The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-30
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The Bible On COpperheads.

"When the Pharisees came to him to be
baptized, he said unto them, o generation
of Utpers, who hath warned Won to flee from
the wrath to come? Think not TO say unto
yourselves ace are the children of A6rdhone,
for l say unto you that God is able of the
very stones to raise up seed unto Abra-
ham. And behold now the axe is laid at
the root of the tree, and every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn
down and cast into the fire: therefore bring
forth fruits meet for repentance"
Part Of the 3Td chop. Of Matthew.
The Democracy of Jefferson County have
been holding a meeting at Fairfield under
the guidance of one Steward. and as q
platform of policy have reported and adopt
ed certain parts of the Constitution and the
fern of the oath of the President to ''pre-
serve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States,'' and as an evidence
of their sincerity have published the pro-
ceedings of their meeting in the Burlington
Argus. ..iE ... .-,.f
he proposes to preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution. OF course he selects a
paper to publish his resolutions. whose de-
votion to the Constitution is above suspi-
cion. One Of its editors, A. p. Bentley, as
far back as the attack on Fort Sumter,
manifested his inclination to defend the
Constitution in the following language in
editor at the time: ST the administration
does not ,,O'c k,e0aD it must learn, and terribly
learn that this Government. cannot be held
together by aCdr." The old arch traitor
James Buchanan avowed the same senti-
ment in his last annual mtssage when he
said, "South Carolina has passed an ordi-
nance of secession and declared herself out
of the Union, and / can find no power in
the Constitution authoring the Govern
ment to coerce a State back INTO the Union
The Deans, the Dodges, the Mahonys, and
the greater and lesser lights OF this genera
ton of vipers reiterated the same thing
last winter when they defied the Admins
tration in any attempt to enforce draft in
Iowa. -
Then there Interpretation of the Consti-
tuition is that the Government has no
right to make war to suppress a rebellion.
but an internal set Of rebels have right to
make war to suppress the Government
The Government has no right to corerce a
State and sustain the supremacy of the
laws; but a State has a right to coerce
the Government, steal its property, set all
laws at defiance and read general jail
delivery to the devil himself and turn him
loose to to prey ON mankind, and there is
no power in the Constitution to prevent it,
except to hold out the olive branch of peace
''kivered" over with sorghum molasses.
Yet these same men are ready to pro-
tess a devotion to the Constitution, which
they interpret to tolerate slavery, murder
perjury, treason and anarchy; and all this
for what? Simply to hide from the wratf
to come; to conceal their treason from the
just indignation of righteous people.
But the AK is laid at the root of the ire,
and every tree Including slavery, Treason
and Copperhead Democracy, J that bringetl
not forth good fruit is to be hewn down ant
cast into the fire.
The Devil has been known to quot
Scripture; Benedict Arnold prated abou
personal rights, Claib Jackson, Beriah Ma
Coffin, jeff. Davis, Steward and Mahon,
and smaller vipers now whine about con
stitutional rights, and each for the purpos
of concealing his real intentions.
Let such cowardly and unmanly crea
lures unseX themselves and seek the pro
lection of petticoats, yea, let them surren
der their claims to manhood and go bacl
to natures mint and be re-coined an
re-issued as counterfeits on the monke
tribe-then they will cease to disgrace hui
manity by their existence-(but the Who'll
monkey tribe will be disgraced.)
JEFFERSON BLUNT.