The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-20

I'M ufed. lHear. hear.l Lincoln leaned
70 nercy-and he was taken off. Johnson
mss not promoted himself. The magician
VINO wn y, this change is the enemy b in
self. Hear, heart Il would seem almost
as II IL were the VIII of Heaven which has
lhterposed me possibility of this merye,-
Gus retributiOn. Yet, even if we rnaka
proper allowances for this difference tha
great fact remains clear, that Andrew
johnson, IKE his predecessor, will exert
hlmse.i 10 the utino st his power fully to
re-estaoi.sb IN peace and harmony the
oenenceat 81 stem OF government which he
has already haza-ded SO much to eustain.
hear, heer.J And should it happen tha:
be too-which Heaven avert-should nv
some evil design he removed from the most
now assigned to him, the effect onlv wonld
20 that the next man in the succession
prescribed by the public law, and inspired
from the same common source, Win be
summoned to take his place. And 90 it
would go on. if need be, in a line like that
IN Macbeth's vision, '.s;tetch:ng out to the
crack Of DOOM" lCheers Tue Rspuhiic
has but to command the services of anv of
her children, and whether to meet open
danger IL the field, or the peyiis of the
more crafty ana desle rate assassin. expo
!ieuce shows them equally ready to obey
her call. Hear, hear So long as the be-.
roic spirit ar;maies her frame. the reoui-
site agents will not fail 10 execute her will
Hear, hear.l Any attempt to paralyze
Der by striking down more or less of them
will only end, AS eserv preceding design
to injurs her has ended, in disappointment
and bitter despair. Hear, hear.l Let US,
then, casting aside all needless spprehen-
sion for the policy of our land, now con-
cent:ate our thoughts for the moment upon
the magnitude OF the ofiense which has do.
prived US OF our beloved chief in the verv
moment ut most interest to our cause: and
let Us draw together AZ one man in the
tribute OF our admiration of one of the
purest, the most single minded and noble
people OF any land. Hear, hear, and ap.
pl9Eae]
/REBEL Losses AND PovERrY.-A cor
Respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette with
Gen. Sherman's army, giving an account
Of the surrender of Johnston, shows how
terribly the rebels have fought and how
completely exhausted were their material
resources:
There are many facts revealed by the
nificance. Some of these have already
been referred TO in these letters. = The %.
kpFoximate humiliation of the able. bodied
popul alton Of the South. 10 Get forth in a
startling light by the following figures ia
ken from the rolls OF Gen. Hardee's Corps,
representing both present and absent. A
| general consolidation Of companies and
regiments took place few months since,
and In most cases whole regiments were
required to make companies of forty men,
and often even more than this. The fol-
lowing instances were selected at random
from large pile Of rolls:
Ten regiments consolidated, 237 men
three regtments 2ls; twenty regiments 90;
eleven regiments 3l9; five regiments $50
ten regiments 4JG, representing 10, 600 men
on the original rolls; one regiment 2Ol
eight regiments 424, representing 10000
Texas troops; ont regiment ~ left out OF
100; reserve artillery, ten batteries, $50
seven regiments 4l9; eighteen regiments
7l9. Single regiments unconsolidated, and
not represented above showed the follow.
ing Numbers on their rolls: p. g., 16, 46,
l34, so, 81, 1856, p, 81, Is, lsO, IS, so, II, a.
40, 100.
Eight companies consolidated amounted
to 80 mon five companies O.; ten compa.
nies So; eleven companies s.; ten comps.
MES S.; fifteen companies 81; ten compa-
MES in one case 81, in another 50. The Az.
was about 80 men to the regiment, and
these corps represented over half the rebel
army.
Gen. Bates division has lost every gen.
eTal aid field officer and three-fOufths OF
the men In battle, since the army left Dial.
Rentonville alone. Other facts Of the same
Kind might be stated, IL it were possible
to place the matter in . stronger light.
| GENERAL POVERTY
!. This lOas of men is but an indication Of
| the exhaustion of all the resources OF the
land. The leaders have l,een in deep ear.
nest, and have held the army and the PEG.
pie TO the support of tie war until nearly
every dollar and every man has been sac.
rificsd. Nothing has been spared or over.
looked that could in any way contribute to
military success. The money Of the coun-
try is utterly worthless, the people have
been reduced to the verge Of tarvation AL
means of restocking their farms gone, and
the labor of the entire country rendered
useless for this year Vt least, as the blacks
will do little, and the whites will not be
back from the armies in time TO attend &c
planting. Forever y year past it has been
! unlawful in masHy II oiionS, to raise cotton,
and but few Of the States except Virgins
and North Caroline nave any tobacco on
hand, and these with the little tar, rosin
and turpe n,ine, OF this Eastern coast, rep.
BILE funds. The credit Of the land is gone
its factories in great measure worn out
or destroyed, Ms business relations CON-
p.etely broken up, ana nearly every house
Of business closed, with no stock en- hand
or means Of replAcing it. Their punish
mon: is heavy, very Rr;evous to be borne,
and will weigh upon the land for half q
century at least, but one Lesson has been
\ we'll Learned. The South will never forget
the coatsof rebellion.
SOCIETY AFTER THE WAR.
Her full pu;shment,' however, has NOT
yet been mesed out. In one respect 1t will
/ only begin when the armies reach their
homes and society begins to reconstruct
itself. The feuds and mutual recrimina.
lions growing out OF tho war will last thro'
two generations. The rebel soldiers are
very bitter against most ut home. because
the people everywhere losi heart more
4 than year before any encouragement
showed itself In the army. In some sec.
ltions desezters will never be able to reside
in peace, in others those who have been
active in the war will be driven out. Po-
llitical leaders will b. charged with the sui.