The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-18

town, where his hospital was The two
rlen put their heads together for moment
one saying ''Take it," but the other, who
vas evidently the owner, said, s'No. it is
worth more'' If dollar and half had
been offered, ne would have taken it.
Such is sample of the unpatriotic citi-
zans of the keystone State. At one of the
hotels in Westminster. i was charged
seventy-five cents per meal. While was
IN the bar-room, three officers called for
and were given three glasses OF whisky
Fifty cents were placed on the counter to
pay for them, when the landlord swept it
INTO the drawer with leer and "Thats
right, SIR" 1t was Sunday. The crowd
IN the BAR room was very great. The back
door was used for entrance and exit. L
asked him why he did not open the front
door. '.Oh, la!' he answered, "that
WouIdn 90; it's Sunday, and I'm mem
Der OF the Methodist Church, and give a
good deal of money to it too. / thought l
would open the back door, though and
give the boys little whisky
| "A few IN Pennsylvania are good and
KIND; out the majority are worse than the
secesslonists.
A PEN-PICTURE OF Poor PIERCE WELL
DRAwN.-The following, from the Boston
Transcript, of July Z, is picture of the
poor, sniveling ex-President, that will live
in history:
| The CoPPERHEAD EX-PREsIDENT.-
Amidst the rejoicings over victory, and
amidst the signs ands of thousands who
have helped purchase victory by costliest
Sacrlflces, there comes in a weak, nlsera-
Die, discordant voice, that would awaken
indignation if il observed anything but con-
tempt. One who has been the nominal
head of this, then, united, prosperous, and
powerful country, and whose fawning and
sycophantic and short-sighted policy did
as much as it could to encourage the arro-
CANT assumptions aud insolent demands of
the slave power conspirators, comes for
ward at this tremendous crisis TO renew the
wretched subserviency, and to play the ig-
noble part of the spiteful and disappointed
partisan.
He declaims the old platitudes. He re-
hashes the thread-bare falsehoods. He
| rings the changes on the misreprepresenta-
tons of the record of the past, and the facts
of the present. Protesting Democracy, he
sympathizes with, and truckles to, the
most unmitigated aristocracy that the
world has ever known. Pretending to be
the friend Of the people and OF free institu-
tions, his course is disgustingly inimical to
the best interests of both. With an armed,
desperate, and unprincipled domestic foe
threatening the existence of the nation,
with the best blood Of New England flow
ing like water upon the battlefield, this
for those who would defend the nations
integrity.
From the time of the assault on Sumter,
he has been skulking in silence. The COM
murily has been listening in vain to catch
from him feeble whisper of manly loyalty
and generous patriotism. While men OF
all shades of political opinion have forgot
ten their differences in devotion to the old
Union and in the determination to save the
lard to freedom first and freedom always,
he stood alOof. Now, when it happens to
besafe, to play the demagogue with a fac
tious clique of chronic haters Of everything
that is truly liberal and truly democratic,
be energies from his Sinking privacy.only
to crown the failures of bis public career
With a sorry exhibition OF recreancy TO the
claims of the hour.
1t is not because of his former political
relations that his present position is censur-
able. A majority of those who voted him
into the Executive chair will join in that
censure. His talk and attitude now are
essentially traitorous-too plainly so Tor
any of the pompOus generalities OF the par
tisan to conceal. He misrepresents the
American heart; he is false to Democratic
principles and Democratic ideas; he IS re-
creant to the spirit of the Constitution; he
turns his back to all that makes the glory
of a Republic, to cringe to the autocratic
despotism of Southern Shareholders. Thus
as ruler an appendix to tell the story OF
his delinquency as citizen.
RICHMOND PAPERS ON LEES VICTORY!
The Richmond Wig of the eth, discour-
SEES in the following style of the battle of
Gettysburg. 1t is rather rich in view of
the facts zoe are acquainted with. We hope
the Wing will advise us when Lee reaches
Baltimore!
At any rate, our faith in victory as the
result OF the engagement remains unsha-
ken. We kaow that the troops that Gen.
Lee led across the Potomac, If united,
could not be beaten by any army the Yam
KEGS could send against them. Our theory
is that the battle was begun by the corps of
A. p. Hill, and perhaps noteven the whole
of that corps. At least we have informal
ton, private but reliable, that on the 18th,
Longstreets corps were at Chambersburg,
not less than twenty-five miles distant
from the battlefield and across the noun
tain. Ewells corps was threatening Har-
risburg at the same time, and, therefore,
certainly not engaged in the battle in it's
early stages. We think Hill sustained the
engagement Wednesday. Thursday after
noon it is probable he was strengthened by
accessions from Longstreet, and the COM
bat was resumed. Friday morning, it is
and the combat was re-opened with the in
tention, no doubt, of making it decisive on
that day.
| By the morning of Friday or during that
day, Gen. Lee must have been able to mass
whatever force he considered necessary to
accomplish the result he desired. We DO
not permit ourselves to doubt that the first
| intelligence we receive from him will lie
that he has gained crowningand glorious
victory.
| ring prelude to what is to come, is heard
in the dispatch from Martinsburg that in
| forms us that Gen. Lee defeated the enemy
| in the battle of Friday last-that they are
retreating towards Baltimore and Lee pur-
suing. This is great news! What may it
not lead to.
We have to lamentthe fall ofthree brave,
high-spirited and devoted Generals, Barks-
| dale, OF Mississippi, and Kemper and Gar
nett, of this State. Fresh be their memo
ries ever in the hearts of the people they
died to shelter from wrong and oppression.
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