The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-28
Brownlow.s Wing.

continued applause.
BrOwnlOW's Wing.
We have received the first number of
Parson Brownlow's Wing aud Rebel Yen
tslator. He puts in some hard hcks. with
will, after the following fashion:
VoT1Na FOR SEPARAT1oN.-The issue in
Tennessee, when the State was forced out
of the Union, was Separation and Repre-
sentation.'' We canvassed the State thor
oughly, the Union men opposing and the
Secessionists advocating the separation Of
the State from the Federal Government,
and the sending of Representatives to the
bogus Confederate Congress. The Secs
sionists, backed up with 6ayonets, carried
the day.
Representations" Yes, you have got sep
aration to your hearts content! Separa-
ton from your hay-stacks, corn-cribs,
cattle, hogs, horses and mules You have
been separated from many Of your sons,
brothers, uncles, fathers and husbands =
You have been separated from all the COM
forts Of life, and all this you can make out
to bear, but you have been separated from
your dear niggers, and you are to endure
for the niger institution has become an
itinera,,t one, travelling about in every di-
rection! -..s ~
You have got Representation! You are
represented oft of the State and National
Legislatures, ont Of all the Diplomatic
Courts Of Europe, and Ia the bogus trdueI-
ina Congress of the Confederacy, whether
at Montgomery, Richmond or elsewhere!
You are represented largely IN the prisons,
State and Military, in the loyal States =
You are largely represented in every
graveyard South! And as people you
are still more largely represented in Hell,
and this representation is to be still in
creased! What think you Tennesseeans,
of Separation and Representation ?" You
no doubt think with the poet:
"Justice Divine, to punish sin, moves slow.
The slower her step, the Surer is the blow.
The OTHER SIDE.-Our East Tennessee
friends will all be able, from the large edi-
ton of our paper issued, to see it and read
it carefully. For more than two years they
have not been able to read anything on the
side of the Union, or even to talk on
that side. The most disgraceful tyranny
has been exercised over them. We now
give them the other side of the question,
and we have tried to call things by the
right names. This is only our introduce
tion-in our future numbers we will i'm
prove upon the several subjects limited at,
and before we are done, we expect to cen
tilCtte the principles and deeds of the base
Williams whose deeds and principles would
not bear the light.
Stop THE NIGGERs I'VE confess frank
ly, to having no sympathy with rebels
whose negroes are leaving them, and who
are crying and bowling over their losses.
During the last Presidential canvass, the
dsunion speakers everywhere cried out
that if Lincoln were elected, the negroes
would all be free, and the negroes were
1fcfor 10 fhnyr onhin
the war began, these rebels have taught
the negroes ard the people, that the ne
groes would all be free as soon as Lincoln's
army came in. The negroes supposed that
these leaders knew, and have taken them
at their word, and struck for liberty!
Who is to blame, the rebels, the negroes
or the army? The answer is easy. Be-
knew, that under the Constitution
and laws, slave property was secure, and
no man dare modest it. But setting aside
the Constitution and the laws, they have
no claims upon either, and no right to any
protection Of their persons and property.
THE FEDERAL CoURT.-This Court will
be held here before long by Judge G. F
Trigg; and mark what we say, the ''arbi
trary arrests made by the military, and
of by traitors, will be ''tender
mercies'' compared with the indictments
made by Grand Jury, under the charge
of Judge Trigg. The Court of last August
vile, against prominent rebels, for TREA-
son and CONSPIRACY; and in the former
case there can be no bail, while the punish
ment is death. There will be no less than
five hundred indictments here; and the ut
ter ruin of many of the parties will be the
result. They will find, to their sorrow, that
it is no small matter to engage in an effort
many of the leading Devils, the big bugs who
the front seats in this play, will
not be caught. Others will be, and those
can never again return to the
.....s
VIOLATING THE CoNsTITUTIoN.-The
cry of violating the Constitution, and Of
acts, upon the part of the
Lincoln Government, as it has been called,
has come up from all parts of the South,
from the commencement Of this Rebellion,
and has been repeated with a vim, by the
Northern peace party. This all sounds
very queer to those of us who have been
perfectly familiar with the origin and pro-
gress Of the Rebellion, and know it to have
originated in the violation of the Constitu-
ton, Of the laws of the land, and disre-
gard for the solemn and binding obliga-
tons of oaths. For a party that has hung
men for an honest difference of opinion:
that mas SnOt men upon aTepOTt by per-
sonal enemy, that they We're not loyal to
the South; that has doomed men to starve
and die in loathsome prisons, without the
of a trial, because they were
true to the Constitution of their country;
and for party who have legalized high
way robbery, and all the crimes known to
this unholy war, to complain Of the viola
ton of the Constitution, on the part of the
Federal Government, is perfectly ridicu-
lOus.
These Southern Constitution loving and
lawahiding rebels, set out by enacting a
law, exempting all men from military du-
ty who owned as many as tacenty negroes,
but forcing the lower order of society, and
the poor, who owned no slaves, or less
than twenty, and who had but little inter-
est in slavery, to go into the service
Whilst all who dared to express sentiments
of attachment to the Union, in opposition
TO Secession, were visited with moral sua-
sion of the lasso, of tarring and feathering,
head-shaving, ducking in creeks, and
horse-ponds, deportation on rails, without
saddles or blankets, and other similar ethi-
cal processes. To talk about the observ-
ance of law and order, and a sacred regard
for constitutional liberty, by such MEMS land
among their Newspaper organs, is matter
of disgust among candid and well inform
ed men!