The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-24

THEHAWK-EYE
Wednesday, December FL.
The Situasien.
Atno time since the beginning Of the wa
has the general situation seemed SO hop,
full. The blows are falling thick and heav
and are telling upon the rebels. Hood
army . almost annihilated- will be b,
ore. rhom8 gets through with him. Shel
man "a in the heart Of the Confedera6y IN
the rebels can bring no adequate force {
; oppose him. What il to prevent Thoms
and sherman marching on Richmond an
finishing up the Rebellion?
The PreslAenVs Medication .
0en. Dlx's Order. t~
General Dix overstepped his authority
no doubt, in issuing his order. 1t IL nc
for him to determine what the policy 9
the Government shall be. Like Fremont
in Missouri, be has assumed control q
matters not in his jurisdiction. Yet Gene
raj Dix is right. We have right to pur
sue Canada raiders and capture and punisl
them, even ii we have to catch them b
Canada, because the Canadian Govern
ment has allowed the rebels to organic
guerrilla bands in Canada, and will neither
punielz the rebels for violating their neu'
tralityla laws nor give them mp to W to pun;
ish. The Canadian, authorities, have no,
only released the robbers and murderer
who invaded Vermont from Canada, but
have handed over the money stolen from
the Vermont Banks to an agent of the Con.
fsderste Government. We have therefore
no alternative but to either declare war
against Great Britain, in case she refusesto
right this wrong, or announce to the world
our intention Of taking, wherever found.
any raiders that may invade us from Can
ada. This we have = right to do. Il i the
proper remedy. According TO tho law Of
nations It is our right. We believe Il is
expedient to do right-to maintain our
rights even against the world in arms. We
believe we can do Il. Let N preserve our
self-respect At any rate Experience has
shown tae folly Of trying to conciliats by
submission to wrong. If we are to have
any rights or status among nations, we
must maintain both by force Of arms. II
wemust either submit to such internal out
RACES ss this or 60 to war with Great Brit
ain, let as have . brush with the Brit!shera
wipe cut = thousand million Of indebt-
edness-put thousand privateers upon
the ocean, and see what will come Of it,
The English stirred up this rebellion, have
nursed it since, and would like hugely to
zee Democratic institutions destroyed In
the United States, but when they come to
levying war upon us, under the guise Of
neutrality, We hope our rulers will have
the pluck 70 meet the matter sQuarely.
fHFs
- The publication, made Saturday, o.
the amount of income tax paid By the citi.
zens Of Burlington will have . tendency t.
upset the popular ideas in regard toythe
wealthy men Of our city. It seems that
many persons heretofore regarded a. rich
are really poor--so poor, in fact, that they
certainly must be living beyond their in
comes. IN fact, q number Of persons sup
posed 70 be we'll to do in the world, pay M
taxes, and, Of course, have no incomes
We DOH: and their names on the list 1t all
There is another noticeable fact which may
be considered very strange. Our men O
capital-men who lend money at round
rates o: interest-who lend by thousands
we had almost said by hundreds of thou
lands, seem to be doing very poorly In
Iced, while by the taxes they pay oul
lergymen and clerks who work for sala
les seem to be doing remarkably we'll! Ii
lot this exceedingly queer? Is it not also
ueer that persons doing ''two-bit' re-
all trade should be making SO much more
honey than heavy operators7 Is it mo-
ueer tia: persons who are reported to have
iade twenty, thirty or more thousands d
pillars III '63, should be reported on thu
SCISSORS books Is but making a pitifu
teen hundred or two thousand--no
lough to pay family expenses? How thi,
orld Is given to lying?
We should like to see subscription pa
" started for the benefit of number o
.rsons whose names are on the list pub
he'd Saturday, and a number who ar,
t on the list but must be in suffering
ndition. SG 81 @
1- Maryland is already experiencing
good feet Of emancipation in the ris,
land. Pennsylvanians are going in ant
ying farms, and the Baltimore a merico,
sntioEs the sale Of several large and val
Die farms ut prices much higher tina,
~ would have brought while SLAYER,
ssted. There will be large emigration
o Maryland next spring, and it will in
de 70. few intelligent and enterpris
free, blacks from the North, with sotn
Vita. to invest. y .eg.ss. 80 e
- Senator Hale has rod in pickle TO
Greta-y Welles, which be viii apply will
ill on account Of his displacement from
naval committee; and then there vii
ow an exhibition ofseveral picked rod,
The exposed parts Of Senator Hale, and
e VIII be what old ladies' call 50 tim,