The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-26
Mean Treatment.


The laborer is worthy Of his hire, and the
less Clearly the work, the more promptly
and literally 1t should be paid. During the
late canvass we are free to admit that our
COpperhead voters, calling themselves. for
some inexplicable reason, Democrats"
did their distasteful work with all the alac.
rity and energy possible, under such dis
cOuraging circumstan ces, and although Mr.
Belmont might perhaps have bet little
more freely, yet as a whole il must be con-
coded that the Chicagoites accomplished
wonders. The miracle is not that they cast
30 few votes, but so many. Now that they
have lost the fight, and in a discounted
and disconso'ate state required wine and
oil to be pouredinto their sensitive wounds.
the rebels, who should send to them words
Of sympathy and encouragement, are abu-
sing their aisinterested and devoted allies
In very brutal way: 1ugratitude is the
meanest of vices, and we do not scruple to
say that the Richmond ingratitude is the
most disgusting of all the varieties which
have come to our knowledge in this un-
feeling and frigid world. The Richmond
Enquirer Of the 18th inst. is especially in
solent. "Have the Democrats,r it asks.
"shown us sympathy or done us simple
Justice at any time during the war? Did
fhey ever boldly stand up against the heat
ed passions and heroic bravery of the
Black Republicans to protect the Confeder-
ate States? Or when they arose was it not
merely to protect their own rights and fur
Their their own plans? They are no longer
the pure and noble Democrats Of days gone
by. They have adopted, for party pnrpo.
ses, all the radicalism, the discomfort, the
poverty and the crime of Europe ali the
thousands living in misery and vice at
home, who mistoOk license for liberty, and
were, by training and impulse, alike inca
pable Of comprehending, much more Of
loving, the enlightened structure Of Repub-
lican freedom The cowrrdice and base
mocracy is unexampledin history" They
shave, without a blow, surrendered every
right Of their own."- In short, they have
forfeited the respect and confidence Of the
rebels, who regard their ancient and open
enemies, the "Black Republican" withfa
more lenient ewes.
All this is, indeed. but cold comfort to
" expect too much. They anticipated
that the friendly Copperhead, in their
quarrel and not in his own, would refuse
to paw taxes, would organize mobs, would
RIM away from military service. would go
to Jail in the jolliest frame Of mind, would
rise against the inauguration Of Lincoln,
would seek to plunge his own body polite
intothe slough Of instruction, and generally
would fight for the cause of the Shareholder
as he would fight for his own benefit in his
own behalf. We must declare that we
consider d emands like these not only ex-
orbitant, bat cruel. Dough is dough. A
craven is and will be o craven TO the end
of time. A coward who would dare Moth
ing for his own Constitution, should bard
ly ba blamed for declining to die for Mr.
Davis's. The fault was not in the Democ-
racy in doing so little, but in the Confed-
eracy in expecting so much. We cheer
fully bear testimony to the acrimony with
which the serpent has gnawed the file
why should he be scoffed at because his
co,a no hv anv
ment possess the feelings Of gentlemen,
they would recall the long, arduous, un-
grudging and ill-requited services of their
Northern henchnen-they would remern-
Der how many times Democratic Conyen-
tons were the meek instruments of the
narrowing policy-they would think Of
all the human sacrifices upon their altar
from Gag Atherton to Goody Buchanan