The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15
Joint DlScuosion In the 18th Dis
tPfcts.funePol Or YOang Weed.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa, Oct. S. 1864.
RIEND DUNBAR Yesierday Hon. j.
r. Grinnell and Mr.. Mitchell, opposing
candidates tor Congress ia the 4th District.
discussed their respective claims and party
principles before the people at this place.
they bad joint appointment at Eddyvilie
for the day previous, but owing to extreme
bad weather and other engagements Mr..
Grinneil was not there: hence here WA
their first discussion. They have yarfOuy
other appointments together in the dis.
trict, and by the time they are once around
Mr.; Mitchell will be pretty badly used up
acd long for r0pite from public political
labors, If his positions and sentimentsof
Copperheadism generally are as systemat-
icaily analysed, exposed aud refuted By
Mr.. Grinneu every where as they were
here, and the Democrats OF this District
will have learned that Mr.. Mitchell does
not ill the bill when canvassing with J. b.
GriEnell. By this joint arrangement Mr..
Grinnell gels to talk to Democrats, which
otherwise he would not, and If they have
any sense Of Discrimination or particle Of
honesty, they cannot do otherwise than
conclude that by following the leadership
OF such men as Mitchell they are fast drift
ing 70 condition equal to open and
armed hostility to their Government and
their best interests, and will forfeit the re-.
spect OF loyal citizens. He ia a Copperhead
OF equal ma!ignity with Vallandigham,
Seymour and Fernando Wood. His utter.
ances are copied from them. He Is o. much
u rebel as either Of them, with less than
half the sense. He treads the track they.
have beaten, and cannot be induced be.
yond. He declined answering several
questions propounded t. him by Mr.. Grin
nell. while those he asked were promptly
and unhesitatingly answered. Such 10 the
beginning OF canvass in this district that
will end ia the election Of Mr.. Grinnell by
majority of five hundred more than he
received two years ago.
The funeral of young Woodruff, who was
brutally assassinated 10 Poweshiek county
on last Saturday while In the discharge Of .
his duties as an officer Of the Government,
took place here to-day. The attendance
was very large, and the ce ,asion . very
solemn and Impressive one. The Grafton
was delivered by Hon. j. b. Grinnel!, who
accom- panied the remains to this place. and
who was familiar with all the circumstance
es attending this foul murder. and also
with the perpetrators thereof He charged
this and similar murders as the direct and
legitimate results of the Copperhead peace
teachings, of the Chicago peace platform,
and Of those arch-traitors who counsel re.
sstance to the draft and the enforcement
of the laws of the land. Some OF these
murderers are arrested, and some are still
at large. No efforts will be spared to can
ture them, and to mete out to them tie
punishment they 80 richly deserve. MI
J. B. A.
IL RICHMOND WERE FASTENED TO THE
EAvENs.-Hassaurek, tie German ora
tor. has the measure Of the spirit of the
American people, and Of its inexhaustible
power to carry sacrifcial offerings OF its
own life, blood and treasure, aud to lay
them unweariediy upon the National al
tar. He said to his dear old Cincinnati"
last week:
Let US tell the doubters OF Europe that
Q people capable of such sacrifices is not to-
be discouraged or foiled: that its una.tera-.
bic determination is not to be arrested or
changea When WAlleustein besieged
Stralsund, ka declared that he would take
1t if it were fastened to the heavens with
iron chains and VIXEN the American peO-
pie declare their fixed and sacred determi-
nation that the glorious Union, the workof
the Declaration of &c, cemented by the
blood Of our fathers and our own children,
shall be maintained intact and entire from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the
shores OF Maine to the Gulf of Mexico,
then by the Almighty it will be done. II
Richmond were fastened 10 the heavens
with iron chains it would be taken. If 1t
should require war of three years or
more to conquer the rebellion it would be
conquered. There is no such word as elm
possible in the vocabulary Of the United
States.'
Hon. l.. p. Walker, formerly Demo-
cratic Senator from Wisconsin. is out for