The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-05-02
FoRNEY ON CIVIL WAR.
He ExhOrts the Pennsygyanloms
t. stand by the Government
WAsHrSGToN, April I, 1851.

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| WAsHISGToS, April I, 1861.
! At last distinct issue i, 10 i. pre-
sented to the America An people At .s.,
= broad line il to be drawn be, ween the
friends and the foes Of the country
The end may be war, bit Is not srar IN
irritable at any ratef II the Govern.
nent is to perish in any case, at las>.
let it not so down withou, an effort to
preserve it on the part Of its real friends.
It 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. It j.
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 Cancellation as evidence
Of cowardice, have, during such mag
unanimous manifestations Of the Admin
istration and the free States, been in
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-tl,at
everything that has been demanded by
the South has been yielded by the Re
pubicans. and approved By Republic
can Presi',ent-Breckinridge, Border
State leader, who processes to favor the
Union. rejects the counsrls Of the patri-
otic Senator from Illinois, snecrs at the
wholesome legislation Of the last Con
grcss, insists upon misconstruiny Presi-
dent Lincoln's Inaugural, and demands
new guarantees if lie and his Di>nnion
confederates are TO return to or remain
i'll the Union! And what say the Dis
uEionists Of the Cotton States? While
lenouncing Lincoln and Douglas in the
same breath-cla,sing them together
as alike disloyal, trcacherous and hos
tile-thsy refuse to accept The ultin ,,ur,
IT their o,cn ri2iing candidate far Pres
ilent itst year, and declare Themselves
f"recer out Of The Union. 1--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 the
Northwest is fittingly followed by tie
Charleston Mercury, which not only
regulates the free States ~ 80 many
nests Of foes, but insults the Border
States for daring to think Of remaining
in the Unien!
Such is the temper in which the prof
fers Of peace are secuted by the Dsun
ionists in both sections Of the South.
But there is blacker page in this rec
ord The Cotton States insists upon
capturing forts and 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 hsrassed by the Dis
unionists, shall not protect itself from
humiliation 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
Government, schile they are cutting ont
It's heart and mutulatiny its limbs!
This game has been played long
enough. The men who have apologize
Cd to those who should have apologize
I'd TO tliem-who have allowed them
selves to be put in the attitude Of Of
fende:s by trxitors with arms in their
hands--and whose earnest efforts to
solve the national troubles peacefully,
have all been laughed at by these trait
ors-haye now = duty to perform to
their country sud to their Government.
There is not sympathizcr with Sc
cession in the free States, who is not
regarded A. 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