The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15

| On Thursday a son of VIM. Hauk, o
Wright township, had his arm tearfullJ
torn by being caught in cane-mill.-Ibid
The Gate City says the Republican meet
| ing at the Junction, Lee county, on Satur.
day, was enthusiastic, and large crowd
was in attendance. The same accounts
! come TO us from all parts of the State.
We are very sorry to learn that the wife
Of our respected friend, J. l.. Crook, met
with a very serious accident this week
The sleeve of her press having caught in 9
cane-mill, her arm was drawn into it and
very badly injured. Corydon Monitor.
Iinc0ln-J0hnsOn
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
are both natives Of Slave States. They
were born in the class Of Poor Whites
which Slavery creates and preserves for
its own convenience. Their early educa-
ton was such as it accOrds to the children
of this class. Hence, Lincoln obtained
most Of his scanty schooling, not or ly long
after his removal into Free State. but az.
ter he had reached the full stature Of man
hoad, and was enabled to earn and plan
for himself; while Johnson never had any
schooling At all and learned to read from
his wife after his removal from his native
North Carolina into almost free East Ten
neesee.
Neither of them could ever have been
chosen even to the Legislature in an essen
TALLY slave-holding community, no matter
how thorough their subserviency to 1.-THE
institution" The brand Of Poverty and
labor on their brows would have fixed
them forever in the humble station of their
progenitors. They surmounted the infiu-
ence Of Slavery by taking position outside
of its more palpabl0 domain
To maintain that such men lack ability
or force Of character is to hold that repub-
lies are ruled by idiots. Abraham Lincoln
entered Illinois a pOrtionless, illiterate
boy, earning the livelihood Of his wild :
owed mothers family by the rudest and
years thereafter. had become one of her
foremost lawyers and the acknowl lodged
leader of the more intellectual of her two
great political partios-cOnSpicuous in her
Legislature, her only Wing Member OF
Congsess, Wing candidate for Senatorial
Elector, U. S. Senator, Vice. President. aud
ultimately for President. AL these posi-
tons were accorded to him without contest
or hesitation. When the great political
struggles of 1870 and 1874 were made, none
other than he was suggested to lead in the
canvass. When, for the FRS: time, his DO
litical friends had majority in the ILL
nois Legislature, no other was thought of
by the mass of them for y. s, Senator.
though it was finally found NECESSARY, in
order to secure the requisite anti Nebraska
Democratic votes, 10 withdraw him and
So bstitute another. At PHILADELPHIA. in
1856, his name, and only his, was present.
ed for Vice-President by the delegation
from Illinois and when q ca ndidate was
to be pitted against Douglas for the Sem
storial canvass OF 1858, no other name was
even suggested than that of Abraham Lin
4 <H~ywN
competition az to which State should fur
nish the Republican nominee for Presi-
dent; but no one ever suggested that
among the eminent and honored Repub-
llcans OF Illinois, there was mother pOssi-
be candidate than Lincoln.
Andrew johnson entered Tennessee an
illiierate tailor youth, poor as Lazarus in
tive or friend who could help him to a cor
poralship in the smallest company Of
''fl0odwood" militia. A few years later he
was Member of Assembly; next we hear
from him in Congress I; then Governor of
his closely balanced State after spirited
canvass; for Tennessee was then prepond-
erently Wing State, and her Wings al
ways ran for Governor one OF their ablest
and cleverest debaters. johnson had al
ways been very ardent and active Demo-
crat, and had made himself widely obnox-
ions to his political adversaries. His birth
and breeding were matters Of common no.
toriety, and the cultivated aristocracy of
Nashville and the surrounding region were
not at all inclined to be ruled bv the ex ;
journeyman tailor of Jonesborough. They
could not help themselves, however; and
Johnson, after serving his term as Cover
nor, was chosen to the United States Sen
ate. where ne made good his position
against the ablest and proudess in the land
Probably no other Senator had enjoyed SO
scRpt opportunities for intellectual euiture:
but the debates, in which he freely min
gled, give no sign Of this. In the absence
OF that education Of the schools, which he
would gladly have enjoyed and improved.
he had bis full share OF the rugged disci-
pine Of poverty and privation, and was
thoroughly trained in the keen encounters
ofan active, arduous public career. Doubt
less, he feels and regrets the deficiencies of
bis early culture; but who will say that
he has not nobly supplied them?
MIR. johnson, as leading Southern Dem
ocrat, and q supporter of Breckinridg for
the Presidency, saw the Shareholders Re-
bellion take form and body under his i'm
mediate observation. lie knows it. egg
and bird"-its impulses, ideas and aspira-
lions. Nearly every other prominent DEM
ocrat OF his State or section was drawn or
driven into its tolls; he never countenanced
It for q moment nor regarded it with the
ASss0s 0AAV " oASCs x1c Au0W IL I'D D0 rs nos
tile to the class from which he sprung ia
the South as to the ''mudsills" at the North,
and he ''stood by his order" like any Brit.
ish Peer. He exposed the hollowness of
its pretexts, the wickedness of its aims,
IN the presence Of it's contrivers, before
they had imbrued their hands in blood.
He warned the simple against their ma Chi
nations, and warned them of their inevita-
bic failure and ruin. Had other Southern
Unionists been as faithful and fearless as
he, the madness of Secession would have
been stayed at the northern limit of the
Cotton Region, and our country would not
now be reeking with human blood.
It il common pro-slavery cavil that
You Abolitionists talk of what YOU do
not understand" This cannot be said of
Lincoln and johnson, who were born in
slave States, and have been familiar with
slavery since they first opened their eyes.
Mr.. Lincoln was never an Abolitionist till
slavery declared war on the Union, yet he
says he never regarded slavery in itself
otherwise than as he now does. s.Ifslaverv
IS not wrong, then nothing is wrong" he
says in his letter to Hodges. Mr.. johnson
was tacit SuDpOrtor Of sl0vorv until