The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-20
VAR COMMENCED.

-psss, % longer reigns in this once happy
and rrospeross Rspublic. One week ago
Yesterday the .oesin Of war was sounded By
the rebel forces Of seven States Of this
sssssp. A national Fort vas attacked, ard,
After IS hours bombardmens, its haEd-full
Of brave defenders were forced to caPi.ulase,
sod deliver up the Fort to the traitors that
had Invested IT, The causes which led 70
tbis unsovard result: Of the first conflict be-
tween the Government forces and the trait
sYs, are yet % fresh in the minds of the
people, that We need not reiserase them in
des.il. For months the rebels Of the revolt
log States have been allowed to peaeeably
muster armies and erect batteries, for the
express purpose Of accomplishing the rsduc-
ton Of For, Sumter, and the overthrow Of
the Federal troops. And why was this:
Simply because the Federal Government
desired peace, and wished 70 be guilty Of no
set calculated in the least degree to excite
the animo sity Of the Southern States. This
policy was me. in the South, by more de-
grading insults to the National Flag, by
saun.s, threats, and by most shameless APP
preparations Of the public property. Ia the
North, the sympa,hizers Of secession, tainted
the Administration with vacillasion and
imbecili,y, the while they as loudly and per-
sissen.ly proclaimed against the exercise Of
force towards the traitors. This sort OF
doughface double. dealing is still KEEP. up to
q limited extern. by Northern men, noswith-
standing the traitors have, by their own
premedi,a.sd acts, plunged the Nation into
An uuprovoked war. The happy effects Of
the concilia,ory policy pursued BY LINCOLN,
and still advocated by few Northern
editors, may be seen in the following extract
from Texas paper: ..The cowardly '.eight-
"teen millions North, told US VIC should
mot leare The Union. We did it openly
"ani boldly, and they humbly acknowledge
"our Government ''as necessity" They
" Shouted the praises Of the "stars and
"s,ripes" and dared the "chivalry to touch
"the sacred emblem We have torn il
"Jowu; We have placed 10 its stead the flag
4" Of the Confederate States we have dared
"ihem to coerce" US, and resent the
+" insult; We have invited their vaunted
"numbers to the field, but the only
"ery that comes from the eraren dogs
"s military necessity" "9ire up
"the forts" uiLhdrap the troops"
"let Us seat dirt and iire." II is sickeaing
"so think Of erer haring iired in the same
"gopernmeat Nth such people, but let us
"rejoics at our separation, and look South
"pard. The game North is beneath con-
"sempt, while Mexico invites us, by invasion
"of Texas, to rc-enacs our former aehiev-
men.s."
That will do, but the traitors can no lon
ger tauns the Government with cringing
cowardice! The dastardly act of the trait
ers 10 attacking Sump.er has developed the
that fact the United States Government still
lives!" The Prssiden. has called upon the
several States to come to the support of the
Government with $1,000 men. As will be
seen by the dispatches published in today'S
paper, the people everywhere hail with in
tense satisfaction and wild delight, this
opportunity of "consepding for Union and
government better, and freer, and happier,
than any that has ever fourishcd since the
world was created" Wool Woe! to the
traitors who have madly, and without cause,
lifted their hands against it