The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-14
VOICE OF THE GRAY.BEARDS.
Resolutions Of the szsn Iowa-The un.
6lnchiDg spirit OF the Old SOLDIER.

VOICE OF THE GRAY.DEARDS.
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At meeting of the field and line officers of
the 9th regiment Iowa volunteers in st. Louis,
Mo. convened by request of Col. Kincaid. on
the Slst day Of March, A. D. 1868, for the pur
pose of giving al expression Of their senti-
ments on questions now agtating the public
mind in the North
On motion Col Kiukaid was called to the
Chair, and Captain Crane was appointed Sec
rotary.
On motion Lieuts Sheledy, Dennis and sted.
man were appointed a committee to draft q
preamble and resolutions expressive of the
views of the meeting, who presented the follow
ing, which were unanimously adopted. A vote
of the regiment was then taken on dress pa
rade, and the preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted With loud and long cheer
ing:
WHHRsAs, Our country ia suffering the Desc
lating curse Of one Of the bloodiest wars ever
known to the annals Of time, brought upon Us
by unprincipled, murderous traitors who are re
solved, by the employment of every hell-born
Vaccination, to destroy our benefcent Govern
ment, against which no man has ever righ.fuly
uttered a complaint, for no reason but to crafty
their unhsllowed ambition. They are endeavor.
ing to overthrow . society which has conferred
unlimited privileges and blessings on the human
race, and which was leapug forward more rap
idly in the glorious career of civilization than
any other on the globe-to form another society,
in which the generic forces of civilization are
fairly fettered and parslyzed. They are not
content with practical experiment, which has
converted the wilderness of an immense CONT
nent into fruitful fields, covered it with -four
ishng towns, filled it's homes with plenty, sent
the rich products Of its industry to the ends OF
the earth, opened it's hospitable hand to the
poor, the distressed and wronged of all climes,
and won the most glorious name among all ma
tons; but with the black and hateful spirit of
primeval Satan 10 their hearts, they longed for
other fields and another polity-they longed for
state in which the many, deprived of all flu
ture advancement, should be hewers of wood and
drawers of water, and themselves the supreme
and only lords
Visions of an equatorial empire danced before
their mind, of an empire surrounding the Gull
of Mexico, as the ancient Roman Empire sur
rounded the Mediterranean; whose wings should
be the cotton, the sugar, the rice and the spices
of the rich tropics, and whose base the eternal
servitude Of the African race. For such fend-
ish dream as this, they arrested the prosperous
aud onward career of thirty millions of people
turned robbery, arson and rapine into the bo-
som of once happy communities, and destroyed
the peace of the whole civilized world; there
fore,
| RESOLVED, l. That we recognize but two classes
Of citizens in these United States, patriots and
traitors. a
That we hold all sympathizers with traitors
whether they be individuals, editors of public
journals, members of conventions, or State
Legislatures, as being equally guilty with the
most abandoned rebels.
8. That it is with unmingled pain and DISCUS,
that we hear from our beloved Iowa, that expires
sions of sympathy have been openly avoaed
even to cheering for JEFF Davis, and splitting
upon the flag of our country.
4 That we hold in utter adherence aud de-
testation all such acts of disoyslsy, and the au-
thors Of them.
5. That We pledge our uncompromising oppo-
sition to all aiders and abettors of treason, who
are throwing obstacles in the way of the Admin
oniprosecuting this war to a successful and
speedy termination.
6. That we heartily approve the Administers
ton of Abraham Lincoln, including the writ "ha-
bess corpns' and his celebrated Emancipation
Proclamn ton.
| I. That we are for the vigorous prosecution OF
the present war, by all the means God has put in
our. power, until the Banner of Liberty shall
triumphantly wave over every foot of American
| soil
| 8. That We regard the utterance of certain
sympathizng rebel journals of the North. indi-
eating that the soldiers in the field are dissatis-
fed with and opposed to the Administration
OF the Government, as base Islander.
| 9. That, being the immediate descendants of
those patriotic fathers through whose toll, suf-
| fnr md 20 ou 1an L.
blessings Of civil liberty, we will do all in our
power to transmit to future posterity this rich in
heritauce unimpaired; recognizing as our friends
only such az are the positive and uncompromis-
ing friends of our legally constituted Govern
ment
The following resolutions, offered oy Rev. j.
b. White, Chaplain Of the regiment, were also
unanimously adopted:
10. That while our sons and grandsons are
sending us almost daily iustallments of prisoners
from the South, over whom We are daily and
nightly keeping diligent watch and ward, We
shall hail with unfegned delight the arrival of an
equal number from the North, that thew NAV en-
JOY what they SO richly deserve and seem 50
much to desire, the sweet fellowship of thei,
Southern BRETHREN" as we'll a. with the gres,
devil, the father and patron of them all.
III. That as We are satisfied with the record
| tnat our sous nave MADE tor the noble State Oi
Iowa, on the many bloody fields of their vcto-
ries, we do solenn!y pledge ourselves to out
country and to our God, thst We will SO labo.
aud suffer, and, il needs be, die tor our holy
cause, that they may never have cause to be
ashamed of their sires
IL. That we have no sympathy with any man
measure or policy, either State or national in
the least tinctured with secession
IL. That We loook with unmingled disgust and
unmtigated loathiug upon every Northern press
which derive their inspiration from Richmond
and their second hard principles from sraitorou.
Copperbeads.
IL. Considering the magnitude of the rebel.
lion now raging, which has already cost so many
millions in treasure, bathed so many home affairs
in tears. and gloated the very jaws Of death with
mangled hecatombs, that no man has any RICH,
but the gallows, who does not unhesit ey
and unequivocally decide for his whole country
once and forever. and adopt as his motto, "The
Government-it must and shall be preserved. y
l5 That these proceedings be published In the
Missouri Democrat, with request that all Iowa
papers publish the same.
Geo W Kincaid, Col Joel Hall, Capt COG