The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-29
a Modest ProDosiffon.

man 10 ponder wisely and we'll now ne
shall cast his ballot. A SOLDIER.
A Modest Proposition.
Mr.. Alexander Fl. Stephens, Vice Pres
ident of the rebel Confederacy, cheered by
"a ray OF light" has written a letter to
| some one in Georgia, in which he suggests
| a way of saving the Union. His sugges-
ton is contained in the following para
graph:
Easy and perfect solutions to all pres
emf troubles and those far more grievOus
ones which loom in prospect, and porten-
tousiy threaten in the coming future. is
nothing more than the simple recognition
Of the fundamental principle and truth
| upon which all American constitutional
| liberty is founded, and upon the mainten-
ance Of which alone il can be preserved
that is, the sovereignty, the ultimate, abso-
lutte sovereignty OF the States. This doc
| trine our legis ature announced to the peo-
| pie at the North and to the world. II is the
only key note to peace-permanent, last
| ing peace-consistent with he security OF
public liberty. 4
1.-THE old confederation was formed upon
this principle. The old Union was after
wards formed upon this principle. No
league can ever he formed or maintained
between any State, North or South, secu
ring public liberty, upon any other princi-
ple.'' gssFa. e
/ Ids CaIuOuQ uOcITln0 Oh absolute STATE
sovereignty is. the grand heresy which
Webster demolished, and General Jackson
suppressed, fox time, by threatened re-
sort to the strong arm. It counts the Fed
eral Union to be a mere league between
sovereign and independent States, a kind
of Germanic Confederation, utterly void of
| national life and Of national sovereignty.
This theory runs counter to all the Opin-
ions entertained by the founders of our
Government, and is a. variance with the
judicial decisions OF the Supreme Court
through period of eighty years. 1t is a
theory in favor OF chaos, war and anarchy.
Invented in the interest of oppression, it is
now put forth to serve the purpose OF
winding sheet in preparing the old Union
Tor its final grave.
That there are certain rights secured to
the States by the national Constitution is
admitted by all. But the possession and
enjoyment Of these rights do not impart
the character or attributes of sovereignty
to any State, in any such just and proper
constitutional authority of the Federal
Government. h
Mr.. Stephens seems TO think that ces-
sation Of hOstilities and an ultimate con-
vention would enable delegates from the
several States TO frame some new league on
the ruins OF the present Union, and thus
secure peace for the future. Ii sincere in
making such q proposition, Mr.. Stephens
invites the friends Of the Union to q repas.
of which they will never consent to par
take.
"Union-saving" has been for nearly four
patton, and can never be abandoned until
it has finished its intended task.
When the Spanish army under Parma
was trying to destroy the Dutch Republic,
its soldiers said, IF we get Antwerp you
shall 60 to mass with US; If You save Ant
werp, we will all so to conventicle with
you"
In like manner, the friends Of the Union
may say to Mr.. Stephens, and others like
minded with him, IF you destroy the Tn
ion by force OF arms, we will see what kind
Of league may be formed; and ii you do
no. so destroy it, we will then see what
this monstrons theory Of absolute State
sovereignty is wOrth--a theory which has
filled the land with blood and tears, and
aims at nothing less than the destruction o;
the Republic Of the United States. Chr.
1atelkSencer.
The exposure Of Copperhead revolution
airy plots is said to have damaged the DEM
ocrats much in Indiana, as well it might.
They lost too, by the refusal Of the Legis-
lature to pass soldiers voting bill. Such
things always have their reward.
John Long shot Emma Herkenwrath
| through the heart. at her home in Caron-
delet, Mo-, on the 7th inst, and then went
q few rods from the house and blew his
own brains ont, because Emma received
attentions from another man.
The st. Louis Republicans, il speaking Of
the opening of a new street through the
cemetery, says collins have been exposed,
and boys have amused themselves with
| thrusting sticks into them, and pulling out
the bones and battering them over the
ground. In two instances, human skulls
| have been thus banded about like foot
balls, and long, auburn ringlets, that, years
ago, were the pride Of beauteous maidens,
lie scattered about the cemetery.
The terror of the desert of Sahara is be-
ing removed by the application Of science.
In 1850 five wells have been opened, bring
ing fsheeto the surface from a depth of
the wells, and the dessert will blossom
like the rose"
No other State election comes before the
West Virginia, where there is to be an
election on the fourth Tuesday Of October,
the 18th inst, for Governor and other State
officers, and for three Representatives in
Congress-.
Coi|roth, member of Congress from the
Sixteenth District, Pennsylvania, who
never voted dollar for the soldiers, has
been defeated by the soldiers vote, making
the election of Mr.. VIM. 81. Koontz, Union
candidate, certain. Served him right. If
politicians won't stand by the soldiers,
they can not expect the soldiers to stand
by them.
West VIRaINIA.-No other State cleo
ton comes of before the general election
in November, except In West Virgins.
where thereis to be an election on the
fourth. Tuesday Of October, the 18th inst. for
three Representatives in Congress.