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

we Doll0vo t00t ABRAHAM Lincoln ID
Chief Magistrate of the enemy's country
for four years longer. How he accomplish
ed this object-whether the transac-
ton is properly called an election, or an
usurpatiOn, or coup dt0t-is the affair of
his own subjects, and no concern Of ours.
There he is and along with him the whole
War Administration, more bent on alaugh-
ter and confiscation that ever, and backed
by the great War interest hungry for new
and more enormous CONTRACTS It would
be idle speculation for us 70 occupy our
selves with the possible revolt Of the de-
feated and disappointed party amongst onr
enemies, or the probable break down Of
their financial resources, with the chance
of riots, resistance TO drafts, or conspira-
cies to seperate the Western Etates-all
these things are contingent and precarious:
may happen and may not.
What we are certain Of, the real, present
inevitable fact is, that the whole Of the ma
terial resources, the army, the navy, the
arsenals, the treasury ofthe Federal States
are now all firmly grasped and welded by
the hands Of those who have vowed de-
stroy US, to seize orr lands and houses, to
beggar our children and brand our names
forever as the names of felons and traitors.
This is the "situation." This is what We
have now to deal with, and on the way in
which we meet it depends the whole future
of our race and nation. II we shrink from
that we hsd never been born. Fortunately
there is no middle course for MS. We must
be victors, or we must he annihilated; and
it is better 50. We are glad that there is
no room now for submission. Submission
would be but running to meet the shame
full doom Of subjugatiOn; it would not save
US one acre Of ground, one right of citizen
ship the party that has placed Lincoln at
it's head for another term is moi to be cheat.
ed out of its prey now by compromise or
clemency. It knows what it has staked,
and has counted up what it means to win.
The Yankee nation has committed itself
to the game Of all or nothing; and SO must
we. The only question for US now is,
whether we shall call forth all the ener-
gies and resources of our country, all the
courage and manhood Of our race to drive
back the foul invaders Of our homes and
make them expiate their crime with their
own base blood. or whether we shall fly
from our country, take false names, hide
our shame In the ends Of the earth, and
peep about to find ourselves dishonorable
''graves''-or else remain as q generation
OF serfs, to beg shelte.' and employment
from Yankee and negro masters. Such is
the alternative.
But this remains to be said. Although
unsparing war, carnage and conquest may
be the present design or dream Of that ma
ton and its rulers, !: by no means follows
We do not believe that there can be. Man
proposes, but does not absolutely dispose;
and whether there can be even one other
campaign depends not on the present in
tentions Of any human being or human
Government, but on events which we Of
the Confederate States have quite - much
power to shape and determine as our enc
mics have. A strenuous determination
now to bring all our enrolled soldiers to
their post will, even before this year is out,
put as clear through the bloody deluge Of
war, and place us on the safe shore, from
whence ut our ease we may look on at the
absurd and atrocious Yankee nation going
TO utter wreck in the storm it had conjnred
mp for our Richmond Exana-
liner, 1lth.