The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-28

step, and attempt to make slaves, also, of ulite
laborers So we'll as black? Is it not astonishing
that laboring men do not perceive that the pre-
sent rebellion is an effort on the part of slave
owners and their satellites to reduce all laborers
to the condition of chattels! On what princi-
Pile do they arrive at the conclusion that those
Who make slaves of black ld5oyers, and who at
Tempt to overthrow the Union to perpetuate
heir bondage, will not do the same with n1ae
sborers If they can? We don't believe they
,an unless the rebellion succeeds, but Mey do
not hesitate to say in the South that they wish
70 do So, and are making the effort And if tae
rebellion should succeed, will they not then have
made long stride towards the accomplishment
Of those other no more dangerous or deadly pur.
poses r. ,.g,.s <, ~
"a The Copperhead Journals, some of them
1t least are at great painst express their ire at
Gen. Rosacrans. His letter to the Ohio Legis-
lature does not please them. 1t is too patriotic,
lit displays too much zeal, earnestness and
devotion, for the taste of the honorable, but
irate opponents Of, not public, but factions,
opinion. They knew the General was demo-
crst Therefore they deemed it quite safe to
assume that he was also Tory. They imagined
he was another OF the Mcclellan and Fitz John
Porter sort Of men. They thought they could
mould him to their purposes, as they seem to
have manipulated the Generals who failed on
the Peninsular, and who sacrificed Pope and the
men under his command by failing in their duty
before Washington. They have found out their
mistake. Of course they are angry about it,
The General is democrat, but unlike the Cop.
perheads, he is unable to see that he should,
therefore, be traitor. He does not understand
that democracy should make him an ally of
rebels and an enemy of his country! He be-
lieves that rebellion should be suppressed, that
traitors should be punished, that the Republic
should be perpetuated: Such ideas do not suit
the malignants. They condemn traitors and
Tories to unending shame and infamy It is
natural that they should feel outraged by such
sentence from SO unexpected source. Of
course they denouuce the General. They do
not seem to have yet learned that whomsoever
they attempt to defane the people will delight
to honor The idea will work through their
brains after while. They will learn the lesson
most thoroughly-if they live long enough.
~ Before the last elections the Copperbead
leaders professed to be in favor of prosecuting
the war. Everybody knows this to be a fact
Even the chivalrous Augustus Caesar said bis
''voice was still for war;" How he did long ssto
follow to the field some warlike chief" Do our
readers remember what sudden change come
over their "warlike" spirits,-how the result of
the elections had scarcely been announced, when
Copperhead journals and Ccpperhead politi.
clans, were loud.neuthed and camorous for
'peace" They would have "peace" on any
terms. They wanted compromise; if they could not
compromise, they would accede to anything the
rebels would dictate; if the rebels would unite
on no conditions whatever, then they would &C.
knowledge their independence! Now, they
don't call war meetings That is entirely given
over. We have call for a Copperhead meeting
at Ottumwa on last Saturday before us. It in.
vites the Democracy" to celebrate Washing
tons birth day, by a "GRAND PEACE CON.
VENTION!" Their Conventions are "Pesce"
Conventions. II other words, they are called
to secure peace" by dissolviug the Union-by
plotting out the national existences. Norman of
intelligence ought ever to have been deceived
by these lying prstenses But after this sudden
change-after this self.condem ns tion- after This
notorious example Of per6dy, THE brszen ex.
ih'biton OF deceit and treachery, how is it posi-.
BILE that any man can be deliberate fool enough tn
believe these political prostitutes in the future
II Satan is tee father Of, all liais, no one here.
alter will doubt that these scoundrels are his
legitimate children. Indeed. they appear proud
OF their parentsge, and have a fair prospect Of
SURPRISING their ancestor. Hereafter if anv
man believes them, he has no excuse for b;s
folly, and is simply the willful architect of his
his own ruin.