The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-05-22

/ Nasisssi Pssisies-Letter y UseIe Jed.
| w- AZ CogscIL bLurrs, May 10th, 1858.
Dear Uncle What 40 you think Of
"JeemS' and ths ssNstional Democracy"
now Don't tho scales begin to fall from
your syes2 Don't you begin torsalise the truth
Of what told you SO often during the Presi-
Dental campaign? Don't you think, Uncle,
that you and every other honest Democrat
in the Union, Rave been sold, and that your
price-the price Of conscientious but deluded
voters-hasi gone to- aggrandise political
tricksters, who after using you to do their
dirty work and elevate them to power, forget
all about you, and regard your indignant
protest against their treachery, nt.
"As the idle wind which they respect not"
You have by this time discovered that
those horrible ssBlack Republicans lies"
which so shocked your sensibilities, reused
your ire, and called forth your choicest
anathemas, were simply truths. And you
have also discovered, that the Enlightened
patriotic speeches" of your Democratic
stumpers, were simply gas. You have learn
ed that JAMES BUCHANAN, the Usage Of
Wheatland," the "patriot's statesman" the
''i.lustrious >compeer of Americas mighty
dead,"'is an Anticipated humbug, and that
the party which, in its primitive integrity,
was bulwark of human liberty, has
by its contemplate trucking to sectional
institution, degraded itself in the eyes Of
the world, destroyed its prestige, and broken
forever the spell with which the magic name
of Democracy had chained the millions.
l sympathize with you, Uncle Jed, know
every honest Democrat in the Union, is
tasting the bitter fruit of repentance, and
cursing his credulity and folly in swallowing
CANNON for truth, and voting for BUCHANAN
instead of Fremont. The Keystone boys,
who honestly marched to the polls under q
banner bearing the lying watehword, "Bu-
cHANAS and free Kansas" have shown their
detestation of the miserable fraud, by avote
which made the recreant "Jeems" shake in
his boots, dashed cold water on the kindling
Presidential aspirations of CoBB and his
pro-Slavery rivals, and sent an exulting
thrill to every heart beating true to the
music of '76. And Pennsylvania is not
alone. The Almighty has implanted in the
bosom Of man, a principle which, in its gen.
erous development, teaches him to resist
oppression. ..eg
In the old world, this principle sleeps
quietly in the heart of its possessor; or, if
it chances to expand and rouse him to an as.
sertion of his rights. it is at once strangled
and crushed in the scaly folds of despotism;
but our sires purchased with their blood, an
immunity from the loving embraces of the
old hydra headed serpent, and bequesthed
to their sons the rich inheritance. We have
not forgotten the stern lessons of the revo-
luton, and though with its proverbial sub
tlety, the willy fend may disguise itself in a
thousand forms, and for time deceive the
masses, yet sooner or later, the charmed and
cheated people see through all its disguise,
and then down goes it's head into the dust,
under the grinding heel of American Inde-
pendcnce. In 1856, few of the free States
were humbugged, and unconsciously gave
their suffrages for the subversion of their
own rights, but the course of the admins
tration has opened their eyes, and in 1860,
with one accord, they will rally under the
banner of WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON De-
mocracy, and the iron rebuke of lying tyran-
ny from the "greasy mechanics and lowly
mud stills" of the North, will strike the death
knell Of American oppression, and blanch the
cheek of tyrants whcrc-er the American
name is known. dare say, Uncle, you
have often heard the ancient adage that
"whom the gods intend to destroy they first
make mad" Now, it is evident, that the
leaders of Negro-Democracy are doomed.
They have quaffed deep draughts from the
poisoned chalice, and for months, have been
laboring under mania potu, superinduced
by the fatal nectar. When "Lecompton"
was pronounced dead, and the swift-winged
lightning bore the news over the Union,
awakening a shout of triumph, and storm
of wrath; its infatuated friends, on whose
political future the star of hope still family
glimmered, instead of putting on sackcloth
and ashes, and returning in mourning
to the path Of truth, quenched the last ray,
by dragging the reeking carcass into the
green room, wrapping it in the flowing dra-
perry Of life, decking it with tempting jew
els, and pushing it again upon the stage,
swearing in their madness, to add yet anoth-
er act to the infamous Kansas drama. As
the curtain rose, the Hoosicr magician step.
ped forth, and with his wand, which for a
bride, he would use to turn his ovn moth
er to stone, he touched the corpse and it
sprans to life again. l tell you Uncle Jed,
when resurrected Lecompton passed the
House, the sceptre departed forever from
the Democracy. Before that event, many
of the people in the rural districts had
sort Of vague idea that the Republicans
were lying about Kansas affairs by whole
sale for "bunkum," but a galvanic battery
could not have walked them up more effectu.
ally, and now their eyes are protruding with
establishment, that such sensible men as
they, should have been so 'sorfully taken
in" Uncle, don't fail to read the "Bugle
notes" of Invictus. Poor man, he is evi.
IDENTIFY laboring under mental Authorization.
He fancies himself "aboard the old ship of
state, lying at anchor in clear smooth sea,
with the flag of the Union at her mast head"
when the fact is, he and his comrades left
old "Ironsides" long ago, and shipped on u
fat-boat. CoDB, JEFF. DAVIS and others,
"sparred' it, rugged it ship-shape, hired an
old Pennsylvania pilot, who agreed to steer
any way to suit the owners-then wheedled
and whiskied these men into smelling
mood" aud coaxed them to sign the articles