The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-27
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE'


Tho Voorhees, Correspondence.
We give In our Indianapolis correspond.
ence letter from General Darlington e
Hon. D. w. Voorhees,, stating some cir.
cumstanoes that led him to the conclusion
that 1t was Mr.. Voorhees, Office in Terre
dsute In which copies Of the ritual of the
secret conspiracy known at present by the
name Of sTho American Knights" was
found. Mr.. Voorhees, disowned the Office,
and demanded Of General Darlington that
- he had published the falsehood, he
should also publish q refutation. The Gen.
eral responds to this by giving few speci-
mems Of their other discoveries. which we
should suppose would be quite satisfactory
to Mr.. Voorhees,.
The burden, .'in the Offices where these
papers were found" comes in at the end of
every item. as pleasingiy as the refrain Of
plantation melody, or the chorus in .
song of forty verses, II Mr.. Voorhees, felt
that 1t would hurt his political standing 70
have It known that some copies Of the ritu-
81 OF the order were found in his premises,
how must he feel at this display Of his COM
munings with his accomplices. We think
that this exhibit will remove any doubts
as to the sufiiciency of the evidence on
which General Darlington has disclosed
this conspiracy in Indiana. and will quiet
the Democratic pretense that it is all
9roundless. And it seems 70 us that the
evidence Is approximating to such a char
acter that these conspirators will begin to
see that the Government holds their fate in
its hands, and that their existence here is
wholly owing to its forbearance.
The correspondence Is an interesting ex-
hibitlon Of the desires, plans, hopes and
fears of the parties, and, it seems to us, Of
q disposition which was somewhat want
ing in resolution. Senator Wall proposes
to furnish 10000 Garibaldi rifles, just i'm
ported, for which he could vouch. A very
useful weapon for O Democratic peace par
ty. Mr.. Wall has served in one of our
forts, and this shows what injustice was
done him.
Mr.. Vallandigham assures Mr.. Voorhees,
that ''Our people will fight" and he is
ready. Ready to have our people fight, we
suppose, as that is about as near ready as
Mr.. Vailandigham's disposition makes
him. He has very bloody ways for other
people. His directions are always Of the
most sanguinary hue.
Mr.. Ristine, the Auditor Of State, thinks
this is a bad war, and would like to see
the Democrats all unite with their South
ern brethren and make it q better war;
But as he thinks this hopeless, his only
hope is in the successful resistance Of the
South. Mr.. Rstine's spirit is willing, but
he does not come out strong in the flesh
Persons who hold office are constitution
ally dlsinclined TO risk themselves in lead
ing revolutions.
Mr.. Hibben thinks the Democracy are
fast stitfening up, and that when they are
starched to the point of declaring this q
war to free the negro, it will break out In
another section. It is sad to learn that the
Democracy are SO unbelieving as yet to
need stiffening up on this point, which
the leaders and organs have been insert
int oivr ho Ho0
cipitated.
Bingham, the outside sentinel of the
order, has concern of mind for informa-
ton. He wants to know If Mr.. Voorhees,
thinks the South have resources enough to
keep the Union forces 1T bay. He wants
to be sure of that before he bays. He thinks
Mr.. Voorhees, must have sources of infor-
nation which Mr.. B. has not. Such an in
quiring state of mind, and such tender
inquiry does not betoken action or resolu-
tion. We suspect that Mr.. B. IS stock in the
concern will all be paid up in tender in-
Quiries and mental interest. This is not
the metal of which the currency Of cracked
crowns and bloody pates is made.
We are not advised who it is that petit
toned the worth trio, Vallandigham, voor-
hees Nd Ben Wood, for two republics, but
we suppose that somebody thought that as
they were assassins of the republic, they
might direct the blow crosswise. Camp
bell says that once the Democracy let their
purposes out by daylight, but now they
are Of such q character that midnight and
secrecy and dark lanterns are necessary.
The letter of Etheridge shows that he
had the purpose which was attributed to
into the hands of the Democrats, by re-
fusing to call the Union members who had
not forwarded their credentials before a
certain time.
But it is melancholy to see tina. our men,
Der, Mr.. Pendleton. permitted his own as
piration to the Speakership to stand in the
way of the harmony which was requisite
was ripe, but q dispute among the plotters
as to who should take the plumber turned it
to nothing. Could not the crisis of the
country silence for moment the prompt
ings of personal ambition? How can that
unity, which the precipitation of the
Northern Democratic party into civil war
will require, be expected when even an OPP
ization Of the House in Democratic hands,
which would vastly increase their means
of aiding their Southern brethren, was
thrown away by the personal rivalry of
two Ohio congressman
Mr.. Pendleton stops the way with his
He will not facilitate" the
Of any man for Clerk whose
D1ORI0EUIu0 UOCS uOt uIdA0 V0Es cuOAclOu
Speaker. Mr. Etheridge has in his own
hands the only game which will give the
organization to the Democratic party, and
the only condition on which he will play 1t
is that he shall be Clerk. And now comes
Mr.. Pendleton and says he will not facili
tate the game unless he shall be the Speak
er. FACILITATE is q good term. But as
Mr.. Cox had been scratching for this jewel
and as he was in Mr.. Etheridge's scheme,
and as he too would not facilitate any plan
that did not make him the Speaker, the OPP
portunity was lost, and the country was
not saved.
We are disappointed in Mr.. Pendleton.
We thought him q patriot of partition, di
vison and separation principles. But here
he was demanding the whole or none. We
are saddened at this revelation of intestin-
al jealousies and divisions in the Demo-
cratic party, where all seemed pure devo-
ton to the country. 1t shows how impos-
sible it is for the party to exist without the
which its southern leaders
gave it.
Mr.. Mcdonald is much interested in the
discovery of the Northwest passage. This
in Knightly language is supposed to be the