The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-10-27
wonp e poUcLAs MEN.

Since the day Douglas Vas nomioa.eos
vs have copteuded that he had no possible
chance for the Presidency, and the correct
ness Of our calculations would De demon
.tra,ed long before the time OF the eaecsion.
| Not this only, we have said and still nam
tain that there are in the State OF Illinois
alone. % 900 earnest Douglas men who
hate slavery. Who hate tho insolent DON'T
nation of the South, and who ought 10 vote
| the Republican ticket a. the most emeac,oos
method Of breaking down the power 9, .ne
/ OIisarchy bv which the government. uas oees
/ seized. the Democratic part! oi,'aeu, .uu
the very existence Of the Union 'n,easeIu
( Our predictions in regard - DsSsi.s
strength aud chances are Se.'neu "
/ suit Of the Pennsylvania ana ino'ana elec,
tons; aud now We appeal 70 Tue ilee,so.l
| elements in the Douglas parry " sas' 'ne.'
votes that they may not De sas.eu '"
candidate who will not carry o..se, .uu
! that they may tell with the sfe..ess ene0s
I for the destruction Of that dangerous % M.
reasonable breckenridge fac''on.
mean that though they may ea.oe.,y a.
Mr.. Douglass success, though 'n my
sdmre the man, and though they may s.anu
by the principles that he enuhess,
their duty, inasmuch as ne IS OUT % .ne ~s.'
to make choice between the '"o oanu
dates with whom the contest mes, anu 'e.S..i
that one whose election would pest P1omuss
the material interests OF the country anu 'ns
The growth and ascendancy OF tna' iusa ~
which all Northern men should noie iA..'
IL q word, that they should give 'ne. 'u
fra-es to LINCOLN, aud bear MIN ln.o 'ue
Presidential chair With degree OF onanlm
ity thu, will astonish the propaganois's ..
slavery, and put an end at once 10 AL .nousu'
Of resiste.,ce to the wise. just ana eeouoL
zeal administration Of which ne WY 70
the head. TEat thousands will DO tnis 'n,ns'
we have no doubt. Tney see that Lincoin,s
election il assured. and that, II 1t were nor,
all attempts to defeat him no" WIN 20
only so many aids to Breckenriase IN MS TO-
sane struggle for power that an !us'ons o.,
so manv trades 10 which the Disaoionis's
gain every thing and Douglas osning; aoa
that if Breck enridge succeeds, the ldsas 'or
which the Douglas men have confer asu, are
crushed GU, by the patronage ana rore'
wh;ce he will WELD. With these things De-
fore them what will they do? The Times
and Herald of this city, the editors o.
which took ten days to consider when ore
of the democratic candidates they wouio
surport, and who to day would probably
prefer Breckenridge to any man IN the neio,
will tell them to pcrsevere to the ena' ana
10 struggle for a victory in Illinois, ana
like victory in New York! But what, We
ask, is to be gained by all this? Suppose
New York carried for Fusion. and Illinois
for Douylas-what then? Why the eiec- |
ton goes into the House, where Douglas has
but a single State, and where Breckenridge
would surely win: or to the Senate, where
Lane would carry off the prize. Are the
Douglas men of free soil instincts content
with this prospect? Was it to pulverlze
their leader, elect his fercest and bitserest
opponent, and give new lease OF power TO
the Lecompton dynasty, that they rent the
old partv 10 twain at Charleston, and still
more widely discovered the fragments at
Baltimore? No! we believe in the sincere
ty end carnestness Of the rank and file; and
tina, nothing but their hatred of slavery ex-
tension by tho Federal Government, and OF
the rapa,i and insolence Of the politicians
of the Sou,h, have forced them into mees-
ures by which the Democratic party has
been divided. They cannot now Illuminate |
by adopting Slave Code, the |
Slave Trade, and Intervention for propagra-
ting Slavery, rs the basis of their political
action. There are those who will; but We
appeal from them to the twenty thousand
of whom we speak-the men to " hom free
dom of the Territories is desirablc--to
whom the re- opening of the Slave Trade is
crime of monstrous proportions-to whom,
when the contests narrowed down to Lin.
coin and Breckenridge, as it now is, Honest
Old Abe and his constitutional policy vii!
be thousand times more acceptable than
the incipient treason, and the despotic dog
mas. of his only opponent. To all such we
hold out the invitation to come.
We have but a single motive. Lincoln
will be elected. There is no force on earth
that can now change the determination Of
the peopleto intrust power to his hands.
But as we have before said, it is necessary,
for promptly putting down the mnttering
disunonists, and for giving his administra.
ton sn irresistible moral force. that he be
backed up by overwhelming numbers. An
election BY the ferns of the Constitution is
a guarantee that there will be no dissolution;
but upon that poin. we want to stop conjec-
iurc. and show n front against which no
traitor will dare to advance. Let US be
unanimous - Chicago Press and Tribune.
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