The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-10-12

By the sense Of private treasbery, With the
feeling that all branches of the pnbiic ee2.
vice we're harboripg men Of doabtfel loy "a
~, and the knowledge that great body of
s.suhmissiooists" were ready 20 acauiesce
10 the course Of events, whlteser that mirh,
be, the Government prepaied for 40 uncon-
ditionai resistance. Fron( the outset fhey
treated II as rebellion, aed the adhereais
Of the Stuarts as rebels Time, the abless
Of generals and wise.t Of statesmen, hap
pened to be on their side. The Pretender
turned northward from DERBY, and on the
Geld Of Culloden the last hope OF the exiled
house was forever broken. Yet it would
even then seem rs II reconstruction had been
rendered impossible. The C1kvalisr esca-
ped to France, guarded b. thA fond loyalty
Of men and women who 61ml alike lefsers
and temptation. While he lived, or the
family remained, the danger continued to
| threaten England, and the heart Of Scot
land to be fevered with secret hope. The
old conflict Of nationalities had been terri
bly, envenomsd By the Cruelties Of Cumber-
land and the license OF the conquering
troops. There vas the same temptation
ever lurking at th. ear Of France to whis-
per new assaults upon England. Ireland
was held as a subjugated province, and vas
in state OF chrome discontent. To either
wing Of the British empire. alliance with,
nay. submission TO France, was considered
preferable to remaining in the Union.
Thus far We have been looking at proba.
bilities from the stand point of their ines.
There is curious parallellsm in the essen.
tials of tha, conflict with the present attempt
| to eievate King Cotton to the throne Of
this Republic. 1t Is close enough to show
that the same great rules have hitherto gov
erned human action with uperring fidelity.
The Government displayed at the outset the
same yacilla,ion; the people were apparent
Iy as thoroughly Indifferent to the Hanover
ian cause as the Northern merchants, be-
fore the fall OF Sumter, to the prosperity Of
Lineoln's administration. The Russell of
| l145, writing to the French court his views
of the public sentiment Of England and es-
pscially of London, probably gave an ac-
count Of it not very dissim,lar to that which
the Russell Of 1851 wrote to the London
.srimes" after his first encounter with the
feeling Of New York. There were doubtless
the same assurances on the part OF conf
dent partisans that the whole framework OF
the British government wouldcrumble at the
first attack. There were, too, the same ex.
travagant alarms, the same wild misrepre.
sentations, the same volunteer enthusiasm
on the part Of loyal subjects little later
on in the history. There was on the part
Of the rebels the came confidence 10 the
justice Of their cause, the came utter blind
ness to results, as in the dev votees of Slavery
There was then, rs now, an educated and
cultivated set Of plotters, moved by person.
al ambition, swaying with almost absolute
I IL e
siona:e class. 1t was the combat 80 Otter
begun in the world, yet 80 inevitably end.
ing always in the same way, between mis-
guided en-, husiasm and the great public
conviction of the value of order, security
and peace.
The enm,ty seemed hopeless; the insur.
rection was a smouidering fire, put out in
one corner only TO be renewed iu another
If Virginia is a country in which guerrills
resistance can be indefinitely prolonged, il
is more open than the plains Of Holland il
comparison with the Highlands Of that era
Few Lowlander- had ever penetrated them
scarcely an Euglshman. Ii was cup
posed that in those impregnnble fastnessei
an army Of hundreds might defy the thou
sands Of the crown. At k,lIiecrankie, Dan.
dee and his Highinnders had beaten vel
appointed md superior force. Dundee hat
himself been repulsed by = han full Of Gov
cnanters at Loudoun Heath through the
strepSth of their position. Montrose hst
carried on partisan war against apparently
hopeless odds. 70 ovsrrun England nigh,
be IA mad ambition, but to stand at bay il
Scotland WAS thing which had been agar
and again attempted with NO lncousiderabl
success. s-z@
The rebellion failed, and there were sew
eral causes for the fa'lurs: Dissection
among the rebels, the want of Efficient ai'
from France, the want e money. and III,
conrictio,, Of a large part otthe Scots them
seircs Of the raiue Of the Union. Tie re
beiiion failed, and suilen submission to con
fisca,ion, military cruelty, and polI,cal pro
scription followed. ..-....
On Sunday, the 18th Of June, 1915, no
quite seventy years after, there charge,
s,de by side upon the elite Of French army
with the men Of London, the Highlander
J aud Irish. A descendant of Cameron o
Lochiel fell leading them on. The last sparl
of yacobite enthusiasm and Scottish batre'
Of Englishm n bad died out years before
Those who witnessed the entry Of the Chev
aller into Edinburgh lived to see the Who'll
nation devouring With enthusiasm the move
, of "Waverly,'-so entirely had the bitter
ness Of what had happened "sixty year
since' passed from their minds!
We have thus selected two points Of his
, tory as the short answer to the cry, @Ys'
can never recoustruct the Uuion," ~hicl
History, the impartial judge on the bench
} prsnoances to the wranglers At the bar be
> low. "Never. 10 = long word to speak.
} it be short one to spell. Events NOV
J fast. and the logic Of Fate is more convinc
. ing than the arguments Of daily editor..-
, The stout arrire en- France" is true Of th
/. world in general, so far rs relates to iso
T lated circumstances. The very fac, that
J threatened disruption Of our Union has bee
possible ought to forbid any one from con
, eludiue that reconstruction, or rather re.
3 toration, Is impossible. Twenty years afte
8 the battle Of Cuiloden, Jocohisism vas
. dream City years after, it was n memory
century after, il was an ant,quaria
I, study.
!, The real question We are TO ask concern
!, ing the present rebellion, and the only on
which is OF Importance, IL. What is it base
. upon? an eternal or m arbitrary principle
An eternal principle rsuevs itself till itsus
Z ceeds,--if net in one century Then in anoth
c e.. An arbitrary principle makes its derc
o sghs and then 10 slain. and men bury il .
!. 5000 ~ they can. The S:ssrts represesse
{ an arbitrary principle. They we're the in
/ per.onaiion Of unconstitutional power
: Hereditary right they had, and the Hsne
d veriass had not. According 10 Mr.. Thact
Z cray, sBd accarding 20 the sssiesess facs, =
. suspect the Georges we're 90 more person
: ally essimable thar the Jameses, ane she
+ were far less kineIy- hammered. Bu, the
d we're willing to govern England accordir
. 70 lav. and she StaaTts we're determined
e govern according 10 prefeeaiises-
r What 10 the presept i.sueS II is eos
q test, when reduced to its ultimate term
]. between free labor and slavery. u % ve,
d true that secession Was planned before 81