The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-08-25
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, sATURDA
and Demo platforms? Enthusiastic

/ and DemocraIc piatI ofms. tEnthus1Assic
cheer.1
| Louk around you, and see how Lonesome
you are 10 this wide world Of ours. As far
| as modern cirinza,icni hrows iss rays, what
/ people. what class of society is there like
/ YOU? C,v Gu, into the world yoar wild and
| guilty fantasy of property in man, and eveyr
echo responds with a cry Of horror or con-
tempt: every breeze, from whatever point of
4 the compass il may csms, brings yeu q verdict
I OF condemnation. There IS na human hear.
tha, sympa,hizes with your cause, unless il
.ymyathizes with the cause of despo,ism in
every form. There is no human voice to
cheer you on in your struggle; there is no
! human eve that has a tear Tor your rev ers-s;
no link Of sympathy between the common
! cause of the great human brotherhood and
you. You hear Of emancipation in Russia.
/ and wi.h 1t should fail. You hear of Italy
rising, and fear the spirit Of liberty should
! becom contagious. Where all ma nkind lnv e
| you hate. Where all mankind curses you
sympa'hize.
! And in this appalling solitude you stand
/ alone against hopeful world, alone against,
great century, fighting your hop les, fight.
| hopeless, hopeless as the struggle of the
/ Indian against the onward march Of ciyili-
ration. Use all the devices which the inyen-
| tire genins OF despo,Ism may suggest, and
vet how can you resist! In every little VIII
! lage school house, the little children who
| learn to read and write, are plotting against
you; il every laborat ~ of science, in every
machine shop, the human mind is working
The obstruction of your idol. You cannot
make an attempt 10 keep pace with the gen.
eral progress of mankind, without plotting
| against Yourselves. Every steam whistle,
every putting locomotive is sounding the
shrek uf iiberty into your ears. From the
n0Dlest lnstinc $ of our hearts down TO sor
did creediuess of gain, every impulse Of
human nature is engaged in this universal
conspiracy. How can YOU resist? Where
are Your friends in the North? Your ever
ready supper ers are scatter' d to the winds
/ as by enchantment, never To unite again.
| Hear them trying to save their own fortunes.
swear with treachrrous eagerness that thev
have nothing IN common with YOU. Ant
your opponent? Your boasts have lost the r
charm. YOUR threats have lost their terror.
| upon them. The attempt is idle to cloak
| the sores Of Lazarus with the lion skin of
Hercules. We know you. Every one Of
your boasts is understood rs n d sguised
moan OF wrakness--cverv shout Of defiance
as disguised cry for mercy. That game is
played out. DO not deceive yourselves. This
means not only the destruction of party
this means the defeat of Il cause. Be shrew-
der than the shrewdest. braver than the
hravest-it is all in van; your cause is
doomed.
And IN the face Of all this you insist upon
hngg ng. with Grggpd stuhbornneSs, your
f,taI infatnntion? Why not, with mrnlv
holiness, swing round into the grand mar, b
Of progressive humanity? You say 1t ca,-
not be done to day. Can 1t be done to-mor-
row? VII it be easier twenty, fifty years
hence. when the fearful increase of the negr"
Vopuiatlon will have aggravated the evils uf
slavery an hundred fnld, and with II the df
frrent ties OF Its extinction? Did you cv,r
think Of tbs? The tiua. crisis Will com.
WITH the inrxornbIe certainty of fate, Il e
more terrible the longer 1t Is DELAYED. VIII
You content yourselves with the criminal
words. ''a.ter me the deiugc!' Is tha, the
inheritance you mean to leave to coming gen
cratiou>? An Iureritanee of Disgrace,
crime, blood, destruction Hear me, slave
holders of America If you have NJ sense
for the natural rights of the black man, no
appreciation of your own int rests, entfeat,
,mplnrc you, have at least pity with your
children.
hear the silly objection, that your sense
Of honor forhids you TO desert your cause.
Sense OF homer! Imagine Il future genera
ton standing around the tombstone of the
brayest fSUn, and reading the inscription /:
''ilere lies gallant man, who lived and d., d
trne to the cau-e-nf human slavery ,
What will TIE serdics be ? HIS very pr ,geny,
unable u realize the peculiar institution.
will djsown him, and excaim. ''lle must
have been either II knare or II fool - How
many of you who hold the opinion Of Il hu-
name ngc in due regard, # they could rise
from the dead century hence, would refuse
TO exchnnSe their apitnph?
SrnSe Of honor Slnco when has it be-
como di>hon"rahle to give up the errors OF
yesterday for the truths of To day ? to pre-
vent future disasters by timely reforms
Since when has it ceased to be the highest
glory to sacrifice ones prejudiccs and mo-
mentnry advantages upon ,he altar of the
common veal? But those who seek th ir
glory in stuhbornly resisting that is glo,
ri"u., must fad their end in inslorious
misery.
turn to you, Rornblicane Of Missouri:
Your coun'rvmcn owe you debt Of admir-
alton and gratitude to which my poor voice
can give but feeble ex expression. You have
undertaken the noble task Of showing the
people Of the North that the slavchoIdlng
States themselves contain the elem cnts ot
regeneration: and Of demonstrating o the
south how that regeneration can be effected.
You have INSPIRED The wav"rins masses with
conf leHca IN the iratrica lily Of our ideas
To- the North you have gwen encouragement.
Il.