The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-10
Matters that are to be COnsid.

Burlington that every effort is being put
are not only laboring early and late and
using every means, fair and foul, to gain
their ends, but they are bringing in out
siders to aid them. We are not only about
to receive visitation from Fernando
Wood and his New York cut-purses and
shoulder hitters, but the friends of Gov
ernor Seymour, are to be assisted by re-
cruits from the adjoining counties in Illi-
nois, where runners have been sent for
help. What kind of people will be brought
here and for what purpose time will show.
In addition to these open enemies who
boldly confront us, two or three secret
ones, in the guise of friends, sore-headed,
thin-skinned villains, are using their best
efforts to slaughter us, to stab the friends
of the country and the cause of the Union
at the same time. These last are our worst
and deadliest foes, and upon them, first,
should be used our sharpest implements
of warfare.
The Union men of Burlington are able
to cope with all of these foes of every sort
and achieve decisive victory. But to do
it they must stand shoulder to shoulder
throw all their energies into the contest
and labor incessantly. There must be no
hesitation-no standing back. Every man
must do his duty-all can do something,
and every man must do his appointed
work, and do it promptly and with will.
rs The rebel agent in London, the Vir-
ginia Mason, has notified Earl Russell, it is
said, that he had been instructed to with
draw his precious person from England.
We are not informed how the ''noble Lord"
received this important intelligence. If
he dropped any tears over it he probably
concealed them from public gaze. If he
smiled with pleasure over the prospect of
relief from the persistent and superfuous
of the Virginia "nigger-driver,"
he was probably equally reticent. But
why is it that Mason withdraws. We
think we read in it confirmation of the
statement that the vessels built in Eng
land for rebel use are not to be allowed to
depart upon their mission of destruction.
We take it that Mason has learned that fact
upon authority; and he has therefore
nothing to expect from England which he
leaves in disgust. If he were not certain
of this we presume he would have re-
manned. The prospect of getting ships was
all that took him or kept him there. That
being destroyed Mason leaves Of course.
The joke of the matter is that the Lairds
have probably got his money and he will
not get the ships! The Lairds did not
build them without advances, and Mason
will be both out of money and minus the
ships. How he will swear at it.
Ns- The danger to the Union cause is not
in the strength of its open enemies, but in
the craft and cunning which seeks to di
vide and distract-in the treachery of false
friends who, Judas-like, betray with kiss,
and with professions of loyalty upon their
lips, aim their daggers at our heart. Here
is the danger, and it must be met. We
must be united, determined, vigilant, in
defatigable. We must present an unbroken
front, and stand firm as rock. No part of
our lines must waver or give ground for a
moment. When the stake is Democratic
Institutions-Civila and Religious Liberty
our national existence andall we hold dear
for ourselves and for our children, we can
orally round the flag for this political
contest with little of the courage and firm
ness of our gallant soldiers, and spend a
little of our time and money. They have
left their homes and shed their blood for
their country. Can we not emulate their
glorious example? This battle in Iowa is
for US to fight. The victory, full, complete
and decisive, MUST be achieved and we
MUST do it. 1t is no mere question of men.
1t is no mere question Of partisan politics
The nations life is in the balance. The
question is, Shall we back our noble army
in it's heroic sufferings, and give emphasis
to its terrible blows for the Union-shall
we say to the rebels, clay down your arms
and submit to the Government-you need
look for no aid or sympathy from Iowa in
your resistance to rightful authority" Or
shall we throw our sympathy and aid up
on the side of the Rebellion, and thus keep
it in existence, protract the war, and in the
end blot out the Great Republic? These
are the issues involved, and they come
home to every man. live are true to our
selves-to our country, we shall meet them
like men and rout the enemy "horse, foot
and dragons
rs The Dayton CO., Empire, the special
home organ of the traitor Vallandigham,
has lately been revived. Our readers will
be curious to know who edits the sheet
1t will not surprise them to hear that it is
a man named George Barber, imported all
the way from Nashville, Tenn, and until
our capture of that city, the rebel editor of
the rebel paper, called the Nashville Re
publican Banner, one of the most thorough
and vindictive traitor journals at any time
issued in Dixie. 1t must be confessed that
he suits the place exactly. There can be
no doubt about his being traitor. And if
he is, what was he called to that position for,
if the purposes of those who called him are
not also reasonable? Do patriots desire to
be instructed by known rebels?
A CENTER SHoT.-We are always de-
lighted when the insolence and preten-