The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-05


cnunstcrs Of Scotland pray for the Deist,
len. p.he ground that nobody is in greater
uPo1s 80 Inc intercessions Of the elect, ana
neeu o,,an he is not beyond that extraOrdl-
tna. neuences Of a saving grace. we pc
naIy,rsalves TO be somewhat Of this mind,
gu GIN we find the Copperhead species IN
~" sort of anti-slavery convlctlon. Des-
ue. .ate political traders, proposing 70 en-
III in a Presidential specuia.on' WIZ"
may mortal to any candidate cursed with
aok ahettors, are already beginning 10
SUI. of an anti-slavery platform upon
M MN 70 nlant their victim, and to an
wn ,,,ce their conviction that the absolute
nNo.;nction of slavery has become u pollti-
ga necessity. The world has never VIII
..sssed more refreshing evidence OF tne
norer of truth over the carnal mlnd. oniy
yesterday these brandt new pniianthrop.s;; -
!.o loudly asseyerating that this war is
~sced. for the white man, and not IN
~ laast for the negro, and whoever ven
.rrod 70 saw that to get rid of the Reoei-
,nn we must first get rid Of Slavery, was
1snounced as damnable fanatic, win put
"ro idea. one policy, one cry, one ann ana
one end-the Dedication OF the niacK anu
the consequent degradation OF tne n.e.
Emancipation was unconstitutional 'ne',
now 1t appears that 1t IS uhcons.l.u. I,
pras;dent and supported by the Republi-
am Marty, The Copperheads are whlstllng
and keeping step to the same tune when
once threw them into wr'thing convul-
sions. and fancy that by the lh'ehtioh Oh
Ew variations they may change heretical
melodies into akablyorthodox music.
This wonderful artistic exhibitlOn rs GOOD
for yery little. except to show the way OF
the popular mind. Protector who propose
Ay
which a convenient smallness is de-
s;rable. are often Obliged to gulp down
monstrously unpalatable truths; for par
70 NAV be all leaders leading nobody
cfrong in speeches, victorious before the
battles. rampant in respect of placards,
formidable az to general committees,
jublaut in exaggerated predictions, bat
fat and feeble just where it should be
towering and strong-at the polls! Moth
ING NAV be wanting to secure the most
magnificent and decisive success-except
votes! But though your new party may be
wealthy, worthy, wordy, painfully respect
able aud frightfully virtuOus, yet II you
cannot secure for il a sufficient number OF
votes. YOU cannot elect your candidates,
and if YOU cannot now and then carry an
election, the more fuss you make tue more
fun the ungodlv are apt 10 poke at you. to
saw nothing of the ungrateful tendency OF
man nature-to bolt and go over to the en-
emy or positively decline to be used any
more! There have beena great many OF
these birth strang!ed political babes, OF
which the very boneS-it they ever had any
boues-are among things lost upon earth.
There are enthusiastic gentlemen III this
citv, who within the last twelve years have
belonged to as many well defined and sep
arate parties all of which have, after du-
,vSI t1np I've
of their semi-vitality and to die decently
or indecently. Now, il seems, we are to
have new experiments. We are to have a
curiosity of party, at once radical ana
conservative. alive and dead, blind and
sharp-sighted, deaf and long-eared, pro-
Slavery and anti-Slavery. constitutional
and unconstitutional, cautious and rash,
clear-headed and .anatical, in favor OF
Shareholders and mortally hostile to Sla-
very! This will certainly be stranger
hybrid than any heretofore begotten even
upon the Express newspaper. I, i. =: ne
yer had in his museum such thrilling,
amazing, unprecedented and awe-inspiring
bit of deiormity, such "a compendium of all
possible contradictions, as this miScellane-
ously constructed party will be. The mer-
maid compared with it, was but piece OF
clumsy joinery. Pity tits, that it should
die-a greater pity tits that when dead, il
i
scientifically cured, that no more verm;l
may be engendered, and then hung ul
with the apes and the alligators.
Total extinction Of Slavery? Why what
We pray to be told, are the New-lights
taking about? Why this means intidelity
and anarchy, and general wreck and confu
sion, and amalgamation, and distress o
mind to DR.. Lord, and despair to Bishop
Hopkins, and the final prostratiOn of white
xo1ks onA ovorlaStipO fntfnn. hi iUht a NJ
tobacco blast! Total extinction of Slavery
What words are these to come from Cop
perhead mouths? What then will become
Of Canaan? We see him now with thu
curse imposed upon him by the everlasting
God, taken off by the greater authority o
the new party-we see him imprudentl.
walking about in a redeemed, regeneratet
and disenthralled condition, giving the lii
to the sacred Scripture, swapping his Tin
gers at ethnologists, and turning up hi
nose at Greek photographers, and gon:
into the business Of human life general,
as il he were really a human being. Alas
what a waste will this involve of logic
philosophy, phiiology, osteology, craniolo
gy, ana all other ologies whatsoever Tt
say nothing of the Constitutional Law
the Websterio-Curtisna and Divinity OF tn
Doctor-Southside-A Adams stripe TO sa,
nothing Of cords upon cords q pamphlet
rs yet unread put ont by the Society for tn
Diffusion of Constitutional Knowledge!
Our gratutoas but sincere, and, we be
lieve, wise advice, 10 All misguided men
who, hungering and thirsting for the Pres
idency. expect to attain official bis
through the DISTINGUISHED wiggles Of tn
Copperhead serpent, is to give up thei
childish faith in that deceptive reptile a
once and forever. At any rate, no pruden
man will accept nomination from hi
snakeship without he is secured a salary
as candidate, of at least SIC, 600 per month
1t will be worth the money, and any aver
age human being would sell himself abom
inably cheap for such a service, even q
such price, although paid in advance, a
it would certainly be ii ever paid ut ALI
1t is worth a great deal of money to b
used for q slime and then flung away like
squeezed lemon, never more TO be used il
the brewing of any political punch. Gu
elective battle-fields are already strewl
with these bloodless and broken bone
corpses. A long and ghostly train of Pres
dential aspirants, who have been the can
didates of newspapers but never the can
didates of conventions outside small coun
ties. shadow u solemn warning to al
Generals. whether Of the Major or Briga
der species; and from the Golgotha {
caucus. murdered men comes up despai,
ing crv-'He that seeks shall not find ~