The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-02-04
ConnEsroNpEncE OF rHE SoNPAHEIL'

CORRESPONDENTS or rHE NoNPAnEIL.
WAsHrxosos, b. C. Jan. 10th, 1850.
DEAR EDrros You will have learned
by telegraph ere this reaches you, that for
the past two or three days, the House hss
suspended balloting, and been engaged 10
angry discussion and recrimination. The
Democracy find themselves pcwsrless, and
there are probably forty men in that party
in the house, who don't care if it never
organizes !; | have it upon good authority
that these men intepd to stave ofthe organ
ization till the Charleston Convention; and
if their plans ~ not carried out then in such
a manner that they think they will be able
to beat the Republican candidate for the
presidency, they will then openly and imme-
diateiy, advocate disunion forthwith. That
1.-THE Democrats Of the North should allow
these men to rule them is astonishing; but
when men have sold themselves to do evil,
they never know when to stop. A Northern
democrat the other day told one Of our mem
bers, that he would come out against them
if be was strong enough to stand up and de-
fend himself against them, but he said they
would all pounce upon him, and he was
afraid Of the lashing they would give him |;
and he q Representative Of the descendants
of the men who waded through Ere and
blood to gain tho right Of free speech and
free action! Will bis constituents endorse
such cowardly recreancy, by sending him
back? Forbid it, ye spirits of tho revolu-
/ ton!
! Steadily, in solid phalanx the Republicans
are moving on to certain victory. tmay be
delayed, it may not eventually como in the
form 81 the Speakership, but come it will
Just as sure as right is bound to triumph
over wrong-just as sure rs the spirit of
liberty and progression is growing stronger
and stronger in the hearts of the American
people. The men who are determined to
rule or ruin this country, will compass earth
and Hell lift were possible to secure dem
ocratic successor to the weak spined Bu-
chanan; but the gathering portents of
storm which will sweep them from power
like chat from the threshing floor, are al
ready beginning to darken the political sky.
The fat has gone forth-truth and justice
will triumph-and, the sheet achor which
the down troddcn of the world are looking
to for safety, will hold fast amid the howl
ing storms Of disunion, and when these
storms shall subside, the glorious old ship
Of State will sail on again in all the strength
and buoyancy of years gone by. wish
some of our Democratic friends whom |
know to be true men, could be in Washing
ton few days and watch the current of
events, that they might see how utterly de-
moralized that greatly party is, to which
they are proud to belong. l know they are
sincere in their belief that the party in all
its great principles and movements 10 still
right, but they would soon find themselves
compelled to cut loose from an organization
whose highes. aim now is, the degradation
of free labor and the crushing down of the
masses, that the few may mount to power
upon their PROSTATE forms. Such is Demo
cracy too day, and the honest yeomanry of
the North cannot much longer remain in ig-
norance Of its true character, and win not
much longer 60 to the ballot box to carry
out its accursed programme.
am sorry for the government contract
ors whose paper is going to protest, and
whose business will in many cases be ruined,
and think they will get their eyes open to
the folly of supporting for Office men, who /
reward them for their devotion by turning
round and cutting their throats, or, doing
what is nearly as bad-depriving them and
their families Of the means of of subsist- |
ence.
Henry Allen is here, and working earnest |
ly for the establishment of mail route from |
the Bluffs to the mines. If the House was |
organized he could no doubt effect his OBJ ]
ject, but as it is, the chances are slim, in /!
fact he can do nothing. His project is, to !
have the lines Of the Western Stage Com /
pany extended out to Denver, and am sure
that company after packing the U. S. mail
over the swollen rivers and through the hub /.
deep mud of Iowa, ought to have route
where the pay will in some degree common
suratc with the labor performed, and hope
to see its commodious coaches rolling by
scores up and down the magnificent Platte !
road from Council Bluffs to the mines next |
summer, and its popular and efficient agent,
Gov. Bates, so full of business that he will |
hardly get time to respond to the greetings
of his many friends. Through Col. Aliens
courtesy, have become acquainted with
s,Iaior shoonover, the present incumbent Of
the Upper Missouri Indian agency. The !
Major has been in a good many ticklish
places up among the red men, and has often
held his scalp BY a very uncertain tenure
He promises to giSe me some data etc.,
which will be of interest to the readers OF
the Nonpareil. He is posted on both In
dian and Washington life, and will no doubt
fill his post with honor to himself and the
government, and for the good Of the In
dams, but am sure don't envy his posi-
ton up among those Arriccarces and
Manclaus. Ugh had rather be excused. /
Yours Truly, W. II. X.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10th, 1860.
DEAR EDITOR Great times in Washing
ton; Congressman strapped" md little