The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-02-16
THE GLORIOUS RESULTS OF ".MoLLIEI-
CATION

/ 4 correspondent, writing under n late
/ date, TO the New York Tribune from Macon,
Georgia, gives graphic description Of the
effect upon the minds of the people in that
I region, By the demonstrations made in the
North in The shape of ''union Meetings.''
Every movement Of this kind, however well
( designed It may be, is certain 10 be taken as
4 manifestation Of fear, and its only effect
hitherto has been 10 Keep open and TO tciGen
the breach, with the expectation that the
/ concessions offered will gror broader end
moIe radical! Those who haze the North,
but yet think II FOR their interests to rema:D
in the Union, point 10 these demonstrations,
and to the compromises offered by Northern
men, and declare tina: "the ID aj0itioDists
Save completely wiItel down, ana tina. they
viii give Of their own accord more than is
asIei for; the people of the North are
frightened a: what they have done: and are
COW actively repentpg." Others, more nu
merous than the above class, boldly declare
that the South has been playing heavy bluff
game, and they cry out: ''Tae North is Civ
in- ia: we've got them under foot; let US
just keep the fight up little longer, and we
shall be able to open the slave trade. By
George. we've got ZEN, tell gel Don't
they shake good; They hol,er like lathcred
puppies. They begin to find out that they
can't have things as they want EN- This
correspondent says the language is not al
ways SO coarse, but the sentiment is generally
the same in whatever manner expressed.
This correspondents also details oonversa
:ion which took place at the Lan;cr House,
IN Macon, between Georgian and South
CaroIinian. The latter is represented as
speaking substantially after this fashion:
"You know well enough what ny scnti-
ments are about slavery; now, rs ugly as
feel toward the damned black Republicans.
Ike rugged, up and down fight. DO
have some respect for bold rascal; | have
respect. Of Il sort, for sincere man, too, no
matter what he believes. IF, now, was an
Aboltionist. and believed that slavery was
wrong, or if didn't care damn whether
II was wrong or not, and only meant to fight
against it. and if had made a strong fight,
like what those Northern fellows have done.
why, ~ the Lord, III cut off my hand and
blister my tongue before Id take any part
10 one OF them sniveling pow-wows they
call Union Meetings. Here for years the
blasted fellows have been fighting inch by
inch til! they have got every free State with
EN-; and now, Just as they have cot their
first big victory, they are beginning to shake
and SILVER, and wish they hadn't done it,
and hope the South won't be offended and
premise to give up all they've got, and a
coed deal more, and never do so again as
long as they live if we'll only let off this
once. Long John Wentworth says the chiv-
airy vii! back down, that they are always
ready to eat dirt when the scratch comes:
but should like to see the Southern MN who
would crawl on his belly like those hounds
A. Philadelphia and Boston, and gobbe dirt
wtth such IN appetite rs they seem tn have,
Ia shoot him before went cut to hang IN
Ahoitionjst tina: was stealing nv nirgers.
Bf thunder, I'm ashamed Of nv kind."