The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-23
41o RT1RTINGTf1Ne WEEKLY kHAWK-EYE

j DUh1lNU1ON W III
a.The way to I'LL up our quota under
the recent call il for each Individual to
study, not how to avoid his duty, but how
he may do it. Every man may as well un-
derstand, first rs last, that all that he ~,
and all that he has, belongs to the country,
ana will be used to sustain and assert it,
authority, just so far IS may be necessary.
The contest we are engaged in is for the
national lve. And to sustain that life, II
will and must exhaust its whole energies
before it can:possibly consent 70 die . death
Of shame and eternal dishonor.
It will be easier and cheaper and more
honorable to our State to an its quota with
volunteers than by draft. It makes lit
tie difference to the Government which
course We adopt. But It makes vast diff
ference to the people ut home. Those who
70 under the one method are those who
can go with least hardship to themselves
and the least disturbance to the social re-
lations and industrial pursuits. Those
who stay at home can afford to share in the
burden assumed by those who go, and 1t IL
their duty to do it. Those who are ex-
empted by reason Of age, or other cause,
are not exempt because Of favor to them,
because they owe nothing to their
country, but amply, for the reason
that others are expected to make
more efacient and therefore less costly sol
diers. These constitute the identical class
who generally being most able. should, not
a. burden but with thankfulness, pro-
cure substitutes and thus prove that their
patriotism is little more than lip deep
n they do not do this, If they do not rsos0
assist to throttle the rebellion, the time
Nay come when the rebellion will throt-
tie them, or they may have to put both
life and property to the hazard, and some,
if not all. lose both together. The way to
avoid future dangeris to crush out the pre-
sent. That can only be done by making
the army strong with constant recruits
of volunteers sent forward before the draft
will be ''in ORDER"
Men who rely upon their money to Sc
cure exemption from the draft after it is
made wilf probably find themselves mis-
taken in their calculations. In case we
have one, our notion;is that Substitutes. as
many as can be found, shall leave these
men in the lurch, and 60 only for those
whose absence will impose hardship upon
their dependent families and burdens upon
the public. Men who can leave their fam
lilies in comfortable circumstances, can be
spared by the community much more east
ly than those whose labor. is required
for family support. That's our notion
When the draft Is made let substitutes be
furnished the necessitous BY those who are
not drafted, and let the men who can do
and will not do nos0, ind them II they can.
~ Our dispatches contain statements
to the effect that rebel commissioners are
At Niagara Falls and, that they haye Sub
mitted certain terms to the President
through Horace Greeley, on which, II
agreed to, they are willing to make
"peace"! One report states what these
terms are, another declares they are I'M
true. One says the matter has been re-
ferred to the higher: authorities, the other
that the pretended commissioners have re-
eeived permission to 60 to Washington =
People may credit what they win until the
whole truth il made known by proper au-
thority. Gef
The fact, If there is any fact about it, We
take to be that the rebels are seeking to
make diversion in their own favor by
aiding the Copperheads in producing the
impression in the North thAt they have
terms of peace to offer which, ought TO be
accepted. IF the President has authorized
any one to ascertain what they have to say,
which il questionable, It is merely to DEM
onstrate the perfdy Of the scheme. If the
rebels want peace nothing is 20 easy to
obtain. All they have to do is to lay down
their arms and 80 home. If that ID not
easy, what isf But We shall hear the
whole story very soon II there 10 any to
tell. Meanwhile let no ono be fooled by
this new Copperhead fraud. " III
BLAcKBERRIEs.-Asur surgeon at Washing
ton told Gov. Brough, Of Ohio, that. /" every
bottle Of blackberry cordial or syrup that
came into the hospital saved a human
life." They are about ripening and If to
be had must be picked and properly pre-
pared for use. They are wanted in all the
hospitals, either in cans or In the shape Of
cordial or syrup. There are thousands of
boys and girls in our State who would like
to do something for the sick and wounded
soldiers, if they knew what to do. They
can pick blackberries. If they win pick
them some one in every neighborhood will
put them in shape to 60 to the hospitals. II
they will do SO much good, let the whole
crop this season be appropriated to the sol
diers use. II each bottle of syrup will
save life, or dozen bottles, let us pro-
vide them. How else can we do so much
good with 90 slight cost. Save the black
berries. Send them to the Aosnitnls