The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-07-18

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people Is also : new and Important feature.
but one 50 generally expected and desired
that il has not caused anJ pa1sacuiar COM
menk.
The fixing Of tie general election in De,
tober is certainly q Improvement, and WIZ
be very generally acceptable
For these reasons, then, and Tor those
urged in my former article, | think shall
be dainS my best duty as citizen by voting
for the new Constitution. My object has
been throughout TO state facts and treat the
question candily, not as partizan. put as
an Individual. looking only to the best good
of TIE State. have been from the begin
ring. and am still In favor OF keeping the
question out of party, leaving TO every man
to vote as his Judgment and sense OF duty
nav suggest without reference to party
predictions. have no doubt that this IS
YOUR own wish. and that you so design TO
have the contest carried on. know that
your opposition is honest know, too, that
il is ardent-and you wiz take IT as friend
IL from nae if suggest that YOU guard your
zeal in the premises If you wish the Constr
tuition to go before the people on its merits.
and not before party heralded by preju-
Gices.
Having shown, as well as l am able, that
the Bill of Rights is identical with that OF
all the States in those portions which You
assail, and that the negro testimony prorl-
ded for is no more in point of fact than Is
permitted under the old Constitution-Hay-
ing shown that the people ought to be trust
ed with the privilege of saying whether they
/ will have a Banking system or not--Havlng
shown that the blacks are not TO be educa-
ted with white children at our common
sehools-Haying shown that the appendage
is no part of the Constitution, and that
I there is 10 danger that it ever can become
( so-and having shown that, in addition to
/ these matters, there are numerous very I'M
portant, very desirable and very adyanta-
geous amendments in the new Constitution,
I | will take nv leave of the subject, thanking
yeu for your kindness in giving me this
/ public hearing.
..... 49,. ..., DEMOCRAT.
p. S.--A very important feature in the
new Constitution which | had omitted to
/ enumerate, and to which my attention has
/ been called by your structures upon my first
communication, is as to the manner of ma
king future amendments to that instrument.
} lou Say tttstt IL ING Hca shOuia
/ be adopted it cannot be changed or amended
"mialout great .erpeaSe." Now, it is pro-
yided in the new Constitution that amend
ments may be proposed by one Legislature,
and if sanctioned by the succeeding one
/ then said amendments shall be submitted TO
a vote of the people, and if adopted shall
become part and parcel of the Constitution.
! This clearly involves no expense whatever.
The late Constitutional Convention. called
under the provision of the old Constitution,
cost the State between forty and fifty thou
sand dollars. If the new Cons titution should
be voted down, and a new Convention call
! ed, that Convention could hardly come of
with less cost TO the State than the late one.
In point of economy, then the balance is
altogether in favor Of the new Constitution,
to amend which will cost Just nothing at all.
! 1t is true that it is provided that in 1870,
and every tenth year thereafter, the Legis-
Iature may submit to the people the question
I of ..Convention or No Convention" to amend
the Constitution-bu this is discretionary
on the part CT the Legislature-and the sup
position is reasonable that amendments, if
any, will be made through the Legislature
and the people without the cost Of another
/ Convention. ID.