The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-05
THE HAWK-EYE


Sasssrd9y, September s.
So. ButtePnut Auaaeity. a 3
The Democratic, alias Butternut, State
Central Committee Of Iowa, has issued
large number Of "Circulars" for the guild
ance of it's under strappers. Lastly 1t has
issued an address ITO the People of Iowa."
to which is annexed the names Of LIE Grand
Byington, A. W. Carpenter, A. F. Seeber-
ger, p. N. Cassidy, and Frank Plumer.
This address is marvellous production.
We confess that we have been moved to
tears, but most mirthful ones, as we scan
ned this latest exhibition of Butternut inn
potency. We were not shocked at its men
dacity. That We look for and are never
disappointed. It is as natural for Butter
nut to lie as for young duck to seek wa
ter. Lying is his whole stock in trade
BY means of it, he lives and moves and has
his being. This address is not remarkable
for anything Of that sort. If there were
any one truth in it, that would be mar
vel, indeed.
What Is marvellous in this "address" is
the anxiety manifested by the inextin-
guishable Committee" about the purity
of the elections,-the security Of the Ballot
Box! We don't know whether we should
characterize this as marvel of audacity or
absurdity. But it is one or the other.
The war now waging among US was be-
gun to overturn an election--to set at
~norrh< Tho oxrroocod mill oS Tho roo,1o
The enormous grievance of the traitors was
the fact that the people chose to think for
themselves and would not longer submit
to the dictation of "nigger-drivers " The
people elected Abraham Lincoln President,
and because they did this, before he was
inducted into his offce,-6etore it was pos
sible for him to have done anything of
which to complain, they rebelled against
the laws Of their own making, and attempt
cd to take the whole South out of the IN
ion! They made this war because the ma
jority were simply exercising their right to
elect their officers, and for all its terrible
bloodshed, enormous expenditures, and
perils, Isocial and political, they are directly
responsible.
And these Butternuts, what have they
done about it? Do they not constantly en-
dorse the action of these traitors? Do
they not justify the rebellion? Do they not
seek by all means to ensure its success p
Were they not, before it begun, the fellow
partizans Of the traitors, and are they not
still working with them, in concert, for the
same ends? Butternuts oppose the prose-
-cution Of the war on our part, but they
never cry, Hold to the rebels. They ex.
claim against the recruiting Of the Union
Armies, but they seem delighted when the
Rebels increase theirs! They, pour out
illimitable abuse upon the National Ad-
ministration, but they never discover any
thing wrong in the rebel usurped authori-
ty! They refuse, persistently and traitor
ously,..to yield obedience to the laws, have
conspired to resist them, and, thus conspi-
ring, accuse the regularly elected officers
Of conspiracy against the people, because
they do their duty and enforce the laws in
accordance with their oaths! No better
evidence Of the reasonable purposes of the
Butternuts need be asked than this Ad-
= dress itself supplies, 1t is an apology for
treason, throughout, and at it's conclusion,
suggests that the election be carried in Iowa
by violence, under the presensc Of defend
ing and asserting the purity of the ballot
This, in connection with the conduct OF
these villains, their endeavor to arm them
selves. their secret organizations, the ad-
81 vice of this same Committee to attend their
'assemblages in arms, their haste to protect
or aid Criminals, their parade Of traitors
and oonspirators as speakers, officers of
their meetings, or candidates for Office, all
show, not merely that they sympathize
with the public enemy, but that they are
busily cooperating to the same end-the
destruction of the Union and the over
throw of our institutions. .o,r.. ,.t-
Are we not correct in asserting that this
Address is marvel of andacity1 What
else could induce men who oonspire against
the future possibility Of any election, who
are the main reliance of. those who Iebelled
against the result of an election, whose
whole history is one Of perfdy against the
The freedom and purity OF elections, who
always seek 70 overturn elections which
result against .them,-what but devilish
audacity could induce such malignants to
pirate about the purity of the ballot?
~ 1t il said that the Guerrilla Guam
trel, whose savage and remorseless sacking
of Lawrenoehas earned for him . LOFTY niche
among the infamous, was in attendance at
the Butternut meeting ut Springfield, ILL.,,
ON the 18th OF June last, and then and there
greeted O. brother by the scoundrels who
then 6ahonored, ~ they ever viii seek to
dishonor, the name Of Democracy, We
see nothing surprising In this. he would
DO greeted with equal Kindness here by
men Of the same stripe, who also profess to
be Democrats. His doings at Lawrence
would only make him moro welcome to
these peaoesble and law-abiding meni
~ Doctor Iardner, we balieve it was,
once demonstrated to the satisfaction OF
s~;onno that atenmshiYsa Nould not ha cnr-