The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-26
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The Omaha peopia are omplaining eoi
thair papsrs for an alleged suppression o.
facts III relation 10 the location of tbs
psciao Railroad ioF, rasenting thai
tbs eastern terminus bad bsen fixed 81
Omaha. while the trath.is the Presidents
order locating the rDad states distinctly
that the terminus shall Be u Ioaaa appo.
.iss owaAa. But while our Omaha neigh
boss rscognizs and admit the fact that
the road does start from Iowa, and that
Council Bluffs Is the point designated in
the order, the Coppefhead organ Of this
city is laboring diligently TO convince
the public that stch Is not the fact-in
face of the plain terms Of Mr.. LINCOLN S
order, it persists in declaring that Omaha
is.ths point of zstartins.- Ills perfectly
natural, aud right, that our cotemp
across the river should put the best phase
upon the matter, ands set forth in the
best possible light the advantages and
importance Of their town; but it is, GER
tainlystrange thata paper published at
Council Bluffs, and pretending to be
triesdzg, at least, to the interests of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, should persissentiy ignore the
existence of such town, in a matter of
no less Importance than the terminus Of
the main stem of the great Pacific Rail-
road. But such is the faet.F Ever since
the publication of the order fixing the
starting point Of the road on the western
boundary Of IeKa, within the corporate
limits Of Council Bluffs, the Gopperhead
organ of this city has been laboring earn
sstly to eonYince the world that there is
mistake I'M the matter--that the Presi-:
dent didn't mean "Iowa,a when he said
il, and harPs upon the folly of Iowa news.
papers trying to make it appear that the
road will start from Iowa, instead of Ne
braska. It appears, at first thought, con-
trary to nature that a journal supported
by the people Of Council Bluffs, and pre-
tending to be devoted to the interests of
Council Bluffs, should labor thus assidu-
ously to show up the importance of a
rival town to the prejudice of our own,
and some have been silly enough to sup
pose thas the journal, in question had
been bought to the course it is now pursu-
ing but this IS . mistake; not that the
said journal would hesitate to sell Itself to
any cause-for men who would prove
to their nation could not, of
course, be expected to exhibit greater
degree.of faithfulness to thsir town-but
from the fact that no man in Nebraska
would be fool enough" to pay for such
an influence as the said journal is known
to exert. No, this is mistake; but
the secret of the whole matter is in nut |
shell-its sympathy is with Omaha and
against Council Bluffs for the same reason
that it is with the rebels and against the
Goyernmsnt-the political atmosphere, |
O.
on the other side is more eongenial.--I
0znahA voted . copperhead ticket, and |
Council Bluffs declared for the Union
that's what's the matter It is only
another proofof The power of party spirit
the peculiar political views which The
iourna in question entertains have been
endorsed by Omaha, and repudiated by
Council Bluffs, hence 1t fnds its sympa- /
thies on the other side of the Missouri |
and directs its energies accordingly
Merely another illustration of the rule |
or ruin" principle Of the party to which |
It belongs; '.if ne can't rule the town We
will do:all We can to ruin it," =. |
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