Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-08-21
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their course wishous any tangible rsason
for 30 doing, and without bsing able 10
give the why or wherefore for the change. |
Up 70 quite recent date certain papers
II this Stale hsvs bssa filled with articles
advoesssag compromise and paaoe, ~ The
best method 10 preserve the Union; bus
tho ssinglorioas dsfsas Of our army at
BULBS Ran, has, - shsy pretend, had the
effect 10 change their views, DESTROY their
hopes, and change them FROM peace max
ers to advocates Of sivil war. If there
existed before the bsss.a as Bulbs Bun, 3
good and valid reason why peace shoaId
be made, thas reason still exists. No hos
tile act of the government, whether sue
eassful or attended BY al ssiaglorious de-
feat, can absolve 1t from the aeknowl-
edged duty which existed before shas time
TO settle our national difficulties by com
promise and peace. II it we're right 70
adopt policy "sinilar to that proposed
BY the prtEiot, CRETrxNaxs," before the
battle at Ball's Run, II IL still right to
adopt such policy. Because the gov
eminent rushed ineonsiderasely into Eght
and were ''inglorioualy defeatsd," it at
florida no reason Why onr efforts 70 save the
Union, to perpetaate civil and Constitu-
sioual liberty, TO prevent the establish
mens OF despotisrn, should cease. Il Is
mos only proper aosp but duty thai eE-
err good citizen swed 20 both himself and
his country at the commencement Of our
troubles, 10 ask himself whether he Ia in
fayqF of sastaing the government, or OF
its dissolution, ana we trust every man
who considered the matter, did come TO
the conclusion that the government shod
be sustained aud dissolution prevented.
But we may add that In our belief per-
sens honestly aiming at the same grand
object-ths perpetuation Of our govern
ment and the prsyantatisn Of dissolu-
ton of the Union, when they asked them
selves the question how the object was to
be obtained, arrived At very different con-
illusions. Some thought il WAS the duty
of the party in power to call out the Army
and Navy-to make war, upon the South
ern seeding States, while others thought
that il was its duty to make amends for
- -~~--~ESE1 aNS&sS~ rr4~-r-
done to the South, and give them securi-
ty for the future by the adoption Of meas
ures Of compromise "similag to those pro-
posed by the patriot, Crittenden." The
party IN power refused to adopt the lat
ter course, and civil war vas inAugurated.
This being the state of fAets, the "oppo-
nents" of justice, peace and compromise,
having destroyed our hope and taken from
''us the sheet anchor to the ship Of State"
and sent it Smashing on the rocks of de-
stEucsiou'-eiEii war; it does not follow
that We who have tried to save the noble
craft from ship wreck, should now, when
it is among the breakers, fan the breexe,
and add fury TO the F'gale" which is fast
driving her upon the s'rocky shore close
alec" If the Pilot, through ignorance
OF malice, has run tbs ship upon the
shoals of destruction, and she il going at
fifteen knots an hohr,- SHOWS on" to the
rocks, the crew should take the m an&ge-
pens of the raft, "about ship and make
sail for the haven of peace and safety.
When the most eminent danger occurs
on ship-boardi in gale, with rocky shore
close alec and foam crested breakers
dead ahead, what folly it would be for the
Captain 10 flash the helm, set all sail %
and hurry hr on to destruction, when, by
putting the ship about and making all
sail, be miggt save the craft With her rich
cargo and ii the precious lives on board;
and What CO nsumated folly would it be in
the Cabin Bay, after demonstrating with
the Captain against his reckless course,
6nding hin. determined on destructive
action" to run an With his pockes hand
ksrchief and hold it out to the breeze, In
order, If il we're possible for him to do 30,
to drive the craft and all on board with
increased speed to certain destruction.
However strange it may appear, il is |
nevertheless sruethst occasionally We meet
N the political world 1t representative !
IF the Cabin Boy, who does not appre-
slate the las words Of the immortal Law
renee, "Don's giTe up the ship; bat |
when dangT imminent and awful sur.
rounds him and his country, abandons |
he ship in mid Ocean and attempts to
win ashore upon the pIanaits of those |
who glory In the ships destruction.