slaveholders
who in spite of all assertions to the contra
~, were a very large body, and the ne
groes in the territory we should possess
Neither OF these were available till we go
possession of large portion of the rebe
territory. Hence, it is only recently tina
this weakness of the rebels was made eyi
| dent. Now, we have thousands of South
ern men entering our armies, and tens o
thousands of negroes. Before January w
shall have negro troops enough to garrison
all the ports of the Southwest. Thus w
are turning the weapons of the enemy OIL
himself, and every day his power crumble
taWay.
A last desperate effort may be made; bu
1t is difficult to see where it can be. Lee
army is the only great army of the rebels
but, there is no reason to believe it is a
large as when it marched into Maryland
On the contrary, we hear of large reinforce
ments to Beauregard, and of Longstree
marching South. Whether these report
are true or not, there is no probability O
Lees advance. There is no probabilit,
that he has strength to make any grea
movement. If he did, he must abando,
Richmond altogether.
Ii we turn now to the movement of Rose
Grams, we shall see some of the most i'm
portant events of the war. There are move
ments in armies much more important tina,
battles; bloodless victories, whose laurel
are the greener, because bIoodless. Sue
mas been Rosecrans' march from Murfrees