The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30


present condition of Texas by the message
OF her Rebel Governor, recently received.
Like all leaders of the Rebellion in these
days, this Texan outlaw finds most of his
reasons for hope, in the future. What he
has to say OF the present aspect of affairs,
whether in Texas or in other rebelliOus
States, is sufficiently gloomy. He conf
plains at the outset that the citizens not al
ready i'll the army are making every effort
to keep out, and urges that both the Rich
mOnd Congress and the State Legislatures
shall abolish all exemption and substitute
laws, and convert every man in the coun-
try into a soldier What the country is to
do meanwhile, or how the armies are to be
fed when all the whites are soldiers and all
the negroes teamsters, he does not explain.
The negroes, however, are to be more than
teamsters. We must do Gov. Lubbock the
justice to say that he goes further than most
Northern men, in urging that 1.-The swarms
OF men engaged in profitable business on
their own accounts, who are exempted
from, or avoid, military service upon one
preteXt or another, the thousands occupied
in driving teams and cattle for the Govern
ment agents, and Government contractors,
must be placed in their respective cOmpa-
MES, and replaced by negroes! We give
this remarkable recommendation literally
from the copy before US, in The Weekly
Telegraph Of Houston, printed on a half
sheet of dingy pink wrapping paper.
But, Notwithstanding these complaints,
it appears that Texas has contributed TO
the Rebel cause not less than $4,000 men in
all-nearly 10000 more than her whole
vote for President in 1860. Besides these,
she is now called upon for every male OF Ii
and upward. Falling this general levy,
"unnumbered calamities and misfortunes''
will befall their traitorOus cause: in other
words, the Rebellion west of the Missis-
sippi is going to pieces faster than its lead
ers can devise impossible expedients to
keep il together. Texas is to give all she
has, all her white men, all her property,
and all her negroes. The Impressment law
passed by the Rebel Congress is not strin-
gent enough. AState law is recommended
to empower ''the Executive" when sup
plies cannot be had for the army at reason
able rates, ITO order impressments under
proper legal regulations authority
without limit. The same is sought in the
case of slaves Ito carry on the public works,
drive teams, and perform all other labor
necessary to the efficiency OF the service
And the Governor has gone further than
this, Overstepping the limits OF citizenship
and citizens property, and has directed
all aliens to be enrolled and subjected to
the draft''-two operations which, under
Rebel rule, are generally simultaneous.
Their conscriptiOn is a lottery in which
there are no blanks.
This message fOreShadOwS with frlghtful
distinction the vindictive persecution with
which the surviving Unionists Of Texas
are to be harassed. What they, and still
more what their martyred comrades, have
already suffered we partly know. Hun
dreds of men have been driven from their
homes, their property destroyed, they and
their families murdered with all devices OF
devilish cruelty, for no other crime than
loving the flag Of their country too WE'LL
Their bones whiten every prairie of Texas.
1--WE have dealt very leniently by all such
people," says the Rebel Governor, ''toO
much so, / think. The time has arrived
when Toryism should no longer, and anus,
no longer, be tolerated." He can only
mean that the remnants of the brave bands
who yet remain where the Rebellion rules
are to be utterly exterminated. God speed
the army which marches for their deliver
ance.-N. Y, Tribune.