The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-05
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Editorial Correspondence.
LETTERs FROM THE o APsTA La
February 24ths ]

- = s....... ] February 24th.s
The State Convention, the proceedings
(Which have already reached you. was
a.glorious success. The Cops we're in high
hopes for few days previous tosthe
meeting. chat there woaald be bitter COM
tentions between the friends of the Pres.
idential aspirauts. and not . few we're il
attendance to see the funss But never
were men more signaIly disappointed, fof
the-hest of feeling was manifested by al
parties and the utmost harmony prevailed
throughout. The current was IN favor Of
Mr.. Lincoln; few of the delegates we're
favorable to other candidates, but the
feeling was so decisi8ely one way that all
saw at once the utter folly of attempting
apxssssostisna Thadplg question: askA
when man was Nominated for delegate
aoths National Convention, as=as, els be
for Old Abe 2'' TAough being decisively
for the reelection of Lincoln. thu. Con ,
Veation refused to instruct thsaasaexsses
to dat effect, and d resolutioR III fnstfuc
ton offered by Mr.. Street, was voted
dewn' though believes the Ress vosed
unanimously for it. supported ~
"lution because / believed it te be- right.
and expressive of the whh of the people.
While a small minority of the eatiasas af
Iowa may, for reasons which TO their
minds seem good and potent, desire a
change in the Administration Of the Ma
tional Government believe the great
mass throughout The State are entirely
satisfied with the present Administration;
they have unbounded faith in our present
cbAsM sssd ss,sy u s.las b ii aiiaaiss
more eminsn1y aualfesate BE bis sue
cessor than ABRAHAM LINCOLN. While I
annfree 20 admit that soEns men might
prove, more brilliant in many respects, |
can assert without fear of contradict
ton that no man in the United States
could be brought forward who would re-
eeive in as great degree the confidence
Of the people, and in whose honesty, in
tegrity .andsexecutiue ability they would
reposa stronger aadmeFe universal faith,
than in that of the present chief execn-
tive. t~Itwas rsmarked by those opposed
to the resolution Of Instruction that 1.-THE
National Convention is d long way in the
future EhaE SffafSsf e Ia ~ mar ddI,S0
the political condition of the country be-
fore that time shall .elapse, and that Mr..
Lincoln may, in the meantime, be guilty
OF some act that may render him very
obnoxious to the people" All this is
fairly within the limits of possibility, but
is not in the 'remotesk degree, probable
and such is tn confidence of the people
in the President that believe they would
just as teaxe re-elact him today, as in
next November. So far as the State of
Iowa is concerned, her Union men are
largeiy-overpoweringly-in favor of his
reelection and their minds have not
been made UP to the point without good
reasons, and mature Thought. This=q,les-
tion has occupied the attention of think
ing u1cn throughout the State for the
past eighteen months. atleast ;sthe cues
ton of the next President was early
thought Of, and has been oashlytcap-
vassed, and the. conclusion arrived At WRs
not reached ina day-th:s preponderance-
of public opinion in, favor of this man did
not spring up suddenly in q night-it was
not the work of an hour-not popular
fantasy, born in q moment of unhealthy
excitement-but the result of grave, care
full and mature deliberation-it has been
growing and gaining; slowly, steadily,
gradually and surely, untiEit has acquired
and now presents s-Proportion and mag
ntude and a power that no ordinary ins
Euence will be able to overcome or With
stand. :, The aespla OF, Iowa bays settled
in their minds the yexsd question ',Whoa
shall be next President, and no political
chicanery, however artfullys onncaiVed or
adroitly managed, can change their epir-
ions or dave them from their purpose.
The principal Argument here. urged
against the reelection Of Mf. Lincoln is
that he is sssoo Slow Eow;I am COM
peiled to confess that my own patience
has on more than one occasion been sore
ly tried by the course he has seen proper
to pursue ,kSb We would dophtyss see
these Objectionable matters in = light en-
.;wra,, 1;feoray,3 II wa ssa,tLT ,,nFIskstkud all