The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-03
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Col. Durham, late New York Demo.
crat, now Colonel In the rebel army under
Early on the Potomac, in his letter Of the
18th inst, from near Winchester, Va, tc
MS friend Bishop, in Brooklyn, (which
mail near 6hepaFdstown, Va, on the 18th, !
after boasting that he II still Unionist,
expecting, with thousands like him In the
rebel army, to see this country again
united, though not under Lincoln or any
or bis sert, thus advises his Democratic
brethren who still linger in the North:
Let me tell you. my dear boy, you may
pray Tor peace until hell freezes over-that
IL, peace with the restoration Of the Union
and there will be no peace. Mars is re-
lentless, and Concordia IL deaf. There can
be no peace until Black Republicans and
Abolitionists are silenced and reduced to
an equality, or, at least, level, with the
niggers they claim ~ their equals. Let
your Chicago Convention nominate Mr..
Davis Tor the Presidency-and I know a
majority of the delegates would vote for
him II they dared-and on his election you
can and will hare peace. Of course, you
will net do this. The merit best thing you
c0n 90 - TO nominate and elect Mcclellan,
The south don't regard him as a military
genius, az the Northern press would make
the people believe they do, but they believe
hins to De schGt svns once called Northern
man Nth Southern principles His election,
my dear boy, would do much to pacify and
cOnciliate the South. We are satisfied that.
II you elect him, the right Of secession and
independence would be acknowledged. and
that terms of reconstruction would be Of
fered, which we might with honor accept.
don't say, however, that they would be
'1t Is my opinion, as 1t is the opinion of
President Davis and the leading men Of the
South, that the war must continue until
one side or the other is subjugated. The
more assistance you Democrats render, iatli.
rectly, the sooner zoe shall be able to vangnish
the Abolition h0rtlcs, and restore peace and
ne U'so". It may seem paradoxical, but
1 assure you, my boy, we are fighting for
Union-fghtiag to place the old United
States under one Government; and we shall
do it in such way tho abolition baboon
will ever again get at the head OF it,
The Chicago Convention, we presume,
will either to-day or tomorrow proceed to
act ON Col. Dunham's sagacious advice.
accord with him in principle, and mean
just what be does wht n they talk of peace
and reunion-that is, they mean the perma.
nent and unquestiOned ascendancy Of the
slave power in our National councils. Ho.
ratio Seymour meant just this when he
proposed. in the rpring Of 1861, that New
York should adopt the Montgomery con-
oSAsNsAOASs 0AN tAecP IuAO Nuc y Ell JAWS NOue
federacy. George B. Mcclellan meant just
this when he willfully paralyzed the noblest
army ever assembled on this or any other
continent, remaining for months virtually
besieged in and around Washington with
ia, 900 to 20e, 900 men, while the enemy,
who thus cooped him up, closing the Poto-
mac below and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad shove him, had at no time over
$4,000. (The well-informed London Quar-
terry says they for the most part had but
30,O00.) And franklin Pierce was only q
little more frank when he assured rebel
friend, that but for his wife's failing health
he too would be fighting in the ranks Of the
rebel armies. But Pierce, traitor though
fame New England, the home Of his own
ancestors, a. Seymour does.-New York
Tribune.