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

The following letter from Raleigh shows
how things are working down South in
Dixie and what vii! be TIE fate of the lead.
ing rebels:
The war between the rebels of the South
and the Union men of the North, is over,
but have seen enough within few weeks
past, to convince me tina: rebellion, on Il
smaller scale, perhaps, but more relentless
Is far as il goes, among the Southern peo-
Pie themselves, is aboItto commence. The
fathers and brothers Of men who were
forced into the ranks Of the rebel army, to
oe sacrificed in wicked aud hopeless
cause, have an accoun. to settle with those
FROM whom the scep.er has just been
wrested, andi the voice OF fifty out of ev-
cry hundred men N North Carolina, can
be relied upon, they vii! settle It ettectual-
~. It's not alone upon jeff. Davis and
his whlloM cabinet, that excavations are
uttered, nor against them alone that the
threats are made. The South is tull Of aris-
tocrats who have, for four years, done all
in their power to put every one else in the
rebel army and keep themselves out, and
now that their cause has failed, there ia no
longer any safety for them il the country
over which they used to exercise their des-
potic sway.
With one half the men who have come
into our camps since we left GoldsborO, the
first words, after taking the oath OF allegi-
ance, have been expressions Of determine
of the neighbOrs who urged them into "this
scrape." This condition of affairs, proba.
bly, exists in North Carolina to greater
extern, thanh any other Southern State, be.
cause a larger proportion Of men were
forced ;nto the rebellion here than else.
whore, but it will not be found wanting,
even in South Carolina, where leading men
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revoiutionists always meet with, even at
the hands OF those who once g!oried in fol-
lowing them.
\ lew DAYS s;nce.a detachment Of Gen.
eral logan command captured u wealthy
secessicnlst who formerly commanded n
company engaged ~ Catching deserters.-
Too cowardly to face tie Yankees in battle.
be had, as he thought, done his duty to the
Southern cause by forcing unwilling SER
vice out of others. He used to torture wo.
men into the betrayal of their husbands
hiding places, by the most cruel punish.
ment that q lite spent in s,aye-driyiny
could suggest. He had not been long in
the guard-hOuse when he Was recognized
by tour or tive Of the men whom he had
hunted down with blood hounds and cav
airy, and nothing but the presence of our
own soldiers saved him from being killed
then aud there. AS the news of his cap.
ture spread abroad in the ne;gEborhood.
men came in one after another to see him.
and ask permission, they said to General
Logan, to '.get square with him. His
next-d door neighbor oifereda thousand dol
lars in confederate scrip for the privilege
OF going into the woods with him for a III
tie wh.le,' and pledged himself that none
out he should have 4 chance al the uilsor-
tunase man hunter. Finally q delegation
OF abouta dozen waited on General Logan
to entreat him to let them ''take care of,he
fellow by which phrase they meant SIM
ply 70 remove him, by means of a rope,
which they had jus, procured, beyond The
coannes OF earih's tolls and troubles. one
81 them said: General, IT. mouse for vol,
TO try to protect that ID sccundrel. iIe
has got 70 die right here, or run away SO
that we ca,lt and him. lie came to nv
nouse month ago, aud because my wife
wouldn't tell him where l was hiding. he
stuck her hands in the ere and kent them
there till she did" They then requested
tue General to turn the fellow out of the
guard house and let him take his chances.
But Il was too apparent what his Chances
would be, and Logan told them that he did
70. var: tbs fs.loI killed, but anythin.
short OF death they might inflict on him
Ahe deserters agreed to this, though re.