The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-18

-. Fremont's letter il q " continual
FEAST" The more we examine it the richer
itRyows. Not the least spicy portion of it
IL that clause which declares that this ''is a
contest even for the right to have candi-
dates" Coming, as this does, from q man
who proposes to ''go to bed with the Cop
perheads," it is difficult to imagine any
thing more bitterly satirizing himself
This whole civil war is waged because the
people thought,-the innocent souls THAT
they had a Constitutional right to elect
their own President. The rebels made the
election Of Lincoln their pretense for Sc
cession and Rebellion. They insisted that
the people had no right to elect anybody
that did not please them. They insisted
that they had the exclusive right to dictate
who should be President. The moment
the people questioned that doctrine by their
act, the villains undertook to destroy the
Union.
The Union people are fighting on this
identical issue. They are in earnest in the
belief that they have right to choose their
own candidates and elect them. They are
u Z
dent is elected, it is the duty Of all to sub
init to his Constitutional authority. They
are fighting to maintain their ideas. They
are striving to put down the rebellion be-
cause they are true, because it must be put
wn # the republic endures, if we are
70 have any more Presidents.
And now, when it becomes necessary to
s,lant ,r.o+bar DroS;6cp% NJ E,rov,,or< 3,
the very spirit Of the rebels, enters pro-
test agains, the right of the people to select
their candidate. He processes to be I'm
ion man. and to prove he is one, sets him
self up against the choice of Union men,
and proposes to unite with Copperheads to
defeat the choice OF the patriotici He
wants to play the Part Of rebels. He must
b allowed to dictatescr he " secedes p
Could man more entctuslv satirise him.
olf than he has done?
IA movement IL said to be going on at
St.Louis TO induce the Chicago Convention
Of Opperheads-for it viii consist almost
exclsively Of the reptiles-to accept and
adopt Fremont - its candidate. This is
but nauraL They understand, the leaders
do, thsthere il no hope for the success Of
any candidate they may nominate them
selves. hey fully comprehend the fact
that they se thoroughly damned in pub
Lie estimatAn. Their only prospect lies
in tying theAselves to the tail of some one
who hiss had ne reputation of being loyal
and true, and tho they hope will be base
enough to be uade their tool. Fremont
willdo ~ well any one, no doubt. We
seeno reason whSthis happy union should
nj be consummasd, We desire the issue
. b made plain an square-the patriots
IN one side, the trstors on the other
And we see no bette mode of doing this
than for the Copperheals to unite on Ere.
mont. Why shouldn't beyf He seems te
be quite willing. And Vie Union people
are az willing as he can b
- The Richmond paNrs are CROWNS
pious again. The other Ay they wer,
earnestly exhosting the peote to pray. 1
prayers were ever needed, thy said, it il
now. Well-we think they WIRE right q.
far AZ they went. But they dAn't 70 "a,
enough. They didn't tell theirveaders I,
repent Of their enormous crimes. They dix
not urge any to make amends br thei
violation Of all human and Divine avs. q,
far az they could. We know of III faitl
which asserts any efficacy in the prayers o
those who persist in their iniquities. w,
, have heard that the prayers Of the hunbl,
and psnitent were often answered. Butp,
one seems to. have imagined that Ii
prayers Of abandoned sinners for the sue
CESS of their perfidies would havea favors
BILE response. That idea seems to have bee
left to the imagination Of the rebels. til
inst as sensible As the other-that treaso
10 patriotism.
~ Hon. B. F. Roberts, right-of-wa.
agent for the Des Moines Valley Railroad
was in this city yesterday. He states tina
the road will be completed and the car
running TO Pella by the first of October
Mr.. r. il . thorough going and wide-awak'
agent, and il one ofthe most energetic mer
We have in Iowa. He occupied high and
honorable position in the Senate Of oul
Legislature last winter, and deserves well
Of the people Of this State.