The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-05
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fort, it has fallen back and crushed U.S.
Hencelorth wemust live in perpetual con-
tradiction to the Gospel by compromising
with injustice, and all this TO leave 70 our
children what We have received from our
fathers, an incurable evil that will destroy
the republic and liberty. s. 81.
-Anxieties, regrets, remorse-this - Al
that will be given by this COMPROMISE
which the Democrats glorify in advance
and which they present as claim TO conn.
dence 70 the misled people whose sunrage
they demand. But, however shameful
this Compromise might be 70 the north,
would the South accept it dare amim
it would not If Gen. Mcclellan prevai!s,
this will be his first disenchantment, ana
the first punishment Of his party. An ar.
istocracy, few in numbers. and firmly
united, feels its strength and knows now
to choose it's favorable moment. Wnat
will the election OF Gen. Mcclellan SIGNIFY,
If not that the Democracy is wearied, tina:
its efforts have failed, that It wishes ior
peace at any price. Everything IS extreme
In democracy, weakness as we'll as Strength
selt-aband0nment as well az herOlsm.
Democracy that desires war no longer,
will accept any conditions, reserving the
u
who have misled it. 1t is certain that the
South will profit by this advantage. and
that it will seize again in an instant, the
supremacy which four years Of war nave
caused it to lose. Either it will not return
to the Union, or if it returns, i will only
be in appearance, constituting for itself
separate position, proposing the exclusion
OF two republics, independent internally,
and represented without by the same Pres.
itlent; in a word the sovereignty that will
be exercised by treating with II, the
South will maintain, and will cause 70 tri-
umph. The true President Of the Union
Reconstructed by the Democracy, will nor
be Gen. Mcclellan, but Jefferson Davis.
Will the American Democracy suffer it.
self to be again seduced by party that for
thirty years has always misled itf Is 1t so
much in need Of and thirstipg for peace
that it il ready to sacrifice to IL the interest.
the honor. the future OF the country
i Among this people, which for four years
has done such great deeds. VIZ tne Demo- mo.
Gratis succeed in gaining majority that
will break with glorious past and accept
the shame Of coinpromiseY Will it disa-
vow the noble soldiers who, amid their
sufserings, only ask to continue the war!
And is it about to dismiss Grant, Meade,
Sherman and Farragut, TO offer to the adj
miratiOn of America the patriotism OF men
1OSl&u0O III A0V20C0 W kAJ0 oSApA -
the South, or to separation? If America
has come to this, how much has il degener-
ated9 In its history it, would find differ
ent examples and different memories
From l776 to 1881, what miseries did not
the revolutionists sufyer-soldiers without
bread and without shoes, worthless paper
currency. towns burned, fields laid waste,
yet Notwithstanding, except . handful OF
Tories whom shame followed even into the
grave, who ever proposed to treat with the
enemyf The armies Of 1854 arc neither
less brave nor less patriotic than the armies
Of the Revolution. Success 10 almost GER
tain, victory assured, and the North finally
on the verge Of glorious Peace. And lst
1t this moment that the American people
will listen to men who propose TO abdicate7
No, ] will never believe that generous
nation, which has already more than once
astonished Europe by its energy and per-
severance, will miserably lead to discour-
agement, when with last effort It can
crush the rebellion. The hope Of the enc
pointed. Rejunevated by victory, strength
ened by trial, America will expel slavery
from the world, and will give an example
still greater than that Of the War Of INDIE
pendence. Twice it will have secured the
triumph Of liber .y-political liberty in
l776. civil liberty in 1854. Neither Greece
nor Rome have left memories 90 great.
Old friends of the United States, be not
astonished at the warmth Of my words
The world is justly responsible, and the
cause Of America il that of liberty. So long
~ there is on the other side Of the Atlantic
. community Of thirty,millions men, living
happily and peaceably under the Govern
ment it has chosen, with the laws it makes
itself, liberty will radiate on Europe AZ
from q shining beacon; America, rid Of
slavery, will be the country Of every ar
dent soul, every generous heart. But If
liberty is eclipsed in the New World, dark
ness will ensue in Europe; and we shall
see the work of Washington, Franklin
! and Hamilton spit upon and lrOdden IN
der foot by school that believes only in
strength and success.
| This is why We await with impotence
the Presidential election, praying God that
| the name that shall be drawn from the urn
may be that of the honest and upright
Abraham Lincoln, for this name will DO q
presage to victory, the triumph Of justice
and right. To vote for Mcclellan il to vote
for the humiliation Of the North, the per
petual maintenance of slavery, and the dis.
ruption of the great Republic. TO vote for
Lincoln is to vote for Union and for liber-
~. EDoUARD LABouLASk.
PEACE.
| "Resolped, That in the future, az in the
past, we will, &c."-Cnicago Platform Of
| 1854.
Enron OP THE HAwKEyE. What a s1e-