The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-12
How tho Mississippians Feel.
Scenes 1t the once Of the Pro.
VO0t Marshal.


There is no place in the department where
one can find more food for reflection, and q
better knowledge of rebellion and its fruits,
than here. In two weeks from now, Vicks-
burg will know me no more, and shall
leave it with scarce regret; but before l
go, shall endeavor to make you, too, ac-
Quainted with the inhabitants, and the Pc
culiar modesty of the same.
We are blessed in this department Of
the Tennessee as it is called, albeit we
are in Mississippi and shall soon sojourn in
/ Alabama, with a man for the position OF
provost marshal general who realizes the
position of atfairs-metes to all impartlally,
and dismisses more business in a short
time than any one wot Of In the absence
OF battles-and would to heaven the time
We're here when the lion and the lamb shall
lie down together, and swords be beaten
into pruning-hooks-we will dwell up
on things that are peace, but pertaining to
war;
While in the aforementioned Office beau
tlful girl. of only seventeen or eighteen
summers presented herself. After she was
seated, the object Of her visit was made
known to Col. Kent in about the following
words:
~ come here, sir, to get mules and wag-
CONS to move our family
| do you expect US to furnish you these
things?'
"Well, sir, we have nothing to move with;
all our stock is gone''
| Who took your stock, madam"
| 'Ihe Confederates took some, and you
| folks the rest"
"How far have YOU come-where do YOU
| live?"
From beyond the Big Black, sir-some
forty miles,
"Have you no male relatives who could
have come instead Of your
Eyes, sir, but father thought could do
BETTER
Here is beautiful, supplemented girl
exposed to insults from a people that their
papers publish as having inscribed on their
banner, "Booty and Beautv.''
Through the lone long 40 miles upon
mule, through camps where thousands of
Ltncotn'S hirelings were at rest, she came
in perfect safety-no insult-nOt a word of
disrespect-her innocence her Sheldon
she came where a father feared to tread
Oashame! The lies that these politicians
have told to inflame the deluded people to
madness. This innocent girl gives all their
stories of our brutality the lie. Persons in
this town who have been saved from actu-
al starvation; who have been protected in
their property and in their persons, fed
from the public crib for weeks, have been
detected sending letters south filled with
stories OF ourages that never occurred, and
with scenes that could not be-when shown
their perfdy, they unblushingly denied
the proof. Think of woman-chaste wo-
man-our ideal of truth and goodness
bowling before this car Of idolatry, and
| having truth crushed. Let US hope that
truth crushed TO earth may rise again.
When Col. Kent asked this young why she
wished to move? her reply was, "To get
from Federal rule"
where do you go, miss?'
$40 Little Rock, Arkansas
Federal rule is there,'' said the Colonel,
''and Federal rule will be everywhere that
you can go, unless you cross the waters.
However, l will give you every facility to
get away; would have done the same for
your father. I will do so to all who will
go, and bid them God speed. They have
denounced US as everything that is vile
and inhuman, and yet your parent sends
you alone where he aOoutd not have dared to
send yoG before the aOGY, and you say no
one has mOlested you or made you afraid.
l want all such people to go, and go as far
} as possible
He gave her mules and wagons for the
journey.
This is one of thousands of Incidents
There is not much honor in secession. One
Of the most painful results to the humani-
tartan is the almost total eXtlngulShment
of the finer and more ennObling qualities
by this terrible war. viii they return in
? la generation? ] have seen beautiful wo-
men tell a lie with all the braZen etfrontery
advancing the interest of the Confederacy,
and she gloried in it, too. l have seen
them take the oath and laugh at it; have
} heard them say ''All is fair in war, anything
; with the Yankees" The men will shrink
; from showing their guilty faces, and send
? they fear to ask. What chivalry! NObil-
ity of soul! This people boosted all these,
but it was like the coward boasting cour-
, age. The base 6O1p, Yankee, the Lincoln
hireLiag, the nsercenGry has taught them the
noblest of all the attributes OF man-MAG-
NANIMITy. We feed them, or they would
| starve-where is their gratitude? Where
| the possessions of Satan were when he Of
fered them on the Mount for one worshlper.
look upon the poor soldier whose wife
longs for him, in her western home, where
} babes prattle of him beneath the shade OF
| the pine or the fir, and in him see the re-
} deemer of the land. More blood must
flow; from Abel to the last hero who has
pressed the green grass of the luXuriant
l South, the greedy earth has cried for more.
But soon the time will come, ere another
} harvest, when they shall cry like their pro-
totype of old, MY punishment is greater
than can bear -
If these people were really proud they
would rather die than beg; but the truth
} is, there is nothing that rises to that digni-
ty. 1t is rather the brazen-faced etfrontery
Of the woman who has babe adieu to vir-
tue and boasts Of it. There is a something
that disgusts the calm looker-on, who re-
) members what was written two years age
in Southern journals of their pride and
courage. They have never yet done grea,
thing; no one deed Of real chivalry. The
, pages of history shame them. Wrong has
; been ON their side from the beginning, ano
> has done what wrong ever does, injured the
9 possessor more than his foe. One cannot
2 feel that sy mpathy for them which the tru'
5 ly noble feel for fallen foe. They have
never been foemen worthy our steel. Think
of the boasts; to Kentucky, the threat
1--WE will drag you out" as they woulc
: speak to slave who had retreated to {
cave from his pursuers. The Richmonc
: WHO said in one of it's editorials, "Thert
| is no virtue in Northern wOmen-they are
pestilent set, who breed vermin like Nor
way rats" When read that, q Nemesis
? seemed towering in the air, to cast the
. shade Of her fearful wings over the land
. How terribly it is progressing to the fina
, doomi Her prosperity is gone-her slave:
: free-her riches borne over the seas-hel
, | folds Ia i'll desolate-her homes aSheS-star-