The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-02

~The madness Of the South has al
ready established there an absolute mill
tary despotism. The people find the chain
CALLING already, though the insanity which
still rules their minds blinds them utterly
to its worst and most dangerous features.
They feel the burden, but mostly fail to at
tribute it to its true cause. If the rebel
lion should in the end prove a success, their
eyes would be opened very suddenly
They would find . new issue before them.
They would discover that they must eli
Their submit to the most intolerable despo-
tism, or else enter upon another civil war;
not q sectional one, but one which would
enter every mans door. The leaders of the
rebellion are all despots. Tho establish
ment of q monarchy, the overthrow Of re-
publicanism, was their ultimate purpose.
Negro slavery was their pretea,se, not their
source of apprehension. They had made
mp their minds that white men would make
!ust as serviceable ''chattels'' as black
They despised laborers, whether white or
black. They could endure no longer the
equality Of the ballot-box. They deter
mined to make the effort to set it aside, to
trample it under foot, to transfer all au-
thority from the many to the few, to prove
democracy in America failure, and to re-
model this republic after the fashion of Eu.
rope. The mass of the people, Of course,
did not see these ends. They were mad
dened on another subject. But the leaders
did. They kaew that if the Union could
b destroyed, events would carry them in
evitably forward to the end they sought
And they were right. It could not be 9TH
erwise.
And this purpose of the South is precisely
the aim Of our Northern leaders of the
Copperheads. They are az resolved on
going with their friends in Dixie, to that
end AZ the rebels themselves. They are
natural despots. They, like others of their
class, in all ages, have hitherto attained
power by deceit and fraud. They are
tired of processing to be Democrats, Of
the necessity of Stimulating regard for the
rights Of men, which none of them feel.
They desire power. They wanted to have
it perpetual. They discover no road to the
perpetuity of authority but that which leads
over the rnins of the Republic. To this
end they seek, first, the success of the reb-
els. Next, a. they have taken the trouble
to tell Us, they would unite with the sue
cessful traitors, and thereby subject the
North to the same despotism which would
rule the South. This is the ultimate pur-
pose of both wings Of the rebellion. It il
for this they are now battling. Give them
power, put them in control of the Govern
ment, and the thing would be done inevi
tably a. the rain falls. This is modern
Democracy. We see what it has done
South. Will men be 90 blind az not te
take this lesson to heart? Will they still
follow such leaders?
THE 1910 BoNDs.-The subscription &c
the 1910 bonds is still before the public
and over seventy millions have been al.
ready taken. At the present rate of pre-.
MUM on gold, they pay nearly ten pc,
cent. interest in currency, and at the con.
clusion of the war they will certainly be
worth par in gold.
~ New Orleans advices, telegraphed
from Cairo on the 23d, say that Brigadier
General Fitz Henry Warren has been or.
dered to Brownsville to assume CHEZ
command Of all the forces in that sectio2o!
Texas.