The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-09

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Il How g Prevent . Draft.
In this city are thousands Of men en
gagged in extensive and important bust
ness pursuits, wealthy, and also patriotic
to whom We have few words to say
These men, Of whom We speak, and
whom we address ourselves, are either To-
old to serve in the field, or physically In
capacitated, or else their private affairs an
Of such . nature, rather tim leave them
they willpay largesums ofmoney. ~ short
them to pay In money, than to pay In act
ual bodily service, the duty they owe u
their country.
Now, II every man thus situated win Sor
. day turn himself into recruiting ser
geant, and enlist, ct his own expeDses one
Important duty TO- the county, to the city
and to himself, and the aggregate Of such
efforts will save the city. from q draft, and
keep our regiments full.
The armies now in the field have to 30
kept full in some way. In that way alone
can the war be brougt to an end; IN that
way only can the gallant fellows nov In
Every man In the country ought 50 serve
resentative selected BY himself and sup
ported by him. In that way the whole
strength Of the country will be put forth.
Suppose, further, that one Of the men to
selves, should find = person willing "a. 60
to the army, ready and able to serve, but
having helpless family upon his hands.
In that case, the principal should say to his
representative. II will engage to support
your family; I will bind myself to support
your wife Or mother, with agiven sumper
your children, viii iced, clothe ana send
them to school, while you assume my du-
ties IN the army" In such . case there
would be an economy Of labor; the man
who is prosperous gives Of his abundance
directly to those who need, and a. though
the two were brothers, while one man
behind.
What we have here suggested ought to
be done; there are many men in this city
who can afford to support regiment intho
field; but let every man who can, send one
man to the war and support one soldiers
frightened, the ranks kept full, and many 4
man who now sleepswith poor conscience
because he feels that he Il not doing his
duty to the country, will have a satisfied
mind.
The Provost Marshal General has JUS. is-
sued an order to local Provost Marshals
everywhere to accept representative re-
cruits in the manner we have mentioned.
IN. Y. Euenin0 Post.
The EXPEDITION TO LYNcHBURa.--The
following is an extract OF private letter
written by a soldier Of Crooks division:
CAMP PIATT, ten miles above Charles
here last night, after an absence of two
months in Dixie. The larger part OF, the
time we were marching in a country where
Yankee soldiers were never seen before
except as prisoners. It will hardly do to
say that this raid is ''the creates" '.most
remarkable r &C., Of the war. but certainly
between seven and eight hundred miles,
crossed all the ranges Of the Alleghenies
four times, the ranges Of the Blue Ridge
twice, traversed the famous valley Of Wiz.
ginia to its southern terminus, and, cross
ing the James river, marched along the
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad to Lynch
burg, and back to the Kanawha. We were
at most pf the pleasure resorts Of Virginia
Blue, Salt and w hite Sui phur, Hot, Warm
and Sweet Springs, Natural Bridge, Peaks
Of Otter, and many caves. The Improve
naents at those places were much finer and
more expensive than had expected 70 see..
The towns and cities are, many Of them
beautiful, the plantations and farms hand
somely improved and thoroughly culti-
waited. We lived on the county. and
after our retreat began, and the enc
my began to concentrate, we suffered
some for want Of food, and as it was
almost dead for want Of sleep. We slept
on our horses and in every possible posse
ton the moment there was q halt. Our
loss is small, considering the number OF
skirmishes and affairs we were engaged in.
The killed, wounded and missing In Hays
H~~>fA~ 81
All return in good health Except sore feet)
and in good heart and capital discipline.
We did all We expected to do. We cut
the Central, Tennessee and Charlottes Vile
Railroads, the James River Canal, and de-
stroyed the stores and manufacturing e..
tablishments Of the Valley Of Virginia,
from stanton 70 Lynchburg, We did not
attack It. Troops from Richmond were
there, well fortified In numbers superior %
our own. We drove In their out-posts and
captured their outer works, just enough to
find out their position.
The Impression On my mind about the
rebellion II that the rebels are now using
their last man, last dollar and last Loaf 81
bread. There u absolutely nothing in re-
serve. II beaten now, they 70 mp sudden.
~ and surely. We could zee this every.
where. The last card ID now being PLAYED.
and If lost. all 10 lost for them. lido hope
our people will hold out no matter what
s.0kkOAso ~ 0AOAsA VI my OOOy 0100s a
little persevsranc6 II bound to win the day,
All rebels want 10 end the war now. They
prefer subjugatt0n to another year Of war.
The Nashville Times (Tenn.) has the fot-
lowing practical suggestions to the hearty
Uni0nists Of that section: 6 go
Now that the enlistment Of cOlored s0l.
diers in Kentucky in large numbers il Z
fixed fact, we suggest that sharp eye b
kept on those COpperhead editors, who are
always fishing for contracts with the army
tration which thew 90 nsparingiy sbuse.
An ex-Member Of Congress from KEN
lucky informed % last winter that . Ger.
tain Copperhead editor from his State
made the following remark to him. in
Washington, before the enlistment Of col-
ored troops had begun: politics II played
out and we must try to make some unrn.