The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-25

mour those earnest aspirations, those s,-
vent entreaties, those eloquent appeals f.
peace, which the Southern press have iato.
ly republished. 1t was common sens. a.
far seeing PERCEPTION of intellects not ani.
led by fanaticism, certain looking for
ward to the wrath TO come-wben ~
! measure Of Lincoin's enormities shall ~
full, his power consolidated, his satr.y'
and soldiers swarmng in every stronghold
city, vllage,a and hamlet in the land his r,na'
bridged will infiicting daily cruelties rres.
! ter and still greater upon all who dare -
oppose him-when, in word, the nit
fruits Of despotism being fully ripe tbo
hour shall strike for a people opposed ~,
intolerable tyranny, but remembering tbo
freedom so lately lost, to rise in tbs;.
might, unarmed and unequipped, vet bum
ing with yengeful fury, to contend against
fully differed legions of the oppressor t
Then. will come back the prisoned cbalico
which the scornful and vainglorious No,.h
commended to the lips of the South. Tben
revolution, fiercer than that which desc.
lated France, will begin, to end no man
knows where or how. Then the blood Of
their slaughtered Southern brethren which
has been so long crying from the ground for
vengeance, will be appeased by the sights
and sounds of terror, the conflayrations
massacres, riots, battles, both great and
small, which will sweep the North from
one end to the other. Then the Abolition.
lists, SO eager to provoke war, so slow to
engage in it, will know what war is
Hitherto it has been a pretty pastime to
them. They have reaped riches, honors,
offices from it. Then will it be what thew
have made it to us ofthe South; nay, worse
far worse. And when that frightful time
comes, as come it surely will, the innocent
and guilty must suffer alike.
| This is what Vallandigham and Seymour
wished to avert when they pleaded so earn
.estly for peace. But the divine purpose
! cannot be thwarted; the penalty Of blood
outlines must be paid. The election of
Buckingham destroys all chance of
speedy peace-all prospects of a party
which might overturn the abolition tyran-
ny through the mild and lawful instrumen-
| talities of the ballot boxes. The usurperis
now firmly seated on his throne, and ne
will hold it with an iron hand. His armies
and navies may be defeated; but that will
but make hts grasp upon his subjects more
tenacious. He has the power to create new
| they are destroyed, and who doubts that he
will exercise that power? BY their own
act the people of the North have made
Abraham Lincoln their despot and they
must abide the consequences. With the
Connecticut election passed the best oppor-
tunity they will ever have Of deposing the
| tyrant and of restraining his power by
peaceful means. Nothing is left but the
sad resources of fierce and bloody revolu-
tion. There is literally no escape from the
most sanguinary civil war that ever dis
graced the annals of human history, ex-
cept universal acquiescence in absolu-
tism. This would be, by far, the best solu-
ton of the troubles in which the North is
already involved, and those still greater
| which are rapidly approaching. But the
people will not accept such a sou-
ton. They know too much about liberty,
and have enjoyed too much license to ac-
quiesce at once and finally in the total sur
render of their freedom. Besides, anarchy
| is ever the fundamental condition prece-
dent to the establishment of despotism.-
| The revolution at the North can not be
| averted. 1t is doomed, in the inevitable
order Of things. 1t may be delayed, but it
will as surely come as suffering follows
crime. N"'
The North being now, and for some time
to come, consolidated despotism, we of
the South should prepare to resist that
most dangerous form in which the ener-
gies of a hostile people can be combined
for the purpose of war. Our danger is no
greater than it was before; but the dura-
ton of that danger is more certain. Full
ranks, the old courage, fresh determine
ton, unrelaxed energy, firm purpose to
make all future victories decisive-that is
we need to win the day. Be that day long
or short, we will win it. All things are
working together for our good. If we have
most to fear from an established despotism,
what we have most to hope from a Temporal
ry one; for that was all that was needed to
insure that ultimate upheaval at the North
by which alone our wrongs would be fully
requitted. Let us hide our time.
EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN 6. A. WEBSTER,
OF THE UNION ARMY, AT RICHMOND.-The
execution of A. G.. Webster. who was SEN
fenced to death by court-martial, for viola
ton of his parole of honor, took place yes
terday at Camp Lee, near this city. The
prisoner held commission under the bo-
gus Pierpont Government, and, when first
captured, was released upon parole, but
again took up arms against the Confederate
States, and was a second time taken. For
this military offense he was condemned to
suffer death by hanging. He was accom-
panied from the prison to the camp yester-
day by his spiritual adviser, Rev. DIR.
Brown, of the Presbyterian Church, and
by several military officials. The guard
was composed of Warren's company of
cavalry. The prisoner was dressed i'll the
uniform of a Federal officer. He was ex-
tremely weak from an injury received
when he attempted to make his escape on
recent occasion, but otherwise seemed to
maintain considerable fortitude. On ar
irving at the ground, a half hour was de-
voted to religious exercise in the carriage,
and the prisoner asked the officer in COM
mand to extend his time until three o'clock,
the latest moment allowed by the terms OF
his sentence; but it was not deemed expe-
dent to grant the request. He was assisted
up the steps of the gallows, and seated over
the trap, and, being asked if he had any
thing to say, declined to make any remarks.
He gave the signal himself, by dropping a
hat from his hand, and, in twenty minutes
before one o'clock, was launched into eter-
nifty. His death was almost instantaneous
1t is about a year since a Yankee spy of the
same name was executed, by hanging, on
the same spot Richmond Wing, April
9th.
PARTISAN FoRGERIEs,-The following
forgery processes to be an extract from the
speech made by Mr.. Webster i'm the U. s,
Senate on the 18th of March, 1850. There is
not a paragraph in that speech which even
resembles this:
"If the Internal fanatics and Abolitonists
ever get the power in their own hands, they
will override the Constitution, set the SUI