The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-20

panied with q Idle in the last ditch" mes
sage, and threat to put down my foot"
| if they did not dispense for three years or
during the war;"
| II is with feelings that can be better inn
| agined than described that l communicate
to you the humiliatlng, and depiorabie
| fact that means so well adapted to the end
failed entirely of accomplishing the pur-
pose intended.
By this time things in our sister State OF
Missouri began to look very dark
| A PEACE CoMMIssloN.-The next pru-
DENTAL measure adopted byme was to send
a .Peace Commission to that State for the
purpose of negotiating with Claib. Jackson
then Governor ofthat State, for the person
al security Of the horses and cattle along
our Southern border. TO this end APP
pointed three distinguished Knights of the
Golden Circle with plenary powers. l put
a circular mark upon their persons, an Oh
i've branch in their hands, with white flag
pendent, and sent them forth with the same
feeling of anxiety with which our old
friend Noah watched the departing dove
from the window of his ark. Like the dove
also, am sorry TO say, that these Commits
SlonerS have never returned to the cOnfG-
ing bosom that yearned for their safety,
and they are now exileS from the land that
nation ! have been enabled to OBTAIN of
the fate OF the Commissioners, represents
their situation as melancholy in the last
degree. They had taken an Improbable
| contract of backing the boots of the South
ern Contederacy, and owing to the factthat
the Southern Confederacy no longer had
any boots to black, they were likely 10 die
OF grief and starvation, because that, like
Othello, spoken Of by my friend Shaks-
peare, their occupation was gone"
MEETING or THE GovERNoRs.-
| time after the war was begun ] was per-
| suaded TO meet with certain distinguished
representatives OF certain of the States who
claimed 10 be in favor OF maintaining the
| integrity of the Bonds of Union. The OBJ
.)ect OF this meeting on my part was 10 OBJ
| tain their views and try 10 give them the
benefit of my advice, and deem il my du-
~ TO give you some account OF our inter-
view.
ARMED NEUTRALITY.-The individual
who first aggrandizeu the attention of our
convention, represented the State Of Ken
lucky, and was attred in white neck
cloth, with a large knife in the waist band
of this breaches. He insisted that in the
struggle then going on, that he should be
permitted to place himself between the reb-
els and the forces we had sent against
them, and perform t;bleau that he called
ARMED NeGtral;ty.' The only reason he
|
| had more regard for his personal safety
than Tor anything else. and that by so doing
he might be allie 20 preserve what be calico
his peculiar institutions.
/ am sorry 10 say tina, we found il neces-
sary to deal rather harshly with this indi-
vidual. HIS big knife was taken from MIN,
and an application of cold steel and saltpe-
ire was applied to his spinal column. This
treatmennha made the man much more
rational, and he seems at times quite rec
Onciled. but he has TO be closely watched
on account o. certain spells of mania, to
which he is subject, during which spells
he imagines that he is about to be c01yfscG-
ted.
4 THE DRAFT TRoUBLE.-The next indi-
yidual with whom we had some trouble,
was representative of the State Of New
York. / cannot now recall his name, but
he was a man who could sag more and Go
less than any other individual in the coun-
Gil. This gentleman had much trouble
growing out OF game OF drafts in which
ne had been engaged, with Uncle Samuel.
The New Yorker, il seems had come out
second best IN the game, and some of his
New York friends who had staked hea-
w ODDS on his success claimed that the
game had not been fairly played. After
full consultation on this gentlemans case,
! prescribed for him very large dose o,
| Fall Elections" which he took down with
quiet and rational, though he still talks
much ncohereEtly OF Olive branches, err
ring sisters, and constitutional rights. The
conclusion Of this council was 10 appoint
your Executive the agent Of the different
States represented with full power 10 visi,
Uncle Samuel, and TO console and control
him by good counsel and advice. accord
ingly visited the old gentleman at his coun-
try seat. in the District Of Columbia, and
gave him written memoranda upon the
conduct Of the war, arranged under appro'
pirate heads, as follows:
4 ION to Richmond.
1 "Contrabands Of War.
"Confiscation.
Emancipation.
! "EXpatriuiion.
"Thunderation.
Restoration.
REORGANIZATION.
regret to say that my valuable sugges
tons under the first specification, to-wit
On to Ricbmond' were surreptitiously
distracted from the possession Of the ole
gentleman by one Gen. Mcclellan, which
will account for the fact that the thing ha.
never yet ueen did.