The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-24

numbering courage and fidelity, with in
tegrity which even calunany has not dared
to impeach, and with wisdom md pru-
dence upon which success ii now stamping
the surest and the final seal. His election
WI! proclaim to the world the unaltered
American People TO quell the rebellion and
save the Union. II will strike down for
ever the false hopes and expectations Of the
rebel Government, and proclaim to the
people OF the rebel States that their only
hope lies In abandoning their hostility to
the Government and resuming their allie
glance t0the Constitution and Laws Of the
We call upon tho Union Comuhittees and
the Union Leagues, and upon All loyal as
sociatio6s in every State, County and
Town, to perfect their organization; !; to in.
fuse fresh vigor and activity into their Cp-
eretlons to canvass carefully and prompt
" their respective districts to circulate
Documents and Newspaper, containing
Of our cause; to combat by Assem- blages bf
the people in public meetings, by public
speeches, BY conversation, by letters and
personal appeals. and in all lust and prop.
er modes, the deceptive and perilous soph-
lstries OF the agents and political allies of
the rebellion. Let them b. on their guard
against the the arts arts Of corruption and q in
pnlous desperation, TO bear upon them.
The Rebel Government and those Foreign
Powers most deeply interested in our de-
struction, could well afford to expend
millions in overthr0wing this administra-
ton, and placing in power the nominees
and representatives ct the Chicago Con-
vention. Qesx SIT swtss s. s35s .Es4g
The skies are bright and full of promise.
The lion-hearted tizen-soldiers of the
Republic march with steady tread and un-
falfering purpose to speedy and glorious
victory. The heart of the people beats true
to the Union. Every triumph OF the Union
arms over the Rebel troops arouses afresh
the courage and confidence of Union men,
and chills the heart and decimates the
ranks OF the submission secessionists rep
resented at Chicago. A Union victory in
November will end the long and laborious
strife. twill paralyze the arm of the Re
bellion. 1t will disperse its armies, de-
stroy the hope by which the despotism At
Richmond now holds its subjects in bon.
dage. release the people Of the Southern
States from their enforced disloyalty, and
give them again the blessings Of self-gov-
ernment within the Union and under the
protesting Constitution and Flag Of the
United States. It will enable our own
Government to change the weapons of war
for the counsels Of peace, to relax the stern
control over public action and public
speech which state of war renders una
vOidable, to restore our financial system,
to dissolve all military courts, and hand
over again to the civil tribunals OF justice
the punishment Of crime and the preserva-
ton Of public order, and to restore to their
firesides and their homes, clothed with
honors and to be held in everlasting re-
membrance, that great army Of our citizen
soldiers who have barred their breasts
against armed rebellion, and won the inn
pertshable renown Of saving the glorious
Union, for which their fathers and their
brothers died. m &
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