The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-19

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forces the border counties. Over g..
600 men have already been enrolled il
Franklin and Adams counties, and are
armed and equipped by the State author.
tiles. No apprehension Is now entertained
OF an incursion. Oftwenty scouts sent BY
Mosby into Pennsylvania seven have been
captured, the others are believe ed to have
escaped to the other side ofthe Potomac.
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BfoWnl0w ON Prentice.
To GEORGE D. PRENTICE Since the
i opening OF this Presidential campaign ]
have been repeatedly assailed through your
paper, either editorially or by such dis
missed officers and humbugs as Woolford.
have never replied, either to your edito-
rial attacks, or the attacks Of different cor
respondents. / have felt assured that you
desired to make some little capital for your
ConstitutiOnal-C onservative-States-R Rights
Peace-on.any-terms ticket, and it has graf
lied me little to know that my blows
have been telt somewhere. In noticing
your attacks at this late day, it will be APP
parent to all that address myself to you,
and not to the odds and ends Of all Gods
creation who compose the newly organized
party Of Democrats aud traitors with whom
you are associated.
! In your paper Of the 3Oth Of October you
state, editOrially, that "Brownlow. having
received Office from Lincoln, he now de-
],
i OF all that Lincoln has done and all that he
may hereafter do. Every such man has
his price,
This, Mr.. Prentice, is direct charge of
bribery and corruption, and needs to be
ventilated by statement Of facts, after
which propose tC contrast my record with
yours, and to take brief view Of the rela.
tons your family and mine sustain to this
rebellion.
hold an Office in the Treasury Depart
ment which was conferred upon me by Mr..
Chase without my seeking it, or any friend
applying for me. The pay is not equal to
the labor performed, and at 40 time has it
paid the board OF my small family. with
my two sons in the army. l have retained
the position because desired to. serve my
friends in East Tennessee. and to unite
with them in restricting the benefits OF
trade to the loyal men Of the country.
During the first eighteen months Of the
war you associated with others, held office
under Lincoln, or if you please, were mix
ed up with contracts, and when last saw
you, in Nashville, summer was year ago
YOU was STAYING aud putting along, to and
fom the front, moving heaven and earth
to secure some big contracts to supply the
army OF the Cumberland, and writing the
most sickening and dattering notices of
Gen. Rosecraus, in the hope of winning
upon him and his officials. But a., your
sented failed to secure for you the contracts
you sought, and thus refusing to give you
your "price," you bolted FROM the support
OF Lincoln's administration. While YOU
were Interested in contracts under the gov.
eminent you were a. good Lincoln man
as was.
ITO be candid with you, Mr.. Prentice.
you figured badly in your scramble after
contracts and clamor for extra privileges.
others associated with you, and making a
TOOL OF you, and using your POSITION as a
journalist, to worm themselves into posi-.
tons where they could swindle the Gov
eminent. Indeed, heard the remark
made by men who had always been your
admirers, that 1t was humilia.ing, nay NOR
tifying and disgraceful, to see a poor Old
man, in his dotage, and under the in.lu-
ence OF liquor and an inoY6iuate love of
money, in such drive as you were in, go.
ing and coming To Rosecran's heado,lar-
ters. and calling at the st. Cloud Hotel, in
Nashville, to muster up additional hackers.
While was North, after had spoken ex-
tensively, and my speeches were reported
equally extensively, and Twas made to saw
to the world what really did say--that (
endorsed Lincoln's entire war policy, and
the putting down Of the rebellion even at
the cost Of DISCRIMINATING the Southern
popu.atlon, you wrote 70 me and proposed
20 JOIN me 10 partnership ia starting new
Union paper in Nashviile-an offer I no.
litely declined. 1t is due to you TO state
that, at that time, you were receiving YOUR
price, and my principles were not often
slve TO you. You are the last man in Amer.
lea 70 talk about men having their s'price''
and selling out to Lincoln.
There is slight difference in the posi-.
tons occupied by your family and mine,
and, as necessary consequence your prin-
ciples and mine must differ. NY wiss and
little children, after I had been incarcera-
ted tor three months and sent on: OF the
country, were unceremoniously forced to
pack up and vacate their house ard home,
and go North, q. their OWE expense upon
tn'rty-six hours notice, and thus thrown
npon my hands North, while my property
remained here for the use OF tho confede- |
racy. | thought all the time, and still!
think that the Government ought 20 have |
done something more for me than to confer |
upon ME TINS small Office. although have |
not expressed this opinion before
My two SOFAS entered the Federal army, |
and one OF them is now At home Oh c-utcn-
CO, because Of wounds received in Lending
DIS regimen, OF cavalry in q charge upon
Wheeler's forces in Middle Tennessee. My
other son is in Gen. Gi,lem's command,
and was IN the fight when the Great Ken
lucky horse-thief, Morgan, was killed, TN
der whom and with whom your sens have
been fighting against the Government up
on whose bounty their rebel mother and
father are living. One Of
your sons was killed in Kentucky while on
= DEMONSTRATING expedition under rebel Of
ficers. Your other son is now on trial In
Virginia for the murder of brother rebel
by the name of White. Your wife is an
avowed rebel and ought to be sent South
by the Federal authorities: and you are
but one degree removed from d rebel and d
traitor, having completely played out.-Ii
There is mot a true-hearted Union man in
pour. office, unless be be somes one of the
employees. Your paper is no Longer Tn
on authority, but is rapidly sinking into