The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-01

| ing to be shameful. The democratic lead
ers in convention at Chicago calculated up
on this wretched immunity. They staked
everything on the hope that indecency
might become common enough to be re.
spectacle. They intended to send abroad
their most false and unmanlY sentiments
With an efffontery that should shield them
ffom rebuke and almost from detection.
But see what they did; and look ,at it q,
II 1t were now seen for the first time. Their
assembling was in the midst Of civil war
By their talk the federal government mus,
have begun it. II there II any evil in il
there is no hint Of its being anywhere else,
ssThe experiment Of war" was made un.
der the pretense OF restoring the Union
every part" for the constitution, and fol
public liberty and private rights. There is &C
reference 10 any crime or wrong doing
anywhere except in the adminiytnhtion 81
the general government. Not dI1ce in the
slightest manner is it intimated that there
is any other origin Of our calamities, di-
rect or indirect, near or remote, In full
enormous guilt upon the officers Of our
government. Other sound or breath OF
reprobation they have none. They them
elves we are assured are friends and
upholders Of the constitution and the
Union. They point to no enemies that
these have except the national president
and his advisers and supporters. We
falsity may if possible be comprehended-
no person, now or in the future,
with this cafefully prepared deliverance OF
the Chicago democracy in his hands, could
be led to imagine that there was any other
source for one of all the evils Of our times
except in the misdeeds Of the men now in
authority at Washington.
ss, -
reality? How does it agree with what has
actually happened? The bare fact stands
up at once in front and above all others is
that some one has made war upon the
government. Tie government did not be-
gin the war; the wgr WIS begun on it. Not
the government, but some one else, made
this so-called experiment" They made
it too as TO all its most important and crit
iacl preparatory steps before the presentad-
minis.ration had assumed the power, and
the whole machinery Of the government,
for that matter was in the democratic
hands. Who did il? People that the DEM
ocratic party might have some knowledge
of; individuals not altogether unheard Of
by the men in convention at Chicago
Democrats made the war,-men born and
bred and 3attened in the bosom of that
party; aud men, too, whe no mofesthan
four years ago were in full democr&lc fel-
lowship. ws ssfsse
We care nothing for calling them demo-
Gratis. 1t might be all the same if they had
been wings or republicans. Only We
mean to show the effrontery Of these men.
Into the face of this unequaled incidence Of
pretended purity and national fidelity, we
fling the fact that they, who began and
who carry on this experiment Of war, are
politically bone Of that bone and flesh of
that flesh They were trained in all the
schools OF the democracy. They we're the
tollowers-they were the very authors and
trainers of its axioms and its policy. This
y the party that resolves that "in the fn-
turs, az il the past" it Will ''adhere with
answering fidelity to the Union under
the constitution" A merciful Providence
turn the prophecy from its fnlfillnent!
Gov. Bigler, upon taking the chair Of the
convention Of which he was chosen tempo
rary presidents declared that the first great
work to be done was the overthrow Of the
present administration, and the inaugura-
tion Of another in its place, which instead
Of relying solely on its peculiar dogmas
and doctrines, and the ravages Of the
sword, will refer the national troubles to
the people, the fountain Of political author
ity.' 1t is q democratic administration.
that is to do this. Four years ago there
came from this supreme political authority
from the people, ''under the forms Of the
ccln should assume the presidency in place
Of James Buchanan. Half the democratic
party rebelled. and went into arms sgainAt
this decree. Yet here is o man anold help
er and fellow worker for years in the same
harness-who rises mp and tells M that
democratic principles and democratic men
alone can save rs. AL things must bs re-
ierred TO the peoples they should b.
rule, because democrats have chosen to
make war on the people rather than to
have anything as the people chose n q
We say again that we care nothing for
their party names. Old associations may
60 with the past. But when such men as
those at Chicago put on airs about their
history, and grow holisr i than Others, we
not only this, but We shall wish to be told
and the patriotic men Of this nation will
demand to know whether or not they have
any opinion to express upon the conduct
Of their former associates, now the leaders
Of the rebellion. The history Of the party
IL not such, they may be assured, that they
can stand safely on that alone, while they
criminals except the persons lawfully cho-
sen to hold the first trusts in the republic.
Have they anything to; say against the
men that made the war? It 10 = question
not to be turned aside. The voting popu-
Iatlon Of the States have not grown 90 stu
pid as not to know that the responsibility
ior this war and all its miseries il some
where else than in the officers Of the pres.
ent administration. The government may
not always have been wise. Let that pass.
The government did not make the fght.-
TA1f much we can remember. II the sins
of the administration are TO be exposedand
other sins and the great one
win need to be also mentioned. They who
omit to do it are insulting the understand
ing Of every man to whom they speak.-
They are likely, too, to be thought Of as in
sympathy with those whose crimes they
will neither denounce nor mention. Some
other incidental things the American peo-
pie may let alp ont Of mind, but for this
great fact 81 the war itself, when any one
undertakes to teach them about II they
know at least how it began: And 1or tne
teachers who have not found ont even this,
they win doubt their capacity to instruct
them g to how it should end.-SprsnNsetd
Repmblicon-:
A FREE BALLOT OR A. F10HT.-The De-
mocrattc party assumes this a. 1tS battle.
cry. It ID given cut with such indiscr1mi.
nate accusations Of interference with the