Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-19

ings, at s0me pew legislative seat, 10
any indication that progress had beei
s made Ia his gigantic task Of cogqarsing !,
free people. The truth 80 patent 70 50 mas
ere long be foreed upon the Fpluetan
Northern mind. There arc no vital point
on the preservation OF which the eonsin
ued existence Of the Eonfederaev depends
+ There is no military success OF the eneml
whieh can accomplish its destEuesioa.--
| Not lhe fail Of Ri.hinond nor Wilmfpg
ton, nor Charleston, nor Savannah, sal
Mobile, nor all combined, can save th,
4 enemy from tks constant and exhaastins
j drain OF blood aud treasure which musi
eantinue until be shall acknowledge thai
no peace is attainabls unless based Cd
the recognition Of our indefeasibls
| rights.
Before leaving this subj,et, 1t 10 graft
| flying 10 assure you that the military sap
| plies essentially requisite for public de-
Tense will be found, "a heretofore, ade-
quate 10 cur needs and that abundanl
crops have awarded the labor Of the farm
] or and rendered ahaFasse tha Snhnmsn
attempt Of the enemy 10 produces, by de-
yassation, famine among the peoples.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Il ia not in my power to announee any
change in the eoaluet of foreigu Powers.
No such action has been taken by the
Christian Eations Of Europe as might
Justly have been expected from their his
tory, from the duties imposed bJ inteTna-
tionM lax, and from the claims OF he
mnnity. Ii is charitable to attribute
their conduct to no worse motive than in
difference to The consequences Of strug-
gle which shakes only Eherepubliean por-
| lian OF tho American continent and not
to ascribe to design course calculated
80 issare the prolongasion Of hostilities.
No instance in history is Femember-
cd BIZ me in which nation pretending 10
exercise dominion over another, asserting
| its independence, has been thb first to
coucede tho existence Of such independ-
enee. No case can be called TO my mind,
in which neutral Powers have failed TO
set the example of~secogniZing the inde-
| prndPnce OF nation, when satisfied OF
the inability Of its enemy to subvert its
! government; and this, too, in ciises where
the previous relation betweea the con
tending parties had been eonfessedly that
| of mother country and Dependant colony;
not, as in our case, that OF eo-cquai
States united by Federal compact. lshas
ever been considered the proper function
| and duty Of neutral Powers 10 perform
the Office Of judging whesAer in point Of
| fast the nation asserting dominion il al le
to make good it, pFetentions by force. Of
arms, aid, if not, by recognition Of The
resisting party, TO discounttnauce the
continuance Of the contest. And the
reason Why this duty is incumbent on
neutral Powers is PLAINLY arp4sent, when
We reflect that the pride and passion
which blind the judgment OF Lhe parties
to the eanlliae cause the contiuuancs Of
active walfnrc, and consequent useless
slaughter, long after the inevitable re-
su-t has become apparent to all not eH-
gagged in the struggle. So long, there
fore, as neutraI nations fail by recogBi
ti0n If cur ind pendence 70 announce
that, in ih,ir judgment, the United States
are unable TO reduce the Coafcderacy to
Submission, their coEdaet wili be accept
cn by cur eGrmies as a tleit encourage
mcni to cuRtii ue their cffortF. and as an
Implied assurance that belhf is enter
taihcd Iy ncuiral nations ia the succcss
Of their drsigus. A direct stir'ulous
whether intention al or not, is thus ap
piled to securing continuance II the
carnage, an3 devastation which dcsolatc
the continent, aud which they profess
lcrply TO dtPtvre.
The disregard of this Just, humane and
Christian public duty by the nations Of
Europs, is the more remarkable from the
fact that authentic expression has long
since been given hg the Gdveraments of
both France and England 10 the convie-
tion that the United States are unaSie to
conquer the Confedrra,y, Il is Low
more than two years sinoo the Govern
meat Of France announced officially, to the
Cabinet Of London and St. Petersburg its
own confusion that the United States
were unable to achieve any decisive mill
taTy success. In the answers sent By
those P0We ere, no intimation of o con-
trary opinion vas conveyed; and it Is no.
torious that in speeches, both in and out
Of Parliament, the members of Her Brit
annie MniUsty's Government, have not
hesitated to express this conviction In an
qualified terms. The denial of our right
under these circumstances is so obvious
| II unjust, and discriminatcs 80 ugfairly
In fayer Of the United States, thai neu.
trails have sought TO palliate the wrong
Of which they are conscious By protesting
to consider. in opposition to notorious
truth, and to the known belief that both
/ belligerents, that the recognition OF eur
| indeT endenes would be valueless without
their further intervention in the struggle;
an Intervention Of which We diselaim tho
desire and mistrust the advantage. We
seek no fayor, VIC wish no Intervention,
we know ourselves fully competent TO
maintain our own rights and indcpend-
ense against the invaders Of our ceantIy,
and we feel justified in asserting that
without the aid derived from recruiting
their armies from foreign countries, the
invaders would, ere ihis, have been driv-I
rn from cur soil. When the recognition
of the Confedeyaey was refused By Great
Britain In tho Fall of le62, the refusal
was executed on the groand that any ae-
ton by Her Msjessy.a Government would
have the effect Of inaanling the passions
Of the belligerents, and Of pTeveating the
return Of peace. IL hss assumed that ibis
opinion Was sincerely entertained; but
the experience OF two years of anequaled
| carnage shows that it was erroneous, and
that the result vas the reverse CT what
the British ministry hunanely desired.---
A contrary pOliey--a paliey just TO us--a
policy divcrging from an unvarying course
Of concession 70 all the demands Of our
enemies - IL still within the poser of
Hm Majsty's Government, and would,
ii is fair TO presume, be productive Of
consequences the opposite Of those which
hare unfortunately flllcwed iis wbole
course of eondaet frs m the eommeHce-
meat ef lhs war 10 the present time. In
Q woTd, peace II imposslLle withons inde-
| peadence, and IL II not TO be expected