The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-13

| NO CONfR0NlSE WITH
| "Progress 10 stronger than We are, -
the reply Of an eminent European s'a.asI".
to certain timid people, Who uemaoasJ
change Of his policy for fear Q, Hs les..'
rnnn the financial condition of the country,
| Ii furnishes = capital answer to the .'n'u
neople Of the present day, who talk OF com
promise and demand peace. This war -
emphat;cally var Of progress, the elements
| ~ rh;ch have been at work for more than
third Of century, and there is but one CON 20.
| d,tion on which it can be terminated. lne
statesmen Of the last generation saw Hs
shadow on the horizon; and WINE ,ney
| hoped for a peaceful solution OF the oan-
| eers looming on their vision, yet that rev
CLINTON Of some kind was inevitable tney
never for moment doubted. They saw
/ how the Southern States by their solidarity,
| bv making their peculiar institutions Oone
of political union, welded the power anu
shaped the policy Of the Government, Snd
| they saw how restive tho Northern millions
vcre under their domination. They caicu-
| In, ed the time when the constantly increas'
inc numbers in the Free States, asserting
.he might vested in majorities, would se'ze
~. reins of Government and control Its ac-
,;on with reference to what they regarded
w. 90 =, interests of CIVILIZATION and the best
"n,S ~ he whole country, rather than with
sssssrsncs L, the institutions and special III
.srs.,s IF tina South. They saw that the
,;,ns ~onld CONS when twenty millions OF
naon,a 4 the Free States would refuse to
submit Ia the dictaI,on of eight millions ~
shs Slave States. and that the passing OF
rnI;t;cal mower from enc to the other, would
he likely to be attended BY commissions such
as had never been known in history OF TINS
country. They postponed the EVIL days oy
temporary concessions, by compromises, 10
the permanency Of which they had NIUE
faith, and which they felt certain "ou.u
some day be powerless to defer the Crisis
which they saw impending. They Eoted the
increasing arrogance of the South conse,
auent upon the possession of power, anu
foresaw how deep its humiliation woulo DC
when the great constitutional principle
which grants to majorities the right to gov
ern, should remove the sceptre from Its
hand. They hoped that that principle would
be respected, and that the minority would
weld to an inevitable destiny; but in the
character and temper of that minority they
saw the possible germs of upheaval and re-
bellion against the Union. They saw that
the perncious doctrine of notification was
rpening into secession, and that reckless
ambition might seize upon it as pretext
for revolt, giving to treason towards the
Constitution and the Union a semblance Of
patriotism under the guise of loyalty to the
State.
What the statesmen Of the past genera
ton thus dreaded has come to be the great
reality of the present. 1t has been post
poned for decades by momentary oompro-
misses, and by the reluctance Of the people
to submit the momentous ISSUES to the last
arbitrameut. The Free States have done
their best to avert it, but Progress is
stronger than we are" and its great law
will compel the settlement of those issues
now. The prosperity of this country, its un-
exampled advancement in civilization, In
national aggrandzement and power, IS ow-
ing to the unity Of its Government, the COM
bination of States into one grand rationale
ty, with one flag and one supreme sovereign.
ty embracing all sections and protecting
all its citizens. Our safety in the past has
been in the preservation OF the Union as an
indvisible and living unity, and our safety
in the future is in its perpetuation as such.
Our progress would stop with dissolution.
The hour that We seperate into two Confed-
eracies or two Republics, will be the com
mencement Of an era Of decadence and re-
trogression, accompanied with inevitable
strife, to end IT last in anarchy or military
despotism, more destructive, If possible, to
the rights of the millions, than anarchy it.
self. This heresy Of secession must be es-
terminated. 1t is rank poison IN the $40 -,
OF the Republic, destroying all is Clements
of vitality. II this war Snail require the
sacrifice o. thousands of lives, be It 80. II
1t Snail cost thousands Of millions of treas
ure, they E.ust be spent. Ii it shall con
sumo years in accomplishing the beneficient
Gniect for which it was begun, they must
be so devoted. These are sad and hard al
ternatives, but the law OF future safety and
progress demands them, and "progress is
stronger than we are"
| There should be no talk Of compromises
now. 1t is too late for compromises. Moth
| ing short of the destruction of this treason
of secession, its utter eradication from the
body polite, will answer. Nothing short
of that will be accepted by the loyal mil
lions of this country, as an atonement for
the past or as security for the future
The Administration that should propose or
listen to terms Of compromise that ,,onned
short Of these, would be cr--ned into ann
hlation. When Mr.. buchanan narleyed
with secession, and held out the promise of
concesslon to treason, he called down upon
himself the curse Of history that will blight
his name through all time, and make him
immortal in infamy. This war, we repeat, is
one OF progress, and if there be those con.
nected with the Admin traiion who are tim.
t'm'd to prosecute it vigorously and to end,
Ies ITEM remember that progress is stronger