The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-05
BURLINGTON WEEKLY lHAWKEYE.
The Meeting Ut Libertyville.

The Meeting 1t Libertyville.
I The meeting at Libertyvilie,a Saturday
was large one. At least four thousand
persons were in attendance. Many per
sons estimated the crowd much higher
i Speeches were made by Hon. James w
Grimes, Hon. James F. Wilson, Joshus
Tracy, Esq, and Gen. Lauman.
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@s- We shall soon have it determined
we presume, whether or not the Butter
nut opposition to arming negroes result,
from their sympathy with the rebels Of
their resolve to keep the miserable mig
gers in slavery. If they are opposed Il
arming negroes to assist in suppressing the
rebellion, of course, if they have sin
gle drop of loyal blood in their veins, they
will be still more indignant at any attemp,
| of the rebels to use them in shooting
the Union men of the North! Our Butter.
nut politicians won't stand any such non.
sense. Just now they are the special
friends of.the soldiers. They have warned
them of the degradation of bearing arms
by the side of the "niggers." 1t was an
enormous outrage to arm the slave to
fight on ourside. They were mere savages
and would commit the most diabolical and
bloody deeds on the unfortunate and in
nocent men, women and children of re-
beldom. These would dishonor and dis
grace our soldiers, and therefore these
ought to frown upon the effort to make
soldiers of those who, being black, "have
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to respect" and being slaves ought there
fore always to continue in that blissful
condition. Now, jeff, having found white
men too few, and having invoked the
gods and other foreign powers in vain, at
last resorts to the ''nigger." He, the rebels
having always lived by the labor of the
African, now wants the African to do their
fighting! He will exhort them to kill,
to slaughter our unfortunate soldiers who
are to be exposed to these savages. The
Butternuts won't stand that! 1t violates
their principles They have protested
again and again against all such "sav-
agery." They won't endure it from jeff
or from any one! Not they! They will at
once shoulder their muskets and move off
to the war themselves! They are opposed
to "that sort of thing" That will elevate
the 'nigger" too much. How they will
curse the rebels! They, too, have gone
into partnership with the "nigger." Could
anything worse offend Copperhead?
g-There are no people so afflicted with
piety in these days as our peace-loving
Copperheads. They have found out that
war is wrong. They go further in their
detestation of strife and bloodshed than
any religious sect we are acquainted with.
The Quakers, Shakers, and all the other
non-resistants, come infinitely short Of
these modern quletists. We submit that
the Butternuts run the thing clear into the
ground. We don't know of any other
country, who so love their enemies, and
who speak in such terms of loving-kind-
ness of those who persecute and despite
fully treat them! The fact is that these
Butternuts are greatly misunderstood
They have grown suddenly good, and
from the most ardent and beligerent of
mortals, have got to the other extreme.
They are new converts-and are resolved
to prove their faith BY their acts. They
are so pious that they conclude it to be
wrong to inflict punishment on traitors, to
resist their assaults, to refuse any demand
they make! They must have peace
peace Oh any terms, by any submission,
by any degradation-they are quite willing
to ''die the DEATH" rather than not have
it. Peace and piety go together and must
continue to go together. This is the trou-
bic with our devout Butternuts. They
have got the piety and want peace, and as
jeff won't let them have it on any other
terms but submission to his demands
why of course he must have it so. That is
the whole trouble with the Butternuts.-
They are burthened with an excess of pi-
ETY..
u.s. A woman and her daughter attended
q Copperhead meeting at Oskaloosa,
few days since, whereat Negus, p. Cad
Bryan and the intinerant Ira Mitchell,
exhibited their ''grand and lofty tum-
bling" The young lady occupied a front
seat, appropriately adorned with But
ternut breastpin! The next day the two
accomplished ladies were arrested and
lodged in Jail to await trial for shop-lifting
the stolen goods being found In their
possession. What we are anxious to know
is whether or not this resulted from the
teachings Of the able Copperheads who
then and there enlightened their "fiends!"
If such is the natural consequence of a
Butternut assembly, it will be well enough
to know it in season. 1t will warn "shop-
keepers of their danger and perhaps also
save some female, of the Butternut persua-
sion, from an undesirable visit to Fort
Madison. LIS it part of the programme?
~The number Of conversions to the
"Abolition" doctrine, since the war began,
is perfectly astonishing and astounding
But the last one beats them all-that of
Jefferson Davis. Mr.. Davis, if we are to
believe tie telegraph, purposes to free half