The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-19


And yet while God 5 decree is plain
An, yes Is paain.-
That men must part and part in pain.
He let's them say-"We meet again."
We meet again r. a.i.
I'VE meet again."
.xuerican Society Durins civil
War;
We. and Things as Seen through an Eng
ltshman's Specs.
WASHINGTON, February 15.-At the YER
ninaton of my last letter ! was sitting
5ovn to table in the immediate neighbor-
mod Of the heroine Of the hour-Mlss An
"A dickinson. l wonder whether some
alrsery discipline of gentle sort might
not be beneficial in curbing the PASSIONATE
nmcliyities Of young ladies who have
mania for spouting politics.
But Miss Anna Dickinson IS from any
mint OF view. u great fact. Joan OF Arc,
creams the enraptured Chronicle, never
rs grander, and could not have been bet
AZ IN her mail OF battle than was this
Philadelphia maid IN her statesmanilk {! g
smand that this war do not cease until
.svery is dead aud buried under the feet
# he North, and its epitaph is written
nth the point OF q bayonet dipped in the
,onng blood Of the nation. There are 9TH
!, little items for which Miss Anna 4.
ncIinson is understood to have made a
astatesmanlike demand"
Cha requires that the territory wrenched
hack from the rebellion be used to under
law the development Of the blacks in A me-
lca into full citizenship, with the owner
,hip in Zee OF agricultural land Finally,
Mss Dickinson is SAID to have showed too,
With her lilly-white hand the doors of the
supreme Coar: Of the United States. as al
nd m, hnx tnv.s Al aV,
Inc ad;ulicalion therein OF the proclama-
ton of Freedom 70 the slaves of rebels.
Yes: this is The burden OF Miss Dicsin-
son. ! chant. and OF lie faction OF which she
i the mouth piece. She does not advocate
nor ask for anything more preposterous
than they do. Blood, blood, blood. domin-
ion. spoliation. anu confscation. She will
he content with nothing less. It is one OF
,be stalest and sorriest devices OF the Anne
ricans when u foreigner is astonnded at
their many madnesses, and makes their
frenzy public in Europe, to tell him tina,
what he has seen or heard is held as OF nc
account by sensible persons in America
il ephemeral, and is yalueless.
II this crazy Jane in red Jacket had
uttered her nonsense ia some Dissenting
chapel, or lecture hall, or mechanics insti
tute, this plea might hold good. But she
comes accredited Ivy persons in authority
! the council chamber of the country il
| placed at her disposal; she speaks eI cattle
| ira, she is handed to her rostrum by thu
| scaad parsonage III the republic; and th,
/ Speaker Of the House is her gentleman
| uhsr The chief Of the State and his Min
Sen swell. the number Of her auditors.
Ether all this means Something o.
| nothing. If tie Legislative Assembly o
be United States is TO be considered in the
l yes Of the world, . mere mountebauk'l
nosh, and the senators and Represents
supplied by Mr.. Nelson Lee to tumble
during fair time, let the Americans have
| ths honesty at least to admit that their leg.
igaton is horse-play and their debates q
fre. ~ faEss, e.H Na
Bu, il the American Congress be really
composed OF wise and able and patriotic
men, alive TO sense Of their responsible.
iss, and intent on the solution Of = ire.
nenduous problem, how grotesque, how
unworthy does it appear to grace such an
exhibition as took place ON Saturday nigh
with the stamp Of official sanction aud Off.
dAl applause. At least the Jacobips die
not suffer the trtcOteuses to mount the
tribune. They kept them in the galleries
At least the Hall OF the National Conven.
ton wee never loaned to Theroigns
Do Aerioourt 500
Twas looking with much admiration anC
much pity on the Philadelphia maid, snC
with much amaxement at the state of thing
(which her public antics could be possi
Ale,s Ehen voice, very familiar to me
truck upon mEear, aud found myael
cloae proximity 10 the irrepressibll
Gsoege FEancis Train. As unabashed, Q,
ncoAerent - ever, the speculAtOr whit
thought that BY means Of champagne anG
noassf-salad be could forcs horse-railroads
3o1 the London public, has turned up d
To other day be ,waa. in Nebraska
Tumping'' that territory in the interest o
y Pacific Railroad. They say that b.
~ been operating" largely in gold. anG
winning - largely, and that he intend,
Murning to England with many hundred,
thousands Of dollars, 70 recOmmence his
ampaign ~ tramwsys. He had better Lei
1en alone. lie must have had enough O
10gIand, and England has surely had
nough OF George Francis Train. ss'
ne spoke Of his escapade ut Boston, with
nuon nonchalaAce and self-poesession.-
A1e spoke Of having been mobbed in Pc eral
acee, shot at in half dozen, and expell.
y the military authorities from At
10y my, al because he spoke up for the
a.on. Il was certain, however, that h<
al unchanged; but could not obtain
Wm MIN the admission that he had beer
ISrea and teathefed, and he yet cherished
nope OF becoming one day President Of
le United States. "
AssmAfkable man in George Francii
aNs peshaps lone of the most remarka.
~ men 10 the country" He will 20 fur.
"a ana mre worse. Yet he seems 10 have
II oiqae here, his set, his coterie. III,
sWd, and II . personage. But thu
~ y Willard'a-and an American hote
III about the most Trustworthy critic
human character whom you can wei
AIWt-when he told me that Mr.. Train
3censsdered ''dreadfully smart man. =
soIlacantly tapped his forehead as h
9 sempsehe pas. Lunacy in an
ms. n politician does not seem Il
NY Snd We may be approaching tn,
~. MAlentum foreshadowed by the noe
IN. Ioughs," Walt. Whitman; the tim,
@ere il to be nothing but ''money
M railroads, exports, imports, Gus
.tteceoents, pallor, dyspepsiia, smut
s,snce and unbelief' when judges anl
H. I ass shall be transposed, and the pris
s,a ,pers be put in prison, and insanity
Y Va charge Of sanity.
M, Will excuse me for Quoting hare
n.y.. M considered by many Of his brethren
seii to be a. mad as a March hare. bu
m - much method and not little wis
Io. walt Whitman; one Of the roughs
aolo,,os, disorderly, fleshy. sensual,
s"~unges and loafs at his ease. and SOUNDS
Isls ;" aric yawp over the roofs Of thu