The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-10-12
. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER H. 1861

Of bitterness, the real canse Of ansagen-
ismS That will do for itself. We probe.
bly, eaasos do asch 10 help Or hinder nov.
Tns negro and the white man will renain
on the old ground, bss new rslations muss
be estahiished betveea them. What those
shah be will depend % manv yet undevel-
cped oousiaseocses. Bat when we recon-
struct, is vii be Nth North stronger than
ever before and government too strong for
rebellion ever to touch il again. Under
rebellion 10 sinply the resisfanes Ut minor.
ity. Seeessios has been acted ont to the
bitter end 90 small eeaie ere new in this
country. Daniel Sbays tried,t in Msssa-
chssssss; TAsna. Wilson Dors tried il 10
Rhode Island. Whss they had tried IL suf
6c.ensly, they gave 10. We remember ,he
Qetr War, and how balterly the'. Algerines,' :,
they we're called, vese rsviled. We doubt
fla rsuaans Of that hostilisy could be dog
up anywhere between Beavestal, L,shs end
Woonsocket Falls. We hsvs na doubt that
men who then we're On the point OF lighting
With each other Tough, side by side undcf
Sprsgue, and fought ali the better for hsv.
ing once before Faced the possibilities Of
real war. When the minority are sasis6ed
that they must give in, they do give 10.
We do not purpose nov to debate the
question Of she saode OF reconstruction.--
When the seceded States return, though
they come back to the old Constit tuition, they
will come under circumstances demanding
new conditions. The wisdom Of legislation
will De needed to essablish ~ rapidly ~ pos
s,ble pacl6cation. What she circumstances
will be none can now cay. But We are bet
TER satisfied than ever Of the ilnpract,cability
Or permanent secesslon. The American
Rev olution is not u parellel case. The only
parellel 10 history that We can nov recall IL
the one v have used 80 freely in this article.
II is one in which the pareliei fails chiefly
in presenting strongss grounds Tor = perma.
nent disrupuon. Scotland struggled against
geographical necess,ty. She did so under
the influence Of far moro powerful motives
than now exist at the South. She had far
less binding ties than nov are ssill living
between Us and our revolted States. A ge-
osraphica' necessity N vast and potent nov
links the Gulf Of Mexico to the Great Lake..
The struggle 10 more gigantic one. and in
its fierce convulsions mems minds may well
lose their present balance, and men's hearts
their calm courage.
But everlasting laws are not to be put
aside. The tornad ,es which sweep the
tropic seas seem tor time TO rcverse the
course Of Nature. The waters become tor
bid with the sands Of the oceans bed. The
air strikes and smites down with . solid
force. The heaviest stones and beams Of
massey buildings Ay like feathers on the
blast. Vessels are found far up on the land,
with the torn stumps Of trees driven through
their planking. Life and proIs,ty are bur-
led in otter ruin. But the storm passes,
the sunshine comes back into the darksned
skies, and the blue waves sparkle Within
their sociest limits. The awful tempes,
passes away into history,-for il 10 God
and not man, who measures the waters i,
the hollow of His hand, ssd sends Tor tn and
restrsins the breath Of the blasting Of III,
displeasure. s ...