The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-24

JoritIes Tor futile, Mr.. Fisher was led tn
decline, and then came the demand for =
second convention. The committee was
known to be against futile as Originate
made up, and every futile paper in the
State declared it had not the least power To
I'LL the vacancy. 1t was advised in oracu
lar phraseology not to attempt to dictate to
the party by nomination, but when il did
nominate, and nominate Gen. futile, not a
word of dissent was heard from those who
had argued us into thorough advocacy of
their doctrines. Still, the Herald and the
few straightforward papers of theState said
nothing, but hoisted the ticket under some
pretence or other, and went to work upop
Abolitlonism. We did not give our sun
port to Tuttle, for we knew that his friends
did not want that, but we exposed the cow
ardice of Stone and his meanness, the base
our party fir lends North andSouth, to make
all the capital they could by saying that
the Herald did not support Tuttlc, because
he was not an extremist. But here in Du.
buque we managed our affairs in our own
way; nominated radical men Of known
character, and went to work vigorously
Not in one single paragraph did We inter-
fere with an outside county, but carried on
a straightforward fight against Uncommon
enemy. The battle became interesting
Gen. Tuttle put out letter so nearly Ad-
ministration in sentiment as to lead us all
to believeit a forgery, and some of his own
friends to brand it as such; but when it
was found to be authentic, they gulped it
down with q placid countenance, and be-
fore the close, had grown so enamored of it
as to cut it up into watchwords for uniyer-
sal currency and admiration!
The election came at last, and with X n
pricking oft bubble. Hopes flattering
tale was proven the sorriest of all false.
hoods, and the Democratic party of Iowa,
once but step from the portals of power.
lay PROSTATE under the feet of it's conquer.
ors.
Lee county, for which futile was to
carve out 800 majority, has escaped with
but 100. Des Moines county, ours last
year by a small figure, is the property of
the enemy by hundreds. Davis, which at
one time aspired to lead Dubuque,i is driven
in the tens, while Van Buren, and Polk,
and Jasper and Warren counties, which
had advanced step by step in the right
path, are recorded against us overwhel-
mingiy.
Only those counties hold their heads
erect which opposed to the last the schemes
of tombstone, Gillaspy and company.
Dubuque sends 1925, and Allamakee
800, and Jackson 100, while Wapello and
Marion, with majorities not one-third
that of Lee, stand firm, or at the worst, re-
cede but step.
The game OF 81 is tried on with infinite
ly worse success, and the Democratic party
which could not have avoided defeat, is
disintegrated and demoralized beyond
precedent. We have stopped but have not
conquered. We have been guilty of act
ing falsehood and that gratuitouslv.
Now, gentlemen trimmers of the Demo-
cratic party, let US have one word with you.
There is but one radical distinction be-
tween Democracy and Republicanism at
the present day. The one is opposed, with
Douglas, to war whose only end is dis
union eternal and irrevocable;" while the
other is for it to the destruction of slavery
or country. If are 90 to find q aCaT Du7TU
aoe must search for the Republican organjzd-
ton, for that il a better W0r party than ours
We are Onti-arur or are are nothing. We
cannot support all the measures hey sup
port and endeavOr to divide votes with
them on technicalities. War leads in its
train arson and murder and pillage and
brutality. 1t we oppose the war, we OPP
pose its adjuncts; if we sustain it, we can
not cut the limb between ourselves and
the trunk.
It is a calamitous policy to oppose just
war, but that term does not apply to hon
est opposition to an unjust war. We may
pick our paths, but one is support, the 9TH
er, opposition; We may be met by being
pointed to- Ohio. Very well. Ohio was
never democratic State. We happened to
carry it last year, but it has been consist
emily against US for ten years. And no
sane man will hazard the assertion that an
other man than Vallandigham would have
got more votes than he.
The true issue was made in Connecticut.
The gallant Seymour, on a popular vote,
was successful, but the administration
money and soldiers beat him at the last
hour. Honestly, he is Governor to-day, but
technically he is 5000 in a minority.
We cannot fight the Republican party
with it's money and the Administration with
its armies. Give us a fair poll and an
which grapples boldly with the issue is in
nine cases out of ten sure of success, when
its faint hearted coadjutors continuously
miss the prize.
But, whether successful or not, we are
honest, we are manly. We profess TO be
honest in this matter whether to our detri-
ment or not, and we plainly inform the.
trimmers Of the ship that when they next
attempt to creepup the rivulets and around
the headlands of popelar favor, they must
disembark one portion of their crew. We
aae going to fight fair fight from this on.
If we go down it shall be with our coIors at
our mast head, SO that our enemy may bear
witness that we have been bold, an open
an honest enemy and that too much dis
erection failed to turn us into towards.
If the game of 81 and '63 is attempted in
'64 or Is, the trickstets had best buy up our
paper, for the pen of its editor viii not be
held in their leash nor directed to their in
terest.
We do not regret our action in the past,
for it has shown that we were willing, for
Policy to organize its forces and win what
victories it might. But let Policy be SUI
perceeded now by Principle, or else with
scores of others, we hand in our resigna.
tion.-Du6uque Hirald, 2Isty
LSL,
" We were yesterday shown by Mr.. Walk.
Il er, of Fl. Madison, who has just returned
from taking vote of the Both Iowa-twC
flags which were presented to that regi-
ment by the ladies of Kossuth, Des Moines
County, and VIII Oh were sent in his care by
the soldiers to the State Historical Society
The flags are nearly worn out, being
nearly cui up by bullets, but they speak
= volumes for the bravery Of that regiment
), who have won laurelS on many bloody
!, fields. The following list of battles where
these flags were borne by the 30th, accom-
Z panies them:
0 HEADQUARTERS BOTH Iowa Vol, IUKA
: Miss, Oct. 18th, lS63.-The accompanyin!
= flags were carried by the 3Oth at the bat
:. ties of ..-.