Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04

en *as disunioR IT Last. The wolf b
~ came. But ,eiVil war had not vet fellol
e ed. In Iay deliberate and mest soIau
In [Jadgmept, there was bnt oaa wise :,
mastery mode OF dealing VITA ii. No
os ooascion woaId avert civil war. and oo,
u premise csush out both aholiiEionism. a
% secsssion, The parent and the Chi
g Tosid thus both perish. But resort !
d IoAss would at once precipitats waE, ha
7. lan escession, axtend disunian, and viii
g II seteds utterly cut Oh al hapa Of con
d prenise. / believed thai war, If Ian
Ie enaxgh continued would be Hnal. etern,
y dasHhion. said it'll .means ii ans
= aeaardlngiy, to the usmoat OF ,ay abiIi,
Q ana influence, exerted myself Ia. behaj
. or ne policy of non co oersiens IL wa
9 adopted By Mr.. .Bnchanan,s AdministIa !
!. klss wish the almost unanimous eo,,aen
o. TIE DemoeFatie and Consultations
. Union parties in and out of Congress
. and, IN February With the concurrence o
majority Of the republieaa party in tk
Senate and this House. But that part,
most disastFously FOR the country. rafus
ed all compromise. How, indeed, eonI,
they accept any That which the SoutI
; demanded aud the Democratic and eon.
ssrSstiye parties OF the North and Yves
Eere WiIilag 70 grsas, and which alon,
could avail to keep the peace aud sagt
Ens Union, implied a surrender of tht
sole vital element of the party and its
piatform-of the very principle ia fact,
upon which Il had just won the contest
for the Presidency; not, indeed, by =
majority OF the popular vote-the major
ity was pearly. q miIliQu against it-but
under the fotms Of the 0onsaisatiou.--
Sir, the crime, the 'Fhigh erimeD of the
Republican party was not 30 much ita re-
fusal to compromise, tls its original or
gsnIxation upon 8 basis and doctrine
Wholly Inconsistent With the stability Of
the Consultation and the peace of the
Union.
But to resume: the session of Con-
gress expired, The President elect vas
inaagurated aRd now, if only the policy
Of non coercion could be maintained.
and var thus ayerted, time would do its
work IN the North and the South. and
hnai peaceable adjustment and reunion
be secured. Seine time in March il vas
announced that tAe President had resoiy-
ed 70 oontinne The policy Of bis psedooes-
sor, and even 90 q step further and sEac-
uste Sumpter and the other Federal forts
and arsenals an The seeded States, His
own party ac4uiesesd; the whole eoEn-
try rejoiced. The policy OF non eoer-
oiqq bad triunphed, and for once, sir. in
my life found myself in an immgnss
majority, No man then pretended that
9 Union founded Ia CONSENT could be ee-
mcnted BY force. Nay, more, ths presi-
geaF 4n9 t9e Secretary af State vent fur
ther. SAID Mr. Seward, In "a Official d.
plomatic letter to Mr. Adams;
"For these reasons be fthe Presidenil
would not be disposed 70 reject q oardi- |
nal dogma OF theirs, 1.-The secsssionists. ! |
pamely, that she federal government could
not reduce the seeding States 70 obedi-
ence hy oanqnSsss a.ltAsash be were d;..
posed to question that proposition. BUt |
In flo! The President seilliaalg accents il
as true. Only a's iraperiai o. Gespoiic
G0rernment could sabiuaass R.oroaqhly
atsggected and instIrrsettonarg n.mbess
Of the Sdte.n
Pardon me, sir, but | beg to know
whether this conviction Of the President
and his Secretary, is not the philosophy
Of the persistent and most vigorous eff
forts made by this Administration, and
arst of all through this same Secretary,
he moment var broke ont and ever since
Ill the late elections, to coaYaFt the Uni
sed States into an imperial or deseotic
Soyernmeatg But Mr. Seward adds.
Ind agree with him;
"This Federal Republican system of
ours is, Of oil forms of governments. the
1ery one which is most united for such
| labar.p
This, sir, was on the 10th of April.
md yet that very aeet Was under sail
or Charleston. The policy of peace had
been abandoned. Collision followed
be millsla were ordered out civil war
'egan.
Now, sir, on the l4th Of April, | be-
ievcd that coercion would bring on war, II
md war dlsunion. More than that, | be- :
Ieysd, What you all In your hearts believe '
o-dAy, that the ssath could never be |
onqured-never. And not that onlY,
Iut was satisfied aud you of the abo-
Itlon party have now proved iE TO the 4
ForId-that the secret but real purpose t
{ the var was TO abolish slavery in the 4
tases. IN any eveat, | did nos doubt
aas whatever Right bs the momentary t
impulses OF those in power, and whatever t
ledges they might make In the midst of
le fury for the CoHssitation, the Union, 7
nd the flag, jet the natural and inexora.
le !Qglc aF revolutions would sooner or n
tier, drive them into the policy, and t
ith it TO its anal but inevitable result, 5
he change Of our present demoeFatical d
'Fm OF government into an imperial dee. b
otisn. 8
44ase we're nag Convictions on the I4th Il
April. Had | changed them on the a
lth when | read the Presidents proela- Q
atiou, and become convinced that had q
cen wrong all nv life. and that all his S
'ry was fable, and all human nature d
Else la It's Development fFem tbs begin Il
Ing Of time, would have changed my "
1hlia conduct also. But my convictions d
ID not change. | shought that If war 81
a. disuniou ON the fourteenth of APRIL @
was equally disunion on the Rfssenth, a
lI az alE times Believing this, | a
'ntd not, as 81 honest man, q Tn q
[
q man and q patriot, lend an &C. a
70 support to the var and did not v
had rather my right arm we're plucked II
on its socket, and cast iHso eternal {
4rnissss than With nay oonviatians, 10 Il
lTe thus dekled my soal wish the guilt D
moral perjury. Sir, was not taught I
that school which proelaims that s'all q
fair 10 politics. | loashe, ahhor, and q
stest the exeeEahle maxim ssauu A
ooa it. No State Gan eadurs a single D
.nerafisn whose public saen practice il. D
AoeFer teaches it 10 . corruptaT Of Y
aqEh. What We moss waas Ia these Il
Iaes, and al all simes, il hoaass and In II
spendent pablo Iaea. That man who Is q
shoaest in politics IL not hoaess at b
art, IN anythings and somasimea moral q
is dishonesty, Daright aud y
n IL a FFaa. .aME- i - Z D r.