The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-17

ventlOn OF states, which that usIlfp0r'l
Constitution win allow no one OF the irsur.
gent States to enter. What now, If there
De no Convention At all, or if the Con.
vention fail to agree on submission e
Federal authority? jefferson Davis then
remains in authority, his Confederacv es.
tabiished, and the Union with all its Rlo.
ties Is gone forever. Nay more. If such .
thing could happen - that the Chicago
candidate, nominated upon such an agree
ment, could be elected on the. 1st Tuesday
OF November next, Who can v0uch for the
safety Of the country against the rebels tlu.
ring the Interval which must elapse before
the new Administration can constitution.
ally come into power9a Il seems to me that
Auch an election would tend equally to de-
moralixe the Union and 70 inviteth insur-
gents to renew their efforts for its tlestruc-
! It romans 1br mo now only % eive Won
the proof tlAtslthough the way In which
the Chicago Democracy did what had been
agreed upon In their behalf at Niagara. was
not altogether satisfactory, yet what they
actually did, was accepted Is full execu-
ton OF the previous compact:
'.ST. CATHARINEs, C. W., Sent. /.
10 Hon. d. WIER, HdlUdx: Platform
and Presidential nominee unsatisfactory,
Vice President and speeches satisfactory.
[signedl dEo. II. sAxpERs.',
D. Wier IL q Richmond accomplice ii
Halifax, and Philm0re il understood to be
the conductor Of the insurgent organ in
London. fa
Here then we have nomination and a
platform which were made by treaty for.
mally contracted between the Democratic
traitors at Richmond and the Democratic
opposition at Chicago. signed, sealed, 4at-
tested and delivered in the presence OF the
London Times. and already ratified NJ
Kichmond.-t"Bv Heaven, we've got 'em.' -
Got them. 70 be sure you've got them, my
friends. They say am always too SAN
gu1ne OF the success Of national candidates
and Of the national arms. But IL seems to
me that the veriest croaker in all our loyal
camp Will take new courage and become
heroic, when he sees that the last hope OF
the rebellion hangs upon the ratification OF
this abominable and detesfable compact by
the American people.
Yes. You have got them; but how did you
get themf Not by any skill or art OF the
Administration, or even through tho So
gacity or activity Of the loyal people, but
overreaOhing itself, and thus WORKING out
their own defeat and confusion. They do
say that the father of evil always indulges
his chosen disciples, with such an excess
Of subtlety as to render their ultimate ruin
and puishment inevitable. t u
r And what time is thistle proclaim such
. policy conceived in treachery and
brought forth with shameless effrOntery.--
A cessation Of hostilities ON the heel of de-
cisive naval and land battles, at the very
moment that the rebellion, without ain
gle tort in its possession, on theocean OF on
either OF fthegreat rivers or lakes, il crumb-
ling to the earth, and at the same time 4
dozen new ships of war are going to com.
plete the investment by sea, and three
hundred thousand volunteers are rushing
to the lines, to complete the work Of resto-
ration and pacitication.
There p maxim which thoughtful
teachers always carefully inculcate. It 10
that inconstancy is imbecility, and that
perseverance Is necessary to insure sue
cess. This maxim was ret forth in the
form OF copy, Ia the writing book, when
l was young: PERSEVERANCE, always con-
quers." Even infantile beginners encoun-
tered the instruction in the form of q fable
in Webster's 8 spefling 6oek. The story was
that after using soft words and tults of
grass tho farmer tried what virtue there
was in stones, and by persistence in that
application, he brought the rude boy, who
was stealing apples. down from the tree,
and made him ask the farmers pardon
Our Chicago teachers tell as that Just AZ the
rude boy IL coming down we must Law
down the stones, and resort again to tho
use of grass, with the consequence, Of
course, that the farmer must beg pardOu Of
the trespssser. But what makes this Chi
cago policy more contemplate ana even
ridiculous, ID that it il nothing different
from the policy with which the same par
ties now contracting ushered in disuni0n
in 1851, in the closing hours Of the Admin
istratiOn Of James Buchanan. Yes, nv
dear friends, when we Of this Administers
ton came into our places in March, 1861.
We found there existing just the system
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viz: lst, reasonable confsderacy in arms
against the Federal authority. ID, a truce
between the Government Of the United
States and the Rebels, . veritable armis-
tlc0, which was so construed that while the
national ports and forts were thoroughly
invested along the sea coasts and rivers BY
the insurgents, they could be neither rein
forced nor supplied with food even by the
Government. I'd, q languid debate, with
view to an ultimate National Convention,
which the Rebels haughtily deSpised and
contemptuOrsly rejected. What were the
alternatives left us. Either to surrender
ourselves and the government at discre-
ton. or to summon the people TO arms, ter
inmate the armistice, adjourn the demoral-
izing debate, and "repossess' ourselves Of
the national forts and posts. And now, has
all this treasure that has been spent, and all
the precious blood that has been poured
forth, gone for nothing else but to secure
an ignominious retreat, and return at the
end Of four years to the hopeless imbeciii.
~ and rapid process Or dissolution which
existed when Abraham Lincoln took into
his hands the reins Of Government A'
Every one Of you know that but for that
accession of Abraham Lincoln, Just at that
time, the Union would in less than three
months have fallen into absolute and lrre-
trievable ruin. ss.s -
will not dwell long on the complaints
which misguided but not Intentionally per-
verse mon bring against the Administra-
tion Of Abraham Lincoln. They complain
Of military. arrests Of spies and lurking
traitors In the loyal States, ~ II the Gov
ernment could justify itself for waiting
without preventive measures, for more
States to be invaded ort0 be carried of into
secession.
They complain that when We call for vol
unteers we present the alternative Of o draft
as if when the ship has been souttled the
captain ought to leave the sleeping pass
engers to 60 to the bottom without calling
upon them to take their turn at the pump.
They are not content with plotting sedi-
ton in secret places, but they go up and
down the public streets uttering treason,