The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-04-16


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yasxss I.isnarr@ Mr. Csfh II q \
IfndEanas In i recsat speeoh Bn pc Y flassaa
Estates Hpnsa IA Represen taaay re-
sraipded his bearers OF D net which nisfo-s
i ry has aenaotsstfate bot which sEfsears
4 70 bs always Forgotten - tire very me-
l.snent when 1t ought Ia yield sths most
impressive Lessons. He said that - lib.
Hspsy. once lost hss pessf, Ii the history
Iof the world. been EssAinea BY the sane
people, Il IL useless 10 atfempt to 30.
count for this phenomsne s. nth any
atview OF removing it, causes. The TACT
i remains indispfftabie. From the isys or
Philip to the days Of Napolsout history
lin this respect presents il NOT Identical;
3at feast consimilaf features. The death.
1 0g public liberty ias never been followed
4 by its Resurrection i The 8@sism3 tssnpiA
LOT free lom has never been reconstruct
led, After ages wonder at it, grandeur
i and mourn It's overthrow. Just a the
traveller looks with sad delight en- the
broken columns of the Pantheon sf the
majestic ruins of Palmyra. Bat the god
tlsdess deserts her fallen temple, and
4 abandons her worshipers to the fate they
I have Invited With some nations liberty
fappears 10 have been an era Of traflsi;.
Ition with others, of elimination. Some
have enjoyed it for ages; with others 10
I has been no sooner won thaA lest Bat
none that have suffered it TO slip through
] their grasp have ever succeeded ~ re-
gaining it. ...... ..l
Il If then, history teaches us any lesson
Mt ALL it IN that; no people, ft to enjoy
= liberty has ever lost it. When Mr..
Iiyoorhies said that his countryn1erI ex1
|, hibit the spectacle of dying people, he
. left US the inference that they are q PEG.
81 pie not fit to live that il ths have lost
their liberty, they are no longer worthy
TO enjoy Ii, or capable of winning 1t back.
Il Mr.. VOORHEES, IS right His speech reit-
crates all that the Southern people have
= asserted of the conversion Of the North
into consolidated despotism; Of the
humiliation of the rights of States OF
the destruction of all the principles on
which their republican system was sup
posed to be founded. Ner was this result
at all surprising. The course. of events
, in the United States has mfny parallels
in history But it has, notwithstanding,
, its new and remarkable features-fea-
: lures which represent deeper degener~
! acy, q more sudden lapse into despotism
than has ever characterized any nation
1t required generations of corruption to
: bend the Roman people to the odious
: yoke OF Tiberius. or the despicabie tyra.
, ny of Vitellus; but the Yankee plunge
: hea1long from the height of democratic
, license into the profoundest abyss OF
; tyranny. Historisns have depiorcd the
, fate of the Athenian Commonwealth
but the Athenian Commonwealth was
subyerted by the ability of Philip and
; the genius of Alexander. The admirers
of freedom have n10urned over the fall
of the Roman Republic: but the Roman
; Republic yielded to the greatest states
/ man and the greatest captain of his age.
In short, whenever, in preceding ages,
, republics have been overthrow, or COM
: monwealths subverted. they have sur
rendered to the ability of the statesman,
? or the sword of hereto a Pericles, a
} Cesar, a Cromwell, or Napoleon. But
the Yankees sink at once into the depths
: OF slavish submission. and gladly yield
their rights and their liberties to fourth
rate lawyers and third rate soldiers-to
; Lincoln and Burnside, and Schenck and
Grant.
Ii any justification were needed for
: the course of the South, in separating
from the North, it would be furnished by
the cotempOraneous history of the United
States. The causes which led to seces-
) sion were strong enough to constitute an
ample reason but the causes which for
bid reconstruction are infinitely stronger,
If the Yankees, before the weF, had
shown themselves fit to be our associates,
the traits TINT they have developed since
the war prove that they are far more un-
tit to he our masters. IF we were unwil-
ling to live in Union withsthe YANKEES
when they still claimed to be free peo-
} ple, it must be absolutely impossible for
US to return to them when they have
) become the voluntary subjects OF CON
temptible but relentless despot. We
) refused to be their fellow citizens; we
can never consent to become their fellow.
slaves
i Yet Mr.. VOORHEES,, representing those
who claim to be the peace parts" Of
the North, the old Democracy. the pc.
culiar friends Of the South. warns US
with delightful simplicity, not to look
forward to separation and independence.
He commences by saying that nation
which once loses its liberty never regai"s
it He proves that the Yankees have
lost their liberty. and then says that the
noxt Presidential election will "put an
end 10 war and death, anfbring a con
stitutional Union Of the States" He
says that the Constitution is overthrown.
that justice is annihilated, that the
guarantees of pub ic liberty are disre-
gnrded that the Government .B1ruined
and bankrupt, its civil agents corrupt
mi Wicked, and its military agents bru
tai and in amous And he amilbly in
vices the Sruth to participate in these
IneIu del and unparalleled blessings
II ''b*ckons us on o this delightful en-
| terrain nent assuring Us that in the CO
operation OF the Conservative men OIL
the North we have basis of perfect Sc
eurity for our rights and institutions. 1t
| would really seem to be time that these
I"CenseFvatiVe men" had abandoned all |