The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-27
Mr.. Nasty Addresses Jefferson
Davis.


Mr.. Nasty Addresses Jefferson
CHURCH OF THE SLAwrERED INNoCENrsl
(Lait st. Vallandigham,)
Jan. the 9Th, 1863.
]. Davis-ez friend address 700. 1
am wun Nv that class NV yOor friends
knone ez peace democrats, and kin safely
say we hev dun 700 and yoOr coz just ez
much gOode ez any ekal number BARN
muskets in yoor hily heroic army. We
hev BIN, ever since the Ablishnists made
war on 700, workin industrusly fer 700, ez
follows:
We hev, ez a rool, stood infiexybly OPP
posed to almost everything.
We preeched tibet the war wuz an ablishn
war.
We preeched agin taxation.
We held forth agin consk ripshen.
We diskurigd vOlunteerin.
We enkurigd desershens, and perfected
deserters.
We never Good see a fedral victory.
We wuz alluz the first to acknOlidge that
the South ginerally got the better Nv us.
We never believed that 700 wuz gittin
short Nv pervishuns.
We hired niggers to travel north to con-
vince Dimekrats of the niger invashun 2
cum.
We forst Linkin to retain Mick Lellan.
We aboozed Fremont and Rosycrance.
With other artikkless too noomerus tn
menshun.
But somehow it hasn't workt. The Con-
federacy hez bin losin ground with rege-
larity friteful to contemplate. In spite nv
all we Good do, vOlunteerin hez gone on,
and eff we did kill off q General, another
wun just ez good ariz to talk his plais.
Now, Jefferson what kin we do? It II
the vandels hev got us. What shell be the
doj7 Planely to seco0r all we kin. The
Dimocrisy is reddy to reserve you with
Opin arms, but yoor repeetid determine
shun to dy in the last ditch, and SIGH non
SCENTS, hez busted wsnever we spoke nv
cOmpermize an SIGH.
Jefferson! the last oppertoonity presents
not burdened with humilatin condishens.
We kin engineer it so as to bring 700 back
as good ez 700 went out-slaivry safe, yoor
war debt assoomed by the Government,
and 700 back in the SENT. We kin hev
Jim Ashly, and Waid and Sumner hung
We kin hev yoor soljers penshuned, and
the FOOgitive slaiv law re-enactid. and the
territoris turned over to 700 and the fisti-
cation act repealed, and the emancipatin
recalled, and yoor niggers
restored, the Government paying for sech
e. may hey bin kid, and sech other laws
past eZ 700 wish. If Linkin refoOses to
ackseed to these rezonable terms-why
and unnecessary war is on his
and we hev l; shoo fer the next
article we stand very much in
need NV.
Jefferson DO this, and do it TO wunst.-
Delay may be fatle. He ,whIa tezy taits is
lost iSa. The veterans is o rein 'srn and 300
and led hy the originel John Browns
ghost. witch is Inarchn on, is turliin their
Eases toward Dixie with bayonitsat0Ie EN-.
IF 700 wait till June, the Confederacy will
be smasht so fine that the Dimocrisy won't
be able to git together enuf NV il TO maik
a compromise with.
jefferson, eff voc hev any regard fer yer
self, or fer as, yoor trends, do it. "VirchoO
is its own reward BE wise in time.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY,
Faster Nv Sed church in charge.
JOHN BRIGuT's AaRAHIANIsM-John
Bright, the British reformer, in one Of his
late speeches defined the eX tent of his agra
rian opinions. He would repeal the law of
primogeniture, which carries estates to the
oldest son and prevents the division of
landed property. And he argued the jus
tice and necessity OF the change very forci-
bly,:
200 to the United States, and you find
very different state of law. There, u man
may leavehis property as he likes amongst
his children, because the United States law
believes paternal affection and Justice form
of themselves a sufficient law i'll the ma
jority of cases, and. therefore, it is not nee
essary to enforce them by any statute
But if u man dies without making will,
then the law Of the United States takes his
property, and, looking upon his children
with equal affection and equal justice,
makes that distribution which it believes q
lust and loving parent would have made.
Bnt in this country you find that, with re-
gard to all kinds OF property, except that
which is called real OVERWHELMINGLY, the
land Of the country and the houses upon it
the law does exactly the same. It di-
vides equally among the children, because
have done, and would, if he had been q
just parent. Bat when it comes to the
question of the land, then, contrary to the
i,u ropean law, which makes distribution
according to natural justice, and contrary
to the United States law, which, when
there is no will, makes law in accordance
with natural justice, then our law steps in
and does exactly that which natural justice
would forbid. (Hear, hear.) ! should like
to ask if any body is prepared to deny this
that is, property which is not
land, is divided equally; but land is given
to the eldest son in one lump. Tell me
whether the principle which the law OF
that which the law Of America enforces
when there is no will-that which we en-
force when land is not in question, is not q
more just law, approving itself to the hearts
of men and before the eye of Heaven, than
the law which sends beggars into the
world; it may be half a dozen children, in
order that we may make one rich in the =.
possession OF an Inheritance. What are
the reasons? These things are not done
without reason. There are high political
reasons. tLaughtcr.)
''If you go across the Atlantic and study
the political system of the United States,
where almost all the farmers are owners Of
their farms, you will find that they are the
holders Of political power. The Mayor Of
the city Of New York at one time, or the
Governor of that State at another, and the
Of New York, may denounce
the policy Of the Government at Washing
ton ; but it is the land-owning farmers and
the cultivators of the soil of the great
States in the interior Of the country who
are the repositories Of political power,
and by whose will alone the President Of
the United States is able to carry on the
great matters which belong to his exalted
station. [Applause.] 1t is the same in the
Southern States, for it is the great owners