The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-06
THREE PORTRAITS.

IL mas been suggested tHal Tue chPllallsts
Of Lombard street, in London, should en-
ploy some photographer in this city to take
the iikeuesses Of the three persons who are
to be sent gu, by Southern Confederacy to
Europe. They will 90 out ostensihly for
purpose of pcrsuading Eog'and and France
TO acknowledge their new government; they
are sent in reality, so say the knowing ones,
to obtain the money on the fifteen million
loan which the government has ordered, and
which nobody in the United States will
touch. If ybody touches 1t in Europe he
will deserve credit for an easy liberality
and a noble disdain of the sordid max inns
Of self-interest to which the money market
furnishes no parallel. The Lombard street
bankers should therefore, be able to know
these men when they arrive. The police in
this city have Rogue's Gallery-a coliec-
ton Of the Photographic hkenesses of those
who have made themselves eminent in the
art Of irregularly appropriating to them
selves what belongs to others. Ii the
bankers of London should wish to possess
themselves of some marks by which they
can recognize the agents of this new design
upon their purses, perhaps, for want of
something more definite, the indications
which we are about to give will not be wholly
unservceable.
The trio who 20 out to Europe on this
errapd are, MIR. William L. Yancey, Mr.. A.
Dudley Mann, and Mr.. p. A. Rost, gentle
men belonging to political sect who dlsown
the obligations of submitting to the law Of
tho land any longer than suits their conven.
fence or caprice. They go out as the agents
Of II government which has at its head jeff
Davis, the great politician of Mississippi,
that repudintlng State-the State which dis
OWES the obligation of paying its debts.
Mr.. Davis is II great speech maker, and il
the European bankers should think proper
to lend their money to this government, and
the debt should be repudIated, We can assure
them, for their comfort, that he will give
them plenty Of reasons for not repayrng
them. They will get their moneys worth 10
argument.
Again these men who 60 out rs the rep
resentatIves Of n government founded by
such men rs Floyd, our late Secretary of
War, who has been under indictment at
Washington for swinding our government,
and who has Just managed to get off without
a trial Cobb, who managed the affairs Of
our Treasury till he left it bankrupt, and
who just before bis resignation, came into
Wall street to decry the credit of the gov
eminent and speculate on the fall Of stocks;
and Thompson, our late Secretary Of the
Interior, under whose administration of
that Office the Indian trust bonds were stolen.
These honest men were all concerto ed in a
plot TO overturn the government of the
United States ut the very IN oment that they
were its trusted, confidential agents-per-
forming its highest functions, providing for
their instruments by the bestowal of it's
offices, and taking their salary from its
treasury. Among the founders Of this new
government are also to be numbered Mr..
Wigfall. Of Texas, a famous lawyer who
cheats his clients; Mr.. Ben amin, of Louis.
lama, who takes jack-knives and watch
chains and Mr.. SlideI of the same State,
who, with his colleague, Benjamin. succeed
ed in getting through Congress bill putting
him in possession of the Houmas claim, an
enormous swindle, which Congress at it's
last session, to mark it's sense of the infamy
of these two men, repealed. A government,
| established under such auspices cannot but
enjoy the highest degree of credit in the
money market. That generous and liberal
minded class Of creditors who lend, never
expecting to see either principal or ip,eres,
again. have. here an opportunity Of lending
to their hearts content. We expect to
hear of them saying to Mr.. Yancey and hi.
colleagues, Mann and Rost: "You ask
for fifteen millions. Gentlemen, you are
quite too modest; double the sum, and then
double that amount. Take sixty millions"
Again these WORTHLESS 20 out to Europe
% the agents Of a new government which
makes no scruple OF taking what it can lay
its hands on--s government which has rob.
bed the United States Arsenals, seized upon
forts belonging to the Federal government,
stolen our revenue cutters. broken into our
mjnts sud robbed them Of their contents,
entered our navy-yards and taken larceuous
possession Of ships and naval stores. This
certainly is beginning which cannot fail to
command the confidence Of the world. The
bankers of Europe will, of course, infer
that those who so scrupuiously respect the
rights Of property will keep their pecuuiarv
promises; that those who are so careful NOT
to take what does rot belong to them will
certainly render back the money which is
entrusted TO their good faith.
With this li,sie sketch of their objects and
design, aud the circumstances which give
them claim upon the generous ersdu!ity Of
tie European money market, We commend