The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-21
Bsrr,sH Nrur.AIrY.1As, a pertinent illus

BRIr!sH NEUraALrf.4As a pertinent illus,
tration Of the boosted neutrality of the English
Government, it is stated that on the evening of
February 9th, the following vessels entered the
port of Nassau, New Providence, within one
hour: the Georgiana, brig.rigged iron p,o-
peller, and tender to the Alabama; the Brittana,
q side-wheel iron steamer, brig-rigged and fast,
and the Gertrude, screw steamer. All these
vessels are English pirates, built with English
money, in English ports, armed with English
guns, supplied with English powder, manned by
English sailors, and sent forth by English specu.
latots to rob and burn American ships, and muir.
der American citizens. No. American Captain
now sees FIRE on the Ocean without feeling al
most certain that it is kindled by British. built
pirate, as decoy for additional victims. Yet
English diplomats talk virtuously of their neu
trahty boast of their strict observance of the
laws of nations, aud our Government quietly
submits to their insolence Is it not about time
to put an end to thiss II England wars upon
U.s. lie, us, at least, return the shot
-O
e The Peoria Transcript thinks the present
Rebellion the first instance on record in which
the rebels set up no pretense Of wrong done, or
wrong apprehended. We think the Transcript
is mistaken There is just one other instance.
Those who undertook to overturn the throne Of
the Almighty. to resist his righteous laws, cer-
tanly had no sufficient cause. and made no pre-
tense of any besides their own perverse will The
faithful, in that instance, very suddenly drove
them into perdition. The rebels and Copper
heads will doubtless notice the parallel, and an.
ticipate tie fate of those whose example they
follow.
II The Chicago Tribune has received large
number of letters written BY Illinois Copperheads
to soldiers in the army, with the aim of inducing
desertion. Il publishes number for the in
formation of the public. The intelligence they
display is about equal to their patriotism and
verscity. What amount of these sufices for an
average Copperhead most people have ample op
portunity for determining. The soldiers who
send them home to expose the villains appear to
have an accurate opinion of their character
MORE YANKEE MEANNEss!-The State au.
thorities Of Massachusetts, have just invested
seven hundred thousand dollars in United
States securities! How outrageously mean
they are! What q want of faith and LOYALTY
they display!
So long as the present political policies of the
war are persisted in-so long as the war is con-
tinued as war of political party-every dol
lar expended in it is wasted, and worse than
wasted, and every life lost in it is an abomina-
Ee sacrifice, and murder, indeed, by those
upon whom the responsibility rests of the pre-
vailing policies. The man who does not wash
his hands of all participation in such war shares
the guilt Of those by whom it is prosecuted =
Support of this war and hostility to it show the
dividing line between the enemies and the friends
OF the Union He who supports the war is
against the Union, because the war is the
most terrible engine for the destruction of the
Union which Beelz-bub himself could have ill.,
vented.
The foregoing is an article, and the whole of
IL. FROM the chicago Copperhead Times We
don't know that JEFF Davis dictated it, But we
can't conceive of anything that would suit him
better. The logic of it is. that, to sustain the
Union, We must submit to a forc;ble dissolution.
To wage varsin defense of the Union, its consti.
tuition and laws, is to make use of ''sne most ter
riole engine" for their destruction If JEFF
don't laugh when be reads that it will be because
nothing is absurd enough to overcome his des.
pair.
IHE POLISH LEADER 1t is said that the leader
OF the Polish Revolution is Count Gurowski. a
brother OF Adam Gurowski, for many years cor.
nected with the New York Tribune, afterward
with the State Department, and now with
Wilkes Spirit of The Times. Gen Gurowski is
one Of the survivors of the Polish Revolution of
1880, IN which he was wounded, captured, and
long afterwards detained in close custody as a
prisoner oy the Russians. He has never changed
b,s hatred Of the Russian rule in Poland, az his
present conduct would indicate, and has long
been one Of the leaders of the ardent Polish
patriots
20 The notorious Vallandigham reached his
home, at Dayton, Ohio, on the 18th inst. There
was OF course an assemblsge of Copperheads to
greet him, and Of course the fellow made a
speech, of the Copperhead sort We suppose
the miserable traitor will now subside. Con-
gress is at last rid Of his presence, and the pro.
liability Of bis ever again occupying public
position in this country is enthusiastically slen-
der. II ne would 60 down into Dixie We don't
know but bis chances would be improved. But
even there we fear they would despise him,
u 1t is said that the Supreme Court of the
United States, at its recent session, unanimously
decided that stocks Of the United States are not
taxable by authority of any of the States. The
decision was made in the case of The People of
the State of New York, against the Bank of
Commerce.. The right to tax was affirmed by
the New York Court of Appeals, carried thence
by writ of error to the U. S. Supreme Court,
and there reversed. The opinion of the latter
Court was by Justice Nelson.