The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-14

council, that he may reign as sole despot
over our people. He has had at his dispos-
al physical force enough to carry ont acts
the most arbitrary and oppressive. He
has shown his seIfishness and disregard
for the interest Of the people, by his apoint-
ment of Heath. Van Dorm, Dick Taylor,
and Mansfield Lowell, all relatives, and ali
alike incompetent. He has alienated the
people of Georgia; so much so, that We're
the Confederacy acknowledged to-day,
Georgia would not remain two years under
him. heard Confederate General Of
great prominence, who understands the
feeling in that State, so declare. And as
significant of this Governor Brown, of
Georgia, gave to General G. w. Smith,
meanly driven out of the army by Davis,
the Presidency of the E,woah Iron
his salary as Lieutenant General. He fal-
sifed all his promises to Kentucky, and
| took General Humphrey Marshal's COM
mand away from him, turning it over to
his old political rival, General Preston, to
crafty the partisan requirements of Ken
lucky citizens who had suddenly risen
from the obscure position Of pork packers,
to that Of Senators and Representatives in
the Confederate Congress, and jugglers in
that political Sodom. In word, he has
enriched and honored his friends, ruin
ed, and impoverished his enemies Has
given over the people, those OF Arkansas
especially, to plunder. and oppression by
his favorites, and in no instance punished
| the offender.
| admit that in some things he looms up
above other men; but he has so many de-
fects and weaknesses beneath others, that
it reduces him to very poor second-ra rate
character. And you can never change him.
His life has been warped by political in
trigue. His prejudices have been narrowed
/ o,,I hic, hot hxyv of no IL.
san strife. And you had as well take the
oak which has been bent while twig and
| beat upon by the storms Of centuries, when
its boughs are falling off and its trunk de-
caying, and attempt to straighten it up to-
ward heaven, as to attempt the straighten-
! ing of a character so warped and bent by
years of political storm and intrigue.
/ WHAT SHALL WE DO?
This question naturally comes up, after
all that has preceded. If Mr.. Davis, when
be held the lives and fortunes of many mil
lions in his hands, so blundered as 10 lose
his opportunity, what can we hope from
!, him. now that a scene Of blackness, OF an
guish and desolation reigns where wealth
happiness and plenty smiled. If he Wouid
not protect Arkansas when he could, but
instead, gave it over to plunder and oppres-
f sion by his pets, what have we to hope now
that he trcmbles in Richmond for his own
safety, and wakes up at last to the terrible
reality of his weakness, folly and indiscre
, ton? If we aCere not protected when we
could haze been, and if we can not now bt
protected what must we do? Some say
; continue the struggle-let the last man die
&C., DC.
!, think differently. We ought to end tn,
! struggle and submit. But you say it il
: humiIiating. No more than to surrende
, when whipped. We have done that otter
. always when we could do no better.
vii ff,p anf fyric
n it by no means foolish. Submission is bu
: surrender. We are fairly beaten in tn
$ whole result and should at once surrende
: the point.
d five don't get the happiness we enioye
q in the old Government, we can get no NOR
: misery than we have felt under Jetferso
. Davis. But look for peace there. w
+ had il many years. Even while we are al
= rayed against it, find that hostile force
:. in our midst give more protection to cit
y zens than they had when Holmes an
,. Hindman were here. 1t is true that JOIN
d son tells you that Gen. Steele has impris
= oned and oppressed people here. There
# not word of truth il it. And they kno'
70 it is all false. In few months, when n
70 more Confederate money can be invested
and nothing more made out Of the peop
they will sneak back and claim his prote
J. ton.
70 But we are whipped-fairly beaten. o.
In armies are lNeltlElS anu INlH
y us. VIII continuing this struggle help us
"a Every battle we might gain ought to wrir
,s tears from the hearts Of Southern men!
81 We are Just that much weaker, that mut
"a nearer our final ruin. Anguish and sorro
10 and desolatiOn meet US wherever we tur
G The longer tie struggle the more Oft.
~ Don't let Yourselves be deceived with Il
Vi hope that the United States will abandc
W the struggle. They can never do it. The
n have toi!ed and spent too much to see II
u solution of the problem and not foot up Il
figures. They scarcely feel the war
1a home. Their cities are more populous al
ns thrifty to-day than ever. For every lns
he that dies or gets killed in battle. two en-
,, CRATE to the country. Their villages a,
at towns. their fields and country. flourish
nt fresh as ever, They could sink their arl
Jis les to-day. and raise new levies to cru
d. US, and not feel it.
How is it with US? The last man is
.xt the field, half our territory overrun, o
voc cities gone to wreck'-peOpled alone
his the aged, the lame and halt, and WON
Is and children! While deserted towns, a
,af smoking ruins, and plantations abando
in ed and laid waste, meet us on all sid
bis and anarchy and ruin, disappointment q
he discomfort lower over all the land.
in FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
vas You rely upon foreign interventic
nv Alas, and alas! how many lives, hopes a
ion delusion. 1t has held us on to hopel
or struggle, while the belt of desoation
ces girdled us closer, and the sea of angu
left and sorrow risen higher, flushed with
out tears OF ruined and bereaved ones. FraI
no. viii not interfere. Louis Napoleon has
to heart the building Of the transit route c.
the Meeting the two oceans. If he can keep
w. this struggle until that is accomplish
ady the star Of Englands ascendency on
the ocean goes out before him, and the VIII
-er- commercial world becomes subsidiary
He him. To keep US this struggle, he will
.rd, lude us continually with false hopes, re
de- ing nothing how muchwe bleed and suf
fler l even suspect the pretended loans to as
tied France rest upon policy of this sort;
of that he is at the bottom Of it.
ned But if Louis Napoleon does propose to
tive tertere and take US under his "protectio
we'd what then? Another Maximilian for
inns for americans, FORBID it my count
!, at men! Forbid it Heaven!' Our faith
ued threw off colonial dependence upol
e, European crowned head. 1t would be
iier nominious in us to go back half cent?
aim and more to accept what they freed
tba from Much lpSS TO risk 0pSDOt over