The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-27

State GonyeEtion that conyenes here on
Monday next. doubt the utility and pro-
priety Of such an effort. An attempt TO put
y constraint upon tie Governor, would DE
veay apt 10 have an opposite effect. Judge
Gray, Of this city, il spoken OF III conGec-
ton with the position.
The Convention called for Monday next,
is not likely to lie avery full one. There
is SO little diversity OF opinion upon the
Presidential question that no feeling IL ex-
hibited. Men don't care 10 come far to re-
cord q iore5one conclusion. Yours,
t@s'f DIS MONIES.
Washington correspondence.
WAsHINGToN. Feb. 18th. 1863.
The extensive iurloughs granted to re-
enlisted veterans, coupled with IN antici-
patton OF the usual amount or bad winter
weather, have, | suppose, suspended all
operations OF the Army OF the Potomac for
now a long period, nothing having, practi-
cally, been done for seyera, months except
spend money, which operation goes regu-
larly on whether Roadway is making
against the enemy or whether the soldiers
vege;atein camps. Could the nature OF the
season have been anticipated, operations
might have been arranged and executed
all Writer with scarcely less hindrance on
account OF unfavorable weather than in the
summer. The re-enlisted veterans are
now returning in considerable numb ers,
and with the continuance Of such weather
as we have had and are now having, prob
ably operations will early be resumed.
After considerable higgiing and delay
that, at such an imperiOus moment, is NOT
very creditable, the Enrolment bill is now
upon the point OF passing. / suppose the
country may reasonably be expected to
respond to it with alacrity, considering that
in all human probability the last great call
q q "a vi / ftaG oil H.
been made, and the large bounties that
Government and local authorities Jointly
offer will doubtless be earned by compare
lively short service.
The proposed amendment Of the Consti-
| tuition, prohibiting slavery forever and en-
tirely, reported by the Judiciary Commit
tee Of the Senate, is in terms identical with
that introduced by MIR. Wilson. from our
State, in the House. which was referred to
the Judiciary Committee, of which he is
Chairman, in that body. The House Jul
dietary Committee have authorized him TO
report it, which will be done al once. The
consideration of the measure, therefore, in
both Houses, will proceed at the same time,
and upon an Identical basis. | think it
will doubtless pass the House, and can
hardly think there is any dou 5t concerning
its disposition in the Senate.
The whisky business has been the cause
of more strife and intrigue than almost
anything have ever witnessed here be-
fore. The interest. CT course. Is immense,
and the struggle ta poke. The difference
between the Old ana the new tax by The
holders Of the article. has been almost ter
rife. There are many intimations of
Legislators being or Aelng made parties III
interest. But such differences and suspi-
cions are very common and very natural,
however little real cause there may be-
Nevertheless, temptations are great, and
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passed out OF that anlentable state which
still renders that clause O. the Saviour
prayer, lead us not into tenn ptation, one
OF the wisest in that heavenly composition.
Our Iowa citizen. Hawkins Taylor, has
been appointed Special Mail Agent for
kansas, and whatever portion u the COIN
try is annexed 10 it for such purposes.
which, presume. is Nebraska. The pere-
ginatiOns which the position offer him. and
the extensive opportunity which ii affords
TO stir about actively in the political field.
render 1t quite wei suited to his taste and
genius, and l presume he will prove USE
ful in it in many ways.
The project OF Winter Davis for the
government of the recovered rebeilious
States, which has just been introduced in
10 the House, would seem to Le at once
practical and thorough III its character and
likely to command the serious considera-
ton II hot the suiirages of Congress. 1t
ought to be, and to no small extent it is, an
object among leading and thoughtful men,
to provide civil governments for such dis
tricts as we may recover. as fast AS, in
military point OF View, it can possibly be
safe to do so. Governments to conduct ci-
vii affairs ought 10 De instituted By the
military authority no oftener, and TO en-
dure no longer, than is something like i'm
peratlve. IT is consonant with our institu-
tions and the genius of these later times,
that civil government should be instituted
and maintained by the civil branch Of the
General Government, al al. times and pla-
ces where 1t Is practicable; and govern
ments instituted for those regions by Con-
gress should De, and are likely, by the
wisest, to be regarded with more favor
than those instituted by the President
alone, in his military capacity. The pro-
Ject OF Mr.. Davis meets the terms of the
Presidents Proclamation with regard TO
the reorganization Of Such districts, pro-
vides for the extirpation Of the root Of our
national difficulty, and seems to remove
many obstacles that lie in the way OF q
practical cooperation of those who theor-
ize from two opposite points OF view with
reference TO the States OF the seeded States.
And abstract theories Were never of less
account nor practical results never OF great
er Importance than at present, II our hisio-
ry.
Among the noticeable items il the mes
sage OF our Governor, none is CT more sig
niticance, next to the alacrity with which
our people are shown to have sprung to the
nations defence, and none has probably
attracted more attention, than the small
ness Of our public debt. Substantially we
owe nothing-that is, we owe nothing that
we cannot pay at any autumn's collection
Of taxes. 1t is to be hoped that our Legis-
lature will bear in mind the importance Of
this fact 10 our future history, and that, by
no cajolery, Legislative or popular, may
the little burden we bear be made liable to
increase. When the war is over, and bu-
siness and things generally settle down un-
der the ordinary rotations Of peace, it will
be an immense advantage to our State to
be totally unenlbarrassed by debt. Nearly
all our sister States are heavily burdened
by debts of their own, apart from the bur-
den which has been put upon all our peo-
pie by the cause Of the war. None. it is
safe to say, is SO free as Iowa. When peace
has resumed her sway, none, with so rich
soil and SO insignificant q debt, will offer
equal temptations to the enterprising emf
grant. IOWA.
Proceedings of the Lucas Comfy
Convention.