The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-12-08

Tagfk Yrn ~ RissEssca WAT
1HE YTRR AVID BLOOD o. RKvoLUTloN.
= That is sce core. They propose 70 gre
goa 8 taste Of Mr. Yssesy's medicines. II
will b . nice fi,s!e Operatives. Sowing
wheat Is nothing - .atiss time, and wax
ing sentry ss two o'clock ia the nigas under
. dssasIisG ssin. Stacking esFs 10 lat esm-
psssd - charge Of bayooess.
Toe a.ss viii make yoer arrangements 70
hass your bsrp~yards Es MP as sixhs With
the fyes sf rero!usicn. Ses Jour boots q
the bead Of the bed, for AZ any nsnens she
same fires msy be spusteriDg ssd cracking
Co the rsof 81 your dwelling -hoose.
Gsisserirs baycnets 90 the Sossa eank OF
she Potomac 10 frons--busnirs straw rScks
and burning hoases behsad yoc-soneshing
worss shss shst, perhsps, 10 the shape OF
dealh produced BY invisible and uneonfrcns-
sble sgrncsss-the State deprived OF its
iabor-thoss laborers escaping by hundreds,
Or cold ss half their value 10 the Sosth-
var eslas unploughed-your public works
rsia.t-iand depressed 10 the lowest figure
State stocks, Insurance. stocks, Bank
s.ects, Railroad stocks, hsvked 81 . mere
sopg--shese would be shs Immediate effects
OF the sFire and Sword" which Gov. Wise
proposes IN his Norfolk speech.
"A psaeab.e dissolution Of the Onion i
sometimes suggested.
Let us allow that the result esuld be e.
fecssd peaeabIY.
The next thing We shoald uant would BE-
q sanding army. The John Brown affair
cost Is 800 90. Make the calculation.
:. You ueg.d mslutain line Of post all alopg
year frontier.
Yon would also want . navy, though
Norfolk only produces fsw i-hing smscks,
exeep. the vessels buiis there by order Of the
Government.
YIN soald pay q Southern President
with al the ordinary government officials.
You would pay diplomatic corps.
You would have 20 pay for an iniepend-
snt Senate and House OF representatives,
grj FOR neg Judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be read.
liz managed. They tell you, you are rich
We tell yoa, that 10 purely agricultural
psopss ever was rich. The wealth Of Phil
a4slpaia alone Is equal to the entire wealth
OF shs State Of Virginia.
Take the rostolIcs alone. The total re.
esipts from the post0flae in Virginia fer
1878 was S2i4,95I. The expend lures
were sij3 SIS. In. south Carolina the re-
csipIs were sI0l,lij. The expenditures
were S3si,69g. 10 Alabama the receipts
were 81 1909. The expenditures we're s2is.
40. In Mississippi the receipt. were sSS,
AS. The exeGditures we're s3J2.50s. Ia
2srkaht1s fae receipts were s3j,T2T. The
Expenditures we're s2li,js9. How is this
deficiency nude up aowl Part Of il is made
up thus: The receipts in the State sf New
York are sl,4jssIll, the expenli,ured are
Sl,iji,lst. Ia Massachusetts the receipts
are S3a',5a3 the expenditures are ;si35,
~. In most Of the Northern States there
ia ds foss. But IN all the Southern States
the daaelE is enormous. The whole North.
era ded!t 10 same .sJ0, 600. The whole
Southern dstcis Is some 50 900, 900.
Suppose, however, the Civil War dspos.
ed Of Suppose tbs new government estab-
lishsd. suppose US with our army, our
s,ayy, onF Publications. Suppose Us TO have
survived be shock with some slaves left,
and cur deprecated lands. VIVA. then p
We belong 90 d Southern Confeieraey. The
Cotton States hegin an agitation for re.
opening OF the slave trade, or some cooIie
system. Oar remaining negroes are TO com.
pete, II they succeed in their schemes, With
the new labor. At all events, we are still
10 be q ssciion--a section as regards the
Cotton States, which Has no trade with the
other section. We are still 10 haze section.
nj l1arreis. There are still TO be CHARGES
and cguuter charges and eoun-
ter-aEgressions. We have not conquered
peace.
We have now two sections to plague us.
On the frontier W. have TO guards against
the North. On The South We have TO meet
the extreme WENT IT the Gulf States. After
II saIic. perhaps, Virginia would have lost
her slaves. aud she, with Kentucky, Mary
land, Missouri, would be- nm anti slavery
SECTION IN the southern Republic.
II any one can hsd "a remedy in the South.
ern Cpufeteracy, We see with different eyes.
II does not follow from the picture we
have drawn, that We are inssn<ihle to the
import OF Ltnc,Iu's election. No ono de.
prroatrs more the success Of sectional
party on sectional issue. No one attaches
more importance to the idea Of the South's
beng placed IN provincial relation to the
g0Yernmeus.#
Oar ohiFet is TO point out the breakers,
that are 50 be encountered, If we seek rev.
olu'tap.
The whole question is, whether i, is bes,
IN try such a medicine.
Revolution, 10 our opinion, is destruction.
We are not ready for ruin. We do not
THINK The case as nad rs that: When, as ut
the hlean, u ~ necessary for Virginia to
place her hees 10 the wall. aud to have a.
her only ebjaet TO the destruction Of the
greatest possible number Of her enemies be-
fore she herself sinks under q multitude Of
waands. We trust that evrry son Of Virginia
will die with honor. Until thu. desperate
ALTERNATIVES present itself, We are for main.
tanning the present Government.