The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-19

boro' to Chattanooga. Out-generaling his
enemy at every step-fanking him in the
valleys, and surmounting the mountains
till he crosses the Tennessee, captures Chat
tanooga and beholds his enemy in rapid
flight through the hills of Georgia. This
movement will takeits place in military his
tory as one which will signally illustrate
the genius of the American general. If there
was a point in the South which the rebels
ought to have defended to the last moment
it was Chattanooga, and other similar places
in the Cumberland mountains. If there
was any "last ditch" it lay not in Rich
mond or in Charleston, but in the noun
tains, where a desperate war Of desperate
men might have been long prolonged; but,
in fact, the rebel leaders have no such ideas.
They thought they would bride Europe in
to helping them, and brighten the Govern
ment into an acknowledgment of indepen-
dence. They have done neither, and they
are now in full view of the Coming End,
trying to contrive some new compromise,
and resting upon the broken reed of North
ern Toryisnl. They will fail again. No
compromise will be made. No proclama-
ton will be withdrawn. No Toryism can
help them, the days of pro-Slavery Democ-
racy are gone, and will not be revived till
this generation are buried with their faith
ers. We have had great lesson. We are
going through great revolution: We are
buying truth; and we are buying it at a
great price. Long will the marble inscribe
the names of those who are offered up will
ing sacrifices on the affairs Of their country.
Long will weeping maidens drop tears up
on the graves of their hero brothers. Long
will history record their noble deeds. Long
will posterity wonder at the awfnl delu-
sions which caused the crime of the rebel
lion, and made these sacrifices necessary
and caused their tears to be shed. And
now does any one suppose that God will
permit these sacrifices to be in vain? That
there shall be no birth at the travail of a
nation? Fear not. The dark and troubled
hour of the nation will soon be past. Trai-
tors, and the friends of traitors are here at
home, trying to vote rebellion and Slavery
back; trying to undo what the gallant SOL
diers are doing; trying to set back the cause
of Union, Glory and Freedom. 1t is in
vain. They will live to regret that they
were guilty Of such folly, and call upon the
compassion of their ,countrymen to save
them from the disgrace of their conduct and
the infamy of their principles. L. ID. M.
Morrow, Sept: u. [Cn. Gazette.
A CONFEDERATE vIEw.-The Richmond
Enquirer, of the 18th, urges Lee to a new
invasion of Pennsylvania, in a leader of
which the following is sample extract:
"1He success of the Northe77, Democrotjc
party aUould be no longer doubtful should
Gen. Lee once more adUance on Meade. Par
ties in the United States are so nearly bal
anced, that the least advantage thrown in
favor of one will insure it's success. Should
the Confederate army remain quiescent on
the banks of the Rappahannock, the boast
full braggadocio of the Yankee official re-
ports will be confirmed, and Lincoln and
Halleck will point in triumph to the Grip
pied condition of the Confederate army as
a confirmation of the great victory won in
Pennsylvania.
The Democrats, unable to gainsay such
evidence, viii be constrained to enter the
contest for the Speakership shorn of the
principle part OF their strength-the dis
graceful mismanagement and conduct of
the war. Gen. Lee must turn politician as
well as warrior, and we believe he will
prove the most successful politician the
so move and direct his army as to produce
political results which in their bearing up
on this war will prove more effectual than
the boldest victories. Let him d7ive Meade
into Washington, ana he aOW oguin raise the
spirits of the Democrats, confirm their tinatd
and give confidence to their uaveri7eg. He
wiN enbolden the Peace Party should he
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the people of Pennsylvania how little secu-
rity they have from Lincoln for the protec-
ton of their homes. 1t matters not wheth-
er the advance be made for purposes of
permanent occupation, or simply for a
grand raid, it will demonstrate that in the
third year of the war they are so far from
the subjugation of the Confederate States
vania has not yet been secured. A fall
campaign into Pennsylvania, with the
hands Of our soldiers united-not for indis-
criminate plumber, demoralizing and I'M
disciplining the army, but campaign for
systematic and organized retaliation and
punishment-would arouse the popular
mind to the uncertainty and insecurity of
Representatives in Congress, strengthen
ing the Democrats and modifying even
Hardshell fanaticism itself" The DANA
ges which the last campaign inflicted, if
augmented by another this fall, when pre-
sented to the Lincoln Government, would,
unless paid, greatly exasperate the people
against the Administration which neither
defends the State nor reimburses its citi-
Zens for the losses which its own imbecility
produced. And if these damages are paid
the debt is increased, the taxes raised, and
the burdens imposed, will accomplish the
same end. Let the great and important
fact be constantly kept in tangible and
threatening aspect before the people of
Pennsylvania that, notwithstanding they
have opened the Mississippi and are be-
sieging Charleston, and conquered East
Tennessee, and threaten Georgia and Ala
bama-that, notwithstanding all this, Penn
sylvania is not safe from invasion, and
Washington City is again beleaguered in
this third year of the war. The road to
peace lies through Pennsylvania, via Wash
ington.
TESTIMONY THAT NALLANDIGHAM AID
vIsED THE INVASION OF THE NORTHERN
STATES RY THE REBEL ARMIEs.-RICH-
MoND, Ind, Sept. IL, lS63.-EDs. CoH.-The
question has been raised as to whether or
not Vallandigham advised the rebels to in
wade the North, and feeling that any thing
tending to settle the question, should be