The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15
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What else can You offer them than has beef
offered and rejected?
You want peace, do you? You wan
compromise. You want the expensiveanc
bloody war stopped? Are you honest
about this? If you are. the settlement i
one ofthe simplest and easiest in the world.
You have rebelled against the Constitution
and violated the law, and now the cues
tion is, how shall You get out Of the din
voice, "come back and be good boys" II
Yes. that il the idea. Come back and take
the Constitution a your compromise. Il
il good old instrument; one under which
you lived and prospered for years, and ac-
quire0 all your greatness; and al, that is
necessary to re-enjoy the same blessings is
to return to obedience to the Constitution
and laws Of the Government. [Cheers.]
TIE TREACHERr OF COMPROMISE.
Dom: you see the treachery and treason
il the talk about compromise with trait
ors, standing on 9 violated Constitution, q
set Of usurpers, with arms in their han ds.
threatening to overthrow the Government?
know that appeals have been made to
mothers, and fathers, and sisters, and
brothers. ~ peace mongers through the
country, who promise to save the vast ex.
penditure of blood and money caused by
the war. But don't we know that some
times money and compromise are aggra-
lvations instead Of palliations Let me
ask some father whose son sleeps in his
grave in what is called the Southern Con.
federacy; let me ask some mother whose
son has come home leaving limb ON some
Southern battlefield; let me ask some Sis
ter whose brother fell at the CORY lannon's
mouth or beneath the crimsoned spear, and
was consigned to his grave with no wind
ing shee: but the blood that saturated his
blanket-are you willing TO compromise
IA universal and tremendous shou. Of
mo, no." came up from the thousands
present, many. very many Of whom were
The specific persons addressed.] Compro-
mise and give up the soil that contains
their blood and their bones, to be held and
controlled by traitors and epemies forever!
l"Never, nevAr.'] Has your blood grown
80 thin and SO pale that you are willing to
have your offspring lie and moulder m
cared for beneath the traitors flag? I''No,
impression on the national heart.
No, the only way 70 get peace is to con-
quer the rebellion. The only way to OBJ
tain and maintain peace is to preserve the
integrity Of the Union. Divide the Union,
and you have laid the foundation for per-
petual war. There is no way 70 peace ex-
cept through submission 20 the Consfitu-
ion and the laws.
SUCCESS NECESSARY TO NATIONALITY.
If this government yields TO the rebel
lion, and thereby gives to the world con-
elusive evidence that it cannot put down
treason and traitors, 1t 10 an acknowledge
ment 10 other governments that it 10 no
longer nation. You are now passing
through the third ordeal tina, all nations
must pass through. A nation must first be
born next it must prove itself competent
to sustain itself among the nations Of the
earth and then it has, after that, more
inveterate foe to contend with, viz: it must
prove itself able TO conquer intestine foes
and traitors at home. And while we have
them in the south defying US with arms,
are you right sure you have not some Of
these intestine, secret enemies 10 the gov
eminent in your midst : Voices, "Yes,
plenty OF them.,] If you understood them
here as we do in the south, you would
know precisely how to deal with them;
and, unless you meet them effectualiy at
the polls, you may be under the necessity
OF learning how to dispose Of them finally.
COMPROMISE, AND WHAT BECOMES OF
SOUTHERN UNIoNISTs?
An aEmis,ide, compromise, and peace
These bring back Grant, Sheridan and
Sherman, aud give up all you have con-
Gnered. And at this point begin to feel
personal interest. What will you do with
the Union men Of the South, who are
struggling there for the nations canse
Notwithstanding my State was sold like
sheep in the shambles, a million Of people
transferred without their consent, py three
men, into the rebellion. am proud to
say that Tennessee has twenty-five regi-
ments of Union Soldiers in the field
fCheers.] Are you going to hand them
over to the tender meYcies Of the rebels p
[Voices-''Never, never."] When hear
you talk about an armistice and comprom-
Use, feel as though you would have some
one in your midst. rising up like Peter the
Hermit. or old, whose high appreciation Of
| the Holy Land and the sepulchre of our
SAVIOUR, was 50 great that he Iaised hosts
Of the faithful to redeem it from the Turk
ish rule. should think some patriotic
master spirit here in the north would,
| when you talk about compromise and Con-
federate Independence get up crusade to
redeem the graves Of your fallen heroes
from rebel rule and desecration. No true
patriot can dream of peace while the bones
of his brothers and sons xre in hostile
hands. Then why should you talk about
compromise Your government cannot
live If j, cannot put down treason and trail
tors. 1t will contain within itself elements
of it's own destruction, and sooner or later
they will overthrow il. There can be no
peace until every rebel is conquered, and
submits to the Constitution and the laws.
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