The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-11-14

1t is now pretty clear that We can outsaii,
Outright, outsteam, outrun, Outdrink, OUT
brac. and( oxford being a sample) outv ote
Mr.. Bull. Three cheers for We, Us & CO.
Toledo Blade. ss.. 5.-z.n-s fs.a.a~ .-a...'D
Buchanan and the Filibustcrs.
We extract the following capital article
upon the above subject from the n. Y. Tri-
bune. There is music in it. Fail not to
read it, a ....... 1920
1t is easy to fight in the abstract. We have
all done it. We have all (either in our ten
der or our mature years) squared in a trans
cendental way, put out imaginary peppers,
and knocked to fairness ideal noses. We
have all. when some enemy has been partic-
ularly pertinacious in his agravation, felt
our fists working immensely in our swelling
bosoms, and have, with the minds eye, glared
at our sprawling foe. 1t is precisely in this
way that the American Government contends
with flibustering bandits. 1t conguers by
proclamation. It arrests the cmbarkation Of
pirates by officially announcing to all the
world that they shall not embark. Yet, in
spite of all these victories, adventures do
sail away from our shores, signing, Cesar
like, for new worlds to conquer. We re-
strain them beautifully in the abstract-the
Marsbals, and the District Attorneys, and
the District Judges, and the District Grand
.Juries do an immense deal of business in
stopping them, and do not stop them after
all. They snap their fingers at us, and so
depart over the salt sea. .ss.r a. .5ttf h
A certain element Of strength is essential
to the responsibility of every government,
&c ,hok - lo ha
tlemen who manage matters for us at WASH
ington wish to be beloved, or at least esteem-
cd by the People of the United States, they
must make 4 slightly vigorous demonstra-
ton. To be sure, We all, the quiet fellows
who stay at home and mind whatever BUSH
ness has been left us by crisis and convul-
sion, expect to love, honor and obey the pow
ers that be. We are, rs becomes good cit
liens, intensely enamored of Mr.. buchanan.
and regard the Cabinet with feelings Of the
profoundcst consideration. But our regard
is not Of the smallest consequence in the
premises. No matter whether we love not
wisely but too well, or whether we love wise
ly (for the sake Of Il tug at the Government
teat) but not too well, our passion will not
put down filibustcring. What the Govern
ment needs to do, is not to fascinate us, but
to brighten the buccaneers. Here it makes
signal failure; for no matter how stcrnly
it storms, it is always giggled at by the en-
terprising pirates, who 90 out Of our har-
bors without reef, although the govern
mcnt wrath is bowling around them. So
went the strangled Lopez; SO went Walker
upon two occasions, and so he is threatening
to do upon third. That is to say: great
criminals laugh this great government to
scorn, and turn up their noses and elevate
their eyebrows in the very presence of its
highest judicial powers. re-
Of ell sublime sncercrs ut the buchanan
Government, commend us to certain w. X.
Henry, who dates his letter on Sunday upon
which day the battle Of Waterloo was
fought) from the bloody locality of s'Pow-
der uorn,'' which letten is printed in the
San Antonio Herald, which is s'worked of,
we believe, under the shadow of Fort Alamo.
How much does W.R.Hcnry care for the pow
er Of the Federal Government, or for its pow
der, or for its leadcn hail, or for its iron
rain? Not the one thousandth part Of a
couple of snapshot the faintest aroma of
the weakest Dutch schnapps-not the mean
est bogus copper of the Kreutzcr description
ever imported by swindlers to put citizens
Of this Republic upon the wrong SCENT
Why, W. K. Henry is bigger power than
the President, the Lieutenant Colonel, the
Secretary at War, the Attorneys General
and Particular, the Judges, District, Circuit
and Supreme, the Marslllls, the Deputy Mar
shals, the Horse, the Foot, the Drag oons, the
Frigates, Corvettes, sloops, Gun-b boats, Bum
boats, Batteries and Forts Of the United
States, all united. lie has not the least re-
spect for the reisning James-nor for the
rcigning Johns, lsaacs and Peters. lie is mt
"Powdcr Horn" waiting for orders ssfrom
Gen. Walker" Walker is the potentate for
his money, lie informes us that ssthc boys
arc beginning to come ina juvenile rec
rcation which it would be pleasing to wit
ness. And just notice how disrespcctfuly,
and in what positively chatting manner, he
speaks Of the august ruler Of this realm! =
''Tcll those who are willing to join us in
the expedition not to be bluffed of by the
hostile appearance of the great man at the
White House. lie is only joking about stop
ping us: it is merely for buncombe. But if
he does really attempt such movement, |
am Secessionist from this date, and there
will be two hundred thousand Of "a like spir-
it with myself, in the Southern portion of
the united StateS.'
There you have it! Mr.. Buchanan is ac-
tually treated like Mr.. Briggs, or Mr..
Bloggs, or a Smith, or Jones, or a Thomp-
son. Mark the searching irony of the words,
''the great man at the White house!'' Lu-
Gus a non lucendo-great because he is so
little! Observe the iniquitous disrespect with
which his official acts are treated. Why,
when you come to apply such low, mean,
odious word as "blufing" to the solemn acts
of Mr.. Buchanan, where are you? Where is
your Constitution and Religion, and where
are your Affairs and your Fires, and the other
little arrangements suggestive of perma-
nance and comfort? The blasphemous Hem
~ might as well have said ssgnssingo OF
"humbugging."
Well, perhaps he meant all that. Perhaps
ne meant That Mr.. Buchanan had been in
duiglng in advertisement known vulgarly as
blowing" Perhaps he was not frightened
oy tne apprehension that fleets and armies
"ouid De sent to restrain the too ardent in
vaders OF Nicaragua. We do not think eth.
81 tnat ne need be thrown into commissions
OF Terror. ne knows how to do it, does w.
n. henry. Let the reader prayerfully pom
DER the dread significance Of tho last SEN
tence quoted. Should Mr.. Buchanan inter-
fere to prevent piracy, and needless. cruel.
absurd shedding of blood, l, w. r. Henry,
am Secessionist, l 60 out. Two hundred
thousand of like spirits 70 with me. There
will be general breaking up Of everything.
This will be enough to put cataract over
each of the Presidential eyes. Henry il in.
terfered with Henry secedes; do. 0O, 600.
That would settle us. Our Union is frsrile
- glass-as delicate rs hummine- bird or
bahy What should wa do n Honrw 80.