The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-01-28
CORRESPONDENCE OF rnx NoaPAREIL.
wAsurscios, D. O. Jan. nth, 1860.

CORRESPONDENTS or rHE NoaPAREIL
| WAsH1Ncfos, D. O. Jan. 1ltb, 1850.
| DEAN EDITOR The Nonparsil Of Dec
3lst, came to hand last Saturday evening
and was very glad to learn BY it tina
the people of the Blufs have had > fne tim
in the way Of Concert, Teachers Institute
Christmas Ball, etc. was sorry that thu
illness of the venerable Santa Claus proven
ted his usual visit to tho little folks, and
sympathi7e with them in their disappoint'
ment, hoping that the old saint will MAKE
it all right nert Christmas. By mistake
of mine or yours, my letter of tho 10th
gives the date Of my arrival in Washington.
the 18th instead of the 18th. When wrote
l had been here six days instead Of one, and
consequently had had more time to lool
around than my letter as published would
Indicate. The weather has been mild for
nearly week, with little rain. There il
nothing in the present aspect of affairs in
the House to give any hope of speedy or.
ganization. On Saturday last, John g.
Davis, of Ind. nominated Hamilton, Of Tex
As, believing, as he said, that he was
I" sound, conservative, national man." and
could unite all the conflicting elements op-
posed to the Republicans. Vain hope
the gentleman from Texas got only SO votes,
and, although the Democrats were busy
canvassing on Sunday and it was whispered
around the hotels and bar-rooms Sunday
night that they had got things "f1ed up -
to within three votes Of his election, the
balloting on Monday proved the fallacy ct
their calculations, as Hamilton got only 50
votes on three successive ballots. Before
the bal!oting I" extra Billy Smith," of Vir-
GINA, took occasion to lecture the reporters
because they had written to their papers of
his taking glass of egg nogg in the House
on Christmas day, or rather on the Goth,
which was observed as Christmas. He &C
knowledged the ''Nogg" and said he I'm.
derstood a lady had sent it to him, and said
be, 81 have been the object of many kind
and gracious favor by that sweet portion Of
our race" This was very gentlemanly as
we'll as gallant, but the pompous speech
which followed, completely knocked oil the
poetry out of it and afforded the reporters
lots Of fun. Yesterday they had no ballot.
Gartrell, of Georgia, made q ranting fire.
eating speech, and although he is a smart
fellow, he carried his bombast to such a
pitch that it made him ridiculous. He can
rather beat Keitt in twisting his face and
form into ugly ludicrous contortions. In
the course of hi, speech he adverted to what
Hickman had said on the floor of the House
Of the relative population and resources OF
the North and South, and what the North
would do in case the South should attempt
to secede. Hickman, who was pacing the
floor in front of the Clerks desk, asked
leave to state what he did say on the occa-
sion referred to by tho gentleman from
Georgia and in q clear and forcible man.
ner he reeapitulated what he had said in un'
mistakab!e terms. Ga-trell replied in o
sneering tone. When Hickman told him
that the North could make more arms in 9(
days than the whole South could buy. Al
this Gartrell resorted that n single cottor
crop of Georgia would buy the whole State
of Pennsylvania. 70 such IL Munchauser
statement of course Hickman made no reply
and allowed Gartrell to proceed with hi:
highAown rhetoric and more astonishing
mathematics. As he closed, he sent up tt
the desk series of resolutions which hat
been passed at meeting in Savannah Ga
Among other things, it was resolved that th'
South ought to establish Normal schools
for the education of her own, teachers, ant
that the school books should be the produc
ton of Southern authors, and printed will
Southern presses, on paper manufactured i,
the South. The reading of the resolution
caused considerable merrment on the Re
publican side Of the house, and Thad. Ste
vens, who sat right in front of the reade
looked up with a serio comic expression o.
countenance and asked if that was the Hell
per book! On Monday, MIR. Iverson in tn
Senate made speech, pitching into tn
squatter sovereignty doctrine and the Repub
llcans, and advocating the right and assert
ing the power of the Slave States to reced
from the Union, and set up for themselve
whenever they shall see fit. He confessed
that he had once been in favor of the "pop
ular sovereignty doctrine, but he had Ion,
since changed his opinion and repudated i
as heresy. He said the history of emigra
ton into the Territories for the last ten o
twelve years had taught the southern peopl
a severe and salutary lesson. He did no
spare the Northern democracy, which wa
"the unkindest cut Of all.'' After compli
menting Northern Democrats in genera
terms, said he, "but sir, am constraine'
to say, they are Fundamentally unsound ant
wrong in the great principle which lies a
the foundation of all the dangerous anti
slavery agitation of the free States. Il
common with the Black Republicans an,
abolitionists, they denounce slavery as
moral wrong social evil, and a politica
curse. Sir, the Southern people can neve
feel safe in the Union or have any abiding
confidence in the effective aid and comfor
of any party of the North which tolerates o
sanctions this great fundamental error.
Then after stating that the Southern peopl
do not admit that slavery is wrong or a
evil, but on the contrary sright in the sigh
of Heaven, salutary in its social effects an
conducive to the highest development o
political blessings he added. "The
must therefore look upon all men who tax
the opposite ground, and who condemn sla
very in the abstract, as the enemies of thei
peculiar institution and as committed soone
or later to its final destruction" Will an
Democrat of the North after reading liver
sons speech, say that the South asks for n
more than her right? Will he dare to sa