The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-09-12
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lila there any imam in the cnAntgy siiOk
ic enough TO believe that the hsssasN
/ specimens of which have coine. to -
| by the seizure OF jeff Davis papers set
tefs frotn such leaders Of Dafhoe 4sig
1 opinion do BnGhanmm, ExslSov neFffolsa ~;
Broaahead Il Cos wherein tlse Fxaters
haYe unoonsci0nslY yied with e. iasss
iii sefyiIify TO the Soush and sisS
sycsphaslNy b slavery seSs not ntskenx
| Ia impealing thoss 70 MhaEn the Rsrs
were written, and throngh thel The
whole Southern people, into the war
agaihst The Government that they are
now wagingG Does any man believe
that without the assurance that these
letters conveyed, that half of the; North
would permit, If it did not actively aid in
the disinemb berrnent of the Union and
the destruction of our institutions, the
mad men who have lighted the torch Of
rebellion would not have deferred their
evil work and contented themselves with
renewal of the alternate bullying and:
intriguing by which they have governed
the countrp heretofore that having the
Judiciary, the Senate, chance OF the
Lower House and complete possession of
the Democratic party, they would not
have still tried the bullying of Tolnbs
and Wigfall, the continuation Of the sys-
tenn of terror that they had established.
the old policy of purchasing commercial
votes in Congress, and the unjust judg-
ments of Taney, as q means of offorcing the
outraged people of the North into the re-
sistanee to which the South has hurried?
He is O fool who does not see this coEl-
nection of cause and effect. He is an ig-
neramus ofa falsifier who does not admit
that upon these recfeant members Of the
Democratic party who assumed to speak
for their countrymen and their cause, full
half of the responsibility of the anguish
and bloodshed that fill the land is TO in
eyitably rest. Accomplices before the
act. they are rs guilty as Davis himself.
and history, when it records the events
Of this war, viii fix upon them the brand
Of ingratitude and infamy that time will
never efface. ...... ..:t u
= But, not content with having been the
potent helpers of the rebellion, they are
now at work, right here in the loyal
North, to make it successful. With false,
malicious and reasonable accusations
against the Government; with wicked
aspersions upon those who are eolstitu-
tionaily and rightfully the depositaries of
power and the guardians of the peoples
With infinite falsehoods> touching the
cause. progress and objects Of the war
and with false and lagubrious prophecies
of the results, they are filling the minds
of the people with anxiety and .distrust,
are fomenting opposition even with arms,
and to that extent, are aiding and com
forting shose whom they induced by sim
liar lies to begin the fight. Wearing the
Union garb, as hypocrisy cloaks itself
with the show Of religion-professing I'm
ion sentiments, the better to deceive
disayowing the anarchical and pro-slave-
ry sentiments that are proved by, their
acts-they are making the heavens ring
with their accusations, aspersions, and
denunciations of those upon whom the
national honor and integrity rest. There
is not an act of the Government that they
do not oppose--there is not crime in
the catalogue of national or individual
offenses Of which the President and his
friends and advisers are not accused.
This is only logical and expected con-
tinuation of the course that they marked
out before the war begann--a natural
sequence of the promises and assurances
conveyed to the rebel chiefs when they
were urged tn becomee the assassins of
liberty in this land OF its birth. But
thank Heaven! the veil with which these
basest Of all men who ever bore the
American name, have covered their
crimes, has been so far lifted, that any
who will see the hideousness of what they
have so studiously cndeavored to conceal;
and, unless we are false prophets, the
day is not far distant when! punishment
comnaensuratcs with the extent and ma
ture Of the crimes against God and man
Of which they are guilty, win oyertake
them. The people will not be deied and
outraged forever. ,r.t - I 'zs