The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-28

ten dollars while on her way nome from
church. She is the wife Of soldier. We
CLEAN from the Newton AdsoeGlc.
The Local OF the State Register saw 8. man
the other day with silver haif-dollar n
his possession bat refuses to give his name
lest he be murdered.
John Il. Wood, from Po.tawattamie
county was swindled out Of $3oa in Chicago
on Saturday last by confidence man.
Waslfpcs OF Despair from Charles.
| ton.
| The following shrek Of desperation Is
from the Charleston Mercury. Hope, we
rather guess, has bid adieu TO Charleston
and South Carolina, If not the wcoie
Southern Ccnlederacy. The how Of me
35ercuy2y VIII be music 20 the ears OF .oya;
people:
The condition o: tbs military depart
r,eut. as embraced within the Hnls o.
Georgia and South Carolina, ~ any snAHs
but satisfactory to any man VINO ~ s.""i
of facts, and has capacity TO understand
their bearing. We presume there 4 no
one in this department to whom the eonol-
! ton of our present military organ-aasoGs
ia lex, satisfactory t.dn TO tie GeHcrcl CORR
a,andssg. Probably there IS no one SO
thoroughly aware OF the scale.saoic assoT-
! onutzafio9. thct p1 esastS ~ ceF!GaH CORPS
and sections of his command. re- II
would scarcely be fair to hold him sespon-
sible for this condition OF th-ngs. Iney
came to him under the command OF I'M
hacilas he has received them. herd Of
strapulers and outlaws. What has been
done 10 eradicate this fatal evil, we shall
not stop to inquire. The time has been
short 70 do much, and The force have been
much scattered. But the very last mo-
ments are arriving, when al must be done
that is 20 be bone; when al must be done
that can oe done. The enemy does not
intend to wait upon our leisure. And
there is much to do.
Before bringing ourselves TO face he
enemy i. is absolutely essential that those
in command bring themselves to face the
vital evils existent within orr lines. me
path Vc noso GRE freezing IS st9atgh: TO Ccs-
aruc.sO1. The crisis he Confeceracv has
arrived III fatal earnest. The result OF the
next six months will bring the Conteaera-
cy to the ground, or will reinstase power.
WithOu: reform we are doomed. There 20
more than one department Of Government
which reform is important. But reform
in our armies is esSseItial-is vital. With
out il, the death-kneil 0! the Confederacy
is already tolled. With the proper re-
his hear. in his boots. There are men IN
the land-tLere is :.ght in the land It
is tie ina5sc,ie u.o is sick at .eGrt-.t IS the
coU0Td ice0Se stor.Gche IS speGE. There g
nothing before us that can not be overcome;
but to do it there must be :: new state Of
things insta:ed. We say again, there mus,
be nerve. Men in command must no: be
afraid to die-they must not be afraid TO
kill. Officers must be killed-not mere
privates. Reform must begin At the top,
not at the bottom Of the service. To reach
the privates, captains must be shot. We
want no childs.play-we wan: an army.
What is mans life 20 the institutions
and the liberty of the country? Nothing.
Let old things pass away-let us have
more Of JET. Da0ts footery; we want one
atom Of brains, one spark Of nerve-we
want no more OF Buham.sm-we wan. no
merMaids with heads Of monkeys and
fishy attachments at the neither extremi-
ties-we want men, real men, earnest men
North Carolina, Georgia, and South Ccs'ol.-
no are IL, 70 mood for triaing. They have
had enough Of this sort OF thing. They
don't intend to have much more. South
Carolina don't intend to be conquered
She intends to fight. She don't intend to
be hampered or turned over to the enemy.
When she is thus dealt with there will BE
reckoning-a reckoning where there will
be no respectors of person. We want i'm
plicit order and calm forecast. South
expect order, and we demand order. We
are accustomed to order. We are not used
to lawless ruftlanism, we don't intend 10
suffer il.
The General in command of this depart
ment is a thorough soldier, trained and
tried. We believe that he will perform
this duty. We look to hin to do so, IN
fiinchiugly, without fear, favor or affection,
regardless Of petEfoggers and petticoats in
boots. This is a comm unity Of law. JUS.
one hundred and ninety-two years ago we
began our political existence under the au-
thority Of the Lord PrOprietors Of England
and the rule OF the Caviliers, with the good
old English code of laws, udemascuIated
by modern philanthropy and pseudo hu-
manitarianism to guide ne: With the bles-
sing of God we have still preserved that
code but little adulterated by derna-
goguism. We can still hang villain, or
shoot rufian, without lacerating the bow
els OF our humanity. We have not vet
come to have nursery for scoundrels,
called penitentiary-nor public preach
ers in the pulpit, who called Christ "a good
Galilean youth" Simple folks, we have
little improved upon our predecessors
We are still only as our fathers left US in
their ignorance-simply civilized and SIM
ply Christians. The law Of order and obe-
dience IS the law Of habit here. All good
citizens here look for the enforcement Of it
here, In the military as in civil life. The
Executive of this State will suppo-. it, and
will cheerfully, gladly do so.
We stand to-day as gladiators stripped
to the fight; we are ready and trained to
enter the struggle for life or death. South
Carolina is ready to become the arena of
the Republic. Her sons are ready for the
contest. Make of her whole soil a military
camp-strip her to the waist; she will not
shrink. But give her her gauntlets and
her sword, and she is ready to stand or fall
whore she is.
A most onerous but imperative duty de-
wolves upon the commander of this depart
ment, Whoever he is. That duty-this first
and more essential duty-is to cashier and
to shoot Without 1t nothing can be done.
and Sherman conqa.ers as. With it, he ia q
coward who succumbs at heart. Every
thing Is at stake-every thing that is in the
way must he faced and trampled upon.-
Inc man who commands here must put his
neert In his pocket, and his sword in his
mana. he must know nothing but the
good OF the Confederacy. That he must do.
regardless Of official weakness. The end
must % radical reform. It is follv to tain
OF req tape NOW-W0 want tho tH;o, 10