The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

~ Congress didn't adjourn over to at
tend the Baltimore Convention. Some OF
the Members appear to be in attendance,
however. 1t was hardly to be expected
that the Convention could "go Off" with
out the assistance of number of that class
Of Congressman who imagine that matters
are sure to 60 wrong, unless they have q
singer in the pie" Their competency is
sighally evidenced by their negligence and
ineficiency in the positions they occupy,
but fail to I'LL Judging from the conduct
of goodly number of the members, most
people will agree in the conclusion that the
less they have to do with the Convention,
the better it win perform its work. Men
who can't do their own duties are likely to
be quite 'superduous" when they NEEDLE
with those assigned to others. Weare glad
that the majority were ecorouse enough not
to adjourn over.
H. A struggle il going on in which the
whole world, with all the future, 10 pro-
foundly concerned, (which by its result
will decide whether Republic 10 or is not
. practical possibility. 1t involves the inn
mediate welfare Of every person in our
own country and the future of all man
kind. Yet there are men,-men, too, who
have been deemed able, wise, discreet and
patriotic, who now seem resolved, il pos
sible, amid this grand conflict Of all the
ages, to intrude their private griefs upon
the public,-who seem willing to imperil
the success Of the cause Of humanity at the
bidding Of q blind and absurd passion!-
That traitors should seek to destroy the
nation is but natural. That is their avowed
purpose. But that a man should profess to
be patriot, while he schemes to divide the
host who labor only for the cause, is at
once astounding and atrocious. What sort
Oft patriot is he who would ruin the coun-
try, who would peril such . cause as ours,
merely to avenge an imagined private
wrong? Could anything more fitly chal-
lenge our contempt for the folly or execra-
tiou for the crime?
~ The New York Independent has
been making threats of what some one
will do if the Baltimore Convention does
not defer q nomination until September
We wonder if it il not satisfied with the
doings Of the Cleveland Conventicle! If
that does not convince it that the people,
who don't propose selling themselves out
at the bidding Of few political wranglers,
ambitious only Of gratifying their personal
spleen, we wonder what will! The hide
pendent may be an excellent Judge Of pa
tent medicines, for aught we know. But
we really incline to the opinion that, how
ever well it may intend, it is not very
wise or sagacious interpreter Of public
events, It knows what it wants, perhaps
but it don't always know how its wants
may be realized. It should learn to con-
suit and guide the popular will. Dictation
and threats won't win. That is too FIRE.
sThe one hundred and thirty-second
regiment of Ohio Infantry-being part of
the National Guard called out for one hun
dred day service, united in a petition to
the War Department, the other day, re-
questing that it might be sent to the front
for active service instead of guarding the
about Washington. Their
request was granted and they have gone :
Grant. We are glad to notice this evide'
of Jealous and earnest patriotism. -
dicates that the National Guard Of
not made up Of mere men of ~, 10 :.
they wish to do something 80" ,sn;.
share Of the danger. anSs' 49,. ,ne'
ors of the conflict "a share in the non
1901 n.;,h 1et the l32d Ohio be
n,a nil, no - ~ pride by all. Its exam
without its happy influence.
cnr 1894 imports of wool at New York
4 : were A., ssl 1861 pounds. From De-
cember Odd, 1868, to April 25th, 1864, they
were q, CSC. 7o6 pounds, and for the month
Of May last, s,67l ,557 pounds.
Native 1eeces are now bringing in the
Eastern markets from seventy-flve to eigh-
ty-seven cents per pound, in the face of
this large importation. The inference we
draw from these facts is that we do not yet
produce as much wool as we consume
There is demand for more at remunera-
tive price. We have land enough. Sheep
do well with us. 1t pays well at much
lower price than that which can now be
realized. Why, then, do not our land
owners and cultivators more generally en-
gage in producing wool? Or do they find
It more profitable to raise and keep half-a-
dozen useless and worthless ours about
themf
- The precise number Of self-consti-
tuted Delegates in attendance at Col. Moss
Mass Meeting At Cleveland, is said to have
been one hundred and ffty-six. And
such body went through the form of
making . nomination for President and
Vice President-nominatio which have
been oonditionally accepted. We are re-
minded of the old anecdote, Of theenterpris-
ing London tailor and his apprentice, who
held sslarge and respectable meeting all