The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-26
From the seth Iowa.

From the seth Iowa.
NEAR L1TrLk Rock, ARK, March 9, 1854.
Dear Hank Eye Your presence in our
camp is greeted with the livliest emotions
Of iOy by the soldiers, and as soon as their
letters are read they gather around your
servant and begin to inquire, "9Ot Hank
Ege - "Well, read us the news" and they
are not satisfied until read over your tel
egraphic dispatches, editorials and army
correspondence. Mr.. Nasby's addresses
came In for their share of attention also,
and many = hearty laugh have we taken
over the reading Of them. The HasOk-E Eye
is doing good in the army by battling for
lust cause against the secessionists in the
South, and the mean Copperheads of the
| North. You are aware, Mr.. Editor, that
some few soldiers in the army have been al
lowing the name Democrat" TO beguile
them into All infelicitous position in regard
to the cause for which they came out to
fight. l am acquainted with one or two Of
this sort who swear they are going to vote
the ..dimercrat" ticket as long IS they live,
but they don't read the Hack Eye or any
other good reliable paper, they are sort OF
fossil and belong to the cast-oH notions OF
the past. Once in a while one of these gen.
tlemen gets his eyes open and comes over
to us with vengeance. God speed the
time when they shall all see the one great
question in its true light, and fight heart
and soul in the cause Of the Union. know
how il is with these men who are letting a
name fool them. l belonged to them once
myself know how they used to talk trea-
son to the CniOn-blame the Abolition Re
publicans rs being the cause of all our
troubles, DC, but was taught ia bOyhOod
the motto, my country right or wrong,
when in war; l became convinced that
my opposition to the war was wrong-that
/ Eo nj iS a
urgent and persistent prosecution OF the
war. / grounded the weapons of my hostil-
ity to Union men, and for over eighteen
months have been in the field trying to do
battle for the Constitution and Union, and
by so doing as far as possible atone for my
pie. This, Mr.. Editor, Is all that l can do.
can't recall the past. Would to God, and
for the cause Of my country all my old
Democratic friends and associates would
do the same thing. But instead of "pitch-
ing in" for their country they stand back,
wash their hands Of the whole thingby say
ing, This is your war-fght it out - curse
who have the nerve to do their duty, post
their sons who are liable to the draft OF to
Colorado or Idaho. o, how mean! And
after the war is over and the Union restored
these very men will be the first to say zoe
did thus and SO; zee put down the rebel
lion. But they are making terrible mis-
take. They are doing q deed that will
haunt them 70 the grave. Their bad name
will cling to their children after them, like
that Of the Tories Of the Revolution. But
enough of this.
Thinking that few words occasionally
from this point might not be wholly unac-
ceptable to your readers this scribbling ia
at your service. You have large circnla-
| ton in Monroe county, where two entire
and part Of four or five companies Of the
18th were made up, and our friends there
are always glad to get tidings from US.
Gen. +. Steele is moving on in the even
tenor Of his way, and with the 7th Army
Corps under him, is rapidly fitting and
preparing Little Rock for the reception OF
old Pap Price and his men in case he dares
to show himself here again. Fort Steele,
! on high knoll south west of the city, near
the city cemetery, where lie the remains
| Of Claib. Jackson, Gen. L. NJ. Walker who
fell in a duel with Marmaduke on the 7th
of last September the father of Gen. Tot
ten, together with number Of the mag
mates OF Arkansas is finished ready for
the mounting OF the guns. The guns are
here and will soon be in their places on the
Fort ready to speak in thunder tones to the
enemy. Besides this fort other Notifications
are being made so that comparatively a
few men can hold the place.
| The true Union men of Arkansas are at
work setting in running order the ma.
chinerv Of State Government. and soon
| Arkansas will take her place in the Union
under the old flag, ''disinthralled, regener-
ated and redeemed" Next Monday, the
| 18th inst, is the election. There is only
one candidate for Governor, Judge MUIR
ply. have seen and heard him speak in
| behalf Of the Union and Arkansas as q
free State. This old patriot, when driven
| from the hall of the Convention that
passed the Secession Ordinance and from
this city, told some Of his prosecutors that
| in less than three years from that time
some Of them would be glad to warm their
hands at the fires Of Union men. There
are three candidates for Congress in this
District, Mr.: Rodgers, Of Pine Bluff, Mr..
Beloate, Of Jefferson county, Mr.. Goudy,
Of the Unconditional Union newspaper OF
this city, all protested Union men, and in
favor of the New Constitution Of Arkan-
sas. Mr.. Beloate and Hon. f. w. CAN'T
| made speeches on last evening to large
crowd Of citizens and soldiers, mostly the
latter, in Differs Hall. Mr.. Beloat. is .
| tolerably fair speaker and left good i'm
preston with his audience. At the con-
clusion Of his remarks loud calls were
made for CAN'T, who then came forward
and entertained us for some time with one
Of his usual felicitous talks in behalf Of the
Union, the Constitution and the free State
Of Arkansas. He spoke in glowing terms
he has lately visited-of their hospitality
told how he and Henry Ward Beecher
eyed each other when they met for the
| first time. The radical abolitionist and
Southern STAKEHOLDER, each astonished that
he had not realized in the sight before him
| a copy OF the beast with seven heads and
ten horns, mentioned In the Bible. But
must forbear writing, as I designed to be
brief.
We are in daily communication with
st. Louis and the East by telegraph via
Fort Smith. The Arkansas is in fair boat
ing stage of water and still rising. Boats
now bring supplies to US from Memphis
The 18th Iowa is being itted up rapidly by
Monroe counties. We will soon number
one thousand men. We turned over our
old Austrian rifles to Uncle Sam, and drew
new guns, or rather old guns repaired and
rubbed up, q good arm, called the SPRING
| field Rifled Musket
Yours, JOSIAH r. You've.
p. S.-1ccasionally a citizen who has ta-
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