The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-05

| SPEECH OF Gov. KIRKwooD-WHyM NJ,
| ITARY COMPANIES ARE BEING One 49,.
IN i0WA.-At the late Union meeting Cn.i
thlrkwood delivered the following BRIEF NV:
suggestive speech: out
| Fettow-C Citizens Of Dubuque: NV n.
is not upon the programme as one ofha'ie
announced to speak here on this occasiS ose
put being here, aud being called unon
! will say u few words-becallse hava
words to say that want to say right Nv
n Dubuque. nefe
| Perhaps you know that have beon r.
voring the organization of volunteer I'D, ID
panies, and arming them, in various Mill MI.
throughout the State. find that H.
have been men base enough to saw ,Isss
these companies were being armed for ra
purpose of driving Democrats from ths
polls on election day. / also find that tboue
are men who are fools enough to behave !.
And want to tell you why have done ,hi ~
have the opportunity of knowing tbs.
organizations are being formed in ysr;o I'D
parts OF the State for the purpose of opno'
! sing the conscription act. NY observato,
of the course of Mr.. Buchanan showed n,a
that it is very unwise to wait till danger T.
| upon US before making preparations mo-,
it. And my object in forming and armin,
| these companies is to show those who n,%e'
pose to oppose this law, that it will be a.
gerous to them to attempt any such thin,
The other day a man in Keokuk connt,,
got into row, and, very unfortunately f.,
| himself, got killed. His friends in thai =;
cinity chose to believe that the perpetra-
| tors would not be called to an account and
punished by the proper authorities, and ar.
Ecordingly attempted to take the matter !,
| their own hands. The results have baan
such as to show these men that their seryi.
ces in the case were not needed.
You remember draft was commenced
| the other day in New York, and mob was
raised to stop it; and threats have been
made that the same thing would be done
here in IOwa-wOuld be done here in Du-
| buque. And wanted to talk here in Du.
| buque just long enough to tell you that il
| will be a very bad thing for you to start a
mob here in opposition to the draft. 1t is
for your own interest that no mob is star.
ted here; but if you do not see to it that
no mob is started, tell you that will see
to it that any mob which is started shall be
put down foryou! You see that 1 am notion
va plain looking man, but plain speak.
ing man; and intend to speak plainly.
When this war began, Iowa had no his.
tory. People in the East knew there was
such a State west of the Mississippi, but
they supposed it was inhabited by few
white persons, good many Indians, and
that the balance of the population was
composed of wolves. But Iowa's soldiers
have been making patriotic name for
her. On every battlefield since the COM
mencement of the war in the West, they
have fought, and fought with a bravery not
surpassed by the troops of any other State
in the Union. IOUG has q naBle.nOU. And
it will be a shame-a burning shame, men
and woman of Iowa--if the soldiers who
are in front of the enemy cannot be as.
sured that their wives and children, and
loved ones at home, cannot be protected
from traitors in the rear. Why, down in
Keokuk county, the county records were
packed up, and about to be carried to some
more safe place of deposit; and the wives
and families of absent soldiers trembled
and fled in fear from their homes. What
will the soldiers think-what did the sol.
diers from Keokuk county think, when
| they learned that their homes had been in
Jeopardy, and that their mothers, and
wives, and daughters, and sisters were
made to trernble for their lives, unprotect-
ed, because they had given up those who
once cared for them to the serviQn,of their
country? Suchi a burning shame shall not
disgrace our State, and grieve the hearts of
our noble soldiers, again, without punish
ment, dire, swift and sure, reaches the trail
tor that engages in it. The homes and
families, and property, of those who have
/ . IS
be protected-and may my God forget me
in my hour of sorest need, if do not see
| to it that they are protected!
But the affair in Keokuk county was
| soon ended, and those who engaged in it
will think twice, 1 am of the opinion, be.
| fore they enlist in such an enterprise again.
1t commenced on Monday. / received
word of the position of affairs on Tuesday
and by Wednesday night l had five compa.
| nf
ground; and by Thursday night five more
companies and another piece of artillery;
and there was not a blank cartridge there /!
And 1 tell you that if it becomes necessary
for me to come to Dubuque on the same
errand, 1 shall not bring blank cartridge
| here!
ANOTHER FLEET OF IRON-CLADs TO BE
BUILT-THE Most POWERFUL WAR YES.
Sells AFLOAT.-Notwithsta the nu-
merous vessels added to the Navy within
the past two years, the work of cOnstruc-
ton is still to go ON. The Navy Department
has just decided to build another fleet OF
iron-clad vessels. They will be longer and
more formidable than any now in the ser
vice of this or any other country-being in
fact perfect copies of the great Ericsson
ocean ships Puritan and Dictator which are
now building in New York.
| The last new batch of vessels is to be the
most perfect in the entire navy; and in Or
der to render them unexceptionable in ev-
cry way, they are to be built at the Navy
Yards of New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Portsmouth, N. FL. Naval Contractors
alone are experimenting them. Work on
the vessels will soon commence. Each
will have two turrets of enormous thick
ness, and the side armor will be some feet
in thickness. There will be for each yes.
sci two pairs of direct acting engines with
jet condensers, the cylinders of which are
to be vertical and placed Immediately over
the shafts; the diamater of each is to be
fifty five inches, and the stroke of piston
three feet. AS there are two of these en-
gines the speed of the vessel will be rem
dered as great as if the cylinders were
much larger. The boilers are to be of the
horizontal tubular kind, with 900 square
feet of CRATE, of not exceeding 81 feet in
length, and 22,5OO feet of heating surface
The tubes to be of brass, shells to be s-inch
thick plates, with 7-l6-inch thick bottoms
and furnaces, and braced for working
pressure of thirty-fve pounds per square
inch. The screws to be of composition o
copper and tin, fifteen feet in diameter, o