The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-25

BURLINGTON w.
GePrit Smith ON the President.
A letter from Gerrit Smith to Mrs. r
Cady Stanton, dated Peterboro, June 7th
says: y ~
or Fremont, or Chase. or Butler, or Grant
who shall reach the Presidential chair, Is
comparatively very slight. But my concern
to Keep out of it a man who would make
any other terms with the rebels than their
absolute submission, is Overwhelming
For any other terms would not only de-
OF nationality everywhere and sadly dam
age the precious interests of al mankind.
Since the rebellion broke out have been
nothing but an anti-rebellion man.. So un-
conditionally have l gone for putting it
down Internationally as to make no stip-
! ulations in behalf Of my most cherished
objects and dearest interest. And so shall
cause. Nevertheless, would have the re-
| bellion put down at whatever necessary
expense to that cause. l love the consti-
| tuition and deprecate the making OF any,
even the slightest change in it. Never
theless, make infinitely less account Of
saving it than Of destroying the rebellion.
l love my country. But sooner than see
her compromise with the rebels, would
see her exhaust herself and perish in her
endeavors to defeat their crime-the great
est crime OF all the ages and all the world.
Go not forget that many OF my old fellow
Abolitionists accuse me Of having been
unfaithful to the anti-slavery cause during
the rebellion. My first answer to them is,
that TO help suppress the rebellion is the
mt hot rto IN mr. mn y
second answer, that. in no way SO well as
in snppressing it, can the anti-slavery
cause, or any other good cause, be promo
ted. There is not good cause on the earth
that has not an enemy in the unmxed
and mighty wickedness OF this rebellion
Another instance Of meddling with things
before their time is this slapplng of the
was about to say, that doing SO serves but
to provoke the enmity Of France. There
is, however, one thing more which it pro-
vOkes and that is the ridjcuie OF the world.
For while the rebels are still at the thrOa.
of the Nation, and may even be at her fu-
neral. to be resolving that we viii protect
the whole Western Continent from the de-
signs Of the whole Eastern Continent, is rs
ludicrous a piece of impotent bravado as
ever the world laughed at.
And still another instance Of our foolish
prematureness, is the big words in which
we threaten 70 punish the leaders Of the re-
beli u. It would be time enough for these
big words when we had subdued the rebel
lion and captured the leaders. In the
meantime there should only be big blows.
Moreover, if we shall succeed in getting
these leaders into our hands, it would be
question Of the gravest consideration
whether we should not beg their pardon
instead Of Furnishing them. What was it
that stirred up the rebellion? The spirit
pfc oil >1Not olO so, ffpn tvSt hVy
which Southern treason can build up fire
in the Southern heart, whose flames shall
burst out in rebellion. Slavery gone from
the South, and there will never more be
rebellions there to disturb the peace and
prosperity in which the North and South
will ever after dwell together.
A PROPOSITION FOR ExcHANGE.-The
Richmond Wig Of the 9Th of June urges
the expulsion from the capital of ''some
fifteen hundred or two thousand Irish and
German women who are now living there
on the score that their husbands "have
gone over to the Yvnkee service The
southern gentleman who writes this in one
tot the leading rebel journals, shows his
general breeding by the way in which he
speaks of these unfortunate women and
their children. He says: "They Go not
pretend to do any Kind of work, and spend
all their time in running from one place
where charity is dispensed TO another, just
as hogs in the fall of the year run from one
'app,e tree 10 another"
We have no doubt the husbands of these
Irish and German women would have
preferred to enter the Union armies; but
there is every reason to believe that they
have been conscripted into the bel ranks,
and have either died there, or are still
forced TO fight for these rebels, who now
propose to expel their helpless wives and
children. ~
When one of the shareholders in 1861
told Russell. the London Times cores
Pondedt, that when the lighting was done
Fthey meArtfto put down the Irish, he only
expressed what is in the heart of every
slaveholding rebel, who sees in a free work
ing man ''mudsill," "flthy mechanic
and person dangerous TO slavery.
As to sending these Irish and German
women and children into our lines. we can
only say, they will he welcome. The men
fof the free States have never refused an
asylum, safety, shelter, food, clothing, and
kind offices to helpless women and chill
dren. But when they come to US, let orr
Government send South, to Richmond, an
Lequal or better a double number of the
rebel women with whom the boarding
houses Of New York are crowded, and not
less than twenty thousand OF whom are
known 10 the police. By such an exchange
we shall be greatly benefited.-Ne,o York
Times.
New BROTH ERHooD ASSOCIATION IN
THE ARMY.-War, with all its sad and
earnest realities, develops some of the
finest traits Of our humanity. War itself
establishes a grand brotherhood. This fill
ial feeling is everywhere evident, although
failing an organized expression. am led
| to these observations from the recent Or
ganizatiOn in the 5th corps of society
called the "Ben Schars.'' The derivation
of the name am unable to give. The OBJ
ject of the organization, as explained to
me, is to look out for one anothers inter-
ests on the march, in the bivouac and in
battle. There are manifold ways OF doing
| this, as for instance, if one is sick, to see
that he lacks no want of attention; if one
wants money, to see that he has it; if one
in wounded, to look to his immediate care !;
and, if one is killed in battle, to see, if it is
impossible to forward the body home, that
he is buried as becomes q soldier, to have
a record made of his burial place, and his
effects preserved and transmitted to his
friends. The benefits arising from such an