The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-06
From the 39th Iowa.

kSEDIToR HAwK-EYE: Dear Sir-For the
benefit of some of my Peace friends in Des
Moines county, please publish these i'm
perfectly arranged remarks. Not as the
sentiment Of one, but every true and loyal
soldier.
Dear Friends: Your letters were re-
ceived in due time, and I was quite sur
prised on perusing them, to find in some
Of them such bold expressions of treason
You request me to ponder well your re-
marks and come to an impartial conclu-
sion, and become an advocate for peace"
I have come to an impartial conclusion,
and that is, that the authors of such senti-
ments are false hearted traitors of the deep
est haze. You declare yourselves members
of that party which is styled COppe1heods,
avowing the doctrine that no negro shall
fill the place of a soldier in Iowa. Very
well, how often has this been done in Io,oa
or in Des MONIES county; not one single IN
stance. We do not propose to people the
North with that unfortunate race, and the
men that suffer themselves to believe in
such forthcoming event, must either be
knaves or fools.
There should be no political parties now;
it is no time for partisan strife. I don't
consider that man a lover of his country
that is always springing something about
ton parties. There should be, and there
are but two parties, the Union and Disun-
ion; those that are not for us are against us;
those that are not for the vigorous prosecu-
ton of this war until the South returns to
her loyalty, the constitution and the law,
and the leaders of this revolt, their abettors
and sympathizers in the North are made
to bite the dust or pull ''infalible hemp are
cowardly traitors, unworthy the dppello-
ton of men," You cowardly Copperheads
and coadutors of insignyfcance, do you not
love your country, do you not love this
purest editice of Republican Liberty,
which has protected you from childhood to
the maturity Of manhood. are not your
hearts with the great Union army now
who are struggling for the rights of man,
who are struggling for the flag of the I'm
ION? II you are not, woe unto you; day
of retribution will come, and you will be
banished into the shades of infamy, no
longer to disgrace free Republic. You
peace men have the base impudence to
charge us OF deviating from our avowed
object OF putting down rebellion, to that of
freeing the negro" No, my dear sirs, we
pronounce this an accursed and most
egregiOus falsehood; this is mere pretext
some of the soldiers have for desertion.-
You speak of some soldiers in the field who
have written home, saying that they never
enlisted to free the negroes, and that they
were not willing to fight any longer. I
care not whether they be Republican or
Democrat, these are towards, and have
this for a pretert to hide it from the world.
But looking to the other side of the pic
ture, could you Copperheads but read the
denunciation of your damnable treason.
that is now daily drifting home from the
tented field, it would surely sink you down
to the pit of darkness, to there meet your
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of peace, but you have clamored for COM
promise for peace which is impossible to
gain, and maintain our national honor
The soldiers love peace nobly and hon
orably gained, but we spurn with contempt
peace that would be dishonorably and
ignobly gained.
Compromise with traitors? What! NV
sirs! We would rather see our country
reek in sea of blood, enveloped in fear
full night ofdarkness, than give one inch of
our country to the murderer and assassin.
the leaders of an armed rebellion. We
soldiers bow to the bidding of the South!
Never! and the men are fit subjects for an
Insane Asylum who would for q moment
harbor such a thought. Oh dear! you say
the war has been waged two years and still
it is not ended. What of that, we soldiers
in the field should be the ones to complain
of that first, and not you cowardly fire in
the rear men. Suppose our fathers who
played the game with Johnny Bull in 10
would have said, now we have fought two
wears and the war is not ended, the game
is not half played, now come Johnny let us
compromise, let us have peace, you die
tate and we will comply; what would have
become of their Wester7, world. It would
have been kingdom, doing the bidding
OF naughty and aaistocratic England. But
our fathers wearied not; they presented a
bold front to England and our indepen-
dence was gained, and now why should
not we be willing to fight that long for the
maintenance of that independence.
There is no if nor and about it, we n,nst
fight it out; this contest must be settled by
the clash of arms, and we intend that you
blessed peacemakers shall help US do it,
We can accommodate several hundred of
you here in the 39th Iowa regiment. and
hope Uncle Sam will soon send you along.
Respectfully yours. r. M. H.
Even the Brazilian authorities protest
against the doings of Her Brittanic Males
TVS pirate ships, the Alabama and Florida.
The Alabama was ordered away from one
Of the Brazilian ports, but did not 60 until
she got ready. Isn't this fair cause for
war between England and Brazilf