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

eeTneG t' SUch deteStd6te conduct are gittity
OF a moral Treason, at least, though their
CVence IS not perhaps cOgnizGble 6y lar
AND really, when we see the infamous con-
duct IN this respect of certain clerical and
edltorlal personages, We cannot but vio-
lently suspect that they want but the pow
er to serve the enemy in any way that
would not put their lives in jeopardy
WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF THE
Tory WH1Gs.-An American Consul. writ
ing from one of the most distant ports.
where our flag of commerce visits, writes
thus:
\ "The course that the Whig party, and
the Wing presses in particular, are taking
against the Mexican war, and the honor of
our country, and their malignant opposi-
ton to the Administration of the Govern
ment, is looked upon by foreigners resident
here, as very strange and irreconcilable
with due regard to the honor of their
country, and makes me blush sometimes,
and ! feel mortified to think ofit-that men
here in free country, and protected by it,
could entertain such tory and unpatriOtic
sentiments as l have seen used in the Whig
papers. What man, with an American
soul in his body, can sustain party with
such reputation at home and abroad ?"
Who are guilty of treason according to
the above quoted articles from one of the
best and most reliable Democratic papers
| in the Government? The maligners of
the Administration, the opponents of the
war and the men who were trying to stir
up party strife, rancor and hatred for the
purpose of arraying people against it. The
tiers of the present Administration, are
branded by the above articles as Tories
and Traitors.
In very excellent article written by
Hon. A. B. Johnson, and published in the
Washington Globe, January 25, ls4s, and
copied in nearly ali the Democratic papers
OF the country, the following language is
used:
And were England at war with Mexico,
she would not possess Mexican party,
giving aid and comfort to her enemies, by
parliamentary speeches and newspaper
essays, that could be republished in Mexi-
co, to heat her foreign enemies and cool her
own patriotism. Party politics have been
termed the madness of the many for the
gain Of the few. Would that we could rid
! ourselves, like England, of at least the
madness of disloyalty to our country
In the same article those are termed, who
denounced "the war with Mexico as wick
eel, infamous and unnecessary, POLITICAL
MoNOMANIACs, Who could see nothing
in their country's victories but murder
Now, sir, I have tried the so-called DEM
ocracy of this day, by record of the Democ,
racy of the past, and convicted them of
treason, disloyalty and traitorism and
made them out political monomaniacs. 1t
has been customary for treason to cruise
in private waters; the black flag of dis
union has only been hoisted in the seques-
tered vale and lonely hamlet; the stars Of
the American flag have hitherto only been
| insulted by the cowardly haters of liberty,
! who, forgetting their duty to God and their
fellow men, have met in secret cOnclave to
plan the ruin Of their common country
The vile political demagOgues that have
hitherto subsisted upon the unholy wish
that day would at length arrive when
they could exult over the decline and fall
of a nation of whose liberties they would
be the assassins, have quilted the lairs in
which they have prostituted all the gifts of
God with no other reward than that of me-
ditated revenge, and now stand before us
with fire and sword, using all their might
and power to destroy the Government, and
to spread ruin and anarchy throughout the
length and breadth of our Heaven-favored
land. And now, sir, when we are in the
midst of a terrible civil war, we have a set
of men in the true and loyal States forming
political societies, issuing reasonable doc
uments, under the garb of loyalty, assail-
ing the Administration, striving to array
the people against it for the sole purpose of
aiding the rebels to destroy the Govern
ment. The leaders of this party would
gladly screen themselves behind the mass
es of the American people. Neither the
| wolf nor the serpent, however, is so COM
pletely sheltered by the deception which, is
attempted, as to be able to evade for mo-
ment the practical eye of the American pa
triot and sage. Treachery more minutely
designed, nor infamy more deeply dyed,
has never, in the short history Of our coull-
try, attempted to debauch American virtue
or to concoct plan for the complete de-
struction of American liberty as has been
formed by the creation of these political
tract societies, to issue documents assail-
ing the Administration and the Govern
ment.
The men who head this movement, have
never dared to stand out and challenge
that denunciation, which their very ap-
pearance or names would elicit from the
honest masses Of the nation. 1t is neces-
sary for them to remain behind the cur
tains, to work the wires of venality and
destruction; to put into practical operation
their hellish designs to destroy the Gov
ernment. They are men, who never by
their talents merited, or by their proml-
nence elected the condemnation due to the
treason which rankles in their bosoms.-
They are employed by the rebels to do
| their active work and occupy the relation
of puppets to principles. They are put for
ward as mediums of communication with
the honesty and patriotism Of the coun-
try, to distract and divide the people into
partleS, 10 SIlI up politlcdi JeoiouSy, iah
cor, hatred and animosity to the Admins
| tration, for the sole purpose of aiding the
rebels in the destruction Of the Govern
ment. These men have combined with
the rebels in one grand crusade to break
down and destroy every principle which
Jefferson asserted with his pen and Wash
ington vindicated with his sword, in the
glorious struggle of 1776. Let us meet
| them in solid phalanx and bury their hopes
| in an infamy so profound and damna-
ton so deep that the hand of resurrection
! can never reach them.
When Napoleon was about to leave Par
| is, a few days before the battle of Water
loo, in an address to the Chamber of Rep
resentatives he cautioned them "to avoid
the folly of the Roman people in the later
days of the empire, who could not resist
the temptation of engaging furiously in
abstract party discussions, even while the
| battering rams of the common enemy were
shaking the gate of the Capital" we
should take to ourselves the same warning
in this crisis.
Democrats, come forth and consign tho
foul traducers of your principles, the vim, ;d,,
fiers of the truly patriotic Administrator T:I,,
of Abraham Lincoln so deep IN 0DIVlon