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

the French Emperor Of Mexico. right at
our doors, would swallow up Cuba, and all
the contiguous islands, and absorb that
part OF Mexico that we, as nation, would
nope to get. And the day we settle delib-
erately. monarchy on this side of the
ocean, we prepare crowns for kings, and
letters for the people, on every foot of
ground upon the American continent. But,
as said there will be no interference.
D1ssENs1oNs IN THE NORTH.
Have no hopes Of divided North. 1t
is on the surface. Scarcely goes to the
bottom OF their politics, much less shaking
the great masses. of their determined peo-
pie. Remember, too, that much of the
South is with them. There is no division
as far as fighting us is concerned. The
reconstruction. That rejected, they are to
press us with redoubled energy. Let US
not, after all our misfortunes and blunders,
construe the struggle between politicians
for place into sympathy for ourselves
But how could they propose peace? Who
would bring the message? To whom
would it be delivered? And should the
proposition be made and rejected, we are
that niue b worse off for it. We must pro-
pose peace, for we ought to know when we
have got enough Of the thing.
''GUER1LLA'' WARFARE.
Do not rely upon splitting up our army
and adopting this mode ofwartare. 1t will
contribute nothing to the general result,
, and only entail more suffering. If Ifpractic-
ed behind the Federal lines it subdues our
own people. 1t converts many of our sol
diers into robbers and plunderers, and
brings down, oftentimes, terrible retribu-
ton upon the heads Of our citizens. What
does the shooting of a few friends and foes
on railroad train amount to ? And your
own friends, as prisoners, going or return
ing, are on nearly all them. In order to
shoot citizen or soldier opposed to you,
you risk taking the life OF a relative, a
friend, or perhaps a brothers soldier, who
having fingered long in prison, is return
ing with his sad heart full of home and
loved ones.
/ And then to fire upon steamboats,. It is
dangerous to your friends; unmanly and
unsoldierly in the extreme. Before a city
l is fired upon, it is the duty of the COM
: manding officer to give his adversary rea-
Z, sOnable notice to remove the women, chill
Z dren and non-combatants. Steamboats,
], always have more or less of this class o1
people on board. A single shot may des-
' troy a steamboat with all its passengers
How much stronger then the reason not tc
e fire upon it until like notice is served.
: A few days since Confederate officer
9 was aboard transport with his family
The boat was fired upon by guerillas. He
stepped forward and entreated the party
!, not to fire, that their friends were or
board. A ball entered his heart, and his
e widow and orphans are in the care O.
$ strangers! He was the only person
+ touched.
q On the boat that transported us, wer,
! the wives, sisters and mothers Of Missouri
q soldiers, who had left their homes an(
II country to join their husbands and rela
e tives in the Southern army. How terribl
n was the thought which often occurred t
me on our trip, that, the ball of the gurril
q la, in the foolish hope of killing foe
e might go to the heart of his homeless wifs
n then throbing with anxiety to be one
e more pressed to his manly bosom! An
r this is q constant danger. Not boat bu
rs contains more or less of these people.
j, But this mode of warfare, while contri
Ia buting nothing toward the general result
u breaks up the peace of communities.
s. has never whipped an army. Never re
Is tarded its progress. Never cut OF its SUI
w plies or interfered materially with II
10 operations. 1t recoils upon us invariably
q, For instance, we fall back before the enc
e, my. Our family is left in his lines. Th
C. country around them has been devastated
The United States authorities permit th
ur bringing Of supplies. We fire upon the
es transports. No more supplies come, an
S? our families are left upon the verge Of sta
ig walton. This thing has occurred both
= Tennessee and Arkansas. I implore a
cn OF our citizens within the Federal lines
Nv remain at home and keep quiet. Let We
n. Tennessee be warning to you. LoI
since that country would have been quie
ne and the people recovering from their los
on es, had it not been infested with guerrilla
ey who, abandoning warfare, have plundert
he friend and foe. and kept life and proper
he insecure. Indeed, detailed account
at their acts would be sickening and DISCUS
nd ing in the extreme. AS the Federal arm
an advances through Arkansas, let the su
NJ light of peace be behind it, however dal
nd and threatening the cloud ahead. If '
as do not, robbers and freebooters will tai
M possession of our soil, and soon depopu.a
sh and convert it into waste.
NERGo SLAVERY.
in / am asked if Mr.. Lincoln's Eman'
'ur patton Proclamation will stand. II y
by continue the struggle, certainly. He
len the physical force at his disposal to car
nd it out. If you cease now, you may save
IN in your hands, or compromise on gradl
les, emancipation. But let, l beseech you, ,
md negro no longer stand in the way OF I
happiness and safety OF friends ana k1
dred.
On? The changes of sentiment, upon Il
,nd question: in the South, have been curiol
,ta Not many years since, 1t was by no mea
ess unusual for the press and public men,
has we'll as for the people, generally, IN
ish South, to concede that Slavery was an e'
the and regret that 1t should ever nave eAiso
nee expressing, however, no disposition oi
5 at sire to be rid Of it. Yet, few years M
on the demand for cotton having increas
up the price of negroes having advanced, a
,ed, the agitation Of the slavery question d;
the increased in virulence-finds us detendl
,ole slavery as divine institution. De Bo'
Y to Reuiear, and other Southern papers a
de- periodicals, with Senator Hammond,
ok South Carolina, were prominent in the
fer. fense. Their object was to educate
; in Southern mind to this belief. Such
and course has been vital to the existence
slavery; because, to concede that ne
in slavery was morally wrong, was vlrtua
N. to concede the whole argument to the
rs litionists. AS the controversy warmed,
try became sensitive. And SO morbidiy
,ers that the North might have threatened "
n a impunity to deprive us of horses, or OF
urv ablaze if some fanatic took one negro
us Such was public sentiment South, at
us commencement of this most unfortun
this and bloody struggle. But revolutl'
,sed shake up mems thoughts, and put them
his different channels. l have recently tall
the with Southern Shareholders from ev'
avis state. They are tired Of negro slave
e. conla more Cl