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


the present crisis than loyalty to the Union.
we will unite and act upon the motto Of
Decatur. "Our country-may she always
be right-but our country always"'
Resotred, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Missouri Dem
ocrat, the Gate City, Burlington Hawk
Eye and Bloomfield Clarion.
RBaEL APPRECIATION OF ME-. CRIT
TENDEN's PHILADELPHIA SPEBCH,-
Whenever the Federal Congress adjourns
the Hon. john j. Crittenden starts out fish
ing for serenades, and setting traps to
catch compliments from the Yankees. This
is the vanity Of old age, and is much moro
man had quite pleasant time Of it lately
in Philadelphia. His enjoyment of Yam
kee fattery is SO exquisite that he has for
gotten the wrongs OF his country. and the
soul OF freedom and spirit Of manhood have
entirely departed from him. The annihi-
lation OF the Constitution of. his country.
1he homes Of Southern citizens made desc.
late, and the wanton murder of his South
ern countrymen, have no place in his re
membrance, and detracts nothing from fis
enjoyment. He has witnessed the Repuh-
lican institutions of his forefathers over
turned, and despotism established on the
ruins, without any exhibition of regret. In
bis speech at Philadelphia he treats Lincoln
ject or slave, instead ofspeaking like a free
man: We quote some expressions he at
tered in his speech to show the low prosti
tuition to which he has degraded himself
AT the same time while I shall do anu thtgu
the Government may require, there have
been acts may not like, and of which I
may justly complain. In the prosecution
of the war improper things have been
done. Let the Cabinet and President do
what they have determined. Judge them
frankly and literally, and never fail to pro-
test against any violation Of the Constitution
and allow 1t to broken. They should od-
wise the Government to change its course.
It IS no tunE'ndness to make thss request
Are these the sentiments of freeman. or
the words Of Representative of freemenf
They are the very climax Of abjectness and
pusillanimity.
The Yankees were highly delighted with
this exhibition of slavish humility. It fiat.
tered their pride and national vanity. The
Southerners We're not all indomitable.-
Here was one OF some position, whom they
had not conquered, and who was willing
to fall down and worship the beas. thew
had set upon the throne. They were yery
much enamored by the humiliating spec
tacle; it encouraged them to hope that there
were many others in the Southern Confed-
eracy who would bow their neck to tho
yoke with like slavish humility. They
forgot that they were only tickling the van
ity Of an ollhman, who had reached the i'm
becility of his second childhood, and who.
FOR that consideration, was paying them
III the same commodity. They, as well as
he were pleased with rattle and tickled
by straw
Mr.. Crittenden is a fanciful patriot-ho
recollects that some old Roman had a mon
ument erected to his memory. because he
said he would "never despair Of the Re-
public" and he Is foolish enough to aspire
to a similar honor where there Is no para-
lei case, but a precisely opposite one His
weak resolutions in the Senate, in the
Spring OF 1861, and his Peace Congress, wero
and glorify himself. Both were feeble and
temporizing measures, and their very weak
ness superinduced the Federals to make
war upon us. And the old man who had
al his peace measures spurned and scoffed
at by the Yankees, Ia now receiving their
contemplate fattery with an Unsuitable
appetite, and encouraging them to perse-
we're in the butchery of his unoffendingan
gallant countrymen.
We make another short extract from this
humiliating speech: 81 say to my brethren
in Congress and out of ito you, my fel-
and my fellow citizens every
where, that do not fight because hate the
South. 1 love the South" This is false
this is Judas betraying us with a kiss. Mr..
Crlttenden don't love the South, and never
did. All his antecedents prove this, as wen
IS his present base and degraded conduct
and speeches. We do not believe, Just at
his time, Mr.. Crittenden hates the South.
He is too much pleased with himself and
battered by his position to generate or cher
lsh bad humor. All the world is bright on
The gloomiest day to the youthful gallant
who basks in the sunshine of his lady-loyo
the murkiest night is never unpleasant TO
The thief or robber who has been successful
In appropriating his neighbours property to
his own use. So with the imbecile old pol
itician, who is stuffed with tiattery and
whose family is pampered by offices, hon
ors and gold by tho Yankees, is too well
pleased with his own little world, to suffer
his employment to be clouded by cherish
ing anger or hatred. He can not appreciate
The wrong, woes or sufferings of others, but
his own disqualification and
content for Indifference or love to others
we know of no more pitiable spectacle than
Mr.. Crittenden now presents to those who
were once his friends or admirers. His
is not only contemplate uta base
reflection on mankind. (TeaH)
IegiSter.