The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-25
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

- Democrats who mean to be loyal
and true-who believe that the Union can
be saved and the rebellion crushed by
fighting, and who mean to bear their pro-
portion of the burden and sacrifice-all
such who haye thus far tried to work along
with the Copperhead party, find them
selves in beautiful "fix' now. The Cop
perheads have entire control in what may
be called the Democratic party, revived
and revised by Vallandigham. They have
the organization and the candidates. Look
at it in this State. Mahony, Byington and
Mason have the entire control and are run
ming the thing in the interest of JEFF. DAY.
is and the rebellion. Look at the Copper
head newspapers in Iowa. From least to
greatest, with hardly a solitary exception,
the so-called Democratic papers in Iowa
are as fully devoted to the rebellion and in
tensely bent upon destroying the Gov
eminent and the Union, as the or
gan of JEFF. Davis at Richmond
Look at them and no sensible, intelligent
Democrat but will agree that this is true.
Every nominee upon the so-called Demo-
cratic ticket, is pronounced Copperhead,
believing in the States-rights doctrine of
secession, and noisy and clamorous for
| PEACB, meaning disunion. Charles Mason
has avowed these ideas and sentiments
over his own signature, and added thereto
an encomium upon his particular friend
Jefferson Davis. Maturin l.. Fisher con-
siders James Buchanan model President
and thinks his idea that, the Nation has no
Constitutional right to put down rebellion
by force of arms, right. Duncombe or Bun
combe is IA small viper of the same poison
Gus species. LIE Grand Byington is at the
head Of the so-called Democratic organiza-
ton, being Chairman of the State Central
Committee. 1t is unnecessary for us to tell
our readers who and what he is. He is
smarter, meaner and more disloyal than
either Fisher or Mason.
We wish to put the question squarely to
our Democratic readers: Are you going to
be led into secession and disunion by these
Internal conspirators? Will you follow the
empty name of Democracy to your own
everlasting disgrace and intamy? There
is no longer any room for doubt or cavil.-
You know what these men mean and
where they will bring up. You know they
mean resistance to the laws-anarcny,
| blood-shed, revolution. You know that
they are laboring, have been laboring and
will continue to labor to bring about just
such scenes all over the country as have
just been enacted in New York, the object
being to stop the war. If you continue
| to associate with these men-to vote and
act with them, to be joined unto them
in the same party, you must be classed
together and cannot expect to be known as
anything but Copperhead traitors. If it
suits you go ahead. Upon you and upon
your posterity be the infamy. You will
become the scorn and derision of all loyal
people,. Our soldiers will take delight in
hating you. AS we emerge from this great
conflict, purified, regenerated and olsen
thralled, this hatred will become Deeper
We could lay awake nights to hate North
ern traitors now.
Now is the time for Democrats who mean
to be loyal and true to make final deci-
sion-to select their ground and occupy it
to either stand by the country and the
Government like patriots or take their
places among it's vandal enemies who are
striving to pull down the temple of liberty.