The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-05-25

EDWARD EVERETT On HE "
A large and enthusiastic meeting Vas held
in Roxbury, Mass, few evenings since, to
collect fands for the benefit OF the families
of the Roxbury volunteers, Who have sniist-
ed for the war. Edward Everett and A. d.
Rice made patriotic address. A large sum
was contributed. We extract the following
from Mr.. Ererest's speech - published:
The nature and foundation OF this war -
you perceive, is for the very existence Of
the government; it 10 contest N Wnicn no
good citizen can remain neutral. am oiten
asked how long think it will last but that
is question the South alone can answer.
She makes the war she has seized oy sur
prise such Of the ssrongholds OF the country
as she was able; she has possessed herself
Of the navy yard at Norfolk, which guards
the entrance to Chesapeake bay; OF Harper's
Ferry, which commands one OF the great
highways from the Ohio river to the Atlantic
ocean; and, above all, Of the mouth OF the
Mississippi, the outlet OF the most extensive
system Of internal communication on the
face of the globe. There will, in my juag-
meut, never be peace, till the flag of the
Union again floats from every stronghold
from which it has been stricken down. DO
you think, fellow citizens, that Ohio. lndi-
ana and Illinois will allow their most direct
communication With the seaboard to be OBJ
s,rucsed nj the pleasure OF an alien State,
at Harper's Ferry? Do you imagine that
Eastern PENNSYLVANIA and Southern New
York. whose tributary waters fow through
the Susauehanna into Chesapeake Bay, to
saw nothing Of the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal, will tolerate foreign master in
Hampton Roads? Above all, do you believe
that the Giant of the West will accept his
pathway to the Gulf of Mexico as privil-
eye granted By the mushroom Confederacy
Yes, they will submit to this degrading yoke,
they will acknowledge this CALLING usurpa-
ton but it will be when the Alleghanies
shall bow their imperial heads to the level
Of the sea and the current Of the Mississippi
and the Missouri shall flow backward to the
Rocky Mountains.
Ny friends, l deprecate war-no man more
so and, of all wars, l most deprecate a
civil war. And this, if prosecuted by the
South in the spirit in which she has COM
menced it, will be what the stern poet Of the
civil wars of Rome called bellup, pluequam
ciuile-a more than civil war. deprecate,
more than can express, war with the
South. You know my political course.
Logan, the Indian chief, mournfu!ly ex-
claimed 'Sueh was my love for the whites,
that my countrymen pointed at me as they
passed, and said, Logan is the friend of
white menr' have been pointed at for
years as the friend of the South. For
maintaining what deemed her constitution
al rights, have suffered no small portion
Of obloquy, and sacrificed the favor OF a
portion of the community in which was
born, and which, from my youth up,l have en-,
deavored to serve laboriously, dutifully,and
aifec,ionately. was willing while this Ill
starred movement was confined to the States
of the extreme South, and they abstained
from further aggression, that they should 60
in peace. This course, thought, would
retain the border States, and bring back the
seceders in a year or two, wearicd and dis
| gusted with their burdensome and perilous
experiment. Such l understood to have
been, in substance, Inc programme OF the
administration. But the South HS"s wiiied
it otherwise. She has struck q parrlu;dal
blow at the heart Of the Union; and to sus.
tain her in this unnatural and unrighteous
war, is what my conscience forbids. Neither
will remain silent, and see this majestic
framework of government, the noblest
political fabric ever reared by human wis
dom, Frustrated in the dust to CRAFTY the
disappointed ambition Of few aspiring men
(for that Mr.. Vice President Stephens
bravely told his fellow citizens last Novem-
Der was the cause of ga great part of our
troubles'') and this under cover of soph-
istical Interpretation of the Constitution at
war alike with common sense, with cotem-
porary history and the traditions of the
government; unsupported by a single au-
thority among the trainers Of the Constitu-
ton, and emphatically denounced by Mr..
Madison, their leader and chief.
What then remains, fellow. citizens, but
that we should, without unchristian bitter
ness towards our misguided countrymen,
meet calmly and resolutely the demands of
the crisis, shat We should perform the duty
of good citizens with resolution and steadi-
ness; that we should cordially support the
government Of the country in the difficult
position in which it is placed; that we should
cheer and encourage the brave men who have
obeyed its call, by a generous care Of their
families, and to sum it all in one word, come
veal or woe, that we should stand by the flag
of the Union'