The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-06-23
...isud. ve challenge our eaeaie. to ,h.

attitude ve challenge our eneaies to The
battle.
On our sank ws are threatened by the
Constitutional Extraordinarily by
thar party Of dry hearts and dead weights
who recently assembled at Baltimore, and
conscious Of their inability 10 make plat
form, adopted . sentence torn from Fourth
OF July oration AZ their common creed. and
will, in all probability, circulate Mr. Ever
ess's Mount Vernon Papers as their princi-
pal campaign documents. Great laughter
and cheers.l Thev know no North, no
South, no East, no West, no anything, and
least Of all they know themselves. fLaagb-
tell See them march On, ready to charge,
gently and with forbearsnce, lest ihev step
upon somebody'stoes, laughter aud slowly
and noiselessly, lest their own soldier.
frightened by their swn impetuosity, sus-
pect themselyes of sinister designs-for
theirs IS An army which by the accidental
explosion of percussion cap might be
thrown into the most frightful disorder.
Laughter and applause. 1t is said that one
Of their Candidates consempla,es decli ing
the nomination. Let him ponder we'll VIVA,
be is doing. Let him not with his accus-
toned rashness in political matters, skip
over 50 awful responsibility upon hi.
resolution so or 80 may depend difference
OF Eve er ten votes at the next national
election. Shouts of laughter and applause. |
Infront We face the Democracy. Thanks
to the restless impa.ienee OF Mr.. Douglas
ambition. and to his INSCRIPTIONS dupllciry,
the Democratic party is fast falling into
pieces. lCheers. Indeed, we are greatly
indebted to that man. When, by the Ne
braska bill and the invention of the Popular
Sovereignty dodge, be tried to gain the
favor Of the South he helped build up the
Republican party in the North, and when
by refusing to acknowledge the logical
consequences Of his own position. he tried
to retrieve his fortunes at the North, he dis
organized the Democratic party q, the South,
And even lately he demonstrated the exist
ence Of the irrepressible conflict more clear.
ly and forcibly, with due Difference to
Governor Seward be it said, than ten Roch-
ester speeches could have done. He is like
the fellow who, in order to get at the apples
that hung rather high, cut down the tree.
Applause.
Yes, that man has done much Of our work,
and he did it voluntarily, gratis, :or moth
ing. Let US be honest to confess il; for,
sir. l really do notsee why the church should
refuse to acknowledge its obligations to the
devil. Laughter and cheers.
Is it not owing to bis laudable exsrtions
that the Democracy have opened the cam.
paign with two platforms and nary cand.
date (Shouts Of Laughter In fact,
when taking all his kind services into con-
eideration, am almost sorry of ever having
said anything against that man. But the
thing is done, and Mr.. Douglas must be
satisfied with as humble an apology as
am able to offer. [Consinued laughter and
applause
The first attempt of the Democracy to
unite upon platform andsto nominate a
candidate failed. 1t could not but fail as
long rs some of them insisted on laying down
party creed that meant something. A
Democratic Platform in order to be salts
factory, must mean nothing and everything,
as the Cincinnati Platform did. GCheers. |
But they will try again to repress the irre-
pressible conflict which RACES in their own
ranks, and as the day for so doing they have
with great propriesy chosen the 18th Of
June, the anniversary of the battle Of Wa
terloo:. [Applause.l What the result of
that Convention will be, whether one of
the contesting factions will carry the day,
or whether they will succeed in uniting
them, by conceding to one the platform
and to the other the candidate, thus cheating
each other in attempting to cheat the people,
is to me matter of supreme Indifference.
The Democrats undoubtedly thought they
had done a very smart thing in ad dourning
| their Convention without nominating n
candidate, so as to deprive US # the sup
posed advantage of knowing what antagonist
we shall have to deal with. Without being
aware of it, they have indeed done a great
| thing for US; for they have obliged us to
rely for success upon the positive strength
of our cause, instead of the accidental
weakness of an opposite candidate. En-
| thusastic cheers. And in this noble and
manly attitude We stand before them, the
| only united National party in the land.
While the Union savers did not dare to
lay down a common party creed-while the
Democrats, with unscrupulous duplicity,
attempt to commit new fraud upon the
people-the Republican party has, with
manly fearlcssness proclaimed its principles
and nominated candidate who fairly and
honestly represents them. We have under
cession and subterfuge, but by boldly and
unequivocally re-assertDg the principles in
which We believe. We have undertaken to
disaIm the prejudices that IRE against US,
not by pandering to them. but by opposing
to them the language Of truth. No greedi-
ness Of speedy party triumph, has betrayed
US into the abandonment of single position;
no desire to conclu ie advantageous alliances
has betrayed US into single compromise.
am proud to say We have disdaned 10
purchase. Mt the price Of a single article Of
our creed, the support of that small set Of
amphibious politicians who claim to hold
the balance Of power, and whose Office it
seems to have been. for years. to demoraIi,e
with their treacherous promises of support
[applause1 of those heartless men who,
when a whole continent is on FIRE, calculate
with bloodless GOODNESS from xhat side they
can draw the greatest advantage.
They NAV feel big with the vaif, boast
that they will be strong enough to defeat
us-ws have shown them unequIvocally
enough, that they will never be strong
enough to corrupt Us. Enthusiastic cheers.
We have, indeed, invited the support of ell
citizens, whatever their party afEliatlon may
have been. But we will not gain j; BY false
prstences. We will speak to them the
language Of great principles, We will appeal
to their sense Of righ, and justice, We will
assault their understandings with irrefuta-
BILE arguments, we will storm their hearts
with solemn invocations, but We hate dis
dained to descend to ambiguous tricks,
which would make US Unworthy of being
supported br others. Loud cheers and
applause. ......
Such is the Republican party to-day. II
is strong, for i. seeks and suds its strength
in the greatness Of the cause i. defends. 1t
will be victorious, for it deserves success.
It's success will be decisive triumph OF
our cause. ard If the worst should come,
even defeat would be mere delay Of
certain victory. And 80 We are ready to
give battle, armed with that scrupuious
jealousy Of principle, that will make us
rather perish shaa compromise the right.
with that honest pride Of conviction whicn
springs from deep Consciousness Of good
faith and true devotion to JUS. cause.