The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-10-19
<ry ayyEFUL ATTACKS OF THE ENGLISH
PRESS AND POLITICIANS Upon OK
INSTITUTIONS AND PRESIDENT.

The sueering hostility Of London journals
against the free institutions OF the United
| States, appears to grow more and more
enveno med and bitter, as the prospect in.
creas es that rebellion is about to be brought
to an end, BY the decision and energy Of our
sacacious and clear headed Chief Magistrate.
Americans are represented as slaves, groan-
| ing under military despotism, akin to the
widest reign Of terror, and congratulations
are banded backwards and forwards, that
the American Republic has become"a spec
tacle to make men mock and angels weep"
| The suppression of seditious organs in the
loyal States is characterized as blow from
which liberty never cun recover, ana citi-
zens Of the republic are declared to have
sunk to the same brutal level with Mexicans,
longing for the relief of an iron handed
autocracy, rs lesser calamity than that
which is engulfing in ruin every material
and political interest Of the land. A COR
respondent OF one ultra tory paper writes
from New York :-"Poor Lincoln is nearly
a maniac, overwhelmed with trouble. One
moment he talks wildly, and cries like a
child; in another he gets into violent hys-
terics, and has to take composing draughts
of powerful strength" and it goes on
to confde to its creduluous readers its
own malicious comments upon such falsc-
hoods.
1t is true that the United States are en-
gagged in a momentous civil warfare; that
newspapers in the free States are not per-
mitted to aid and abet the enemy /; that the
writ Of habeas corpus has been in some few
instances suspended; that close upon half
million Of men have been summoned from
their homes and are pledged to a life and
death struggle against rebellion that mar
tial law prevails in disaffected districts; and
that naval expeditions are filing out upon our
coast to strike terror into the hearts of
those who are seeking to rend the coun-
try in pieces. 1t is equally clear and undis-
puted that President Lincoln stands at the
which has interposed between utter ruin
and the preservation of the sacred legacy
benueathed to us by our forefathers but
the course be has taken was dictated to him
by the millions upon millions of his fellow
citizens, who are his constituents, and he
has done no more than obey mandate
which it would have disgraced him forever
to have neglected. just as the ancient
Romans, in times Of extraordinary peril,
entrusted the entire welfare of the State to
one man, with the power Of a dictator, the
American people have given unlimited con-
troll of their affairs, in the present emergency
20 Chief Magistrate, who has proved him
self worthy Of their confidence and equal to
the exigencies Of the epoch. $50
Commerce is reviving trade is on the
increase want is once more banished from
among the households of the poor, and
there is every likelihood that the Union
element will be speedily emancipated in the
Southern States, and that the war will come
before long to an suspicious close. The
strength of the loyal portion of the confed-
eracy.is arrayed against sedition in the
North rs we'll as in the sav Ell lding States,
and the English element of treason, in the
hands Of abolitionists, which has been
growing in presumption for over thirty
years, is equally with Southern secession,
receiving an effective cheek. President
Lincoln has had the wisdom to appreciate
the necessity of setting his face in opposition
to insurrectionary tendencies enkindled by
British gold, no less than against the dema.
gogueism Of jefferson Davis and his associ.
ates. His rebuke of General Fremont is an
ample guarantee Of his intentions, AID
though occasional failures may ensue, in
consequence Of such want OF knowledge, or
lack Of zeal and energy, as have led to the
surrender Of some OF our troops in Nilsson.
ri, these evils will be speedily repaired and
cannot materially prolopg the war.
At the present hour, while our patriotic
Pr sident is suffering from the abuse and ma
lightly of British indispensable organs
Of al effe,e and degenerate aristocracy-the
United States are multiplying their exports
OF breadstutfs to such an extent as actually
to fill the mouths Of masses Of the people,
in the very kingdom which is raising such an
ou,cry against US. Shortly they will be
vociferously demanding supply Of the
cotton which the success Of the federal
army can alone procure for them. Let
them remember, however, that when the
termination Of our civil conflicts shall have
arrived, it may be the turn Of our foreign
enemiesto suffer the consequences Of the
mischiefs they are attempting to do Us. Four
hundred thousand thoroughly disciplined
troops will ask for no better occupation than
to destroy the last vestige Of British rule on
the American continent, and annex Canada
to the United States.