The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-24
UNION SAVING.

ground out, in quantities to suit, by empir-
les connected with the press of those cities
having large trade with the slave holding
States. A crisis is upon the country, they
say. The Union is gradually dissolving,
like snow under scorchirg sun, and un-
less the Union loving patriots" of the
North, CURrlUs like, at once fling themselves
into the yawning chasm, and thus avert the
impending danger, the end of all that is po-
litically beautiful, is fearfully near at hand.
Modesty, is not a quality of these profess
sional Union savers-they strut to and fro
as the embodiment of all the patriotism
all the moral worth,-as we'll as all the po-
litical and personal integrity, of the North.
They are extremely rampant if enlightened
public opinion dubs them asses, and refuses
to be guided by their long ears at ono mo-
ment they beIabor the hobby they ride for
its supineness at another they become
frenzied at the receipt of q letter from
distinguished Southerner,' telling them
to persevere " for the good of the Uuion,"
and doughtily exclaim-" here is our work
the position Of the North is taken.' lfa
squad Of " fire. eating" Southerners hold a
meeting, and resolve to have no more COM
mercial intercourse with the North-up
start the professional "Union savers,"-
men for the most part who have hung on to
political parties until an opportunity occur
red. for their treachery to manifest itself, Or
until disappointed at not finding themselves
invested with leaderships, were either driv-
en- from the ranks with the lash, or voun-
tarily abandoned them for more congenial
company-and caution the people Of the
North against the influence of sectional
parties" but not forgetting in the mean
time, to puff their own "Union saving"
nostrums, and more than limiting that they
are the only doctors worthy of administer
ing it in wholesome quantities. In all con-
seriousness we would ask, if such bufoonery
such political quackery, and such foolish
charlantry-are to be taken as crlterons
from which to judge Of the true sentiments
Of the masses Of the people Of the North ?
Must, or will, the freemen Of the North
crawl upon their bellies, and eat pre-
scribed modicum Of dirt in order to satisfy
few Southern fire. eaters" that they are
not leagued against the South, and deter
mined to lberate all the Slaves, or over
throw this Government? Will the North
do this ? Is it such a hideous arena of ia.
natics and abolitonists, that the ,te,c self
constituted real lovers of the Union, feel
themselves called upon to thus vindicate
themselves from this damniug aspersion
cast upon the entire body polite, north of
Mason Dixon's line ? These same 8: fire
eaters" do not entertain any such notion,
but they have a native peachant for wit !
Messing the "fantastic tricks' of these same
" Union savers y and, besides that, they
have by the bug bear Of dissolusiop," so
often frightened the doughfa,es and charl
atans of the North into their pet measures
for the upbuilding of the peculiar institu-
tons," that they have come to regard their
threats.of disunlon, as magic wand of po-
tency not only beyond computation, but ir-
reslstabe. These Union meetings We're
called for by few Southern fanatics, and
the doughfaces of the North, in order to
sisnalize themselves, and earn the lasting
gratitude of the Slave power, eagerly took
to wallowins in the dirt. If the South
doubts the loyalty of the North to the Union .
which we do not belieYe-it can have |
feeling illustration of that same, by trying
on the South Carolina secession scheme; but
none but lick spttles, political jugslers, and
persons seeking for their own selfish aggran-
dizement, will so far degrade themselves as
to be guilty of taking part in these Union
meetings, called and held at the behest of
few Southern fire. eaters. The North has
not, by any expression of sentiment, decIar-
ed in favor of disunon, hence We do not
believe it is SO lost to elf-respect-so given
over to self -abasement-as to be willing to
any great extent, to yield a ready acquies-
ence to the intollerant arrogance of the
Southern garchy-and, at their dictation
hold " Union meetings." that the Southern
" chivalry" may be satisfied that it is
"sound on the goose" Such sef-abase-
ment should, and will, doubtless, be left
solely to those political quacks, who
have relish for crawling on their bellies in .
the dirt at the feet of the Slave power
For one, we may be counted out.
Bat, in the m Meantime, Union is the
order of the day. In order to preserve the
Union for even few days, Congress refuses
to elect Republican Speaker. What pa .
triotic House of Representatives But,
Just exactly what is going to smash the con-
federacy, We with the Leav enworth Tines .
ore not accurately informed. SAT one time
it looks as though Exeter Hall had charter
ed the Great Eastern on this meta rious bus
mess. Then again the scene shifts, and the
bloody fanged @ Seward, his pockets cram
med with irrepressible eonhict.,' and
" Rochester harangues,'' is supposed to be
leading::battalons of Beduoins and Zouaves
"over the sea-" to plumber the Capitol, tear
up the Constitution, and disembowel every
Pro- slavery citizen of our glorious Repub-
I'c. Then John Brown (peace be to the old
crusader y locates the IN other of Presidents,
oysters, and Gov. Wise, fat on her aristo-
cratic back, and the Union totters.
Wheat-stack conhagrations and defiant
COWS add to the general alarm, and before
We know it, the chivalry of the South are .
packing trunks and niggers, with the nvow-
ed intention of escaping from the ,ottering
fabric Of
1.-THE land Of the free, and the home'of the brave"
and establishing q cotton confederacy in the
Gulf of Mexico.
g. When all these excitements measurably I
subside, felOnious pamphlet is discovered
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