The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-27

day next 1t Chicago to plot tho destruction
Of the Government which has protected
and fed them. It win be composed Of the
debris Of the old Democratic party-ofmen
who have followed the fortunes Of that
perty-not out Of principle but for love Of
spoils-who have made trade Of politics
and who having grown fat By acts of de-
votion to Southern Democrats, now in re-
bellion, are intent upon restoring these
same Democrats, now rebels. to power, In
order to restore the old condition Of affairs,
to them 20 profitable. They care not how
it Il done-whether by revolutionary .
peaoeable adoption Of the Constitution OF
the Confederate States-by the election OF
JEFF. Davis, vallandigham or Mcclellan to
the Presidency-all they want is sestora-
ton Of the old condition of affairs, as un-
der Pierce and Buchanan, with Jefferson
Davis At the head Of affairs and the "hesh
pots'' ut their command.
This Convention viii be under the man
.agement of such stupid dolts as Dodge
such infamous villains as Vailandignam
and the Woods's, and such timid traitors
Is the blue bellied and blue-blooded rene
gade Mason. They will select candidate
and cook up platform with but two OBJ
jects in view-to secure success by cheatng
the people of their votes-so secure the
fruits of victory, Office for themselves and
favor for the secessionists. These creatures
never had any manhood-never knew
what principle meant-never got anything
except By "bending the pregnant hinges Of
the knee to Southern Democrats and
never will.
The Chicago Convention, having dou-
BILE purpose in view, to favor the rebellion
and get themselves into office, viii do
whatever seems most likely to secure these
ends. They have waited to the end of Au-
gust to see whether it was best to go for
peace or war, and with the lights before
them and the best efforts of Lee and Hood
and JEFF. Davis, they win now take this
course. But it matters not what this course
il; . majority Of the men who will assem-
BILE at Chicago..are known and marked -
the most infamous set of traitors that ever
assembled anywhere within the limits Of
these United States, and as deserving Of
hemp as the worst Of the conspirators now
in rebellion. Against their Vaccinations
we warn all true Democrats and all loyal
people. They are allowed to meet and plot
against the Government, not because it is
afraid or unable to wipe them out, but be-
cause the nation is strong enough to tole-
Fate them and their treachery.
- Rebellion.in this country is..exactly
the opposite OF rebellion in despotic coun-
tries. Here the people declare the law and
officers OF their own selection are their
agents to enforce it. In despotic countries
the people neither make laws nor enforce
them. Rebellion here il an effort towards
despotism. There, it is an effort to dethrone
Here, as JEFF. Davis declares,
it IL an effort Ito get rid of the rule Of the
majorities." There, it il an effort to assert
the rights Of. msjorities-in otherwords, the
rights Of the people. Here the people rule
all the time. If at any time wrong is done
to the people, it is done by themselves,
cannot be done of purpose, but must be and
Is mere error of judgment. To get rid Of
the wrong they have nothing to do but to
discover that it'll wreng, and to repair it
In the constitutional and lawful mode. To
attemp: to do it in any other manner is sim
ply to declare their own laws void-to as.
sume themselves to be despots.
No wonder the rebels assert that they
wish to get rid of the rule Of majorities.
here is the.most emphatic asser-
ION possible Of that purpose. It il, itself,
l setting up Of q minority against the ma
ority-it is, itself. the boldest mode Of
on Republican institutions. 1t
declares that government Of law is wrong
that the win Of individuals is paramount
o that Of the people in Other words, that
my man or.faction has right to overturn
he government at pleasure. Rebellion
aere il mere anarchy. If it is not crushed
,ut It must be because the anarchy be
ZONES universal.
A0Words are things. The Shibboleths
II party become the potentialities Of party.
It II quite unimportant whether they are
light or wrong, understood or misunder-
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he masses of the ignorant are made to ele-
rate scoundrels and imposters into place
md power. Democracy" has long been
,ne Of these. II is good word in ITSELF
IL real meaning II significant Of human
liberty and equality. It suggests al that
d beneficial to the freedom and happiness
pf mankind. But to Whit base uses han Il
come ct last3 It has become the synonym
for slsvery, for party vassalage, for trea-
Don, for rebellion, for whatever II corrupt
and atrocious in practice. II II the nucleus
round which congresats all the base, the
ignorant. the deluded, and, instead Of as-
serting the freedom Of men, IL perverted
into an instrument Of oppression to indi-
viduals md fer the overthrow and ruin Of
the nation.
It IL not strange that determined villains
should mako use Of any delusion 70
strengthen themselves from the ranks Of
those who wish wellto their country. But
1t is astonishing that any man of ordinary
in the light Of events, should be
deceived for an instant, by those whose
perfidy is 30 manifest. How any man who