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

BLESSINGS OF THE DAVIS DEspor1sM
The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes ex-
tracts from letter written by woman in
one of the Gulf states to her son who had
escaped to the North, which gives GLIMPSE
OF the suffering the rebellion is causing in
the South, and confirms the numerous ac-
counts to that effect. The letter says:-o
"The greatest comfort to us both is that
you are IN a country where you are safe
from confederate conscript officers, and
from the bloodhounds that are put upon
the track of deserters that have come home
to see their wives and children die of star
walton. L rejoice that you are where YOU
can get enough to eat if you will work
while your friends at home are living al
most on bread alone. This is the first day
we have had mouthfuT of meat to eat for
two months. We killed little calf last
night, and shall probably have meat once
a day for a week. There is no meat in the
country to buy, and the country people will
not sell eggs, chickens or butter for confed-
crate money, and we have no other. They
Will sell only for factory thread, and the
factory people will let none but their favor
ties have it. The !conscript officers have
pressed all the beef that is brought to town,
and the inhabitants cannot get any. Thou
sands of poor people are starving. Everv
man that lsable to do anything is conscript-
ed and sent to the war. If he attempts to
escape or get out of the way he is shot down.
or hunted down by bloodhounds. There
is no such thing as law, and no man has
any security for his life or property. We
are living under a terrible military despo-
tlsm, or l should say, tyranny, which oc-
caslons sufferings unparalleled in history.
1--WE are taxed to ruin. Besides ali onr
other taxes your father has soon to paw for
the Confederate war tax alone over a thou
sand dollars, and give to the Confederate
Government one-tenth of everything he
raises. Our money is nearly as valuable
as the Continental money used to be. For
seven dollars and half we can get yard
OF calico. The country people say they
cannot buy anything with the Confederate
money! and it is of no use. We have not
an ounce of meat for black or white except
that above mentioned, and have not had
for weeks. Our dinners consist of bread
and corntield peas; our breakfasts are of
bread and rye coffee. If man refuses to
take our money for debt he loses the in
terest and is taxed tive-fold. There is not
a third of the people here who have had as
good fare as we. Mr.. the great Sc.
cession man, is among the number"
EMANCIPATION IN KENTUcK Y.-The
Commonwealth of Kentucky is regarded
by many of those, anxious to improve the
present opportunity to make a final dispo-
sition of the slavery question in this coun-
try by putting 1.-THE institution at least in
the course Of ultimate extinction, as the
most grievOus stumbling block in the way
OF that which the Irish orator described as
the irresistible genius of universal eman-
cipation." We are convinced, however,
that the public impression and general ex-
preston OF opinion, as to the utter hostility
to emancipation or hopeless stolidity of the
people of Kentucky on the slavery ques-
ton, is based upon erroneous information
xts-
There is rapidly developing, in Kentucky,
perhaps not an aggressive immediate eman-
clpatlon party, in very great strength, but
a quiet, consistent and formidable public
opinion to the effect that slavery, whether
a ''sin" or not, is not in any respect of any
advantage, and as matter of business, is
a nuisance and calamity. A great many
Kentuckians are giving renewed consider
alton to the emancipation doctrines many
years ago advocated by Henry Clay. We
have communications from solid men of
the State speaking earnestly and hopefully
Of these things. There is no passion in
their utterances, no apparent expression of
desire to do violence, and turn and over
turn in day, but sensible, calculating,
business-like disposition to do away with
an Institution that has materially interior
ed with the progress of kentucky-that has
during this war, been her enemy and to the
extent Of its influence, tended to the disor-
ganzation of her society, the destruction of
her domestic peace and the dissipation of
her wealth" 1t is not certain that the exis-
tence of this sentiment in Kentucky may
| not soon make itself conspicuous upon the
surface of the politics of the State. Wheth-
er ii does or not, we make no question that
it's growth will be steady and that its tri-
umph is but question of time; perhaps of
much shorter time than the majority of
her citizens believe pOssible.-Cin. Com.
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NEARLY SKUNKED.-The Copperheads