The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15

honor. that not one single drafted citizen
shall be forced away from the State until
the Constitutionality of the Conscription
Act shall have been decided on by our
Courts
We don't know how much truth there
may be in this assertion. If the Ne,os
made it ofan honest man and patriot we
should know it to be lie. But as it is
made of man who addresses rioters,
thieves and murderers rs his "friends,"
and has announced himself as the special
guardian of those who defy alike the laws
Of God and man, we don't see any reason
to doubt that he has made so characteristic
a pledge, or that it was made to the
"friends" who have so.emphatically evinc-
ed the sort Of regard they have for the law
and the Constitution.
Now, that the law is Constitutional no
one knows better than this Horatio. There
is no lawyer in the land, not a deliberate
in any Court. It has been judicially de-
clared SO by several of the old Judges of
the United States Courts, men who are nei-
Their "Abolitionists," Republicans, or par
tizans of the Administration at present or
in the past. They could not decide other
wise without overriding all the decisions of
the Supreme Court as to the poaoer of Con-
gress from its organization to the present
hour.
Governor Seymour is a lawyer and
knows this perfectly well. He knowseq
ly well that the State Courts have no juris-
iiction to decide the Constitutionality Of
his or any other law of the United States.
Knowing all this, and making such pledges
IS the one above quoted, making such
speeches as he has to rioters in fact and
.ioters in prospective, conducting himself
As he has ever since, he by false pretences,
oisted himself into the position of Cover
lor, we are bound to believe that he is
'tudiously doing all he cansto obstruct the
action of the Administration within it's
proper sphere, and that his purpose is to
give ''aid snd comfort to the rebels.
We don't suppose there is the slightest
LANCER of his attempting to act upon his
pledge. His SACRED word and honor is
o risk his neck whatever he may induce
lis dupes to do. But he will doubtless
continue to interpose every impeachment to
he prosecution of the war which he can do
With safety to his traitorous carcass.
SUBsTITUTEs.-The draft has been COM
,leted in Philadelphia; and events are now
the wisdom of the $500 ex-
'mption clause. There, singular to say, an
of substitutes are offering them
selves for sums ranging from 800 to $175,
md the extreme and outside figure is said
o be 5000. This shows very clearly how
the exemption has put down the
price of substitutes, and how it Will every
where continue to have the same result
But the cream of the joke upon the poor,
leluded New York Copperhead rioters, the
evidence of how their leaders have sold
hem, is to be found in the fact that large
numbers of them, fearful of arrest at home,
ire now found in Philadelphia, proffering
themselves as substitutes at these figures
They were anxious to avoid the draft, but
heir folly has made it necessary for them
% abandon their homes and seek security
n the army! Whether they will find Sc
;urity there, remains to be determined.-l
Certain it is, say correspondents, that
very many fugitives from New York are
Offering themselves as substitutes in Phila-
lelphia. They are the Wood and Seymour
gratis, " and by this time are doubtless
,ursing those official villains for seducing
hem into paths which lead only to danger
and punishment, or hasty fligh, to escape
them.
rs The Wisconsin Copperhead Conven-
ton, which met on the 5th inst, at Madi-
son, nominated H. L. Palmer, for Governor;
Nelson Dewey, for Lieut.. Governor; Emil
Rothe, for Secretary Of State; E. A. Wake
ley, Attorney General; II. L. Pierpont,
Bank Comptroller; Volney French, Super
intendent of Public Instruction; and J. R.
Boham, State Prison Commissioner.
Some of these persons were present and
their nomination. The candidate
for Governor did so. These Copperheads
are strange compound of folly and crime,
Of knavery and gullability. 1t won't be
three years before they will be hunting affi-
davits to prove that they were not candi-
dates on the Copperhead ticket, that they
were intensely loyal, always supported the
war, the Administration and all of it's war
measures and policy. SO it will be in Iowa
and throughout the loyal North. But their
oaths viii not save them from infamy, any
more than they will now secure their cleo
ton. The people are making record of
the whole gang of traitors, and will trans
NIT it complete and impartial to posterity.
The faint of treason will always cling to
them, and will damn them and their de-
forever. It's a pleasant prospect,
and we hope they are delighted with it.
rs In the Copperhead County Conven-
ton, which appointed delegates to the
State Convention, our friend B. j. Hall is
to have said of our soldiers in Dix
lie, that whatever they saw they wanted.
and whatever they wanted they took !'-
Now that it has been arranged that the SOL
diers' votes an to be at least solicited for
the Copperhead ticket, we presume MIR.
Hall will amend this speech. So with
d utchins, who declared in Convention that
Iuttle's hands were red with the blood of