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

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Work! Work! Work!
But a week remains until the electiou.-
Little can be effected by public meetings
and speeches. The work is to be accom-
plished by personal effort. The true friends
of the Government and of the Union must
put by their merchandise, their labor IN
the shop, the Office, and ON the farm, and
devote themselves wholly to the good
work. Mutual sufferings and sacrifices
have made us all akin. What we nave al
ready done proves to us how much we may
do. Year after year as we have sent loyal
voters to the war we have filled their places
by recruiting from the honest masses OF
the Old Democratic party, and thus kept
our Glorious State always true tot the Union,
even without the soldiers vote. We now
want more recruits to fill the places of
those gone to the war whose bodies lie
buried at Vicksburg and Corinth, and on
every battle field and around every hospi-
tai in the West. We want decisive,
overwhelming victory to show rebels
that there is no hope but in submission
to induce them to give up the contest and
Law down their arms. We want it to give
us "Peace.' If we are true to ourselves
to the great cause entrusted to our keeping
we shall make such personal appeal to
the patriotic masses as will secure us deci-
siye and overwhelming majorities in
nearly all the counties in Iowa. No man
ever had a call to labor in holier or a bet
ter cause-no stronger incentive to action
was ever presented to the mind of man.
We must not rely upon the justice and
righteousness of our cause alone-we must
not sit idly down in fancied security and
allow ourselves to be Outwitted and beaten
by an INSCRIPTIONS, crafty and indefati
gable enemy. We must not delude our
selves with the foolish nonsense that what
ought to be will be. The victory we must
achieve by our own labor.
Ms~ The Vallandigham platform, which
is also the Butternut platform of Iowa, is
the most remarkable specimen of effrontery
and baseness ever offered for the approval
of people The substance of it is that we
it Dill hart rebels and bring them u,,der sub
jection to to the tdW!
Now, these rebels claim that all the Slave
States, including Missouri, Kentucky, Ma
ryland and Delaware are parts of the "Con-
federacy.' 1t is of no importance to them
that none of these States have in any man
ner protested, even, to unite with them
They care nothing about that. They set
out with the determination that they should
be in the Confederacy and they continue to
insist on it. And Vallandigham and his
whole gang, propose, as their first step to-
wards that peace they talk about, to turn
these great States over to the rebel control!
This indicates their appreciation of State
rights, and shows precisely what they mean
by them. They are not only anxious that
the authority of the Union should be with
drawn from them, but that they are to be
transferred to the rebels in opposition to the
desires of their people!
This being done, then, according to them,
we shall have 'peace!' How? 1t is evil
dent that if this Is done the Union is des-
troyed already. Such conduct on our part
would be an open acknowledgment of the
Independence of the "Confederacy," and
would be followed by the prompt acknowl-
edgment OF it, by all other nations.
The Confederacy being thus set Off by it.
self, what would happen next? The But
ternuts tell us that in some mode the Union
would be restored? How could it be?-
Would the rebels then ask to be re-admit-
ted into the Union? Is there man in the
country who believes they would do that?
Not one. We all know they began this in
sane Rebellion to get out Of the Union.-
They would then be out of the Union
They would haze just what they have been
fighting for. After they have got all they
started the Rebellion. to obtain, does any
one suppose they will at once yield it up ?
Do men carry on such wars until they &C
complish such purposes, and then when at
last successful, when their success is &C
knowledged by the acts of the G Government,
at once confess they were wrong and yield
all they have fought for? Is it not strange
that any man could be absurd enough to
credit so palpable lie. 1t is evident that
nothing of this sort can ever happen. The
rebels tell us they 'front.' unite with us again.
Every body knows they mean it-that they
tO0nt return to the Union if they can posi-
bly, avoid it,-they are still fighting to
keep out of the Union, and that if they are
at all disposed to remain in the Union, moth
ing is easier for them than to do it.
The Butternut Platform then means on
its face, absolute and eternal division. II
means that the Republic shall be destroyed
at all events, without any possibility of re-
uniting the ruptured parts. 1t means that
Rebellion is justifiable and that the power
of the Union should not be employed to
suppress it.
How can men who really wish to sustain
the Union, ally themselves with those who
thus plainly declare that they are the
friends of rebels, and are aiming at their
triumph? 1t seems to us impossible that
any man who truly wishes to do his duty
to his country, if he reflects but moment
upon facts which all must know, can fail to
see in what direction patriotism dictates he