The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-08

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T JUNE, 1889
There will not be fortress along the SECS.
] from Cape Henry to the mouth, OF the Rio
Grande, from which the Stars and Stripes
will not float once more. [Great pplause. /,
18 M. THE CRAVEN CRY FOR PEACE. an
The simple question proposed to you is,
are you prepared TO lay down arms? "a
universal shout Of " No, no, nsver''l Are
lyou prepared to send messages to Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis at Richmond, asking il he
will be pleased to consent toyorr endeay-f
Ors for an immediate cessation. Of hostile
Hes3 [.Nsver; neyer."ls No, fellow. citi-
zens, yon will never consent, TO propose
peace 70 rebels in arms upon any other
terms than that they will submit to the,
flag which they have insulted, and to the,
constituted authority of the American poo-
ple-which they rebelled against That ID
the only question at issue. haaa a3af IS
> THE PLATFORM VS.. THE CANDIDATE. III
We are told, indeed, that the candidate OF
the opposition has not accepted the peace
doctrines; but we are told also by men.
who are mightier than he in the Democrat-
ic party thai be must adopt, these princi-l
win make him. The candidate seems 70
have learned one lesson FROM his expe-
rience a q railroad man; He has read too !
often that significant warning post
ed upon the doors Of the cars, not to know.
that it ''is dangerous to stand on the plat
FORM" lGEsat cheers and lsughter.1 And
Renewed cheers.l But his. trainers tell
him, "Get mp again; we are not going to
lot you stand anywhere elsev It is vain
TO think that anybody Ia this county can
be President Of the United States and not
carry SGt snbstsPisly gss,sa The Y ;hs
letters Of acceptance, and everything else
which / do not hnd written Id The ceclala-5
ton Of facts promulgated by the party. In
that, ! find they are determined upon
peace and secession, upon giving IN the
great object for which we have been con-
pie are not Of that mind, and that settles
the whole question, II we. are for peace
and slavery, let us go with the Oppositlon;
if we are for Union and freedom, let us 60
with the party which inscribes those living
words upon It's standard.
s..sS.r POsPECTs OF ELECTION. :
Ohio has never been doubtful. Every-V
rybody knows what the record Of Ohio Is.
l wish that could say Of your county, that
it would speak in unison with that great
State, Of which it is part. I think the
oSo 5 ss . snre Mes0 rhe1s i g
doubt expressed little while ago about
Indiana. came from that State yesterday,
and if had dou BITS before, I should doubt no
longer. It seems to me as sure that 1ndi-
ana will re-elect her honored Chief Magis-
e. 'an tbs nntos esst n
whelming majority for the honored Chief
Magistrate Of The United States in Novem-
Der. Enthusiastic app.anse.l Sc ot Penn
sylvania. She was thought to be somewhat
doubtful, but from what can iearu, and
judge BY past experience, Pennsylvani4
do not see where there 10 TO he a single
voice this Fall, with any certainty, for the
abandonment Of this struggle and the OBJ
jects involved in it. think that the peo-
pie of the United States. this Fall, will,
with q : degree M 9f fnnapimity alsosesh.s un-
election Of Mr.. Lincoln, and that in doing
50 they will give ali assurance to rebellion
everywhere that American freemen are
united ia their determination for its sup
preston. That assurance win have its ef-
across the ocean teens with specuIations as
to what is to be the result Of this contest
All Europe is eager to know what viii be
your decision this Fall. Your decision
for Union and Freedom will give to the. ma
tions Of the Old World the assurance that
America remains undivided and indivisi-
/ y
present to the people Of the world specta-
Gle ofpower and influence such as the ma
ton heretofore, successful and glorious as
it was, never before presented.
| The rebellion WIN be suppressed, and re-.
bellion never again can lit Its head, be-
nurse, slavery. EGreat applause.l There
will be peace throughout all our borders,
and we shall hasten to greet those with
whom We have been at war. We shall well
come them back when they return from
their rebellion 70 loyalty and devotion %
old. There are men, to 1be sure, to whom
this welcome cannot be extended There
are men who have sinned too deeply
against liberty and Union aud the Amerf-
can people for easy forgivenees. But the
struggle, will return, and we shalt be again
one people, with one Government, With
liberty over all our land, strong ia the con-
sciousness Of strength founded upon justice, ,
challenging the admiration of the world, a.
our fathers challenged il in their day. Les
ne carry with us forever the satisfaction Of
having contributed our part 70 this great
result. EtN -
The close Of Mr.. Chasss speech. beauti-
fdl and eloquent ~ il was, drew from the
whole audience repeated and enthusiastic
A CURIOUS HARvksr.-A Vienna letter
speaks of the crops In AuStria - finer than
for fifty years past, and then makes the fol-
| lowing singular statement: Contrary to all
expectation, Hungary, which last year suf-
fered 20 severely from scarcity, will now DO
sure to have IN abundaut crop, and already
many Of the proprietors are offering the
authorities to return the loans in corn
| which were made to them last year Tor
their sowings. This may perhaps be ex-
planned by the fact that the land in those
countries has lain for year in fAii,w.a On
i this subject some rather curiOus factS are
1 mentioned.a The peasants Of the Wallachi-
an countries Of the Banat, who are rather
sequence Of the calamity of last yexr, be-
cause they had neither cattle nor eeod.s
Nevertheless in one Of these districts W here
nothing was sOwn, thirty i've Thousand
meiz (sixty-one litYes each) Of wheat have
been produced. The sesd sown two years