The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-19

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cry had the patronage and countenance or
the United States against the whole world.
now as fully revealed to the people OF the
United States as they have heretofore been
to the on tside world. Before the calamit-
Gus war in which slavery plunged the
country shall end, il will be even more
hateful to the American people than it al
resay is to the rest OF mankind, while their
condemnation Oft will remain unchanged.
[Applause.l The Opposition will not suc-
ceed in misleading you, am sure. by tell
sng yOu that you have question OF immo-
diate peace or war involved In the present
issue. War, and not peace, you have
Already, God knows that 1t is severe and
II % the nationsl sa death qiI shouid s saw % ~
our taxes are heavy enough. IF l could
think Of personal interests, affections or
sympathies in the face Of an insolent pub
lie enemy in arms, should say men
enough to have been MANNED and slain.-
But when we shall have said all these
will still be before US, unchanged. tits
. state of civil war, and not OF peace
(CheeB)
"How LONG Is THE WAR 10 LAST -
Persons ask me on every hand, rs the
war to last forever9 "How long IL the
war to last?" answer, the war will not
last forever, but it must continue until wo
give up the conflict or the enemy give up
the conflict. [Cries of s. That's the talk"
hs arc ces TO sys
You say, mo, never" Why, Because
in that case you give the national life.-
[Cheers.1 In any and every event the ma
ton mus: live. II you were to give up
the national life, you enter in the state
Of national death. What that Is, God b
thanked, we do not certainly know. He
has mercifuily withheld that terrible
knowledge from the keenest search and
speculation. But we do know that national
death usually consists Of several stages
The first is domestic civil war-not civil
war across border. such as this war is.
but a real civil war-a civil war brought
home to our own cities, TO oar own affairs,
TO our own firesides. Weknow, by the ex.
perience of other countries, that with occa-
sisnal respites resulting from exhaustion,
this aggravated form Of civil war continues
until q military despot is welcomed to
arrest the effusion of blood, to restore tran.
guilty and quiet, with the loss of civil.
and, if need be, religious liberty. [Cheers.1
This is terrible condition into which you
rush to escape from present civil war.-
Every one OF the supporters of the Ad-
ministration knows this as well AZ do,
and sees it as clearly. In view of calami-
Suffering, of course the Government will
not abandon the conflict until the majority
OF the people decide that it shall be aban-
doned. lApplause, and cries Of That
will never be !'] On the other hand, the
enemy will abandon their rebellion just 50
soon as :hey shall have the updoubted
assurance that 1t can not prevail. lCheers.1
They will do so for two reasons: first, no
faction can indefinitely continue struggle
that is hopeless. Secondly, because they
give up no national life. bat they, as well
as we, save their own national existence by
their defeat and overthrow, [cries That's
SO, and better national existence than
in their maddest hours Of 6elusion they
have ever conceived as the result Of their
unlawful enterprise. [Cheers.
NO SURRENDER.
Fellow.citizens: You are all freq and in.
dependent as am, and you may and must
decide the question for yourselves. cam
not decide 1t for you, nor shall you decide
it for me. I am not going to surrender to
the rebels. TCheers.] No, though they exc
ten d the desolation of civil war all over the
whole land--though they come backed in
heir unholy quarrel by one or many for
eign States am not going to surrender
now. Therefore, want no arm;stice, no
cessation OF hosti!ities, no negotiation with
rebels in arms. lCheers.l However it may
| be with others, 81 looked before leaped"
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surrender now, should have proposed
! surrender in the beginning. Ishouid have
accepted terms without waiting for Bull
Run-certainly after Bull Run. / would
have avaiied myself OF the first gleam of
victory to secure terms as little humiliA.
| ting as possible. I should have negotiated
after tie capture Of New Orleans, after Muir.
freesboro' after Norfoik-after An,ietam,
after Gettysburg. Iwould have gone un-
der the pressure of national affection, and
made every defeat q claim 10 rebel sympa-
thy and clemency. After the first Bull
Run battle-after the second Bull Run bat
tle-after Gaines Miii-after Fredericks-
5urg-after Observation-Disclosures the de.
| feat Of Banks on the Red river-I am not
going to surrender now nor never. Loud
cheers.] AS for the arts Of statesmanship.
know Of noce applicable to the case. The
only art of craftsmanship that do know
is to be faithful TO God and my country
lAppiause.] / seek to cultivate charity
and prevent war, civil war or foreign. as
long as consistent with national honor and
justice and safety it can be prevented, but
stancy aud resolution, and thus to saye my
country, or fall with its defenders. TIRE
mendous cheers.l
A NATURAL MIsrAKE.-In a recent
speech General Logan, Of Illinois, related
the following Pat anecdote, which brought
down the crowd:
"A compile of Irishmen who deserted
from the rebel armies, and reached Chica-