The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-17

00A ASo ROW0A6 ~ SAA0 PoOIA0S <S0O k00 0eOs
pie to designate agents to assume and ex-
ercise them four years. You receive the
Executive Government in a condition yerv
different and highly improved. We found
| il practically expelled srom the whole
country south OF the Delaware, the Ohio.
and the Missouri, with the most Of the
army and navy betrayed or fallen into the
sonable Confederacy, with the indirect but
effective cooperation of foreign Powers es-
tablishing itself on the Gulf Of Mexico. We
cheerfully give the Government back to
you, with large and conquering armies.
and Triumphant navy, with the hateful
Confederacy falling into pieces, ana the re-
beiltous States, one after another, return
Regarding myself now, therefore, not a.
I = Secretary, bur simply - one Of the peo-
pie, ], like you, am called by my vote, to
determine into whose hands the precious
trust shall now be condded. We might
wish to avoid, or at least to postpone that
duty, until the present fearful crisis Is
passed: But it cannot and il ought not to
0e avoided or adjourned. It is Constitu-
tiDral trial and tho nation must 70 through
Il, deliberately ana bravely.
Z I shall therefore cheerf0lly submit, for
|yOn4 0onaideration, the course which /
hAye concluded % adopt, and the reasons
for II. sag s3s4a as- ,f .vITI5 &
/ First, I beg you. to remember, that the
pfss:nt is NO common OF customary Pres.
civil war, arising Hut of = disputed success
sion to the Executive power. Disputed
succesions aro the most frequent causes Of
civil wars, net only In Republics, but even
In Monarchies. A dispute about the suO-
cession Of the President, periodically b.
gete an aborttve or real revolution, In
each one OF the Spanish and American re-
n vA4A AS<,sa> -.
Spanish throne beg0t that memorable
thirty years war, which c0nvulsed all Eu-
rope. A dispute whether Juarex was the
lawful President brought on the civil war
with the consequence OF French iuterven-
tion in Mexico. A dispute whether the
present King of Denmark, who succeeded
to the throne last winter, IL lawful heir TO
the Duchies of Schlsswig and Holstein.
brought about the civil war in that coun.
try, which through German intervention,
has just now ended with the lismemb ber-
ment Of the Danish kingdom. It is re-
markable that civil wars produced By dis
puted SUGGESTIONS invariably begin with
resistance, by some one or more Of the
States or provinces, which constitute the
Kingdom, Empire, or Republic, which is
disturbed. It was 90 with the United States
and Mexico. It was % in the United
States OF Colombia, and the case was the
Same In the United States Of Venezuela.-
Now It is certain that In 1850 we elected
Abraham. Lincoln, lawfully and constitu-
uonally to be President Of the whole Uni
ted States OF America. Seven Of the States
Immediately thereon runhed into disunion,
ana sommoniug eight more 70 their ALL.
ance, they set up Revolutionary Govern
ame1t. They levied war against ne, to es-
dence. A - -
We accepted the war IN defence Of the
Union. The only grievance Of the insur-
gents was that their choice Of John C.
Breckinridge for President, was constitu-
lionally overruled In the election Of LIN
colus They rejected Lincoln, and set mp 4
usurper. The Executive power Of the Uni
,tedSt is now, therefore, by force prac-
0cally suspended between that usurper
Jefferson Davis, and that constitutional
President Abraham Lincoln. The war ID
waged Oy the usurper to expel that c0nsti-
tutiOnal President from the Capital, which
In some some sort is constantly held in
siege, and to conquer the States which 10y
ally adhere to him. The war is maintain
ed on our side 70 suppress the usurper and
70 bring the iusurgent States back under
the authority OF the constitutional Presi-
dent. The war il at its crisis. It is clear,
therefore, that we are fighting to make
Abraham Lincoln President Of the whole
United States, under the election Of 1860,
to continue until the 4th Of March. 1885,
In vnting for q President Of the United
StateS, can we wisely or safely vote out the
identical person whom, with fbrce and
arms, We are fighting into the PSeslden-.
(No. No, You justly say No! It.would
be nothine less than 70 give up the very
object ofthe war at the ballot-box. The
moral stremgth which makes orr loyal po-
sition impregnable would pass from us,
and when that moral strength has passed