The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-12

Daniel g. Dickiuson's last epistolary
stump speech, delivered by mail in mass
meeting at Syracuse. - usual brought down
the. House. He said:
BINaHANroN, Oct. Is, l66A-GENTLE-
NEx \ The hard cold l took few days
since at = Union gathering still at;iicts me,
and interferes 20 seriously with the 'slree-
dom Of Speech" that am not for the pre-
sent. much TO my regret compelled TO alb
stain from ali forensic, Efforts. But there
are enough in the field to rally the masses,
and when the move, . victory for truth and
Union Is not far off, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Indiana have shown us the course OF
the popular currents, and let us not believe,
nor permit others to do 80, that the empire
State ;s less patriotic than her noble
sisters. It looks now as though the
contingent remainder of the Chicago
Convention, after the sth Of November,
weulu be taxed, under the Internal Re-
venue law. ~ beaten copper" The
bespeak your sympaties, shows them to Be
both cruel and exciting. Thay declare the
war Z failure in tho lace Of IN armed, un-
scrupulous and willy enemy, and propose
to negotiate for peace, after admitting that
the rebellion has mastered NJ. 9ale .53{ sE,
Upon thisp0or. abject and jaded nag they
plaes the General, and then exhoft him to
know that he is entirely unaccustomed 70
forced marches. Evidently fearing the sue
cess OF the peace policy. at the risk Of both
speed and bottom, the General endeavOrs to
place one foot on the sodr horse, travelling
IN an opposite direction from his own, and
is jas: now practicing more extended naoce-
nents than any his military experience has
was accI TO give way to his wit,
sometimes II the ex pense Of his vene ration.
On one occasion, y tailor who hadl laid aside
his shears and press board for the desk and
the Bible. sought to confute the Dean 8
views upon some passage OF Scripture
which he cited. The Dean yielded grace
fAlly, but said there was another passage
which lad occasioned him great embar-
rassment- Said he to the tailor, have
been reading in the Revelations that an an
gel came down and stood one foot on the
sea and the other on dry land, now il lies
within your line to tell how many yards Of
cloth it would take to make him pair Of
breeches /! have never learned that the
clerical tailor ever gave an answer; but II
he did, the General should, by all means,
Rnd IL. and have his measure taken accord.
ingly., The latter will, however, be done,
and that efectually, or the sih day Of
November. - IA s...
Yours truly, p. 8. Dickinson.
Cellan inen ia Pennsyl are not whit
behind their cheating, swindling brethren
10 New York. ,ges..
They voted IN body to deny the soldier
the right to vote; and they are determined,
now that be has the right, he shall not be
permitted to exercise Il.
When the return Judges met in Bedford
county, on Friday last. they threw out for
ty.flve soldiers' votes for Koontz, the Un-
lon candidate for Congress, and In Adams
county the board threw out 128 armv votes
for the same candidate.
The reason given for this procedure is
s'informality" in the returns. II il not
pretended that the returns were not genu-
Inc. nor that the votes were not legally
cast; nor that there was any fraud or wrong
IA receiving the votes; but the returns
themselves lacked some trifiing Formally,
And they were thrown out.
The object Of this act was simply TO elect
6ofrotb. the Copperhead candidate for
Congress, by depriving nearly two hun
dred soldiers OF their votes, legally cast
It is bareiaced swindle. and we trust that
the Governor, who has the final canvassing
Of the votes, will show these swindlers
that they cannot succeed in their vii
lainous purposes; kaontz is legally, fair
y elected, and Ne must not be cheated out
Of his seat. ss'-1 - =