The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-03
The Fate Of Traitors

Our Butternut leaders of the North, if
they had but the wit, might learn lesson
from the fate of the political gamesters of
Dixie who engineered secession. Letthem
run over the list Of those who were known
as the Southern leaders few years since,
and then note their fate, and see if they
consider it encouraging. Davis still occu-
pies his ''bad eminence' as the head of the
traitors. Yet, it is said that no man is SO
heartily hated by the real workers in the
rebellion as he is, There is not General
OF any ability who does not detest him, the
rebels themselves being the authority
Lee, the best soldier they have, hates Da-
Wis with as much zeal as he does Wendell
Phillips. Davis and Benjamin, and the
other managers OF the scheme, are playing
their last cards, and even if the rebellion
should at last succeed, they are fated to
perdition among the class they have as
pired to lead. Whatever chances in the
future, they are without position or honor
it is for ''Banquo's issue they have filed
their minds" They have waded deep in
blood and perfidies, but under no circum-
stances Of imaginable success will they be
able to reap anything but horrible re-
morse and whitening disappointment
These have already overtaken most of the
leading traitors. They have already been
whistled down the wind. They are already
''hoist by their own petard." Some are
dead in shame, some acting as subordinates
where they assumed to lead, and pretty
much all of them overwhelmed by new
men, and cast into actual or comparative
Obscurity.
Thus will it be with the Northern wing
of the traitors. Those who are now preach
ing opposition to the Government, and
seeking to destroy its power, and aid and
shield their Southern "friends,' will, in
any possible contingency, discover be-
fore long that they have been digging their
own graves. They are mere stalking
horses, who are made to bear the burdens
OF present intamy, while, if their purposes
succeed, shrewder villains stand ready to
take control and Danish these fools from
power, place and profit. If these incompe-
tents had brains, they would see this plain
ly. 1t has alwaye been thus in great social
and political revolutions. The reasons are
obvious enough to those who have capacity
to understand. The fate of the leaders of
the South might convince them of this. if
they could not find the lesson elsewhere
But they a0iU not see it. They are mista-
ken in the signs, and imagine they are
striding into power, when they are merely
maturing infamies that will crush them
whatever may happen. They won't be-
ieve us-but they will find it true in a day
not far in the future; and then they will
wish, as the damned wish for Heaven, thai
they had acted as patriots instead of al
traitors. They will remember then wha
we now tell them, and the remembrance
will make their remorse more crushing.
ANOTHER KANSAS RAID,-Our reader.
have doubtless noted that some of tn,
leading Butternut journals and orators
speak and write with great deal of conf
dence of the election of vallandigham il
Ohio. This talk most probably has sur
prised them. But the source of their con
hdence has just come to light. 1t is sait
hat there is huge conspiracy on foot t.
inundats Ohio with Butternuts from Ken
lucky and Indiana, who are to go armed t
the polls and do voting enough to maxi
Vallandigham's "calling and electio,
sure" The boasts Of the Butternuts, aut