The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-03
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.

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~ Tho delsgsfes 10 the Chicago Con-
xanti0nI nom <1he East are said to make .
point Of stopping et Niagara Falls and Ct.
Catharines, on the Canada side, to consult
with their rebel friends and receive in
saructions from their masters agents locat-
ed at these places, for the purpose Of con-
trolling the Northern wing Of the rebellion.
That h all right. Most Of thsoe who take
part In that Convention are true subjects
Of JEFF. Davis and are in duty bound to
obey his commands in all things. And they
eviuce proper degree Of alacrity in do
ing so. They take express pains to dem
onstrate their faithfulness TO the chief trai-
tor on all occasions, and will do, at Chica-
go, whatever il deemed most likely to en-
sure the success Of his purposes. They are
genuine slaves, and aim at no higher honor
than that Of proving themselves faithful to
their master, and they consider 1t great
outrage that others venture to act as men
and freemen! SO true is it that those who
sanction slavery are themselves slaves.
The Cause 81 the war; Fea
People who clamor for an armistice and
q convention to right the grievances D,
rebels IN arms would do well to recur Ia
the cause of thewar, The rebels demanded
the extension Of slavery over free territory
in 1880 without regard to the wishes of the
people and broke up the Charleston Con.
vention because the Democratic party
would not accede to this demand.
The people elected Abraham Lincoln
President upon platform opposed to the
further extension Of slavery and against
his election upon this platform Davis and
his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The Dem
ocratic party refused to make platform
and aid in the extension Of slayery-the
Republican party declared squarely against
the further extension of slavery. One
party openly declared against slavery ex-
tension and the other refused to aid in it.
Thisis the pretence for rebellion. Are loya!
people now ready to take the back track
TO own that the action Of the two parties
was wrong-that the people who elected
Lincoln and the men at Charleston who
stood out for popular sover-
eignty-the right OF the people to exclude
slavery in the territories-were guilty OF
causing the rebellion?
This is the pretence and adj the pretence
for the bloody war which has been inau-
gurated by the Southern wing OF the DEM
ocratic party. Are Northern Democrats
ready to give up an idea to which they adj
hered in 1860 and for which they even all
lowed the Charleston Convention 70 be di-
vided. Are Republicans ready to give up
the right OF the majority to rule--have any
grown so faint-hearted as to give up what
they know to be right! Are demands made
in Congress and at Charleston in a time OF
peace and refused because morally and
politically, wrong, to be acceded to nor
when made by the same men, with arms
in their hands, engaged in making war upon
the Government s
These are matters for the consideration
of faint-hearted people. Did we do wrong
in 1850? Did we give just cause of rebel
lion = five did. the sooner we repair the
wrong, 20 far as we can, the better But.
on the other hand, if we did no wrong and
gave no cause for revolution, our duty is TO
maintain the Government and prosecute
the war until armed resistance to the laws
is put down.
who are ClamOrtng for Peace :
tits well, perhaps, to note who the men
are who are ,ciamofing for an armistice-
for peace. IL 10 we'll to note the fact that
they are not the men who have made sac
ridces-who have given their sons, broth
ers and friends to the war. The clamorers
for peace are not the men who have been to
the war-who have fought the battles Of the
suffered in our hospitals
who have been incarcerated in rebel pris-
hare been starved in dungeons
amid horrors unspeakabie. No cry for
peace comes up even from the wives and
Of our soldiers. No cry for peace
comes from the wounded and MANNED
from those who are crippled for life in this
= unholy" war for the Union.
But the cry for peace does come from the
men who have made money by this war
who have feathered their nests by the rise
In, goods-by army condensation men
whose labor IL enhanced in value by the
fact that 90 many men have been with
drawn from productive industry and sent
to the army-by sore heads who have been
in getting Office under Mr..
Lincoln--by men who sympathise with the
rebels and whose sons are now in Canada.
Oregon, California or Colorado 10 avoid
the drait-by men who live only to get
Office and who cannot hopeto attain Office
under any but the Democratic party.
The masses Of the people are Tor peace.
it Is true, but 1t is for peace to be obtained
by crushing the rebellion-by compelling
submission on the part of the revolted
States to the rule Of the majority. And