The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-03


the British Parliment. The arguments,
observe, have taken different
turn, and hope may tend 10 con-
vince all Of the necessity Of q stroug,
energetic Government, which would equal
II tend to give energy to and protect the
State Governments. What was the origin
Of the military establishment o1Europe?
It was tho jealousy which one State OF
Kingdom entertained of another. This
jealousy was productive of evil. IA
May not our distractions invite danger
from abroadf II the power IL nottmme-
diately derived from the people, In proper
ton 10 their numbers, we may make q
paper Confederacy, but that wilFbe all
We know the effects of the old Confedera.
ton, and without General Government
this might be like the former"
49-We commend the following extract
from the opinion Of Chief Justice Marshal
in the Burr treason case. to the attention Of
those who are inveigled into reasonable
associations: T e
Ifiwsr be actually levied, that is, if a
body OF men be actually assembled for the
purpose Of efecting reasonable object,
all those who perform any part, however
| minute. or however remote from the scene
of action, and who are actually leagued In
fthe general conspiracy, are TO be considered
as traitors.".
4 We told our readers some time since that
this was the law. We here give them the
words Of Marshall. It will be we'll with
all to consider the position they occupy the
moment they become parties to treasona-
BILE conspiracy. They are no longer mas
tiers Of their own destiny. They place
themselves at the mercy Of the most vile
and reckless of the conspirators. They are
held equally responsible for the crime. If
the war be levied, if q body of men merely
assemble to effect . reasonable object, the
act Of that body is the act of all the con-
spirators, wherever they may be, and al
though they may be entirely ignorant Of
any intent to perform the particular act.
The onlymode of avoiding this terrible re-
eponsibility is by keeping entirely clear of
such reasonable associations. If men do
this they are safe. II they don't, they live
with a halterfound their necks, which the
act of q few desperate villains may at any
moment tighten. Let them look to it in
season. If they are in already, Let them
make haste to get out.
~What the rebels desire above all
things else, is the defeat Of Mr.. Lincoln.
They say SO, all the time. What the Cop.
perheads desire above all things else is the
defeat Of Mr.. Lincoln They, also, stick
to that persistently. s' ..
Why is it that these Southern and North
ern traitors concur in this7 Is it NOT, and
must it not be, because they are equally
satisfied that his reelection will Illustrate
their reasonable designs? They know
that If Lincoln is reelected the rebellion
will be crushed and the Union sustained,
and its authority everywhere ultimately
enforced. They know, just rs well, that If
he is defeated the revolt win succeed, the
Union be destroyed, and this is why they
unite in the wish and effort to defeat him.
That Is the true reason Of this agreement.
The Copperheads accordingly aim at the
nomination and election of one Of their
own order, one who thinks secession right
and the assertion Of the National authority
wrong, and they propose securing his cleo
ton by the same violent means as are en-
ployed to sustain the secession treason.
- Fernando Wood, the wise ~ well
rs honest. insisted in his Dayton speech
the other day, that his friends OF Dixie
could not be conquered no matter how wise
our Statesmen or skillful our Generals
II Fernando i fright, then the Admins
tration Il not in fault because they are not
already conquered. They cannot be blamed
for not having done what he declares
could not be done. His declaration shows
that the work is one of great magnitude.
But something. and very much, is already
done towards conquering the traitors. If
this does not demonstrate our ability to
carry It on to successful issue, what can !.
Great labors, either individual or national.
require . proportional time to complete
them. Ought not "Fernandy' to wait a
little longer before he asserts SO positively
that we cannot accomplish what it is evil
dent We are accomplishing? Ought he not
to be little less confident, a little more
nodest7 1t is plain we cannot conquer if
we refuse, as he and bis friends do. to lrv.
Our trials have not been failures, they have
been successes. We have gone forward
constantly. We cannot reasonably expec,
the building to be completed unless we
put up brick enough. Now can we expect
complete success in war unless We prosecute
it long enough. In either case we lose al
unless we go through. "Fernandy" dom,
want to go through. That is his trouble
II he did, would he counsel stopping nov
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@The rebels tell US that Fort Morgan
10 IN the possession Of our forces. It is
presumable that they would not tell thai
story unless 1t were true, or they be-
neSed 1t to be true. Being taken for true
"at once settles the fate of Mobile as par
OF Inc "Confederacy," makes 1t an INLAND
CITY OF no special consequence to as, anc
perhaps hardly worth capturing and hold
ing, unless It's capture would carry with i
the ability to navigate the rivers above
how this would be we do not know. Blu