The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-04-02

BURLINGTON WE
Va Our dispatches yesterday intimated
that the rebels under Forrest and Faulkner
got more than they wanted at Paducah.
KY. How they managed to reach that
point we don't exactly understand. What
business such force had 50 far within our
lines. we leave the military authorities in
that section to explain, But since they
did get there, We are glad to learn that
they met with such reception as will not
greatly encourage them to ''cal again."
Now that they have met with bloody
repulse we trust they will be followed up
with such promptness and energy as will
result in the capture of the whole gang
II is time that these forays were ended
especially in that quarter. Their purpose
is to obstruct the navigation of the Cum
berland and Tennessee rivers, and thus
impede the forwarding Of supplies towards
the front at Chattanooga. That is just now
Q vital interest. 1t is requisite that these
rivers be kept clear Of such Instructions as
such a force as Forests could speedily
create. We hope he is already taken
proper care OF. Mere repulses won't do.--
Capture the whole gang. Put them where
they will be safe. Let there be little more
vigor displayed in that vicinity. They
really seem to be laboring under the delu-
siye idea that it is quite unnecessary to
keep their eyes open, much less to use
them. at and about Cairo and Columbus.
| D-The Catholic Telegraph Of Cincinnati,
speaking of the Presidential nomination,
says that, as between Lincoln aud Fremont,
it has NO choice Whoever receives the
Union nomination it il determined to sup
port. 1t only hopes that the nominee will
be good man, who will have the welfare
Of the country at heart, and will seek to Sc
aud ambition.
That is sensible talk. We ought.to agree
in these views and aims. We all want such
man. live keep cool and carefully and
impartially seek to ascertain who will ''best
ill the bill, )" there will ultimately be very
little diversity Of opinion, and we shall be
| able to nominate him with unusual una
uimity. If we indulge in mere personal
pique about the matter-run off in tangents
on this or that man, of course there will be
no wise and deliberate choice, aud some Of
US will surely be disappointed. If we could
only thoroughly understand the infinite
importance to the country Of prudent and
fraternsl concord aud unanimity in these
times of trial,--could forget self and think
only of the public good, we should not be
likely to dispute much or differ greatly
about the man we should nominate. 1t is
necessity that the Government be sus-
tanned. That is the end to be secured Who
shall administer it is 80 SMALL matter that
1t is almost idiotic to dispute about it.
~ We commend to the consideration Of
Democrats hereabouts, the following para.
graph taken from the Metropolitan Record,
paper published in the city Of New York:
The address OF THE (REBRL) LEars-
LATURE OF VIRGlNIA.-We commend
to the earnest consideration Of those who
still suppose the South eau be conquered,
the eloquent and thrilling address of the
General Assembly Of Virginia, that grand
and gallant old common wealth, the mother
of States and of statesmen, the birthplace
IT,
The defiant tone in which it treats of the
efforts to enslave the people of the South,
and the eloquent language of deuuuciation
in which it refers to the barbarous system
of warfare pursued by the min;ons of the
Washington despot, vii. meet with an
echo in the heart Of every man who loves
justice and hates oppression. We trust in
God we shall never see the day on which
the glorious old commonwealth will he
subdued and given over to the spoiler and
the plunderer; to the Buffers and the
Schencks: to the licensed burglar and in
ceudiary, melted and encouraged by ''the
best Government on the face of the EARTH"
=, AZ 70 the freedom and independence Of
the south, we have no approximations. Her
people can never be conquered, and, If that
were possible, Abraham Lincoln is not the
man TO accomplish that subjugatiou.
The address OF the Virginia Assembly is
proof that the resolution which animated
Virginia all through this war is as unbro-
ken ~ ever, that there is no faltering, no
great document, "VIRGrNIA TAKES NO
STEP BACKWARD
Grand old State. may we never
see the day when you shall have to how
beneath the yoke Of the oppressor. Ifthat
day should ever come, then will the friends
of freedom, the lovers of true heroism aud
manhood, mourn over the sad fate of q
great people, who fell while fighting for
liberty and independence. fell on the same
soil that gave birth to Washington, to one
whose name should have been sufficient to
save the grea. commonwealth from the
tread Of the heartiess invader.
OF course the Record sealously supports
Mcclellan for the Presidency. But does
any one see the liberty Of the press
abridged in the above |! IL it possible for
man to write more treason than is con-
tanned In the above brief paragraphs. And
yet, these cruci6ers of the Government,
these most despicable Of oil men, whose
filthy carcasses carry a soul damned with
in them, have the brazen effrontery to as
sert, from day to day, to their deluded
apes, that the freedom Of the press, and Of
speech, is not allowed them by the ''Lin-
coin tvrautsv We have a rood doal If