The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-17
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of Ohio reasons why he should sustain his
country? It's strange that such meetings
as this are necessary, when the alternative
is presented shall the Republic live or diei
When was in the South I could perceive
some reasons for talking to men in this
way, for there are some there who are de.
celved by the lies that sustain the traitors
cause. But that argument is necessary in
Ohio to persuade the people to stand by the
flag, is astonishing. Don't you see it so (!
Ii not, you must be extremely dull Of ap.
north side of the Ohio, who has enjoyed all
the freedom which the best government
could secure, hesitating as to his duty in
this crisis, would appear to one, who did
not see it with his own eyes, absolutely
preposterous.
But can tell youwhy! 1t is not because
the people are not patriotic and loyal. You
may go down to the bottom of the feelings
OF the masses, and you will find that they
love their country. Why is it then, that so
many are giving laid and comfort" to the
enemy? It is because the editors of such
papers as the Cincinnati Enquirer and the
Chicago Times have made them believe that
this is not struggle between the loyal and
the disloyal, but between the Democratic
and Republican parties. Do you not be-
lieve that if the people knew that those
traitors were sustaining the enemies of the
country, they would abandon them with
| indignation? Any man, whether Demo-
crat, Republican or KnowNothing, who
will not sustain his Government, is unfit
for the society Of decent men.
The question is a struggle between the
Government Of the United States and the
Southern Confederacy, and you cannot
make it anything else. Now, my Ohio
| friends, which are you for? l am from the
South, and have owned more niggers than
| would buy you out; and / ask you which
are you for? If you are for the old flag,
will hail you as brother; but if you are
for the Government of the South, and ex-
tend your hand to me, I will spurn you
with contempt. will not know such a
man. would not only kick him out of de-
cent society, but would kick him out of
the State of Ohio.
You are either for or against your coun-
try. If you are for your country, you can t
help saying so. Patriotism is of such a
nature that it will come out Of you. You
will have no fear of Order 3s-God bless
that order. There are some who won't say
anything, bnt I tell you that he who will
not speak out now for his Government, you
may put down as an Internal traitor.
can't prevent a Union man from expressing
his sentiments. Every man who has an
honest opinion will out with it, and in this
crisis, if he feels single throb of patriot
ism, it will come out between his teeth in
spite of himself. Applause.l
Just go down South and hurrah for the
Union.
A Voice-Nary time.
Mr.. Trigg-Nary time! Of course not,
unless you would like to bangle from a
limb Of the nearest tree. But go down
South and hurrah for the Southern Confed-
eracy, and you can pass on; and believe
a gentleman from Ohio did pass on not
many months since. Laughter.
They know very well that there is a class
OF persons in the North who sympathize
with them. They speak of them in their
papers, III their churches, i'll their armies,
and everywhere, in order to keep up the
courage of their friends and stimulate to
greater efforts against us.
WHAT BECAME OF A 5000 SECEsH BAN
NER.-When rebellion walked the streets
of Nashville in silken robes and silver
slippers, there was company which pa
raded under the bloody sobriGuet of 1.-The
Rock City Guards whose standard was a
large satin banner, crimson on one side
and orange on the other, having on the
first gilded eagle, with outspread wings,
bearing in his beak scroll inscribed
Crock City Guards" and on the orange
side a picture of the State Capitol, lifting
Demosthenes.' The banner was heavily
tringed with gold, the cost Of the whole
being 5000.
Beneath the shadow of this banner the
invincible, indomitable, fire eating, pug
nacious, unquenchable, whip fve-to-one,
and die-in-the- last ditch able pro-slavery
chivalry marched with the lofty tread Of
starry dust of the Milky Way. Majesti-
cally they planted their boot-heels, with
toes duly turned outward, to the martial
cadence of inspiring music, cooking their
Napoleonic chins at an angle of forty-five
degrees, as if they would gaze the very
stars out of countenance. Well, this ban
ner of the Crock City Guards fell subse-
quently into the hands of the ''Vandals,"
and on yesterday some patriotic colored
men carried it to the music of Yankee
Doodle through the streets at the head Of
long procession of american citizens of
African Descent" who had volunteered to
complete the Northwestern Railroad. The
very cheapest of these colored men would
have brought over $500 on the block three
years ago. The wives and daughters of
many of them have often brought more at
the sheriff s sale or at a slave pen. And
never did steps more elastic, or faces more
determined, or more stalwart, muscular
limbs follow the superb satin, gold-fringed
banner costing 5000. These volunteers are
engaged in work of the highest impor-
lance to the welfare of the army of the
Cumberland, as well as to the future COM
mercial prosperity of Nashville, and we are
glad to see that they are coming forward
rapidly. No good citizen will throw a
straw in their pathway, or grumble when
they parade under the satin banner which
cost $500. Nashville Union, Oct. 6. f..,.
The Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS ON
THE WAY TO Put Down THE REBELLION,
AND THE SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS THAT
WE ARE To HAVE WITH EURoPE.-It is
tenacity, it is endurance, it is patience, it
is the resolution never to stop fighting UNI