The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-27

Swindle Bill, passed by the defunct Legis-
lature of that State.
2 GENERAL MEAGHER ON "PEAcE. THE
friends of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher
gave him a dinner at the Aston House,
New York, on Thursday evening last. He
was toasted, and made e speech in reply.
We commend it to the attention Of the
''Peace'' men hereabouts,-th men who
want the Nation to obtain 'peace' by lay
ing down it's arms and submitting to have
it's throat cut by the miscreants with whom
they SO lovingly fraternize. Perhaps
Meagher's words may burn the souls OF
some of them-if they have any!
Gen. Meagher, in reference to the call,
rose amid loud cheers, and made an eio-
quent speech, in the course of which he
paid a high tribute to the Irish Brigade,
complimenting the men for their services
in aiding to put down the rebellion, and re-
viewing the career of Irish soldiers on eve
ry battlefield in Europe. After review
Of the condition of the country, he conclud-
ed by saying it was better that the taxes
should be multiplied, that trade should
stand still, that commerce should be para
lyzed or limp lazily along; that multitudes
should perish on the field with their coun-
try's flag pointed to the sun and the glory
of the martyrs: gaiety should put on, mourn
ing; that luxury should get down upon it's
knees and beg crust; that the bittern and
the cormorant should usurp the warehouse
and the palace, and the fate of Tyre and
Baalbec be its visitation. Better all this
a thousand times than that people for
the sake of having glut of foreign i'm
portations, of being corpulent and at ease,
should at the bidding of craven or auda-
cious demagogues, clamor for and insist
upon peace which would annihilate their
sovereignty, closing their history with the
crime of suicide and an irrevocable SEN
Shall the prayers of the wicked prevail ?
Shall base conspiracy, with the hymn of
the angels on its lips and the craft of the
serpent at its core, prove superior to the
laws, the army, the inspiration of the land?
Heaven forbid! Against a peace so scan
dalous there is not a survivor of the Irish
Brigade who will not Indignantly, with in
tense scorn, with the tiercest impetuosity,
protest; in Reproduction of such peace ev-
cry soldier in the Army of the Mississippi,
every soldier East and West under arms
for the Union, will set his teeth and bring
his bayonet to the charge. Talk to the re-
turned regiments, and see if they do not to
man, scout the opprobious proposition
some OF the noisiest of which We're among
the very first to incite the Democracy tC
arms and urge the war. Proceed still fur
ther-interrogate the heroic dead; let the
orator of our day in whose heart burns the
desire to be enrolled among the saviors OF
the Republic, appealto the shades of Mount
Vernon; to the ancient walls that witness
ed the signing of the declaration; to the
tomb in the Garden the Hermitage; tC
the granite cliffs of Massachusetts, and tc
the confusion of the traitors, invoke the il.
lustrious men to whose purity and great
ness of soul mankind is indebted for the
examples of this commonwealth. Last Of
all, listen to the adjurations of the thou.
sands who, within the last two years, have
been laid to rest in the harness of battle or
the fields which their heroism has made
magniticently famous, and over whose
graves, inscribed though they be, the fires
OF Heaven by night and bv day maintain
for the chivalry of the Republic perpet.
ual guard. We are cOnjured never to make
peace with the armed enemies of the Unit.
ed States-never to confer with them an
instant as parties to any settlement or com.
promise; never to desist an instant from
the prosecution of the war with the relent
less vigor with which Andrew Jackson
would have pressed it; never! until the i'm
age of Liberty, now ascending the dome
Of the Capitol, shall for the permanent hap
piness and glory of America stretch forth
the protecting hand, and dispense it's be-
nignant rays wherever, until the outburs,
of the Rebellion, the creed, the laws, the
dominion, the harmony, the wisdom, the
nation, one Constitution, and one flag pre-
vailed. During the delivery of his speech
Gen. Meagher was frequently and loudly
applauded, and upon concluding with
three times three cheers.
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