The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15
BURLINGTON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER Is 1864

BURLINGTON, SATU
Of having guerrilla parties in the South
you will have them here in Illinois and all
over the North, you will have the same
state OF things in the North that they have
now in the South. [Applause.1
Ihe ldes Of men in this country talking
about arbitrary arrests" usurpations and
extravagant use OF power, and all that sor,
travel where they please, to meet where
they please, to discuss politics, to discuss
questions Of constitutional Law, TO discuss
the rights and interests of individuals and
the rights and interests Of the Government
IN the different States, and then talk abou,
oppression. Why, my friends, the very
fact that men are allowed 20 howl as they
tyranny-the very fact that they are al
lowed TO meet in conventions, and pass all
sorts Of disloyal and reasonable resolu.
tons, is sufficient proof, to any reasonable
mind that the ''oppression'' they complain
about does not exist. If they were badly
oppressed. you wouldn't hear Of Vallan-
digham, and such men, rowing about the
country, advising resistance TO the draft,
and denouncing the war as hellish butch
cry, and the men who carry it on as butch
ers and despots. tApplause.] If you want
to zee oppression, 60 down South where
JEFF. Davis and his minions rule with the
| iron hand Of tyranny. Go whore no man
can speak, unless he speaks in favor Of
JEFF. Davis. Go, where the army rules su-
man, can rule. Have you beard of any
public Indignation meetings against Jef.
Davis in the South since the war began?-
Have you heard any Southern men advise
resistance 10 JEFF. Davis conscription?-
| No; simply because they dare not do it
because they dare not talk against jeff.
Davis, much less lift their hands against
him-and all simply because they have q
despotism in the South. There you will
see tyranny and oppression. No man
ought TO talk about oppression in this
| country. Some wrongs have been done,
no doubt, but they have been just such as
have always occurred IN every country, in
revolutionary times. If men will read the
history of the revolutionary times of other
countries they will find that the peoples
rights have always been more or less re-
stricted, during periods Of political and ma
eional convulsion. The people Of the
North have suffered less in this espect
than any other people that ever went
| through what we are going through now.
lCries of ''That's so."] Historians know
this to be the case.
1t is not the time to talk about petty diff
ferences. It is not the time to frifie with
your country and her cause. 1t is not the
tune 10 trif1e with your own interests.-
But the time has come for you to vote and
act as patriots in favor Of your country,
and ia favor Of men that you believe viii
administer the affairs Of your country
right, and to the best Of their ability. Al
though some Of you may not like every
thing connected with these men, 1t won't
do to risk much now. Instead Of risking
anything let party names be forgotten or
destroyed. Let them call you Abolition
lists or whatever else they please. II tnakes
no difference what you are called. 1t is no
time TO trfle with tho interests of your
country. If you find a man VINO is will
ing, as you believe, to restore the Govern
ment, and do the best he can as its Chief
Magistrate-vote for him. We must fight
on, and fight on. We have got into this
war and let us get out OF it, which we can
only do by whipping the rebels. You
have President who is in favor OF that
His pla form says SO, and his actions have
said so from the beginning of our troubles.
You have other men asking your suffra-
ges, who have given out to us that they
are not in favor of any such thing, and no
matter what their professions are, say to
you, don't trust them until they prove
their faith by their works. Let them
sno" .ueir loyaiLy, not Oy pro!esslons, out
by their acts. If they are loyal, and for
the Government, those Of them who are IN
the Congress OF the United States, let them
vote such votes as will show that they are
for their country. Those that are officers
and leaders Of that party, le. them pass
such resolutions as will show to the coun-
try that they are for it and when the
march to the music of thdDUnion, and saw
to the soldiers, we'll done good and faithful
servants; If you have been faithful over a
few things. will make thee ruler over
many. Let them talk this way TO the SOL
diers and men that are in the armies. Let
them act in this way in behalf Of their
country. Let them talk to their fellow cit
izens in their public speeches, and let them
advocate the cause of the Union. Let them
talk like loyal men. Let them show that
they are aneQuivocally for their country.
Let them show this by their conduct and
their manner, and then you can truss them,
but until then you cannot. If they tell
you they are as loyal as you are, let them
join the army, or ifthey can't DO so them
and not discourage them. Let them do
these things and then you can have some
faith in them. Until they do them, place
not your faith there or you will be deceiy-
ed. [Applause.l
THE COPPERHEAD WAR CON-.
MENCEO.
Two United States MorShals Way.
laid and Murdered.
On Saturday, Oct. lst, in Sugar Creek
Tr., Poweshiek county, Deputy Marshals ].
NJ. Woodruff of Knoxville and Il. Bashore
of Centerville were waylaid and in cold
blood murdered. The particulars Of this
dastardly affair as we get them are AZ fol-
lows:
Several drafted men Of Sugar Creek hay.
ing failed to report at the Provost Mar
shal's off &C, deputies Woodruff and Bashore
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