The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-08-23
"WHAT ARE ACCOMPLISH
ED FACTS
Spe eCh Of EiCn. Geo. Penile.
.r ton.

} from a spec eSh delivered by Hon
Geo. H. Pendleton, at St. Paul
Minnesota, on the 11th inst, ex.
presses most forcibly the stupid pol.
icy Of "accepting the situation, "
now SO constantly repeated by the
Mongrels and their parrot-tongued
imitators. Mr.. Pendleton's words
ought to sha me every one of them
into silence: = -
They tell us we Democrats will
cling to dead issues--the integrity
Of Republican, government, the
preservation Of liberty tho main.
tenance of our Constitution and
government, the Happiness Of man
kind! Are these dead issues
Our love for them may be dead. cur
fidelity may be dead, our worthincss
for them and our enjoyment may be
dead, but the issues will live till
they are settled in their full frui-
ton, and the principles which under
lie them arc as durabl as the Eter-
nal Throne. They tell us like the
Bourbons, we will forget nothing
and learn nothing; we will not sub
nit to accomplished facts. It is a
mistake. 1t were wicked folly to
resist the inevitable. We would
bow reverently in it's presence. But
who shall open the book of fate and
say of any course of events, or Of
any condition of things, it is fixed
forever? Who shall, with prophet
ie power, read the secrets of the
Almighty, and repeat in another
connection the words which, only
once uttered throughout all the ages,
reverberate along the course of
eighteen centuries. "Ir is FINISH
ED?' The human mind ha no pow
er to discern the Interchangeable.
The DEGREES of destiny are hidden
from it's view, that it's aspirations
may not be checked, it's efforts may
not be palsied. When William
Pitt came back to the ministry, he
formed, with incredible energy and
exortion, the Continental Alliance.
1t required the labor of two years.
Napoleon broke up his camp at
Boulogne, marched his heroic lc-
gions to the Danube, and in one hun
dred days captured an army at Ulm,
and shattered the coalition on the
bloody field Of Austerlitz. The
great statesman was bowed to the
earth-his hope was gone-his cour-
age broken-his efforts at an end.
Broken hearted, he exclaimed,
Roll up the map of Europe for a
half century," and died, believ-
ing that Napoleon had attained to
universal dominion. Austria was
despoiled Of her faircst possessions.
Jena followed, and Prussia was hum
bled to the dust; Fricdland follow
cd, and the monarch of the North
bowed his naughty head before the
imperial eagles. Napoleon was
mighty. His fat vacated the
throne of Naples. He pronounced
the sentence, 1.-THE House of Brag-
ANA has ceased to reign,' and that
family went fugitives from Portugal
to Brazil. Louis was King of Hol-
land; Joseph was King of Spain
Murat was King of Naples; The
Confederation of the Rhine guarded
his frontier The Dukedom of War
saw and the Kingdom of Westpha-
liza were the props of his throne.
Here seemed to be an accomplish
ed fact. But England refused to
"accept the situation" and in less
than three years Austria was in
arms, Prussia was recuperated,
Russia had become hostile, and in
less than six years the empire of
Napoleon had passed away-the ia b.
ric Of his power had been dissolved
Europe was established within
its original limits, and he himself
languished prisoner in the Island
of St. Helena. In 1850 the COM
promise measures were passed.
They consisted Of the admission of
California, the amendment of the
Fugitive Slave law, the establish
ment of government in the terrific
ries. They commanded the support
of the leading statesmen of both
great political parties. They were
declared to be an honest, honora-
BILE, final settlement of the issues of
slavery, as connected with the Fed
eral Government. The national
conventions of 1862 both approved
them. The people thoroughly en-
dorsed them. But Case, and Sum-
ner, and Hale, and Giddings refused
to ''accept the situation and on
the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, they recommended the agita-
tion, which ended in war, and has
obliterated from the statute book
not only those laws, but the very
principles on which those laws were
based. Who shall dare to say
what facts are accomplished? Who
shall predict the ways which are
past finding out?" To "accept the
SITUATION" if it be wrong, is the
cowardice of a timid spirit, or the
weakness of wearied one. Error
is never fixed, wrong is never es.
tablished., Truth wages against
them perpetual war. Itnever wear