The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-14
From the Memphis BuIIsin-Oid Line whig
EDWA2sl RATES.

EDWAH. BATES.
This gentleman has put himself hcion
the country. lie has spoken aud is under
stood. For som, months past he has re-
s~mbIcd DR.. Thayer. lying hat on his back
upon an acting mule. bis heels kicking w
IN the air. The supposi,ion is that he ha:
been con -ul,ing his star. The fair twinkle,
turns ont To be Black Republican meteor
Dir. Bates, us We remarked II few days since
comes fully up to the Black Republican
standard. He has announced his opposition
to the extension Of Slavery. Now this is to
be, us far as the Republicans can make it,
the issue of the Presidential campaign. The
Democrats intend to make the subject Of
Slavery the leading issue. If they have
any principles that do net r-fer TO that
question, We are not Informed Of them. So
the attempt will b. IN ,de by these parties
to light the battle about the niger. Mr..
Bates alleges that he has Away been oppo,-
ed I" slavery. Tha, may be, but he has cer-
taInly not been always an advocate Of the
Republican organization. He presided over
the Old Line Wing Convention that met It
Baltimore in the spring Of 1856. AMI nona-
mated Millard Fillmore for the Prcsid meg.
One Of the many excellent resolutions.
adopted by that Convention, and of cpurse
approved by Mr.. Bates, WAS the following +:
r. seized, That all who revere the Con-
titutiun and love he Union must look wi h
alarm AZ the attitude assumed by the two
great parties in the field of the Presidential
canvass; the one claiming to represent only
the sixteen Northern States Of the Union /;
the other appealing, mainly, To the passions
and prejudIces Of the Southern States ard
that the success Of either of these factlors
must add fuel TO the flame which nus
threatens to wrap our dearest interests in
one common ruin. &
We wonder If Mr.. Bates memory goes as
far back rs 1856 i? not, the LORD help the
poor old man. But this is not all. After
the meeting of that Convention, and pend.
in. the Presidential canvass. he denounced
the Republicans ~ well AZ tho Democrats.
Tn" report of his PALMYRA speech says:
Mr.. BATES then spoke Of the Black Re-
pubIicans and Black Democrats rs ..ngita.
tors" and denounced both as - dangerous
enemies to the peace of our Union.''
Aud. mp TO last Saturday, says the Lou.
isvIile Journal, everything Mr.. Bates ha.
said or written for the public eye or enr,
since the delivery Of the speech 10 which h
! ~ the b'1nU-
cratic party and its Republican nntagouls
had been in perfect hormohy with his char
nc'erization everything. Last Saturday,
however. MIR. Bates wrote public letter IN
which he not only subscribed definitely to
th" entire Republican creed. hut actually
sanctioned the presentation Of his name "a
the Republican National Convention as n
candidate for the Presidency, All a. once,
Mr.. Bates has not merely avowed bin .plf
one Of those whom he denounced in 1856.
as '-agitntors." ard dangerous enemies to
the peace Of our Union" but announced his
Willingness to accept the leadership Of he
handed incpndlarie-. If they shall Offer him
the post. The party, of which less than
four years ago, Mr.. Bates maintained that
all who revered the Constitution and loved
the Union must look with Alarm" and tho
success Of which he held. .must add fuel to
the fame" which then tn, ea,ened and
threatens still "to wrap our dearest inter.
ests in one common ruin.o he has now en- .
braced, and seeks to lead in its course O!
peril and of death.