The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-13

federate Vidoc9 will not arrest any NOR
! iuyliives from injustice. nor put any Lior
wOmen's hands in the fire.
| This is but one Of the countless humble
OF cases like II that are certain to occur II
every State III the South. Federal bayo
! nets cannot ii they would. and ought not
! they could, interfere to shield from right
eous vengeance a class OF men who are di
directly responsible for the untold miserie
| OF this war, and without whose perniciou
influence the rebellion. If ever begun, coult
not have lastedssix months. 1t is not ou
funeral, and let the work go on.
How PRESIDENT JOHNSON FEES To
WARD THE REBEL LEADERs.-A long anC
intimate friend Of Mr.. Lincoln, and an ad
mirer of his personal aud political charac-
ter. closes q lengthy and interesting pri
vate letter upon the recent murder and its
consequences with discussion Of the new
President and his relations to the rebellion
from which We quote a valuable portion
as follows:
This new ruler, by profession, educa-
ton and habit, is taken from the adverse
political faith in which his predecessor
was schOoied, and which he maintained
throughout his whole life. Mr.. johnson
lived amid the active scenes of this rebel.
lion, felt in his person and in the me m bers
ol LIS ltS accumulated WRONGS, anu
from association Of life time knows the
purposes and ends had in view by its
leaders in auguratiny war against the
Union. His life has been passed in the
very midst of slavery, where his own wife,
the mother of his children, was made an
object OF its barbarsm, IN being publicly
whipped by these monsters in human form.
because, IN the frs, year Of the rebellion,
she refused to take down the American
fr0v tv,In No Oh.
tered her. His con and SON law help
to people the city OF tho dead, whose num-
bers were principally made up of these
who fell in defense OF the Union and the
Constitution. And with the tablets of his
memory thus chiselled over with such
deeds of barbarisln upon the members OF
his own household, inflicted by the rebel
liOus citizens of his own State, he must be
more than human if the remembrance Of
them does not strengthen his arm, and
nerve his purpose, and render deafthe APP
peais for mercy, in his administration of
justice TO the leaders of the rebellion in
the slave States. And if. for every lash
laid upon the honored back OF the mother
OF his children, for her loyalty to her coun-
try, some rebel leader Of most notoriety
shall be- made to forfeit his life as an expi-
alton for his crime Of treason, and fitting
retribution for the degradation and wrong
heaped upon this more than Spartan moth
er, who shall say that justice, though slow,
is not sure? Certain is it that he has rea-
sons for often reiterating, as he has done
during the few days he has been President,
that treason is crime that must I've pun
ished." And as the Goddess Of Justice is
to US as blind divinity, Mr..
Johnson's personal observations, and the
tortures his family have undergone at the
hands OF the prominent rebels, may more
closely as>imiiate him to the goddess than
Mr.. Lincoln ever could have been, in final
that ia to be made of the prin-
cipal leaders in this unholy rebellion.
ut may be, too. that the aversion South.
ern leaders aud their delIded followers
have ever shown to have Mr.. Lincoln
their ruler, even under n restored Union,
which they have made the excuse tor cOu-
tinuin9 the war. and an object to return to
the Union, will be now removed, and that
they will profess willingness to accept
terms, and to submit to the conditions .:
peace, that they would have rejected had
the true and just aud noble Lincoln been
spared. In this view, eau see how God 3
prOvidences are to be 0verruled for good,
the leaders of this wick
edness will be made to suffer in tentold
degree more, under the present than would
have been melted out to them under the
past Administration. Aud thus, after all.
grievous as IL the burden Of grief laid up
on us, We can see the probability Of good
growing out OF evil. First, in an earlier
peace than We otherwise should have had.
and, secondly, in the summary punish.
ment OF many 0fthe leading traitors that
otherwise would have escaped through the
mercy OF our martyred President
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM GEN. SuER-
MASLHls VrEws on THE Wax AND THE
PRESENT SlTUATloS.-The Legislature OF
Louisiana having passed resolutions OF
thanks to Gen, Sherman and his army. the
General has responded in the following let
ter, which is important as showing the
views of that distinguished commander.
HEADQUARTERS Mil. Div. of the Miss.
In the Field-GoLDsBoRo, N. c., April 5.
ls65.-zo HIS Ercellencv, AfIchael Holm,
governor Of Louisiana, New Orleans -
DEAR SIR: had the honor to receive YOUR
letter OF March Sd, enclosing the engrossed
copy of the resolutions of the Legislature
of Louisiana. approved March Sd, 1865. l
VIII publish them in general orders TO the
army, and think that it will be source of
pride for the officers and men to see the
deep interest that is felt in them by the
constituted authorities OF your favored
State.
!, thank you kindly for recalling to me
the events that attended me at Alexandria
At the outset Of this war. No man not ac-
tualiy present at the South can com prehend
the tols and SHARES laid by old, willy and
traitors, to ensnare the young
and credulous. Truth was perverted, pre-.
JUDGES kindled into wild passion, and
latse pride begatien, calculated 30 nislead
the youth and even CID men into q belief
thai tie whole fabric of our government
was weak am: lettering and was about to
iali with 4 crash that would ruin all who
c!ung TO its fortunes. l canno. pretend to
superior wisdom, but in the retirement CT
the pine woods Of Rapids Parish, my day
dreams stlli rested on the high seas, in Cal
iIornia, on the broad plains of KANSAS. the
majestic Valley of the Mississippi, and :he
Atlantic slopes, with their busy indusiri-
Gus people, where had roved in former
Gays: everywhare realizing the fact that
our General Government was kind and
paternal; and that its faults, if any, arose
from an excess Of leniency and forbear-
ance, and could not be made to believe
that ii should yield the destiny OF our fu-
ture to the guidance Of the few discoutaut.