The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-10
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK.EYE

S. BURLINGTON WE
~ In all history probably no party eve
i 30 completely wrought ont it's own imam.
4 and utter ruin ~ the party which NOV
istyles itself democratic" Had it prove!
loyal and true to its principles, there is y
1 doubt that it might always have retained
fpower. But it chose, through its le ade1e
Ito be unfaithful to its principles. The,
/ cold themselves to the slavensongers, the.
sought to upturn the republican basis Q
our institutions, and to make human sla
! very, instead Of human freedom, the cor
/ ner stone Of the Union. They bowed sub
missivelyto the Slave Power and sough
to compel the whole people to do likewise
The people would not consent to such base
l ness, and hurled them from their place,
and put men there who stood ana stand b,
The Constitution, as the safeguard of free
dom.
s This lesson would not suffice to bring
back these men to . sense OF duty ane
fidelity. The rebellion came. It's perfldJ
did not startle them. They had sunk intt
such depths Of degradation that they could
net rise out Of it to the path Of honor. They
only sought to prove themselves true tc
the masters who had bought them with .
price. Had there been any manhood left
in them, had theyevinced genuine desire
and purpose to suppress the treason and
sustain the national integrity, they would
have restored themselves to favor with the
people and would probably have regained
the position they have now lost forever
Butthey would not seek to do this. They
have done nothing but demonstrate their
sympathy with traitors, their hatred q
true Democracy, their subserviency to the
slavemongers. They have thereby wrought
out for themselves page Of infamy and
folly heretofore without precedent. They
still cling to their madness. They boast Of
their folly and take pride in the chains
they wear. They have not even sense
enough to know that they are already
weighed and found wanting.
- If any one wants to know the ami
mus Of the Copperheeds-can any one now
be ignorant of it?-the sneers of the Chica-
90 Times, at the Recommendation of the
President that the people on next Sunday
return thanks for the victories at Mobile
and Atlanta, will satisfy him. In common
With the rest Of the traitorous crew Of Cop
psrheads, that paper finds no consolation,
no fund Of Qualification in these signal and
and important successes. II has no word
Of congratulation for the gallant sailors and
soldiers who have achieved these glorious
victories. But 1t can sneer at tho results
and insult the loyal people Of the land by
it, evident sympathy for the rebel enc
mics Of the country aud regret that they,
instead Of the national forces. had not been
victorious
But al this has long been notorious.
The copperheads have no sympathy with
our soldiers, take no pride in their success.
They rejoice only when they are unfortu-
nate and their rebel friends are, or seem
70 be, successful. They are glad when the
traitors under JeK. Davis are glad, and
Iorrow when they sorrow. Nothing pleas
- them like . rebel triumph. Nothing
dlls them with such gloom - such victA
Iies ~ Mobile and Atlanta. We do not
wonder that the Times sneers Ut the loyal.
It is its only resource. The traitors heart
must manifest itself in some way-as we'll
hat ~ any. But what do patriots think
81 It?
~We print elsewhere an article from
he New York Herald, in which it advises
Mcclellan to repudiate the Chicago Plat
orm, and run on his own record. We call
attention to the fact that the Herald accu.
- the leaders among the peace men Of &C:
;ual completely with the rebels, that it |
'tyles the platform . secession platform,
asserts that It was dictated by JEFF. Davis,
declares that the Copperheads desire the |
election Of Mcclellan no more than the |
Southern secessionists desired the election |
4 Douglas in 1850, a6rms that their pur-
,ose is to create a revolution in the North,
md asserts the existsuce of great con-
piracy in the Northwest for that end, and |
'fiers the fact that the Convention adj
burned to meet again ct the call Of the Ma
ional Committee as sufIicient evidence oil
uch revolutionary design. That It says is
Equivalent to thNorganization of q revolu-
ionary body. In the light of all these
surroundings, it exhorts Nc
1ellan to kick the platform from under
Inn, - means Of averting the threatened
vu.s The article viii serve good pur-
'ose, Though the lesson to be derived from
10 not exactly what the Herald finds.-l