The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-17
REBEL MARCH,

; STUDY FOR CoPPERHEAD EDITORIAL
we have fallen upon evil times. We as
slst at the death throes of the Republic. =
from the moment when Abraham Lincoln
haughtlly refused to invite our outraged
Sonthern brothers to state upon what
terms they would consent to remain in the
Union our doom has been sealed. Cnrthugo
detdaedG est! Not content with overrunning
the fair fields of the South with an army
winch our Southern brothers, in their cir
lcunStances, may be pardened for calling q
vandal horde-not satisfied with the affort
which his history will fifty characterize, to
plunge peaceful Southern society into the
blacklist gulf Of massacre, rape, and fire,
Abraham Lincoln, whom our naturally
exasperated Southern brothers stigmatize
with characteristic fervor as gorilla, has
not hesItated to trample upon all law. all
securities OF social order, ali the guaranteed
rights OF American citizens, turning the
entire North into huge bastile, colossal
continental dungeon, which echoes and re-
echoes continually with the means and
cries, or the futile shouts of indignation, of
the oppressed but halpless people beneath
his heel.
Wehave not failed in our duty. We have
warned and again warned the American
people, in the most solemn manner, that
they were in mortal peril from this man
whom our warm blooded and excited
southern brothers have often picturesque
ly described as drunken ape. But our
| advice to the country has been in vain.-
We have incurred to our fellow citizens,
! and they have not wept. And now behold
the result! The last sublime point of au-
dacity has been scaled by the fanatical feet
OF him whom our brothers of the South,
with startling emphasis have, with what
justice let them determine, denounced as
the tyrant Lincoln.
The COnfiScatiOn IT tho atrociouc oh
surd and imperative Emancipation Act
(alas for the delicate wives and daughters
OF the sunny SouthD and the Hdbeds Cor
pas Suspension, were blows under which
this unhappy land still staggers-the re-
creant land, which sees noble martyr and
exile signing upon the Canadian shore, and
yet does not in thunder tones cry to him,
"Come over and help us!'
But there were only the ring and the hal
ter by which the country and our liberties
were to be drawn down to receive the fin
ishing blow. That has at last descended.
America is discrowned among the nations.
We are lost forever, unless under the lead
ership of tried statesmen, Seymour, a
Wood and his brother, Vallandigham,
and Wickliffe, we strike despairing blow
and conquer the conqueror. ia
Details are useless. In the universal
wreck why specify any single loss. But
the final damning proof Of the utter SUBJ
istration to the rankest Puritan fanaticism
is the proclamation for Thanksgiving!-
What is Thanksgiving? It is a Yankee,
Puritan, Roundhead, sniveling, snuffling,
canting, hypocritical institution. 1t smells
Of baked beans, roast turkey, and Indian
pudding, not to say pumpkin-pies and soft
custards. Pah! We desire, in all cool
such an appalling innovation upon nation |
al customs. We call for chapter and verse.
1t is an outrageous and illegal ebullitiOn
of that Roundhead spirit of Phariseeism
which necessarily bloats New England
conceit. Why, let us ask-why should we
return thanks for the wasted fields and
desolate homes of our Southern brother?-
Why should we be glad that England stops
the Confederate rams? Are we grown
such caitiffs that we are unwilling to give |
fair play to an honorable antagonist? o 4.
Temporal! O mores. |
But is it possible that the despotism un-
der which we live-or, rather, die-has so !
paralyzed our faculties that we do not see |
the claw in the smooth-seeming paw? Is |
not this Thanksgiving VIGOROUSLY a State |
inStitutiOn? Was it not always appointed |
by the Puritan Governors and their imita-
tors? And shall we, without murmur, |
see the Washington tyranny sweep this |
poor State right away9 Awake, freemen
Arise, ye oppressed! Let the imperial
State of New York rally round her beloved
and honored dead. Let him take up the
guage so scorntully hurled at him and at
our sovereignty, and say to Lincoln and his
in their teeth, that the people of
the country have had enough of Yankee
fanaticism, of Puritanism and of cant, and
are resolved to vindicate the majesty of
State rights, and to appeal to the hearts of
our betrayed Southern brothers, which
yearn for the Union as it was and the
Constitution as It is, and to insist upon
their mentioning the terms of their sub
mission. Gould we but see Seymour
President, Robert Toombs Secretary of
State. General Lee in the War Department,
and Fernando Wood in the Treasury, we
should feel sure that the country was re-
deemed, and that we should have no more
occasion for canting Thanksgiving procla-
nations.--Hd,pea's Weekly - s,i z1t
The Governors Of Nevada and n
ritories have concluded satisfa> oh Ter
les with the Western ban" .reat.
been treated with ,.s of Indians
and thew are rort Brlusei 49,