Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-03-18
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Ii Mr.. Lincoln had undertaken. iRssesd
Of cutting new .ehannel for the Missis-
sippi at Vickshurg, to construct dyke
across its bed and shut kack fts waters,
It is tolerable evident That nature Mea1d
have proved toe STRONG for him. The
swelling a0od would eventually monns
above tha rising enibankment, and, stsan
it 6Rally broke through, the rearing DESC
iation would Do pfoporsioaea ts lie
length Of tims il had bssn resisted. Mr..
Lincoln has been for the last eight months
as blind to the logic OF events a. he woaId
have been TO the rssisttess operasiou Of
physical laws in asaih attempt to dam
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pablie opinion was aiready setting ir .
steady curFens against Che eautinaass 70
oE6ce of the present, oabiHes. Mr..
Lincoln commenced bis dyke BY publicly
declaring his Individual responsibility for
the political aud military mistakes OF his
advisers. Ia proportion ~ ho has With
stood the changes demanded by pubIfo
sediment, it's yoIune has aecnmnlAssd
like 40 distracted river swollea by
numerous tributaries until the lemard
has become unanimous and impoEsanaks.
OF coarse mare ananimisy or mere ifn-
portanity, viii not directly accomplish
the object, bat events rapid!y approach
crisis where their operation will prove
absolately overwhelming, and Inevitably
sweep away the scnbines-perbaps the
government along With 1t.
There il ground fur the mosk sexieus
alarm in view of the changes THAI must
inevitably ensae shortly after the sdjourn-
taens of congress. s@s..
The bad point for Mfr. Lincoln lies in
the fact that his obstinate resistance TO
the universal demand OF toe country has
asrnr.latasy nvtinantahad .niiieHzv' -
thusiasm among the people. a great
part Of the army goes out OF service this
spring, and ha haa ra1asrsd iss inpossible
70 RAISE . singls nsw regiment 10. sugply
their place. The saforcement of draft
In zach state of feeling, Will prove
scarcely less difkcult than the voluntary
enlistment Of soldiers. The facs that the
draft last summar bad to be virtually
abandoned although the military aydax
of the people had not then become dead
sued, na.urally exeites the grsvest mis-
kiviags Is 10 the sasnsss of 9 naw attempt.
There Is most painfal reOegnation Of
the extinct military spirit Of the people
in the new CONSUMPTION bill, whose
fr9xuers dare not intrust iss execation TO
the stasa authorities, as was doga Ia the
draft erdered last year, but Greats nsw
machinery entirely Independent Of state
CO. o-operation. THIS great innovation up
on former usage Is a short-sighted sx-
psdieat which will eaehanee the ailRcul-
ties il sseks to avoid. Is 10 Dad polisg
for the government to maka this con-
fession that ii has lost conhdesee in tho
people and the state govermzents TO %
alarming au sxseat that il daFsa no iougsF
rely on the machinery whieh in Eixtesn
months gave it upward Of elesen hundred
thousand men. Eointelligibisr reason can
be assigned for the change sxeeps the
recognised rsyugnaaos of she people %
the enforcement Of consumption. RsE
if this repagnance is TOO pewerfus fcg
state authority, it is more likely 20 be
iufiamed than aiiayea by an innovakion
OF which ths probable ekecsl wiz be ss
lead the people 70 demand OF their ssass
governments protection against federal
authority. The certainty THAT in the
present asats Of feeling draft will be
unpopular 10 . sssong reason wig It's sn-
forcsmant should be shared By the Stats
authorities, as means Of preventing ;
concentration Of the whole ediasn upon
the federal administrator. The certainty
thai no mere men can be raised by snliss-
msnt, and the danger of widespread
popular resistance ia the conssiption,
cannot fall to convince har. L4Bcoln,
wsshim the eusaing saix wsaks, that hs
stands on sbs edge ef . yswning guA
from waich nothing can sasa either him
or the governme emf but = premps and On
tire ctaDge If measures and ef aaeza.
The change will be feToed upon hims zl<s
san no more Tasist it Ehan be saR, sop ths
rsyolnsion of the earth. H. -,