The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-27

astonished the world; but it amused no.
body SO much as the creature himself; he
knew he was neither rich nor rare, and
wondered how the devil he got there; or as
| Canadian editor, 1T seems to be strange
that !, boy born, as it were, in the woods,
should have been driftcd into the Gper OF
this great event. Why strange? One
may be drifted into any apex, II he only
embarks upon . chain Of circumstances;
and those who sneer at Abraham's figure
are desired to observe that Noah's ark did
actually drift to an apex; and it contained,
together with every other beast after his
kind, pair of baboons. If they drifted
to an apex, so may he. However that may
be, he is certainly now about to come down,
even to be dragged or kicked down. The
representations of last spring were infal-
iible-that ''the rebellion must be crushed
this year-at least very signal and decisive
successes must be gained over it-or else
the war could no longer be carried on un.
der LincOln's Government; let what might
come Of the war and the Union, he would
get no more armies to fling into the red pit
of Virginia for slaughter.
Now to put aside, for the present, the to-
to be their conQuests in the Trans Missis-
sippi; pretermitting, also, the dead lock to
which Sherman's army has been brought,
with all Kentucky, Tennessee and the half
Of Georgia lying between him and his own
country-and looking only to this most
colossal invasion Of Virginia with three
huge armies all bound OF once for Rich
mOnd-the thing is over. Grants army is
rapidly going away from our front at Pc
tersburg, and returning to Washington
and elsewhere. OF course Grant will not
put up q notice on the shore Of the AppO-
mattox that he hereby abandons his enter
prise; neither will Stanton officially mott
~ that the armies Of ''the Unian" are
found wholly unable to advance one yard
out of the protection of their ships, and
therefore they discontinue the campaign
with q loss of one hundred and fifty thou
sand killed, wounded and missing. This
would he unreasonable to expect; never
theless, the enterprise is abandoned; and
this is necessarily, so far as Lincoln is con-
cerned, q final abandonment Richmond
is no more to hear the roar Of Yankee seige
guns under that potentate's reign.
One can not but arrive at this conclusion
from several indications; from the greatly
increasing excitement at the North touch
ing the Chicago Convention, which is to
nominate . Democratic President; from
the daring violence with which some news
the draft of half q million Of men; and
from the singular movement of some Of
Lincoln's own Black Republican support
ers in the Washington Congress, as yes
terday detailed in the Examiner. They
waited for the moment when their sover-
eign's fortunes were declining from their
''apex" to give him treacherous shove
down the hill. Two of his most vehement
and efficient allies, chairmen respectively
Of the Senate and House COMMITTEE on
Rebellious States," Wade. OF Ohio,
and Winter Davis, Of Maryland, give
him this blow under the fifth rib
They present, in their official capacity,
what almost amounts to legal impeach-
ment, save in matter Of form, against their
tering to his fall; charge him with arro-
gance, usurpation, knavery, in withhold
ing his assent to bill touching the future
status of these Confederate States-a mat
ter which, though of small importance to
us, is Of the deepest moment, it seems, in
that country; inasmuch as he has plan Of
his own for readmitting States to the Un-
ion ON the application of one.tenth of their
population; and this would, they say, give
him the control of the Presidential election.
So they informed him that an election car
ried by this artifice must be resisted; and
that be is inaugurating civil war for the
Presidency. II Grant had only taken
Richmond, would they have dared to set
their names to such q document as this
All the world suddenly, within one week,
in short, since the blow up Of the campaign
At Petersburg, seems to feel instinctively
that Abraham's game is played, and the
New York Herald at once calls for 3 Ma
tional Convention, ut Buffalo, to nomi-
nate some other men instead Of the
baboon Of Illinois and the tailor Of Ten
nessee; and finds that 1.-THE very winds
have been whispering it for weeks" that
is, for two weeks. since the Petersburg
blow-up. All, the Emperor is q fallen
tree; no bird of the air will ever again
feather it's nest under his branches; q dy-
ing guerrilla, against whom the smallest
cur can lift up its leg.
Taking It as certain, then, that the enc
my's present sovereign Is as good as gone,
next comes the most interesting consider
alton of who is to be his successor. It Is
not very plain in the interest Of whom, or
of what, Wade and Davis have SO suddenly
found out the enormities Of Lincoln, nor
whether they mean to aid the Fremont
party Of impossible ultra radicals; OF to lay
But the NEST interesting matter to Us, is
the keen and active agitation Of the two
branches of the Democratic party" The
Peace Democrats openly avOw that they
will labor at the Chicago Convention, Of
this month, to get q platform" of instant
and absolute peace. We learn that the
"War Democrats" are beginning, through
their assent to an aymistice, as one of the
| ssplanks'' of the Chicago Convention-an
armistice to allow negotiations for recon-
struction. In other words these War DEM
ocrats propose that, leaving the military
lines of each party where they now are, the
Confederate States should be invited to
send delegates to meet the Yankee States
in convention. The New York Day Book
explains the plan thus: 1.-THE War Democ-
racv propose this plan as flank movement
On the Peace Democratic. They hope by
this means to get their support in electing
their candidate, when they will offer such
terms as they consider fair to the South,
which, If they do not accept, they propose to
raise the cry Of war to the bitter end.' The
Day Book, however, declares that with .