The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-27
BLUFFS SATURDAY
nAaa,or ODD sMrru On ruE War.
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/ You dear delightful auchrop:sm!
What charming wife ron would havs
made Francis, Duke OF Brittany, son oi
John the Fifth, who, whea told that his #.
onre. Isabella Of Scotland, vas b.issfun,
| ignorant of the alphabet and stranger u
all manner of learning. replied" Tha, hs
liked her the hetier, aud that a woman va.
wise enough il she. could distinguish be.
tween her husbands shirt and his doublet.' g
i Doubtless. The poor dear would be &C
docile. Mem. Women and slaves ar,
dangerous IN proportion ~ they master tbs
alphabet.l However. in addition TO tbs
above useful bit Of erudition, | think, a:
we are not contemporaries Of the Duke Of
Brittany. we might insistos three things,
to Wit: Taat the candidate for marriage
honors should be able to repeat the Lord:
Prayer without stumbling, csii her husband
s.he,' and say :. have saw.'i
Mis- alions, net ma enfant! oiTer you
La Faniaine's eopsolasosy doctrine thai
every one can End = un plus grand sot que
iui- msme.'
| :" How dreadful, The war should be
| put dowB! Something ought 10 be done
TO put stop to this fra,riesdal STRIFE"
Now, Louise, | should denounee you a
shameless plagiarist, did mt know tha,
you are not "a reader Of the Crisis-snd are
not acquainted editoriaily with the coaserv-
alive Mrs. Gfuudv who conducts that en-
| lgktened sheet. Other women, my love,
have expressed sentiments out OF the full
ness OF their hearts, ignorant that men had
plagiarized for them. 1t Is clear proof
OF the existence of !" kindred souls"
Granted, my dear, il is dreadful! The
rebellion Is tu be put down. Something
must be done. Something will be done.
Something is done more conclusive and ef
fective than Union meetings, Critteuden
compromises. and peace euuventlons-a
putting down that shall never need to be
repeated, an alternative that even Virginia
will accept. Poor old Virginia! whose
Convention sent out invitations to fete Of
biu0d not - he disregarded.
You don't know Why we are visited with
such dspensation We are sex with
corruption and yleness. Some terrible
catharte was necessary to purge the
body polite, and 1.-The blood red blos-
sum III war Win HpNFt OF NE anu
brmstone odnr, is the vegetable remedy in
question. Our ''gray-eyed man of Desti
n.y." our Lincoln. is the good old orthodox
thunder and tightening" practitioner, and
though the dose may be c'ievous, the re-
lief will be sigual. tell you God has II
hand in this war, If ever he had in anything.
To talk about putting II down is the veriest
twadde. To put 1t down you must tirst
put down the eter al principles Of Gods
throne, Right and Justice and God himself;
then twenty millions of people, aud the
hundred. OF millions of forces they repre-.
sent, forces moral, commercial and SPIRIT
ual.
iwonder If, at the time of the revolt in
Heaven, when Luci.er, the JEFF. Davis Of
tha, period. undertook to show the consti-
tuted authori les that the Government was
a $. social compact" from which he and
his party could secede when it seemed to
them good. Iwondsr. say. if there was
any p,ous old conservative Grundyish an.
gels up there, who, when they saw Micheal
buckllng on his armor and putting his an
gehc hosts through little preliminary drill
with the two edged broad sword, knotted
,heir brows and shook their heads, ex.
claiming, dreadful!
Had been one Of the authorities then,
Pa have compelled the whimperers to hoist
a Uaion flag Mt once, and take the oath of
allegiance with hempsn necktie as the al
tentative, and put them under close sur
yeiliunee, lest their pious horror and out
ragged merc,es, cropped out IN some traitor
ous ssaid and comfort'' act. Such people
will bear watching. "Piy is akin to love-"
you know.
After deal Of attitudinizing and bluster
about taking the seat Of Government and
overthrowing the loyaIists, the great proto-
type of secessionists only succeeded IN ban
ishlng himself and fellows to a realm where
he awaits, with the only thrill of joy his
>corched and scared sepsorium can expert
ence, the arrival of bis followers, from j.
Davis up.
Of the inevitable. | am neither horrlied at
the fratricidal coniliet. nor terror-stricken
at the commercial siagnation. ! am sadden-
ed, however, "a every loving heart must be,
when think of the brave, noble anes to be
swallowed up in victory, of the wrung,
bleeding hearts to be healed no more on
earth.
We have now a chance to prove our pa
trioti.m. of which Fourth Of July orators
have heretofore enjoyed the monopoly--a
bottled patriotism only let out to air on
State occasions. Now it Is an every day
household thing, To use roughly,
-"wishegt stint or spare
As men use egomyn things siih Mo behind"
Until of late the only individual ever
knew patriotic enough to bleed for his
countsy's aag, was little ragged urchin
about town, who cut his finger that he
might have the wherewith TO dye bis Fourth
Of July flag. That boy, now almost a
man, is a volunteer IN Camp Chase.
Let US hope the young pltrlot may We.
have chance 10 bleed in earnest for the
Stars and Stripes.