The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-05

BURLINGTON, SATUR
in such a position that it commands atten
ton; and I can think such man to bt
| more OF gentleman and scholar, and ever
| Christian, than your cowardly, cold.
blooded, sucke.eyed assassin, called a Cop
perhead. EGreat cheers.l It does seem 4
me that Of all men in the world the smai!esl
are those who go into the service Of The
devil, and are yet too cowardly to wear his
has hundred chances OF climbing into
Paradise where Vallandigham has one
Take this man Dodd in my evangelical
State Of Indiana-the man who loved
peace 80 we'll that he went all the way tc
| New York, saying "Blessed are the peace
makers!" and laid In $500, 600 worth Of arms
and ammjnition, with which to inauguIa.e
civil war in Indiana-don'ty you think such
| man is meaner than JEFF. Davis? Take
your man Pendleton-but suppose court
esyj forbids my speaking of your near
neigh bor-sO to take Sam Perkins Of my
own State, or take another Sam by the
name OF Cox, and all the miserable hounds
you can find in the Coppeahead kennels o1
the land, and put them up as meaner than
|
in defense OF his cause. Cheers.] There
can be no such thing as loyal patriotic
citizen opposing the means employed by
the Government to suppress the rebellion.
You cannot serve two masters; youfcaunOt
ride two horses at once going in opposite
directions, without great inconvenience =
You are on one side or the other every
one of you are on the side Of your
country, heart and soul and might, or you
are on the side Of the enemies, heart and
soul and might. And when this war is
over, patriots will hold you .answersble
for having chosen the one side or the other.
l wish the Government had learned this
lesson earlier, and that it had taken VAL
landigham, and Burnett, and Brrcken-
ridge, and other srehsls ip Congress-, and
with strong hemp cord had suspended
them between heaven and earth. II this
had been done, rebellion would have been
nipped in the bud, and the country would
have been saved from the whole Copper
head race. f...sssS
|. l4cs Eow TO HATE TRAITORS. s.4s
We have learned, also, how TO hate re-
bells, suitably. In the beginning we didn't
understand this. We called them ''ouT
misguided fellow Citizens" .'our erring
Southern brethren y tour .wayward sis
ters,'' and all such beautiful terms. We
had been 80 long in bed with these fellows
that we didn't know how, decently, TO kick
them out. You know how long we had
been their hewers Of wood and drawers Of
water; how, when they said 60, We went
They took our best statesmen and harness
ed them like beasts Of burden. When they
met in Congress these Southern blOoded
gentlemen would take them by the hands
warmly, and melt their hearts by the feY-
vent beat Of their hypocri tical loves and at
once their faces would be turned toward
the South, and they would remember the
North no more forever. But don't want
to say anything hard against these dough.
faces Of the North; for II you had not been
doughfaces yourselves you never would
when the war broke out 1--WE saw men ~
trees walking" and called these traitors
| our eTFing Southern brethren, when the
fact was they were poisoning our wells,
numbering our soldiers IN the hospitals,
and carving out Of their bones rings and
ornaments with which to decorate the car
casses OF their Virginia women, hatching
into life whole broods Of enormities an
known in all past warfare. IChoers.]
Here the speaker recited the horrors Of
Libby and other Virginia prisons, and con-
cluded by saying: I.
Some people believe that at death every.
body will go right to heaven, without any
purgatory on the way. do not wish TO
introduce any question OF theology here,
butt does seem 10 me .ha. if.here IS not a
brisk little hell over on the other side
somewhere, It is a grand oversight on the
part Of Providence that ought to be rene.
died before another rebellion takes place.
But think there must be such an estab-
lishment in Gods creation for the punish
nent Of such sinners ss these. Do not un-
derstand me, however, as making motion
to postpone the punishment Of these rebels
to another life. am for dealing with them
here. and paying as large an installment
of the penalty due their crimes as We can.
would not turn cannibal or Thug, and
initiate their deTilish propensities, but
wherever could smite them under the
fifth rib even unto death. ] would do IT.
would do Il difYereittiy ffom the way it has
been done. ! would burn their beautiful
Southern cities; would turn their fields
into deserts; would make their Gun AZ
bitter as the ashes Of hell all the time.
would write desolation and death under
the hoofs of their horses, and paint hell on
so that all the world might know what il
costs to coIspire against a Government like
this. ts6&
DO you say that / would inculca,e an un-
christian spirit? i understand Christiani-
II to recognize the authority and to obey
the laws Of the riyhtful Government; and
wheEf'a gang Of outlaws conspire to over
tQIVW 0OCu ~ 0OVSk0M0ut IL 10 tu0 UUGY Oh
every Christian to lay hold Of every means
necessary to re-establish the power OF
'rightful authority over them. This is the
Christianity Hold to, and was educated
q Quaker up here in old Wa gne county
But / do not base this theory of war on
Quaker authority alone. [And the speak
er went on to quote from military authoril
ties TO prove how terrible 1t was necessary
to make war, IL ofdefgtos accomplish
speedy results'with Sthetleast sacrifice and
sufering] He then. continued: # you
wsnt man to hoe cornwell, yen must iind
a man whose heart is in that kind Of work:
and II you want to fight rebels successfully
you must learn to hate them and fight them
in earnest. Quaker as I am, would say
with . Baptist preacher I heard o short
time since: II am for the Proclamation,
confiscation, emancipation and liberation
and he'll and damnation for all rebels. l
heard lately Of 9 Calvanistic brother who
said he believed God would send some sim
.ners to hell, just to show what splendid
damnation he coald give them; and so I
would say Of these rebels; would give
them such splendid military damnafion
that they would forever remember il, and