The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-05-02
FORNEY ON CIVIL WAR.
lie ExhOrts the PennsyIyaniams
to stand by the Government.
WAsnISGToN, April Z, 1851.

WAsnISGToS, April 7, 1861.
At last distinct issue is to IL pre-
sented to the American pcople At .a.t
. broad line is to be drawn between the
friends and the foes Of the countrv.-
The end may be war, bmt is not mar IN
ecitadle at any ratef II the Govern
nent is to perish in any case, at lss~.
let it not 60 down withou, an effort 10
preserve it on the part Of its real friends.
1t is not only that the appeals Of men
in my position have been in vain, though
answered, as you will perceive. by the
last speech Of Judge Douglas, in which
he showed that the Republicans in Con-
gress had conceded everything that the
South had any light to demand. 1t is
not only that these appeals have been
in vain, as addressed to the Southern
conspirators, but the fact that they have
been made, has given new courage to
these conspirator., who, while regard
ing all offers Of conciliation as evidence
Of nowardice, have, during such mag
unanimous manifestation, Of the Admin
istration and the free States, been i'm
creasing their preparations to destroy
the Union, and to ruin hundreds Of
thousands of men. While Douglas gal
lantly testifies to the fact that there is
no practical cause for secession-that
everything that has been demanded bv
the South has been yielded by the Re
pnblicans. and approved by Republi-
can -Breckinridse, Border
State leader, who processes to favor the
Union. rejects the connsrls Of the patri-
otic Senator .rom Illinois, snecrs at the
wholesome legislation of the last Con
grcss, Insists upon misconstruiny Presi-
dent Lincoln's Inaugural, and demands
new guarantees if he and his Disunion
confederatts are 10 return to or remain
III the Union! And what say the Di,
uEionists Of the Cotton States? While
denouncing Lincoln and Douglas in the
same brcath-cla.si,g them together
as alike disloyal, trcachcrous and hos
tile-thsy ref.se to accept the ultin atun,
IF their orn wi2iing candidate far Pres
h1ent last year, and declare taemee'res
fcrecer out Of ihe Lnion "We will
never come back to the Union," saws
Howell Cobb. "The idea Of recon
struction is impossible" says Davis
I'VE can have no connection with the
free States,' says S!ilell; and this cho-
rus Of contempt for the North and tn.
Northwest is tittingly followed BY tie
Charleston -Nercury, which not only
repudiates the free States ~ 80 many
nests Of foes, but insults the Border
States for daring to think of remainin.
in the Uniom.
Such is the temper in which the prof
fers Of peace are secuted by the Disun
ionists in both sections Of the South.
But there is blacker page in this rec
ord The Cotton States insists upon
capturing forts ana stealing the prop
erty Of the whole people-and doing
this, too, by force Of arms, AID follow
ing it by military preparations Of the
greatest magnitude; and meanwhile.
they demand that the Border States
shall insist that the Federal Government
/. despised and harassed by the Dis
unionists, shall not protect itself from
annihilation shall not even enforce the
laws made by the Cotton States them
selves, but shall patiently stand BY and
see the work Of devastation and decay
going on, without raising \ hand to
save our unhappy country. In other
words, the Seceders ask, nay demand,
that the Border States shall hold the
Gor:rnment, schile they are cutting out
its heart and mutulatiay its limbs!
This game has been played long
enough. The men who have apologize
Cd to those who should have apolociz.
ed to the:n-who have allowed them.
selves 70 be put in the attitude Of Of
Tenders by traitors with arms in their
hands-and whose earnest efforts to
solve the national troubles peacefully
nave all been laughed ut BY these trait
ors--have now duty to perform tc
their country aud to their Government
There i not |. sympathizcr with Sc
cession in the free States, who is no'
regarded as an enemy by the conspira
tors, unless he breaks up his home, and
goes over to them to aid in the destruc
ton Of the Republic. A Douglas Dem