The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-03
VIII Patriots Follow Traitors:

is to be reached in any mode different from
that pursued by the Administration they
denounce. Ask any of these Butternuts
hov he will obtain that peace" and you
close his mouth. He knows there is no
mode but by compelling the rebels to SUBJ
NIT by force of arms, or by yielding to a
dissolution of the Union. He Knows that
one of these results must be the event. He
won't prosecute the war, and he is afraid to
say noso that he wishes to dissolve the
Union. Therefore, he talks platitudes
about peace whenhe ought to show how
a "peace" may be secured without war and
without disunion. He can't do it; and,
what is worse, he don't want to do it. He
really wishes to destroy the Union-wishes
it just as much as JEFF. Davis, and for the
same reasons. He is the enemy of Demo
cratic government. He is the enemy OF
Democracy. He, like all his class OF men
in times past, merely processes to De
Democrat that he may effectually destroy
what he hates so heartily. How cana true
Democrat be the friend of the most bestial
tyrants who have ever disgraced manhood?
How can a man be a Democrat who is the
friend of traitors and the avowed enemy OF
his country? How can men be Democrats
who striveto overturn all lawful authority?
How can Democracy rule except by the
law? If the law be trampled upon. what
is left but anarchy. and ruin? And out of
anarchy did Democracy anywhere grow
up again? A Democrat must support the
law and lawful authority, for these are the
foundations of Democracy. Subversion of
these is tyranny and despotism, and that of
the worst Imaginable sort. Loyalty to the
Union means fidelity to the laws of the
Union. He who is not the supporter of the
law, who attempts to destroy or impair it's
efficiency, saps the very root Of his own
safety and liberty. How, then, can any
man be Democrat who advises his fell
lows, on any pretense, to resist the law, to
defy it, to destroy it?. How, can any man
follow the counsels of such leaders, without
asserting to and aiding in his own RUM
Is it not plain that such councillors are
traitors to Democracy? Is it not evident,
in these days, that they cannot talk as they
do without treason to the country? If
they don't mean what they say, must they
not be fools? If they do mean what they
say, are they not public enemies? In Ell
Their case, can any man with single patri-
otto impulse, be guilty Of following them?
FUNNY.-The Dubuque Herald has dis
covered another "mare's nest" The people
of the West, according to the astute man
ager of that Butternut machine, are griev-
ously taxed on sugar-it costs them too
much and it is all the fault of the Admins
tration! If the navigation of the Missis-
sippi River were open, he thinks people
could get sugar, &C., from New Orleans a
great deal cheaper than they now get it!
The villain will not tell his readers that
navigation is open--that any body can 90
to New Orleans that wants to go there and
can freight all the sugar or molasses he
chooses right to Dubuque, without any
interference from United States officials
1t does not suit him to tell that. Mel
Their does it suit him to inform his read
course is the fact that his friends, the re-
bells, are in the habit OF popping cannon
balls at unarmed boats, and are rather
pleased than otherwise if they chance to
kill any Yankee" on board! He don't
tell that. Of course not. Nor does he at
tempt to explain any of his former sneers
at the folly of attempting to take Vicks-
burg, or Port Hudson, or his denunciations
OF the soldiers, "Lincoln's Hirelings," he
called them, who were engaged in that pa
triotic work /! He was not so anxious
about the price of sugar in those days!
The open navigation Of the Mississippi
did not trouble his conscience at that
time. In fact he was much gratified at the
fact that it was closed. In those DAYS he
was telling his readers that the way to
open it, was to submit to the traitors =
Now that we have opened it, he continues
TO tax the Administration with the acts of
the Rebels. But he hasn't word to say
against the traitors. They are all right, as
usual. Isn't it the funniest thing in the
world that the fool should imagine any one
on earth simple enough to swallow such
talk from him?
SSS w AoONS1 tIOSI y traitor will InHyifa. |
bly, be deceived. The latest instance of
their perhdy is that committed by their
Agent for the exchange of prisoners. Early
in September he issued notice to the effect
that about 1900 of the men captured at
Vicksburg had been duly exchanged. And
these $4,000 men, by authority of this no.
tice, are said to have taken part in the hat.
ties against Rosecrans. Probably thew
were merely deceived. But what is to be
said Of the man who falsely issued it, and
the traitors at whose dictation it was done9
No such exchange has taken place. Inthe
hope of victory they induced Il, 600 men to
violate their parole, and risk not only the
danger Of the fight but execution if can
tured.
There is reported to be an immense
movement Of troops going on through In
diana and Kentucky. A letter from Indi-
annapolis, Of the 18th of September, saws
that within twenty-four hour preceding
nearly twenty Thousand troons had n..eod