The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29
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Brigadier General Tuttle and the
COPPerheads.
1t is whispered about upon the streets
and elsewhere that General Tuttle is par
ty to fraud attempted to be practiced up
on the brave soldiers in the field, now ac-
cidentally discovered and brought to light
that the address "To the People OF Iowa"
was not intended to be seen by the people
of Iowa at all, but was intended for the ar
my, where great many copies OF 1t nave
been sent-that it got into print contrary
to the wish of the scheming politicians who
are at the bottom of the swindle, and its APP
pearance in the Hawk-E was not In the
programme, and took the tricksters by sur
prise.
1t is not necessary for us to say that we
are better friend of General Tuttle than
those who put him in nomination. The
Ioyal people of Iowa are his friends and
the fast friends of the brave soldiers OF his
command and have been from the first
Neither we nor they will believe General
Tuttle capable of entering into such an I'M
worthy and infamous plot until compelled
to do so by evidence which cannot be dis
proved.
Yet it must be confessed that there is
something about it needing explanation.
Why was not this address to the "People OF
Iowa." given to the people through the pa
pers having Tuttle's name at the head
of their columns? Why this hanging
back? Why this waiting until jeered into
publishing it! The Copperhead sheets, in
accounting for their understandable neglect
to publish it, say that this abolition plat
FORM was particularly directed to the
conservative Republicans and no party
men, who have urged him to be candi-
date, promising him their support-to the
army particularly" In explaining why
he was nominated they say, eve (the Cop
perheads,) must have soldiers votes."-
They assert that futile stands square upon
the Byington Sth of July platform, and
Iy side-show with which the public have
no business,-a little arrangement for ro
ping the soldiers, conservative Republic
cans" and war Democrats into voting the
Copperhead ticket!
This Juggling, lodging, undetermined
proceeding needs explanation. Is General
Tuttle party to it? Has he entered into
this dirty intrigue, having for it's object the
betrayal OF his true friends? Has he ira
ded his honor as soldier, his reputation
as General and his good name as man
for the empty honor of being the Copper.
head candidate for Governor of Iowa? Is
it with his approval and connivance that
two faces have been put upon him-one
loyal and true, for the soldiers and Icon
sentative Republicans''-the other inia
mously Copperheadish, for LIE Grand By
ington, Dennis Mahony and their fellow
conspirators? We shall not believe tina
the man who led the glorious Second low,
in that gallant charge ut Donelson is 81
base trickster as to do this thing. He i
not and cannot be the heartless. soulles
villain which those who have put him for
ward as a candidate make him appear.
General Tuttle owes to himself-to The
real friends who have stood by him since
he entered the service-to the gallant sol
diers he has had the honor of commanding
some explanation of the anomalous posi-
ton he occupies. The publicwant to know
how and why he is found in the company
he is?-why his name is mixed up in thi.
juggling piece of awkward trickery? Why
is gallant officer, with an unsullied repu
tation, in bed with a pestilent crew of dirty
secessionists, and apparently scheming t.
aid them in their internal intrigues? Wha
doesitmean? Did these Copperhead senak
ever before find anything to approve il
any loyal good man? Again we say, wha
does all this mean?
4S- The Mass Meeting of the War Dem
ocrats of Indiana, held at Indianapolis OF