The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-07-28
MOURNFUL FOREBODiNGS.


Occasional, the Washington correspond
ent Of Forney's Press, in his letter OF the
10th inst, says: ....-..,. .... a..
The apparition of Republican triumph
begins sadly to trouble the Disunionists
They have said s. much against Douglas,
and have so loudly declared that they prefer
Lincoln to him, that they now contemplate
their fate before their own people in the
event of Lincoin's election. The Republic
cans themselves regard the tribulations of
these gentlemen with the utmost philosophy
They will be very anxious to secure certain
Southern support of their Administration,
and are casting about for the most compe-
tent Southern men who will agree to serve
as Cabinet ministers under Mr.. Lincoln.
Should Lincoln be chosen President,
there will be n sad and mournful procession
of dilapidated Office no ders from the vari-
Gus departments. Protected, as Mr.. Lin
eoln would be, from the avalanche Of
Southern applications, which has rolled in
80 terribly upon every new President since
since the organization of the Government,
and no doubt rescued by patriotic resigna-
tions on the part of those who declare that
his election will dissolve the Union, it will
be most magnificent spectacle to see men
who have grown gray in otbce--who are,
indeed, the checks, stops, and obstacles of
that great circumlocution system which has
become a vast evil here-turning their
trembling steps to the homes they so rarely
see, and to the avocations they have so long
abandoned. We shall then ascertain wheth-
er certain men are indispensable in the
management Of public affairs whether the
Union will collapse like great balloon
when the gas of the official FIRE eaters is
withdrawn from Washington, and whether
men and fre.b may not ba ahls o
prove that this Republic depends upon no
particular individual, and that even a
change, no matter how drastic and purging
It may sometimes be, may not save bilious
| and constipated system.
The venerables who carry gold canes
along the avenue every day at three o'clock
p. NJ, at about $l, 800 year apiece, and
who have grown gouty before dusty desks
and in cozy snuggeries, realize the pussi-
biity of new regime. Their dissolution
of the Union is their removal from Office :;
their idea of the destruction of the Demo
cratic party is the receipt of a yellow
envelope enclosing polite request to leave;
and their only idea of violation of the
Constitution is the apprehension that the
places which know them now may. after the
fourth Of March, 1861, know them no more
forever.
An idea Of the way in which the Office
holders in the South intend to resist Lin
cola's Administration, in the event of the
defeat of the Democratic party in Novem-
Der, was thrown out by one of their number
a few DAYS ago. He intimated that the
Senate would refuse to confirm the Cabinet
of Lincoln, and that the session of that
grave body would be prolonged after the
fourth of March, 1851, on the ground of
the determination Of the supposed majority
to refuse to consent TO ths appointments of
the new President. This IS rather an ex-
srems remedy, bu. i, only goes to show that
the shrewd ones are looking ahead with a
great deal of care aud anxiety.