The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-09

MAHoNY's BooK-"THE PRISONER OF
STATE. The Continental Monthly gives
the following review of Mahony's book OF
|, We may well ask "what sustains the
hopes Of the rebels ?' when such a mass of
treason as this wretched volume contains is
suffered to be freely published and circula-
ted. That the Administration can find
the force to oppose open foes in the field,
ana yet make no exertiOns to suppress the
traitors at home who are doing far more
man any armed rebels to reduce our coun-
ny 70 ruin, is paradox for whose solu-
s s,on we have for some time waited, NOT by
any means in patience.
That Copperhead, who from his own
aaccount richly deserves the halter, should
nave the lmpudence to publish q complaint
y. Deing simply imprisoned, is indeed
amusing. But could the mass of yindict-
!MSeness, sophistry, and vulgarity which
,snese pages contain be simply submitted
n ,R ;4.,a and intelligent men, we should
ing from them. Unfortnhately this Con
pernead poison, with its subtle falsehoods
ana detestable special pleading. its habeas
corpus slue-lssues and Golden Circle slam
GERS, Is lndustriously circulated among the
many who are still frightened by the old
Dugoear OF ApoItlon, and who, like the
toned themselves to grumble at those who
conduct hostilities. Such persons do not
reflect that q great crisis requires great
measures, and that in a war involyinp snch
q tremendous issue as a preservation Of the
Federal Union and the development of the
grandOt phase which human progress has
ever assumed, we are not to give up eyery-
thing to our foes because Mr.. Mahony and
few congenial traitors have, justly or un-
Justly, been kept on crackers and tough
beef When city burns and it Is neces-
sary to blow up houses with gunpowder, it
is no time to be talking Of actions for tres
pass. III a zaa8.
If we had ever had doubt of the right
fulness of the course which Government
has taken in imprisoning Copperheads, it
would have been removed on reading this
miserable book. A man who holds on one
page that every private soldier is to be gui-
ded by his own will as regards obeying Or
ders, and on another sneers at our army as
demoralized,-whoca calls himself friend
OF the Union, and is yet sympathizer
with the enemies of the Union, who abuse
in the vilest manner our Government and
its officers in a crisis like the present, is
tice, should be richly punished under mill
tary law, if the civil arm be too weak to
grasp him. 1t was such Democrats
as Mahony, who yelled out indignant
ly in the beginning at every measure that
was taken to protect us against the enemy,
who, when they had nearly ruined our
cause by their efforts, attributed the result
of their treason to the Administration, and
who now, changing their cry, instead of
clamoring for more vigor against the reb-
els, boldly hurrah for the rebellion ITSELF
1t is strange that they cannot see that they
are now bringing themselves out distinctly
as tories, and men to be branded in histo-
~. Do they suppose that such a revolu-
ton as this-a revolution of human rights
and free labor against the last great form
of tyranny-is going backwards Do the
events OF the last thirty years indicate that
Southern aristocracy and Copperhead ig-
norance and evil are to achieve final vic
tory over Republicanism? Yet it is in this
faith, that demagogueism will be stronger
than great principle, that such men as
Mahony, write and live.