Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-06-19

WEDNESDAY,, JUNE ., 1851.
HOE, JOHN u. RoHxs,


N. Botts 10 Hon. Edward Bates.
i HronzoEp, Msy ~, 1851.
Hon Edward Bates, Afsoraey GeaarGI
/ Ds&r Six :--Again venture 10 address
yeu, gana again in the name Of . conyGl-
sed nalion 20 sue for peace.
Frantic people un both aides mar CLAM
or for waE, bat the dispassieaate aad re-
aeGtings sveTywhsFs, demand 9 cessation
OF this horrible and aruel war, and the
| party that has power 10 stop il, win sink
under the weight Of It's responsibility,
both to God and man, If il IL not aaopped.
/ You know as we'll a. I, the spirit and
derry xaal Of your oWn Southern race j
you know that, no matter what your
| power may, you eouid never reduce theaz
% sab5sskioa. ~ ksaia Ia sag first lee
kex ff0UeFTpa Ehsa y0ss aaay,h bur you
cannet subjugate and even 70 opesyuR
! them now, IS becoming mors and more
doubtful every day. But Il yoa could.
what do yoa h0ps 10 accomplish By it !?
/ Is il not Is clear IS the noon days sun
| that dissolution Of the Union is dxed
| irrevoeabie fact and ID IL nos equally
clear thai var beEwean sections, North
and Seuih. 0aly makes is q costly, bloody
| desolating dissolution instead of peace
full separation of elements that are now
as thoroughly and as sternly ant&gonistic
rs ERE and water s ss e., -#
| The dlsafsstion in Maryland 10 the
cause Of the Government and especially
| the scenes enacted in Baltimore, render
| it certain that the revolution lie spreading
with immense rapiGiity. Why not, then,
at once, come to honorable terms, and
Let each, of the Republics, North and
South, I've after their own fancy? The
| Southern blood is fred, and you may
rest assured th&&, to the last man, they
viii resist the epowszs of the Federal Cos
eEnment, il their independents ID not re-
cogniRed.
IF my counsels could have prevailed
when was in Washington, eight border
States woald have been saved to the un-
ion. Nov fsur Of them al Least are gone
from you, and probably all. Why, then
make il worse tfIan it Is BY further pro-
Crastiaation ~2 s.a=., -.....s..s
Ii you knew what it has cost me In
mental agony 70 give up all hope Of the
Government of the United States, az il
was formed by our fathers, you would
listen to my counsals and hare respects
for what SAY, -.
pray you TO tell me what possible
good is TO be expected to be accomplish
ed by war among ourselves ? Which
party rsa possibly Be benefited ? After
loo, 900 lives have been lost, and $780,.
00O, 900 Of money has been spent, must
1t not at last end in q severance Of the
ties that have heretofore held us together
as one peoplef g.. ....... .~ .
never saw the day that more aternly
denied the right Of secession under our
Constitution than | do now; but the
right Of RxYaLuTIex, have always sssarf-
ed, and no one has ever denied il, This
State has not seeded, because the Con-
yention had no powrr to secade, and the
Tote which the people reserved Tor them
selves has not been taken yet they are
themselves in state of Resolution. 1t
matters not whether you or | think there
has, or has not, been Just cause for Ravo-
luton. We are not made the Judges of
that /; they have decided for themselves,
and have . right TO do so. suppose no
revolution ever yet arose in which those
involved In it were entirely unanimous As
TO the sufhcieney OF the causes that led to
it, therefore do not conceive thas have
right to set up nay individual opinion
against what seems to be the almost
unanimous voice of the entire South, and
| fud nnyself, With the rest, precipitated
into q Rsvolusien without any agency of
my oslu, aud against which am utterly
powerless, So il with thousands over
the country-so some from impulse, some
from judgement, and some from necessi-
ty, until the sentiment has almost one
universal "ayen for Revolution, . e
Would the Government Of the United
States be overthrown by an Acknowl-
edgefnent OF the independence of part
of It's original proportions On the con
Tarys | venture TO say Jour government
would be more powerful. more harmon
ious and more happy, when Institutions
eonmon to all prevailed your entire land,
and no jarTing interests we're brought iu-
to eonsaet) than you have been for tie
last twenty years, and certainly for the
last ten or swelve years, during which
time theEs has been nothing but one con-
sinasl ssgean of disorder pouring out
from tie Press, the palpit, the Hastings,
and The Halls of Congress, on the subject
OF SLAVERY. ~
II, after the separation has been ae-
eomplishsi, time shall prove il 10 have
been TO the interest of the parties that
they should hare continued as one, would
mot d reunion be Ear more likely 10 be
brought aboat hereafter, without, than
after, such war 40 may be looked for,
if not checked at once? What wonld be
deemed an act Of forbearauce and Hber~
ality from father 10 o son, or from .
brethes TO brother, might be esteemed as
eowaxdics and psatrooneEy 10 q stranger
and foe, and so il would be here. We
arc af The came family, and concessions
may be made without SlEshonof. Af '33
Iaouk TO the country n il vas, which /
nesd Ros dessSibs, then look upon it "a ii
Is, and ~ II is likely 10 be, Not only lie
all business suspended, and all prospect
OF prosperity and happiness 6Ansshed
from The land, bat all inteEeouEss y cs1t
OF between mamhsrs of the same house.
hold, between RsEtnegs and traders IN
hnssnAsss haEween nan and wife, parens
child who we're temporarily or persnant-
| h lodated IN different States, BY the do
ssrustion Of railroads, bridges and tele-
grAph communication. How long can
this stala Of thiags be permitted 10 con-
| Einae2 -
] would give millions thia night III /
had shssn) % have the power Of Mr.. I'm
esaa fsr one noznents that | aighs say
| ssBssthasRs depart In peasa, Let there be
no more quarralg between us,n and then.
what . bright sunshine would spread
ever sAs land Ut cacel Ear
T. Upau the gesaofai ian of pasoa, klse
fsplpaghs the lo0ms and tho snYil' Would
instsnsAusopsly leap 70 thsir aceastomed
| vofk. Gomshefoe would again whitnp
4 Tie cosan with it, sails PFospesily Id
4 happiusss would take sha plaos af dsAsh
4 asa khe hasaiar rae2dI Thaa aafYeckSoasataw rife.