The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-24

EkLY HAWA-E1 "
|ly nursing their wrath and oontrivinl
plans to secure the power to Aid their Con
thdsratss il Dixie. Tho leaders Of tn
North were q deep in tho treason - thos'
OF the South, but ct FIRST they had none o
but few TO follow. They laid their plans
however, and whom the calamities Of VA
began to be felt, when our arms met viii
reyerses, when the expenditure became il
some measure burasnsome, when taxes b
came necessary, they crawled ont Of theil
treasonable dens and began to organize .
party against the war, BY protesting to b,
for . more vigorous prosecution Of th<
war. i++
On this ground they met with q partia
success. They elected seymour Governo,
[of New York and came pretty near elect
ling majority Of the lower House Of Con.
gross. But no sooner had they, a. they
thought, got the power to do harm, thar
they assumed hostilities against the prose.
cntion Of the war, talked about carrying
the Western and Middle States into The
Consederacy and leaving New England
"outin the cold;" ID word openly ,avow.
cd themselves disunionists. and the friends
Of tho rebels, and the advocate OF their
purposes But their game was frustrated.
The people were indignant at their base
ness, and last year everywhere condemned
them. #
But they still persist In their aim. The
delay Of this years campaign once more
revived their hopes. They had organised
= party. They had sought to arm their
followers. They declared they would re-
sist the draft. They threatened revolution
at home. At last they met 1t Chicago. and
there adopted aplatform a. full 81 treason
as IAN egg Of meat" and went before the
country on that. They denonnce the war
and the Administrator, and avow them
selvesin favor Of measures and policy and
candidates, which grant all the rebels d Q
mand. es sr 49, ss#
Are not all these things Iactss nIf thew
are, is not the party called Democratic. as
q party, disloyal and treasonahlef Can
any really loyal man support it without
confessing himself unable or unwilling to
see what is 50 palpablef Are not the lead
crs Of the Southern rebels and the North
Democracy" all in one boat and clothed
AL over with the same inenable infamv9
+ It not exactly the same thing to give the
Northern wing power as to give It 70 tho
South? Might not loyal man Just. - won
vote for JET. Davis as for the man who ac-
cepts and stands upon the Chicago Mat
forum Would there b any difference ID
Iesnltf @Et ~
a-Henry 8. Foote, formerly Senator
from and Governor Of Mississippi. ana
now member Of what il called the icon.
Congress, = from Tennessee, pub
lishes, in the Richmond Wig Of the 5th
inst, long address to the people Of the
rebel States, in whichhe reviews the Chi
cago platform. He concludes that the
platform Is full Of the promise Of peace"
with the purposes Of the rob-
sls. and points particularly to the fact that
The platform nowhere hints at any s.coer-
i've instrumentalities" to compel the reb-
No 70 re-union.si He also refers with satis-
Eaction to the sympathy manifested BY the
Convention FOR the "grievances'' inflicted
% the rebels BY the war. And he declares
I to BE- his opinion that in case Mcclellan
md PendletOn are defeated 1t the polls.
those States IL Which the Rep4blicon ticket
hall Be found to haze Jcs,<d,. s0iu PROMPT
* sDCEDE FROM THE FEDERAL UNION. -
That IL the conclusion this traitor comes toll
md announces to the other traitors. No
ioubt be speaks upon assurances to that
Meet made BY his Northern friends. No
loubt that is oneaof the meanings of the
hreat contained In the third resolution OIL
he platform. No doubt that il the end for
which the .'Sons Of Liberty" want arms
Who can doubt after this that these scoun.
Irels design revolution in the North IN.
eas the vigilance Of the patriotic shall pre-
,4nt. lls@ t.@ n54tA
- If Stephen "A. Douglas wa not for
the Rebellion By Arns, what
I'D he mean when he said .1f they -
'ede, I am n Jaror Of oiloV:ny them jest as
H0n0 slaves and Just as mach ssape terrific
y ~ they can hold at the point Of the bayo-
lct Z? Douglas was not an "Aboliti0nist."
ae was never, while the revolving States
emained obedient to The Constitution and
he laws, in favor Of Interfering with the
rights Of the slaveholders.s But
lid any "Abolitionist, either before or
ince, more strongly express himself ia "a
1or o. wiping out the Institution Of slave
y, in case Of secession, than die Douglas q
Compare this utterance with the present.