The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-28

a
mistake to suppose the whole success of
the campaign depends on Grants army.
favorable as its situation is. The siege ar
Richmond has begun, and although il can
not DO completely invested by Butler, yet.
unless Beauregard can get more forces than
lie is said to have, Richmond may fall in -
unex pected manner. Its defenses on The
west side are not strong, and if Beauregard
can be kept in Petersburg, Richmond may
be taken from Manchester on the west side.
but that Is expecting rather more from q.
vorable contingencies than, perhaps, IL
probable.
But what are Crooks and Averill doiusY
Averill seems to have reached the Virginia
d Tennessee Railroad, and destroyed some
that the columns from the Kanawha have
destroyed all connections in the Valley OF
Virginia, and all material and defensee
which are useful. If this be the case. thew
will press on to Lynchburg.
And, now. what of the Army of Geor.
gia9 Does any one suppose the C0nfeder.
acy can exist without Georgia? It is i'm
possible. Georgia is the largest. richest
and best State remaining to the rebels; and
in Georgia are the main depots Of materi-
ais and resources. The advance Of the a..
my from Chattanooga then, is as important
as that of the Army of the Potomac. 1t IL
precisely = similar movement to that On !
Vicksburg. Notwithstanding all the taxi
about oe Johnston, he has been flank ed and
driven back by generalship. In d former
article we remarked that Dalton could b
flanked on both sides. and it was. 1t VA
impossible to hold Dalton. when We wero
moving in behind Resaca. Thus the most
defensible mountain ridges in the world
have been taken from the enemy by supe-
rior skill and tirmness. From the time
Rosecrans commenced his march from
Murfreesbor0' to the capture Of Resaca, the
rebels have been completely outwitted and
OutgeDeraled. The gaps Of the Cumberlaod
were taken from them by RosecTans, AID
he took Chattanooga by outfianking. Then
came the descent of Col. Stanley's (of the
Ohio 18TH night boats, by which Lookout
above the clouds" on Lookout Mountain:
then the storm of Mission Ridge; now the
6anking Of Buzzard's RoOst Ia right name
for the rebels,) the 6anking OF Resaca, till
Johnston finds himself by some mysterious
process moved sixty miles to the rear. But
Johnston, like Lee, will fight If he gets .
chance. He will probably tight at Etowah
he goes into Atlanta, comes the siege Of
that last resting place of all the scoundrels
who have followed the retreating army Of
Bragg.
Here the reader will probably call AZ
one of those historical retributiOns by
which Providence seems to justify the
ways of God to man. More than thirty
years ago the Cherokee nation dwelt on
their mountain ridges and rivers. They
were peaceful, comparatively happy peo-
pie, having their home on the Chicamauga,
the EtOwah and the COosa. The Georgians
who have no idea Of public justice, want
ed their lands, and made an excuse 70
quarrel with them. A case relating 70
them came before the Supreme Court and
60oi0oA 0O0ivcf ho Fat nr
But Georgia disObeyed the writ Of the
Court and nuuifed the laws of tie Jssitsd
states. Why didn't we march our army
into them then? That was the time when
the Government Of this country should
have vindicated its power and authority
L would have been far easier than now
But 1t was ordered otherwise. For thirty
nine years the country had to be governed
by Southern traitors and Northern dough.
faces. The moral sense Of the nation Wao
not yet Quickened. The new birth Of ideas
had not come. The nation had to Be bsp-
tised into the new birth with the blood Of
ito bravest and best. But now behold the
retribution! The nation vindicates its su-
thority with the sword on the vsyy spoe
,Chere it, power sCas dehed The Cherofee
is avenged by the blood Of the Georeians
moving without measure by the banks Of
the Chickamauga, Etowah, Coosa, the BE-
avenging justice.
We must return q moment 70 the ARMY
Of the Potomac. The tendency OF Grants
army will be = little East till be gets fully
on TO the Fredericksburg aud Richmond
Railroad, for it il by that road his supplies
must be brought. Then 1t may be that his
first movement will be to flank Leo On
been made, aud it Il possible they are
made with q view to q flank movement on
the west. But We can know nothing Of this
Till we hear OF movements. Hanover Juno. I
ton. behind the Pamunky, will, no doubt,
afford Lee, should he be driven back there.
another lighting ground. So long n his
army can be kept together in strong or,
ganization, he will fight till he gets 70
Richmond. 1t is, however, yet doubtful
point. whether he will 60 there.
On the I'd Of May, Davis issued his mes-,
sage to the rebel Congress-. II ID not yery
long, and the larger part Is given up to two
d2lefnl complaints. The first is. that the
Union armies have ravished and desolated
their country, and committed divers afro
cities, which cry out for civilization and
humanity to interfere against He says
the line Ut Sherman's march through Nh.
sissippi il marked in black. We haye n
doubt Of it. What would he havef Doeo
the silly fool really think, that war il to s.
all on one side1 He seems to think that
SAAO1A S4s-SAAO0S b u0IIHA0S may Ollf0e ron.
and murder, wherever they 20, and 40 no.
tice y to be taken Of it. What does 10 I
think Of the skulls of our soldiers made !,
into drinking cups ut Bull Run ? OF ;her
negroes nlassacred at Port Pillow? Ofwo-e
men and clergymen Imprisoned and
whipped1 {ahumGnity il y hard lesson 3
learn BY those who are bred to Christian.
civilized, honorable sentiments; but NJ.
Jefferson Davis and the vile crew around ]
him must learn. that they who take tho
sword must perish by the sword. IIt1 81,
The next complaint of thas rebel chief u !
that foreign nations don't TREAS his, Con1bd.
eracy Welt What reason have they T.
treat nest Of pirates well1 This SooliiA
annexation of talking like IN indepeu1ent
state don't 90 down with any body outside
OF the rebel Congress. He may . well
cease sco!ding, when there u nobody cares
ior MS winnings. When the ConSederacy
can conquer these United states, and plant
lte standards on the Ohio and the lakes, Il
WI De time enough to ask foreign nations
70 pay them respect. Just now they are
too near the ''last ditch" to call mn any