The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-14
JUNE, 1889

jeff. Davis longer? Had he twice our re-
sources he would still fail. With success
he would be despot. But the whole thing
is tumbling to pieces. Soldiers are leav-
ing disguised and disheartened; and whole
States have gone back to their home in the
National galaxy. Maryland and Delaware
will never again be shaken. Kentucky
has entrenched herself in the Union, be-
hind wall of bayonets in the hands other
own sturdy sons. Missouri is as firmly
set in the National galaxy as Massachu-
sets. Tennessee, tempeSt-toSSed and bolt
riven, under the guidance Of her great pi
lot, steers for her old mooring, and will be
safely anchored before the leaves fall;
while the rays of light from the old North
State, flashing out fitfully from her dark
ness across the troubled waves, shows that
she stirs, is not lost, but is struggling to re-
join her sisters. None Of these States will
sYsa Then 0inh |th bar 5he crnnsa So%ta agajn
with devastated fields-with desolate cities
with disheartened soldiers, and worse
than all, with weak and corrupt leaders,
what hope is left to the few remaining
States, but especially to poor oppressed and
down-trodden Arkansas? None! Better
TO us. Open the way for the return of hus-
pands, fathers and sons, and bind up the
proken links of the old Union. The people
must act to do this. ! tell you now, in
grle1 and pain, that the leaders don't care
for your blood. Your sufferings move them
not. The tears and walls of vourianguish-
e1 anu pereaved ones fall on hearts Of flint!
| Whlie they can make dollar or wear an
epaulette, tney are content. Finally, with
agrle1-strlcken and serrowful heart, inn
M pore motners, sisters, wives and daugh-
ters to assist, by all their arts, in saving
their loved ones from this terrible scourge,
ere ruin overtakes you and them irretriey-
ably! While God gives me strength .daun-
ted by no peril, and swerved by no consid-
sideration of self, shall giyy you my fee
To break the force of these utterances,
honestly, patriotically, and sorrowfully
made, the Johnsons and certain reptiles
who crawl around Little Rock under Fed
eral protection, together with all other like
men, who from their own innate corruption,
are not able to appreciate pure motives in
others, will tell you that desire to 60 to
Congress has influenced my conduct. Do
you suppose that would lose the last dol
lar have, and subject myself to their
/ SANDER and abuse for the chance of rum
ming for an office when peace is made?-
} Does not my refusing, upon principle, to
take my seat in Congress in 1860 after q
! triumphant election, in which 1 carried
twenty-five out of twenty-eight counties,
show them what little value I set upon
, such a bauble? But I will stop their
, mouths by the solemn assurance, that
there are not people enough on the conti-
to induce me to go to Congress. I am sick,
tired and disgusted with public life!
Peace peace and the safety of what is LETT
f of our noble and suffering people, is my
holy ambition. We must bear in mind,
too, as we go along, that in conceding the
chance of a Congress" they acknowledge
5 the failure Of the Confederate cause.
l.. Tie shortest way, in my opinion, to re-
= sumo our relations with the Federal Gov
e ernment, is to instruct Hon. w. X. Sebas-
e tian to take his seat in the United States
l States Senate. 1t is by all means desirable
= that such instructions be so clear that the
+ United States Government may be at no
loss to see that our people are loyal, and
S that Mr.. Sebastian may have but one
: course of conduct left. feel sure that he
a will respond favorably to your wishes.
Whenever it can be done, meetings
= should be held promptly, instructing him
: to resume his seat in the Senate. Where
e it cannot be done, or where citizens cannot
e attend meetings. let them get up petitions
! to that effect. The proceedings of such
Ii meetings. and the petitions, if sent to me
e at this place will receive prompt attention.
We should do all this before the meeting of
i Congress in December. We will have
= trade open and get all the other benefits OF
IS a government that much sooner.
d I must publicly acknowledge here my
IS regret for the strong terms of disapproba-
ton used towards that distinguished gen.
n tleman, Hon. w. X. Sebastian, for his refu.
t, sal to join us in this struggle.
IF To those who differed from me in the
,r commencement of this rebellion-the ex.
ar tent and bloodiness of which, no mortal
d could foresee, I must say that develop.
e, ments show that you We're right and
ID wrong. But let by-gones be forgotten, ant
o. let us all unite to bring about peace, and tt
ar lure our lost Pleiad from her wanderings
S! that she may again sparkle in our nation!
I'd coronet of stars.
lr Your fellow-citizen,
E. w. CAN'T.
~ LITTLE Rock. Oct. 7. 1868. ii
ONE-TENTH FOR CHARITY.-''Surel,
g. you would not apply this rule to the poor.
T Certainly not to the destitute. One obec
# of liberality is to relieve and comfort them
nd But rising above those who need help
h. upon whom do you fix as poor? The ma
r who can afford to spend money on whisk
.ir or tobacco; is he poor? The woman VIII
,s can afford to spend money on fineries; i
d she poor? 1t would be no small blessing,
to some of those well-meaning but i'll .iude
de ing persons, who are continually tellin
or the poor that they are too poor to do an
ut good, or support any cause, would stan
TO- out of the way of the poor. The wors
, I thing you can do is to pauperize him.
IL there be a poor man here,-and hop
list there is; for I never like to see an as
u sembly of human beings where there al
m none of the poor,-I would say to hin
y
-, teaches you to lean on other people. II
m is Jour friend, and your children's frient
mo- who teaches you to lean alone on the goo
i'm providence of God, and on your own rigf
so. hand. On the very same grounds that it
ag- a serious injury to man to pauperi7
me him, it is great service to teach him I
~ save something, and give it away. I'll
ba one induces feebleness, the other powe
~ the one inclines him to be listless in carr
el ing and thriftless in spending; the other
me be alert in earning, and careful in spent
,to ing. The moment a man begins to say
ed something and give it away, he rises in tt
ed social scale, and takes his place in the fan
'ha lily circle of benefactors. AS to the godl
w poor, I will test this whole question of pr,
Of portinate giving by their verdict, soont
,rd than by that of any other class. Let SON
rs. of those who would bid us not ask them
raj give, learn what they do, and perhaps the
ch will look anew to their own proportions
us And when one sees how the poor Ia
of themselves by waste, by hurtful luxurie
hyy TX ofta 1,o;~