The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-02-16
UNCLE SAM SHOULD BE MAGNANIMOUS.
by ALL MEANS.

for the same time"
UNCLE SAM SHOULD BE MAGNANIMOCS.
BY ALL MEANS.
If We did not know that the chivalrous
sons Of the Ra.tlesnuke Kingdom were in
"dead earnest" all the time, the fulminations
Of their organs would lead US to conclude
that, even in the midst Of the great work
of breaking up the U. S. Government, their
chief fuglemen could find time, and had the
inclination, to be facetious and to change
thei. m mood at times from ''lively to severe"
But, we do the grave "seignors" Of the P-'-
tIcsnnKc N'nguom great I'M Justice :" permit
ting ourselves to contemplate contingency
10 which they would demean themselves
otherwise than in a manner commensurate
with the dignity of a great, independent, and
bene6ccnt nation, and we beg pardon for the
insinua,ion. The South Carolininns, then,
are in earnest. That's settled. They have
declared themselves Independent of the U.
s. They mean what they cay. OF course !!
They are now great people! There IS to
from this pceple! by prccept and example.
oil the world is to be greatly henetitted-ana
the truly Christian grace Of mngnanimify,
especially inculcated! There is no joke
about this-South Cnrolinians don't joke.
There are no .'lit.le iokers" in the Rattle
snake Kingdom, except those in Ft. Sumter.
of ha
succeeded (as they say) in forming great
nation, by nagndnimous'y nrpropriating
the property Of the United States to their
own private purposes, now magnanimously
propose, even before they have got warm in
the places they have magnnnimously nsurp-
ed, to .moo,h and polish Uncle Sans man.
ners, To this end, the Charleston Mercury
call. the attention o! the Executive power Of
thi. Government to the fact, that the com.
mandant OF Fort Sumter, the gallant Major
ANDERSON, is a '.Southron and II Slavehold
cr." In view Of this fact, the Mercury
thinks that the Major should be "odered u
furlough or leave Of absence, and subst'.
,u,c sent who is not \ Southron." ltwould
be an act Of great "masnanimity," to do
this, think the South Carolinians! Why !!
Because, says the Mercuy-'' The people
Of South Carolina hare been measurdbly
disarmeib by their sympathy for Maj. Ander-
son, and Mr.. Buchanan knors IT," Well,
now, il would be an act OF ''magnanimisy'
on the par, Of Uncle Sam, to "relieve" Maj.
Anderson from the c mmand OF Fl. Sumter,
and thus no longer disarm the traitors Of
Sou'h Carolina through the gallant Ken
tuckian, Such an act of magnanlmity, would
DO on a"xar.foo,ins" with those which
permitted the Southern States to seize and
retain the custom houses, min,s, arsenals,
forts, and munitions Of war, within their
limits, belonging to the Federal Government.
Uncle Sam is ac,ually getting barbarous!
Such obs,reperousuess, aud persistence in
disarming such a chivalrous people - the
South Caroiinians, are bot the relics OF
barbsrou. age, and Uncle Sam should disess
himself Of them as once-even though in 50
doing. he should subject himself to the
charge Of teias "coerced" thereto, BY the
pleasant kingdom Of the Palmetto groves.
The Mercury gives Uncle Sam timely notice
that South Carolina will not long be disdrm-
a., in this manner-to-wis: "We cannot
suffer Gag so hateful as that OF the United
states, to wave in insolens defiance 10 the
harbor Of an independent State" That aaE
should be masnanimously ~ishdrasn-ef
course, 1t wlh never do for great Gov
ernmen, like the United States to be wanting
10 maguaoinisy. Never. Perish % plseias
a idss!