The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-06
10 A number of Copperhead papers OF
la,s ;nf7nor.o h,,% mat as malignant. would

less influence, but just As HiaAiShoA's "o uAu
be glad to be put out of their misery by
suppression, as the Chicago Times has been.
They are sinking money, sWamplng Their
friends, and damning to unending intamy,
the remnant of what was once the Demo
cratic party. They see that. If left alone,
their agony will be protracted through a
brief period, when their light will go out
forever. But if they can be martyred, they
win not only be put out of the misery they
are enduring, but if, by any unlucky turn
in affairs, jeff. Davis does conquer and sub
iugate the United States, they will stand
some chance of resurrection.
re- The delegates to the Chicago Canal
Convention from this way, who returned
yesteaday morning, speak of it as a failure.
The attendance was large, but this is all
that can be said in its favor. The Conven-
ton adjourned Wednesday evening.
20 The idea held out by the rebels that
Vicksburg is abundantly able to Withstand
long seige, so far as supplies of provisions
are concerned, is, to our mind, all "bosh."
It is very unlikely story every way-and
particularly so from the fact that they are
invested most Unexpectedly to them. They
probably have stores enough to serve them
| for a short time, but we really don't believe
they would keep them alive for threeweeks
on the shortest of rations. Or are we to take
that fifteen days jeff. wanted them to hold
out as the outside limit? That might be
his meaning, and probably it was. gtl
ms- General Hunter, of the Department
of the South, who, by the way, has not
| been removed, as reported, don't appear
to have a very high opinion of the class of
men who hang round the skirts of the ar
my. In fact he seems determined to rid
himself of the whole class of leeches, gam
blers, spies, and other equally disreputa-
BILE characters, in the mostsummary mode.
On the Goth of May, he issued an order to
the effect that no person not belonging to
the army or navy of the United States,
should be permitted to land in his De-
partment from any vessel coming from a
port outside of it, without his written per-
NIT, or that of the President, Secretary of
| War, or the General-in-Chief BY the
! same order, all persons liable to draft with
in any of the States, now within his
Department, and continuing there twenty
days after it's date, are to be drafted to fill
up the ranks Of the regiments of their re-
spective States, unless employed in some
civil capacity of such necessity as to jus
THY exemption, to be specially granted.
We judge that there will be terrible ske-
daddling among the cormorants in that
quarter. Gen. Hunter is usually in earnest,
and they know it.
Is~ We wonder they never thought oft
before, but if the men who are so anxious
for "peace,'' want to stop the war, why
don'tthey apply to Judge in every depart
ment for an injunction? There is u. S.
Judge in Kentucky, for instance, and Gen.
Burnside is there with an army. When
he undertakes to move why don't they
serve an Injunction on him? Gen. Rose
Grams is in Tennessee, and Judge Catron's
jurisdiction extends over that State
When he attempts to exercise military au-
thority there,-when he moves against
Bragg, what hinders the suing out an in
/ junction? If they wish to stop Grant in
his raid upon Vicksburg, let him be served
with an injunction. Gen. Hooker is con-
stantly making war in Virginia, which is
| in Judge Taney's circuit,-stop him too,
with an injunction! fancy will grant it,
forthwith. Why not? If an injunction is
good in one place, why shouldn't it be in
another? If an injunction will secure i'm
munity to traitors in one case why
shouldn't it in all others? There is great
virtue in that same injunction" It's the
panacea for the times! 1t will save the
Nation! 1t will give us peacei Yes-ye
wondrous wise Copperheads, get out an
injunction against everybody who strikes
at your friends, the traitors. Don't at
tempt to enjoin the rebels, though. We
really are afraid they would not treat it
with too much respect! They don't appear
to obey injunctions, whether legal, moral,
religious or other, any more than you do.
When will men learn that there is war in
the land. and that ,car is not peacee II
@S-The Chattanooga Rebel says Of VAL
langdigham, that she looks cheerful and
seems to breathe easy on escaping from, the
Lincoln despotism." 1t also says that it adj
mires him, and Buell. and Mcclellan. The
Rebel appears to go hand in hand with our
Northern Copperheads. Their unison in
opinion is one of the remarkable coin
cidences' about which we have heard so
much. It is not astonishing to us that the
Rebel should admire a traitor, or that the
Copperheads should do the same. These
fellows only follow their natural instincts.
But what does surprise us is, that any man
in the North should profess loyalty to the
Union and esteem for this traitor at the
same time. That does astonish us.
aDrSome of the merchants of New York
are in 'sbotheration" about the duties on
Wooden Goods! These fellows, who have
been making fortunes out of the war, are
very much exercised about the tariff on
woolens manufactured abroad, and want
Secretary Chase to modify his decisions in
some points regarding them! They profess
In he filled with wonderful degree of