The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-11
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house 10 another never take q cat with you,
or SIZE will surely bring bad luck to your
new home, whereas she will add luck 20 the
old house and those who move into it.
SHOES AND DIsH.wATER.-Save the old
shoes to throw after the carriage, when any
Of .he family start on q journey; il will in
sure q safe return. Never let your dish
water come to boil, as every bubble will
bring bad luck to the family.
The LAST Lo0K.-Never look after a
friend who is leaving you until he is quite
out o. sight, or you may never see him or
her again; but turn your eyes away while
he is still visible, in order that he1or she
may return. %
CHANGING RooMs.-It is bad sign If a
sick person desires to be removed from one
room to another; they are sure to die some
time, if allowed TO do so. .n4t
s6JE
The partisan in politics is in as hopeless
preGicament as the bigot in religion. He
cannot see the truth; cannot tell the truth;
cannot do justice to his own party or to
any other. lie looks through warped
and colored Medium, and all things are
distorted and unnatural in his sight. TIA
man pronounces his shibboleth he is alto
ge;ker right. and whoever cannot pro-
nounce it 10 right in nothing. This inirm-
ity of mind gives to knaves and dema-
gogues. their opportunity. They fasten
themselves to every great popular move
ment, vociferate the prevailing cry ioudest
Of the crowd, and hide their knayery in
the shadow OF the great cause. If they
steal freely from the public treasury, they
have pu. to bawl the more Justify foz. the
pspaiar idea and all the party organs will
proclaim their hof1esty immaculate, and
declare j: disloyalty TO doubt it. If they
prove themselves ignorant, cowardly. or
4 t1QfQpAY q IL, 80
no matter; their sins must be covered as
long as they are trne to the party, And
80, on The other hand, no good quality and
no rlGh. thought or act is to be conceded to
any u,an on the other side. This stupid
bigo.ry Of partisanship should be beneath
yet ). is the most marked and disgraceiol
feature Of our time. II IS not only oar dis
grace; It is our chief danger, for it gives the
ascendency to denlagogues and excludes
the HOS: wise and patriotic from control of
pubic affairs.
We nave a fresh Illustration .: tse per-
version OF ,he popular jndgnen. hy parti-
sal prejudice in the case o, Ger. Batter
The democrats hate him because he abau-
donea them, and they find po.hiug but
slundcss and crimes in BIS public career,
civil and military, sincetila day Of his con-
version. They have the same opinion OF
hin enteft:sined by tho rebels, wko call
orotaer with Haynau, the Austrian 1or1an
whipper. So, on the other hand, nlauy OF
those whc admire bis radical actor. with
slavery and the rebels, can see IN him no
ianl;. they inpate 70 him al military
skill. courage and suecess, wholly ignoring
the facts il tho case. These indiscr.ninate
admirers are quite as uujus. in the.s esti-
mate az his sianderers. The latter de-
nounce him for Withdrawing trona Fort
Fisher, when it's evident TO any uupreju-
diced person that he cou,a have done no
otherwise Gen Wei,zel declared Il I'M
possible 10 take the works hy assault. and
Gen. Rusler, having no other means OF
reaching al opinion, was under Tie 1eces-
sisy OF accepting sha decision or a trained
soldier and engineer. lis mistake " as in
going with the expedition and ASST ming
tne responsibility tina. belonged 10 anoth-
er. Donbtiess pc shared me general conf
dence iE the success OF the enterprise, and
was honorahly ambitious OF the reroyTn to
be gained by il; but having found Fort
Fisher impreEnahlc, according to the best
evidence at his command, he did right to
abandon the Undertaking and return. 1t
was not an act OF cowardice. for he would
have taken the risk If he had seen chance
to succeed, bit failing TO perceive the cp-
portun:ty which really existed. il was his
duty 10 spare his men, as he did His semi
civil administration az New Orleans and
Norfolk is judged in tie same Wholesale
and 1ndiscr1mInate way. That he some
times exercised his power hastily and un-
justly there can be no Goub:; the late de-
Ieise MADE OF him in Congress revealed
the fact that the government refuses to
sanction sotne OF his arbitrary seizures OF
individual property. But his enemies
would confess, i they were disposed to do
him justice, that he exercised most salu-
tary rigor towards traitors, and ths. the
bitterness OF their maiedic.ions is his high
est praise. ~ showing how some Of bis
defenders make themselves ridiculous. a
Massachusetts newspaper seriously asserts
the superiority OF Butler TO Grant, and de-
clares Richmond would long ago have been
iahenif Butler bad been seneralissimo;
white another insin,iates ,iia, at the first
attack on Fort Fisher h3ank cartridges
weke fired by the :ieet, q; \ tinli,:.s Fcrter's
Orders .sprinGis!G Hepattsc4ss.