The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-05-31
THE FUTURE OF PoLlTIcs.

The "small experiments'' recently made
in Washington to initiate new party organi-
cations, or to re-establish old ones, cannot
10 the present state Of affairs, amount to
much. ~~he public mind is in no mood to,
enterta :; questions which relate only to
peaceful times. Now there is but one sub
ject on hand, and on that all loyal men are
agreed. As a nation, we are engaged in
putting down the most remarkable rebellion
in oil history. We are straining every mus
Gle, taxing all our resources Of strength
and endurance, and tasking brains and
hands to their limit Of power to crush trea
son. Our sons are on the field. aud posi-.
bly, engaged in deadly conflict this very day.
Our Legislators are in their seats devising
ways and means. Our government, from
the President to the most Insignificant clerk
10 the most Insignificant department, is en-
gagged in the one grand work of defending
the national integrity, supporting the con-
stitution, and enforcing the laws At such
a time as this, Washington politicians, for.
getting the proprieties Of the period, meet
to plot for party ends and for power. We
tell these men, whatever may be their per-
sonal and party sympathies, that the people
look upon their operations with equal IN.
OtROatlOO auu OlSSuSCs
There are. certain other things to be said
to these men, or to be said generally, for
the benefit OF all men. The first is that If
Abraham Lincoln lives, md goes on the
way he has TINS far pursued, laboring for
the single end he has proposed, and choos-;
ing for his counseItors and helpers such
as are loyal, without further question or
other tests, the man does not live, and the
party cannot be formed, that will prevent
him from a second term Of Office. We have
had no such President since Jackson-an
honest, patriotic, unselfsh man. The
months that pass away conspire to lift him
higher and higher in the popular esteem,
until none but traitors and their s~ympathi.
sers hate him. If he continues the. course
be has begun, and, succeeds in effectipg the
great work which seems now close on the
eve Sf accomplishment, the gratitude of
che Moesican peQN1Aswill not permit him TO
retire to private life. and any party that
undertakes to butt him of the track wan
butt its brains out. ar,
Again, no party can succeed 10 this couu :
try which allies itself with the slave pow
er. We do not wonder ut all that the de-
cent democratic press of the North de-
clines to come into Mr. Vallandingham' q
nice little arraugcment. The common in-
stinct of self-preservation is its protection.
The grand fact must be recognised that
the power Of slavery is forever broken,
and that this country will never again trust
itself in the hands that have ono betrayed
it. Any body of men that undertake. to
bolster up the old power Of slavery, and
re.establish its supremacy, will only pre-.
pare for themselves disappointed lives and
Infamous graves. Tbs fact must also be
recognised that reforms never 60 backward,
and that the death Of slavery is sure. 1t
is abolished in the District of Columbia, it
is abolished in every part OF the strictly
National domain, the slaves used on the
rebel works are declared free, and in all
the Border States there is rapidly growing
up q party in favor of emancipation, in
accordance with the Presidents plan. The
progress which these events Indicate cam
not be checked by party opp. sition 10 the
North, and that party will only court de-
struction which places itself. in its path.
Once more-Parties for the next ten
years must necessarily be based upon ques-
tons intimately connected with the present
rebellion. There are cou6scation questions
to be settled, questions of personal disa.
bility in consequence of completely with
treason, to be settled questions in rela-
ton TO the collection of national taxes in
the rebellious States e be settled /; ques-
tons relating to such IN organisation of