The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-06-05
4 GOOD nuRLEsauE.

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| A GOOD sURLEsQUE.
The Louisville Democrat stakes oh7' the
ridiculous little enmity Of the Southern 6re-
eaters to Northern men and things, and the
vaporing of their papers, very happily in the
following extract from the prospectus of an
imaginary paper called the "Fre- Eater,' y
which it says will be issued at that Office, and
will be edited by Messrs. CANON 4 BowIE.
As specimen Of the style of Mr.. Canon,
the following well.considered article is pre-
sented:
YANKEE DOODLE. " -"-
There is one point on which we shall stren-
uously insist, during the brief space allotted
to the Union. 1t 10 point on which all men,
Of all parties in the South, agree, except a
few traitors and few fools, all of whom
we shall engage to hang upon gibbet ten
feet long. There must be no more playing,
no more whistlng, no more singing of Yam
kee Doodle, south Of Mason 4 Dixon's line.
Upon this point the mind Of the south is ir-
revocably resolved. s,f&4a q.
This tune, the essence of Yankee vanity,
the type of Yankee effrontery, the embodi-
ment of Yankee arrogance, will no longer be
tolerated by the South. We have endured
it too long, with more than virtuous patience,
and more than Christian forbearance. In
our theatres, in our homes, upon our streets
and thoroughfares, everywhere, whether in
peace or in war, the harsh sound has reach
ed our ears, destroying the harmony of exis-
tence. Our patience has ceased to be vir-
tue, and our forbearance has become pusil-
luminous. 1t can be endured no longer. 1t
must be stopped, and that Immediately, and
everywhere throughout the South. These
clustering Yankees must bluster somewhere
else, with their Yankee Doodle, and all their
doodles, including those musical monstroci-
ties and national absurdities, Hail Columbia
and the Star Spangled Banner.
We urge the President to recommend to
Congress the enactment of law, making it
penitentiary offence to give utterance in
any manner, vocal or instrumental, to this
odious and infamous Yankee tune, in any
Southern State. None but fools can doubt
the constitutionality of such law, none bu,
knaves will oppose it. Its immediate enact
ment is necessary to restore peace and quiet
to our long distracted country. We doub,
not that this will pass the Senate, as that au-
gust body is sufficiently enlightened to per.
ceive the justice of the measure, and its i'm
portance to the South and to the Union bu,
feel some doubt as to its fate in the House OF
Representatives, as that mushroom concern
is SO muddled by the dregs of the people
from which it is freshly sprung, that it can
take no clear and correct view Of any subiec,
whatever. If the two houses should Gisa.
gree, We will advise the appointment of a
committee of conferences ,as we desire to ex
haust every constitutional expedient before
coming to an open rupture.
A great principle is involved in this mems
ure. The question is, whether We shall
maintain, like men, the right of life, liberty
and happiness, so manfully asserted by our
forefathers, or submit, like slaves. to infam-
Gus oppression. Upon this question there
can be no concession, no compromise -
Where principle is ut stake, concession il
dishonor, compromise is disgrace. The
South will insist, upon the principle, at al
hazards, and without regard to conseouen.
ces-Fiat justitia, ruat cGlum!
If the bill should fail, we do not say that
We will insist on instantaneous dissolution
of the Union. We make no threat We
leave the arts of menace. with the other base
arts, to be practiced by our Northern neigh.
bors. We of the South may strike. We new.
er condescend to threaten. The silly rattle.
snake of the North may shake its noisy tail
with the vain hope of frightening its adver
sary before whom it trembes but the dead
ly cotton moth, the type of Southern venom
strikes without warning. We say, then, tt
the North. and we say it solemnlv, We ma,
strike-we never threaten. With u word
may follow.bu never precede the blow. Bu
that the North may not be deceived concern
ing our intention, we will say this much |
this measure should fail, through the peri
dy of Northern renegades and Southern trai
tors, the North must take the consequences
CyWE ARE PREPARED TO MEET THE ISSUE
AND ANY CONSEQUENCES THAT NAY ESsUE.
1his we uish the North distinctly to under
stand.