Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-04-24
NO, i. !.


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Sinee ths passage of fha Morrill, Tariff
the English papeFA axe ciIanginQ tiei,
9fslne pery decidedly respecting the soath.
p States. The I.enaan Tslsgraph, q
liDeral paper, has Q vasy inporsaaf axti.
Gle ON she condition Of the Repablic.
Speaking Of the presidensss message Il
sayss assTwo subjects howeTer, of ina
Enanse Importance TO Europe no lass than
70 America are left wholly unuosicad---ths
anticipated blockade OF the Southern
ports and the fsew sarfff.n ~
Speaking OF the bloakads Of the foYss.
II says il would ssbe IN oct fraught
with results inmeasurahly important 60
this country 80 ealanitous, indeed, that
ireat Britain and France, iii all likeli-
hooa, will protest. againss ID with the ut
moat Eahsmepee consistent with tho rwain-
tenanee of friendly reiasiaxas. Tha far.
naer power, indeed, has already natiissi
that any blockade, fn oxaee 10 be valid,
mast be eEEeetaal % shAa nc paper decree
can aiaeoe car osaamegua. There must be
ships OF war cruising sE evmy euflet of
the South, along thousands of miles al
eoast-or, In ether words, from North
G&rolina TO the Rio Graniey and whence
are they 10 eoma? Tha aavy of shs Uni
ted States would not supply tenth part
OF the necessary force. france and Eng
land viii no doubt combine 10 thwart he
Cabinet OF Washington In efforts ii may
undertake TO coerce the eofssu States. by
shatting them on from the tEads of Eu.
rope. Notwithstanding all tho sympathy
which the English nation entertains With
the opinions OF the free States, We cannot
sufIeR our industry to be eat up by the
roots, In order that the slaya- hoIding fac
tion may be prostrated. There il q pub-
hc law In existence, sanctioned by the
Iass Coagress Of Paris, which lars down a
iiasinet psiaeiple, and from which the
yrea powers will suffer no Departure. If
he United States are TO emerge from the
present crisis OF their affairs, they must
accomplish the task without running the
,reatest nanufacturso of this country"
And again ~. /. - /
We cannot afford to see the southern
'orts blockaded for q month. a week, or a
lay. Even without calculating upon the
ontingency, the position of affairs is
serious. should civil war
'reak outy what security viii the planters
ave Tor the safe gathering of their crops.
should fhe struggle end ii 4 victory on
hair side, they zasy revive the slave trade
nd provoke hoskilities With Great Brit
IN. Lancashire and South Carolina are
90 intimately united for The slightest
ymptoms or forebodings of paralysis in |
ha one not to spread CONSERVATION |
through the other. If, then President |
lincoln should attempt to suspend the |
oanmeree Of the Southern States, the |
European Law of blockade must be put |
q force, the effect of which would ae that
be navy of the republic would at once be
o"esiess aPon the seas. |
With regard to the blockade question.
re have stated that it cannot be solved
y any government in America, bat must
0 LEFT to the maratime Powers of Eu-
acting upon the Law of self
reserystions must, of course. forbid all
stempts to exclude their Commerce from
be ports Of the South the ruins Of which,
noagh it might crafty the passions,
.onia not serve the. interests Of the North.
President Lincoln has the interests of
ae Union to protect, and Lord Palmer
Ton Is bound 10 defend those of Great
but the former cannot be s,gar-
to blockade our flag out OF the South
m porte, or the latter be stimulated to
ny partisan advocacy of Norther ambi-
ion.
Inis is plain language, and coming, as
does, from one Of the nost liberal of
10 English papers, is ominous of the
ssitngs of the nation upon the subject il
iscusses.