The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

to the effect that he "passed eleven davs
very pleasantly in Great Salt Lake CITY,"
We can hardly doubt that assertion.
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HsSMR. EDIToR:-Thinking it might be in.
lteresting to the readers Of your estimable
4 paper to know how the soldiers stand in
the political campaign now wagng in
| Iowa. The boys are taking no small inter-
est in the coming election, and no matter
what may be the influence Of their cpin.
ions, it is certain that their votes will have
a telling effect on the result if allowed.
1t is generally supposed by the people of
Iowa that the soldiers will give Gen. Tut
tie hearty support, especially his own
regiment, (the I'd, and companies from his
own county in other regiments, simply be-
cause he is popular officer and good
soldier. Nothing could be farther from the
truth. 1 have talked with some of the
boys of the Second, and am informed that
very few, if any, will support him for Co..
eTnOr. My own company is from Van Bu-
rem County, and do not know of a single
vote he will receive from it, and have no
doubt but all the Iowa soldiers will give
him the cold-shoulder. AS for the rest of
utter contempt by the boys.
Men who have obeyed the mandates of
duty on Southern battle-fields, will not ia
vor those who, by their teachings, have
violated every sense of honor, and tram
pied on every plinciple of justice. They
will not contide in those whom they know
will accept their trust but to betray it,
They will not place at the head OF State,
| those who have proven themselves incapa-
| BILE of enjoying it's privileges much less
to guide its imperiIled liberties through
| the dangers of the impending crisis
They cannot and will not trust in pow
| er those whose malignity only wants
rf tn FIJI O.
| 'Jire IN the rear" which they attempt by
exciting murderous riots and mobs, petty
ebulitionS OF treason, dignified by the
pet phase of popular uprisings." Men
who will either resist or council resistance
to any law which the exigencies of the
times may demand for the preservation
OF the national integrity, or maintaining
the power of the Government, or even pal
late the crime, prove themselves unwor-
thy the name of Americans, and the
fate of that notorious convicted traitor,
Vallandigham, whose Punishment was
but legal announcement that he had
proved himself incapable of the privileges
OF American citizens, and must go where
the system was more congenial to his in
competency, should be dealt out to them
in the fullest measure and UithOat eX-
ception. Men who seek to whitewash
treason or palate the crime, whether
seeking to maintain its power in the South
veioped lin the North by supposed
weakness of the Government will find to
their sorrow that the Government they
profess to love only that they may give
it the vital stab is not weak but strong,
able to crush treason to the dust in the
South and exercise it's authority supreme
in the North, that "those who fight I'M
der the stars and stripes are not equally
to blame with those fighting under the flag
of treason, and that they will just as will
lingly fight an enemy North as traitor
South.
Men who endure the toll and hardships,
the privatiOns and fatigue OF the march,
and flood in discharge of their duty to their
God and their country will not permit
treason at home to Illustrate the success of
their efforts abroad.
Those cringing dough-faces who cry
"peace, peace, when there is no peace
would but be too glad too crawl on their
knees to Richmond and beg the terms of
JEFF Davis, no matter how dishonOrable,
nor how great the sacrifice, so these fawn-
ing sycophants but accomplish their de-
sires. Then to have the impudence to in
suit the soldiers by asking them for their
votes. The soldiers too favor a peace con-
vention, but not composed of the same ma
terial as the one proposed by Dean, Maho-
ny & Co. They will consent to discuss the
of a halfa million Plenipotentiaries, arm
ed with Enfelds and Parrots, to meet
and argue the question in the valleys OF
Virginia and Mississippi, and the only
conditions of peace that they will accept,
must be unconditional submission to the
United States Government, whether adj
ministered by Abraham Lincoln or c. l..
Vallandigham, and those of the North,
who would accept any other are unworthy
the name of an American citizen, and will
be scorned by those who hold next to God,
their country. We have word to say to
another class fpersons, more honorable in
their principles and more patriotic in their
heart-a class who stand back on the mis-
taken idea of "the constitution and the
laws" The time was when this Bell-Ev-
erett neutrality would do for the dignitied
old gentleman, but that time is past. The
young men are expected to be absent in
the field, where duty calls them. You too
have duty to perform-it is your duty to
encourage your absent friends by all the
honor ofthe State in your charge, and they
expect you to preserve it unblemished at
all hazards and in all events.
Seriously ask yourself if you do this
when you stand quietly by and permit the
dissertation of the sacred halls of freedom
by the presence of those whose lips are
freshly polluted with the utterances of
reasonable sentiments. Is it not your
most imperative duty to use all the means
in your power to prevent the accession to
power of those who boast they "never vo-
ted man or a dollar" to preserve the ex-
istence of your Government and rescue II
from the vortex of internal ruin. We do
not ask you to alter preconceived political
opinions; political parties have all been
obliterated by the eminent danger OF
common country. We only ask you to
tata care IF traitors Mt hOma while we take