The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-10-26
TREASON UsMAsKED.



Speaking of cotton, let me tell you, nv
friends, that Cotton Is no King at all. Those
wao lyt by raising Cotton cannot do with
N your bread and meat bali well you
can do without tbeir cotton. Certainly it
Is true that South. Carolina buys Il great
deal of your produce; but did you ever
hear Of her buying any that she dlhn't want?
Was she ever known To buy your surplus
for mere accommodation to you! Did you
ever know her TO spend her millions for
stur Heur aud bacon out of mere genero>-
iiyl Aud must We bow down to her, and
do her high aud mighty bidding for fear Of
io-ing her market Tor our nnur and beef
our corn and bacon? True, as | passed
| aiong up through Kentucky, ! found that
most All those stock raisers there, who had
sold great numbers of their mules to
south Carohnians on credit, were nearly all
oecessouists. DO you ask what counec-
tion there can be betweea raising mules and
becoming Sece~sionts? I'll tell you,-'us
this: Those keutuekians think that hy fol-
lowing South Carolina out Of the unien
| they vii! staai good chance to get the',
pay. But tell you, my friends, tits all II
| mistake: the best way to get your money
| back Is TO compel South Caroina 10 come
| buck.
| The South may be good customer for
| tn. products of your farms and factories
but after all you will lind that the greal
| bulk of your surplus food iinds It's way
across the ocean. And. 10 any event, it Is
| certain that the whole matter of buying and
selling, Of raising and supplying, is govern
ed, not by mems generosity, but BY the
| laws Of commerce, which secession can no
more control than It can stop the sunshine.
| And there is day Of reckoning to come when
| the hundreds OF millions that the South
/ owes To the North, OF her commercial debt.
| wall have to be paid. Are taey fopi hardy
| enough TO presume that that mouatatn OF
/ Indebtedness is 10 be SUNK and lost in this
| opening gull Of secession2 They but de.
| ceisa themselves 1t they cling 10 ans such
| shadow II will have TO he paid. even ta
| the uttermost farthiug. Yet secession would
| premise them that ali il to be wiped out
with the achiev cement Of "Souteeru indepen-
deuce -.
And such, my friends, is secession. l,
promises nothing. aims at nothing, ba'
| p,tiiina dozen. It's great purpose IL, DIS.
ruptlon and destruction. X IL entirely an
| element of dissolution and dlsintegratlon
| II builds up notning; II u but the universal
| DISCOVER IT all that society holds sacred
| Il wages war upon humanity and eivilsza-
/ tion. IL strikes at all the recognized anu
/ cherished organizations of the connsFy, NJ
Guiding the constitution aud the laws. sst
| its desaistIng effects 10 my ewn State. On
| ly so long ago as last April we were q
peaceful and prosperous people. Wher
| our people we're then called upon TO come
| up to the polls, aud express their minds up
! on the subject OF secession from the OLD
Union. they came, and they recorded q
vote Of "a 900 ef majority against seees-
sion. The leaders Of the secession party,
| who had sold them elves 10 the Southern
/ Canfederacy. hndIng themselves foiled hy
| this iayai vase OF the people. through tb'
/ vtlla,nv Of sais same ishsm u. Harris, ns
would se king of lenoessst ~ the diesa'
.iou South Carolina, pracarei meet
| ine of the Legislature: ard N seere. session
| 10 defiance OF the popular viii as expresses
| by this popular vote. made over the State
Of Tsnnessse, With sai It's people And inssr.
esss. its forts. arms. and arsenals, with ar
army Of 5000 men, to ths Southern Con
| ssasraey Yes. nv friends, in secret ses
sion Was this great iulquity cansanmated
/ Our peapie we're nos cnnssssed. we're no
even permitted 10 knew the deep last
schemes If ismninS v.liainy that we're ia.
king them in It's sosss, and laying them ans
i their State as sacrifice upon this altar o
uabsisawei ambition.
And ssier they Aal done shss, after th'
srdsnsnee xas passed BY this secret ard SD
fal eaoeIase. then shsY graesaa.lv gran'eS
us permission TO vote upon the matter u
i Iaae following, Ana would 10 God. M
,frisEd., that is wess in shs psvsr of hausi