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

without interfering with the other. There
are advantages in having the two agencies,
as some people prefer the one and some the
other. and all are free to take their choice.
There is no occasion for conflict and think
but little occurs. How can the Convention
| at Des Moines harmonic these two agen-
cies? Will it have any control over them,
or any power to swallow them? Mrs.
Wittenmyer is under appointment OF the
Legislature, approved by the Governor,
and Mr.. Kynett under the appointment OF
the Governor. Can an irresponsible Con-
yention wipe out these authorized agencies
and establish new one that shall over
shadow all else? 1t may result in forming
a third, but see no power it can have over
either of the existing ones.
But you say our troops complain that
they do not get supplies from any source
MANY men, when they say this, have in
mind that Sanitary goods consist of sweet
meats, delicacies, &C., and as they get but
few of these they think they are misap-
piled, while the fact is, the merest fraction
of such things are furnished, not enough
for the sick to take their medicine in.
Our people furnish but a mere trif1e in
all, in proportion to the number of men we
have in the service, and if we should con-
fine Iowa men to Iowa supplies they wo'd
seldom have anything of any kind. This
must be so from the nature Of the case
Our State is new, our people scattered, and
we have matured little else than patriotic
heroism. This we have furnished in
abundance. Let US not cut ourselves OFT
from the products of the material wealth OF
older States, that is so freely expended for
the relief Of our suffering men.
You complain that the ladies of Musca-
tine cannot send the 1000 bushels of pota-
toes they have so nobly raised to Iowa sol
diers without large expense for freight. In
my opinion, they ought not to desire so to
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ty of Muscatine. They should go to all
alike, while all alike share in the benefac-
tons of all others. No State in the Union
has attempted this separate State notion in
Sanitary affairs, and should Iowa be so
narrow-minded as to do it, am satisfied
that, while it would disgrace herin the eyes
of all others, it would make no difference
| in their action towards our noble men in
their sutferings in a common cause. Iowa
now stands at the head for gallantry and
noble, generous bearing in this mighty con-
tlict, and will not tarnish her fair name by
any such impracticable attempts to set up
for herself in this matter. The proposed
convention will, doubt not, be composed
of Unreasonable and sensible people, and this
scheme will not bear the test Of reason and
common sense.
! We are all on board the same grand old
| Ship of State which is now among the
breakers, and we must all sink or swim to-
! gether. Let us each bear a hand in this
common cause with every other who has a
hand to bear IN the same noble work, and
while the active crew from all our States
are periling life and limb together for our
salvation, let us not attempt to make dis
tinctions among them, but unitedly do all
in our power to relieve the sutferings in all.
When the storm is over and the breakers
are past, and this old Ship, freighted with
more of human hope than any other or all
others on the globe, shall proudly bear US
on towards our destined haven of liberty
and greatness, let us have no chickering's of
the past to settle, but be ready with united
| voice to sing our song oftriumph in COM
mon cause.
A FRIEND OF THE SOLDIER
Iowa CITY, Nov. 6, 1853.