The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-03-21

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I'D bso sag practical impQrsshss fhs
IsoIs inquiry, In nay indgsnsns. vas how
shauld ws bees sAssy % sas )ssAr-- e fEniss,
..Ihases 81 s5ssspa tkasa & weala Thsn eess
sfnaa satlfsl5 4. thss sssysse hy shst aisgls
eoDsidkRA1io9 Applsnse. SVhss ths0
said / sepsssea 10 sAFsots pbssioaS 6gs EtAs
Ssass afsef ths llgsA be stSsso6srg asd nnsil
sha.ysry dap ii shs siraslpas 'apsgs SER
moor was psasans on this stand st Ehe tilss
4 sp7ks. IA was With me Id Brook Iyn, 10
Rodasssss aud BaEhaIo, aud TIE single sUsh
piiins hls fsisnds made, % far as AndgT-
stood, - shas fell far rashays IL my sop.
port cf he was, md she yigereus apd de-
sernairled a0pport that Mr.. Seymour e3-
prssssd Ills fssoiasiou 90 give 60 Il under oil
circumstances IIApplsasa.l Ths eisotion
eaussl aad eAssea, and sis5 10 no part OF ems
proyines pf purpose TO s0nsidor, The paFtla-
ufar result, except 70 say that the people OF
New York, after avery active canvass, wefs
about eqsaliy asvidsd, for 70 speak Of %
majority. of o few thousand 10 o oansaes, in
/. q poll OF six hundred odd thensand, 10 sim
ply to say that they were about equally di-
videH, and the same vas true OF the States
OF Ohio, Indiaba and Pennsylvania she
majority in these great central Statss was
trihlng, and to-day, Tonight, while We are
here, the people OF these great central and
controlling portions eli these United States
may very properly be regarded as about
evenly divided between the two parties that
we're organised at the last canvass, and the
k.,N, SHiIl sn h,NnN 10
judgment, great deaf more upon the fu-
ture conduct Of individuals than upon any
thing that has transpired in the past. Ap-
plause.
THE PRESENT SITUATION.
hold it TO be entirely preposterous to
assume that people who differed during the
last canvass 10 this State, may NOS unite a
few minutes together and selt what We think
will be the end Of this war-unite cordially
in such measures as may be necessary to Pot
down Tsbsllion shat has no shadow Of jussi-
fcstion. IApplsuss.l Under such circum-
stances have been called upon BY q com.
mittee Of highly respectable gentlemen to
redeem the pledges made in the campaign in
the very place WheFel DOW stand. And it.
was 10 truth. as | then declared | was, 10
favor of q vigorous prosecution of the var,
and II did truly believe that the interest
Of the 1untry far transeended in impnr.
rancs any political or party organisation
that vas 10 existeoce, DOW 70 come forward
and say so 10 common With those who be-
l0nged to Il different political party. Ap-
rihu4e I Such being the fact, have no
hssuasiun IA saying thas / cordially ngree
to the resnIatians that have bsea Rdepted.
{ Applause. Lam for the ylgqrqus pr 4r-
eutIon Of toe war. Applause ! am fur
the prosecution Of the war nntif this rebel
lion is wholly overthrowB.- Appsause.l l
am for destroying the us0rped Government
that has been set up over the Southern States
and this thing that calls itself a Confederate
Government, and until that Is done. I hold
thaE all propositions for peace are eDslsels
preposserous aud absurd. EApplaUse.l
Now, beiug for the war, / am necessarily
with everybody that is for tie war, and
being opposed to pence, | sm necessarily
opposed to eEevyuody thas Is for peace.
I [App,aBss.l IA Voice ''How aboos the
Wayward SISTERS 2'' Great laqghter,l ,.4
Mr. Van Buren, win tell you about that
by-aud.by. =" 49,. '''@ .'@'
Speaking OF d" 81
TIE coMMRNoEHRSr or THg war -.
Mr.. Vac Barren said be had voted against
Mr.. Lincoln. ......., -,,...s,.s
Mr.. LincoIn's message (inaugural) de-
clared ia the fullest manner his unwilling
ness to interfere With slavery in the States.
1t recognized, in the fullest extenE, the right
of the different States TO have slavery il
they chose, and his entire indisposition to
interfere With II. Notwithstanding that,
several States seeded from che Union, ss
they said. They held convention and re-
solved themselves out. Their represents
tlves abando oed their seats in Congress, !,
although they had c6utroiuf the Senate and
House of repsessntatives,a i, and the Supre1ae
Court of the United States; they retired
from the Congress Oh the United States
They went further, and set up government
of their own, or said they did. Nov. you
all remember the debates between Webster
and Hayne, on that subject, of the right to
seceds from the Union. Mr. Webster told
Hayns what has since proveu trus--that
thar Was mere rebellion, and that when they
pus It in operation, they would ses thst,i ia
order TO carry ont what they assumed 30 ba
the right Of pAaoeful secession aad uallf.
cation, thsy must use force, and be met by
force, and the law OF bayousts must decide
the controversy. IAppfause.1 This oc-
eurred. They assumed to set up a Govern.
tnsns, nndsr The right which they claimed,
TO destroy the Uniop. They forlned.a Goa
gress and elected President. Bat they
were not content with this. They seized
the property Of the United States-they
seized the forts, its ships, ito treasure
They fred upon the flag Of the Uuitsd States
at Fort Samter, and claimed the righ, TO ex-
ercise the poser Of sosere,gD Government.
Now, you will bear in mind7eyery fair
naisded man in the Unlsed States will bear
iu.mind-thst up 50 this moment not one
hair Of shsir heads bad been injured. No
right OF any Southern man had been invaded.
History. will rscord that the world never
witnessed rebellion against goysrnmen.
tal aushority befores where the rebels could
ref lay their finger opon ehisg TO show
shat either their properly, their liberty, @
their rights bad been, in shs slightest par
ticular, invaded. IGreas applaase,l This
being the fact, the cisy Of Naw York. sent
forth 80 900 men 10 quell .hia Esbellien.--
Her capitaiisss advanced $500, ,O00, 900 TO
qusll sh,s rebellion. Tbs, State Of New York
sent 200, 900 men, and Lam 20 argue, in The