The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-14
BURLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4NsLs63

cosnpleted in Arkansas. But as if to add
insult to injury, Mr.. Davis. at last, IN
dorses'' openly the acts of Hindman, and
to add to YOUR shame and humiliation,
gives him command of a division in
Bragr's army! Humanity stands appalled,
and Reason aghast at such acts of perfidy,
baseness and cruelty. % AttElf.
oh! my. .countrynen, your suffering has
been indescribable, inconceivable! We
thought we Were, fighting Tor constltu.
tional liberty. when a tyrant was most
mercilessly treading that Constitution un-
der his feet. by every act OF outrage and
oppression that conquered people can
feel. And after nearly two years of strife.
we awake from a fearful baptismal of
blood to the terrible truth that the shadow
of the despotism which Ave fed from I'M
der Mr.. Lincoln, dissOlves into nothing
ness compared to the awful reign of tyran-
ny that we have groaned under at the
hands of Jefferson Davis and his minions.
Will we profit by such awakening? 1t re-
mains to be seen.
The army that Hindman raised and Off
cered here against authority, and without
authority" has, by disease. death and de-
sertion, dwindled to mere handful OF
men. The same material, if it had new
er been thus organized, or if, after organi-
zation, it had been sent to Bragg as he
entered Kentucky, would have enabled
him to be on the Ohio line to-day. 1t GER
tainly could have held Vicksburg and its
approaches, if assigned to that duty
Hence said in the early part of this ad-
dress, that not only the ruin Of our State,
but of our cause might be attributed to
Sl~ ror
thousand men sacrificed to their ambi-
ton, could have turned the scale in any
State-any department.
v1cKsBURG AND PEMBERToN.
| But with all our sufferings and SORROWS,
we had hopes of success and better things
while Vicksburg held out. But Mr.. Davis
had a pet appointee here. His narrow
stubbornness and great vanity would not
permit him to remove Pemberton, because
such removal would be an admission that
Mr.. Davis was wrong. Rather the people
suffer than such admission. Pemberton
was a bad appointmeHt-clearly incompe.
tent. Possessing the confidence OF neither
soldier nor citizen, and Mr.. Davis cogni
zant Oft, he was still retainedin command
He lost Nicksburg. In MS department
were sixty thousand troops when Genera
Grant undertook the bold and hazardous
plan of running our batteries at Nicksburs
and marching inland with less than fifty
thousand men for duty. a.
Contrary to all military science and ex
perience, Pemberton scatters instead o
massing his forces. Heleaves weakened
force at Port Hudson flank ed on both sides
reduces the garrison at VickSburg. ant
leaves small forces at Raymond. Crane
Gulf, Jackson, YaZoo City, and othe
points away up in Mississippi. Genera
l Grant was thus enabled, with his column
massed to whip him in detail
After the repulse at Grand Gulf-whicl
forty thousand men on the defensive coul,
have prevented, and which were in Penn
bertCn's department-and the flight iron
Raymond, Gen. Joe Johnston was sent t
assume command. That noble officer, de
spised by Davis and Cabinet, and not eve
, spoken to by that mercenary wretch, Ben
jamin, who controls by indirection Davi
and Cabinet, cheerfully repaired to Jack
son. Arrived there, heis said to have she
tears over the hepelessness of affairs, an
the splendid opportunity lost. You are fl
: miliar with the rest-our loss at Edwards
Depot, and the fall of Vicksburg and POI
Thus, with the loss of friends and relative
} came the blighting of your last hopes
} And all to crafty the narrow obstinac'
: mean selfshness, and personal hate az
f vindictiveness of Jefferson Davis and il
Y das p. Benjamin. Thus Arkansas was C,
e off from all chance Of protection, if hoy
G thereof she ever had. And thus stands II
i case to-day.
: JEFFERSON DAVIS.
If This gentleman has proven himself tota
n ly unsuited to the emergency. With Il
d whole cotton crop and wealth of the Sou
u at his disposal, and the friendship Of mar
r European powers, he has accomplisht
it nothing abroad. His foreign policy b
3, been a stupid failure. He has pernitt'
III, cole bA,,n
If in every thing. His policy at home, viii
/, proving him to be strong in some respecI
Of has shown him to be weak, mean, and III
l. lignant in others. He is cold, selfish, al
supremely ambitious; and, under the co
9, er of outward sanctity and patriotisl
l. flows concealed the strongest vein Of h
J. pocrisy and demagoguism.
" He has never been up 10 the magnitu
s, of the undertaking. He refused troo
N for the war in May, 4. D., 1861, because
n did not "knosv that they Would be 1aeedet
ed His idea, at first, seems 10 have been Il
s; hostilities would soon cease, and he bt
d, his energies for a cheap war. I
h. preparations and outfit were accol
Y! ingly contracted and parsimonious
ry Awakened to sense OF his error. his ne
e. aim seems to have been to conquer his ii
les and put down every man that crossed
d. pathway in life. The latter at all ever
IS, Instances of this are numerous, but Il
n of Senator Brown-the peer of Mr.. Davis
ci- everything, his superior in many and
lis rival and successful competitor for
n llted States Senate-is pointed. He jo
.ly ed company in Davis army and
Ter elected captain. He had capacity for 6
ere position. Yet, Mr.. Davis, not looking
VS., the public interest, but to the gratiticat
ith OF his own private feelings sees this OPP
to tunity to strike an old rival and embra
He it. He refused him all promotion, and
ty- him the alternative of wearing himself
as captain Of a company or seeking prol
,ed ton elsewhere. Mr.. Browns election
EN- the Confederate Senate terminated
tn matter. He drove General Gustavus
,ns Smith from the army. He was once re
RI remove Stonewall Jackson, and only
me success of the latter, backed by pov
it full and excited party, prevented it.
ce, overslaughed and oppressed Beaureg'
,od because he let the people know that he
ian sired to move on Washington at once a
led the first Manassas fight, and was prever
the by Davis. He drove General Walker
,se- Georgia, out of the service. He retail
lese Eindman in Arkansas, with posi-
l. knowledge of his outrages. He reno
him but to indorse his acts. He ret'