The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-27
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The New Censsisa.Isn.
stShow good reason. Il they can. why
negroes shoald Be plsued on IN euuality
with white men--les fhenn convince the far.
msfs and laboring glasses Of Iowa, II they
can 90 90, that i Is expciient to abolish
MI distinctiOn between the white and black
races Of men. Il the majority Of the peo-
pie Of Iowa are in favor VI abolitionisn
and amalgamation the Republican party
must triumph over the Democracy--but II
the people are Of the opinion that the ne
gro should not enjoy the elective franchise
that negro children should not be allow.
ed to attend school with white children--
if they believe that negro equality and
amalgamation with the whites il thing to
be dreaded md avoided, then they will vote
with the Democratic, and the Democratic
ticket and policy will be sustained. - Coun-
Gil Bluffs Bugle.
just such stuff is the staple Of the attacks
made upon che New Constitution. What .
profound respect for public intelligence is
exhibited by journals who thus address ii!
Conceive, il you can, the ineffable meanness
of thus addressing the worst passions and
prejudices ct socIety, in order to defeat an
instrument that makes no change whatever
in the qualifications for suffrage or the con-
ditions Of admission to public schools. How
exalted the virtue and sense Of responsible
~ OF an editor who thus deliberately and
villanously bellies his knowledge Of the facts,
and thus seeks to impose upon community
for party purposes. The man who penned
ed the paragraph quoted above, knows that
the New Constitution bestows the right of
suffrage upon trhifes only. He knows that
the only passage of the instrument upon
which IS based the charge that *whites and
blacks are to be admitted indiscriminately.
into the same schools, is the clause that so
justly provides for the education of .sall the
youth OF the State.'' He knows that the
details Of the Educational System are to be
provided by the Legislature; and that it will
prcscrihR the conditions of admission to the
public Schncls, and the appropriate method
of educating colored children, il their pa
rents are made to bear share Of the burth-
ems Of Taxation. He knows that this
clause is but copy Of that Of nearly every
State in which Common Schools have been
established. He knows that there were
those in the Convention who favored the
bestowal OF suffrage, without regard to
color. He knows that they were voted
down in the body; and that tho proposition
for separate vote, by which the people of
the State were to be permitted to say wheth-
er they desired to have the word s'white''
out Of the Constitution, did not originate
with the friends of universal suffrage, but
was brought forward to take the question
nm nf ~ and loo he
hands Of the sovereign people of the State,
who could decide it according to their own
convictions of duty. All this he knows per-
fectly well. But what of that? He is con-
ident that some men may be imposed upon;
that they will not read the instrument, and
can be made to believe that it contains what
it does not contain; and thus believing, may
be led to vote against it. For such purpos-
es, with such views, are the mean and cow
ardly attacks, of which the above is spe-
cimen, put forth by few INSCRIPTIONS
journals.
1t is the Banking clause of the New Con-
stitution that s,ouses the enmity of the
''Bugie" and few kindred journals. But,
they have not the manhood to say so. They
see that they can make no Roadway against
the instrument, on that tack. They must
strike another chord, and assail it under
false colors. false pretences. They despair
of finding some RI usible ground Of oppo-
sltlOn in the instrument, and they must
needs 60 outside of it, and set up men of
straw, to show with what ease they can bat
ter them down! Valorous business this.
Such opposition as this cannot fail to add
to the strength of the New Constitution,
when men come to read it for themselves.
Democrats will justly conclude that if there
are grave objections to the adoption of the
new Constitution, such men as Judge Hall
and Judge Johnston, would not favor its
adoption. They will see in fact, that near
iy all OF its provisions were adopted with
great uanimity, the evidence that it cannot
be regarded as partizan instrument. They
will see that the instrument must be, in the
main, unobjectionable; when it's enemies
ara so much at a loss for their objections, as
to be0umpelled to go outside Of it to find |
them. ..
we have, thus far, said little in approba-
ton of the New Constitution, because Of
the conviction that pervaded the body in
which it originated, that it would best go
before the people upon its own merits, and
should not be regarded as party instru-
meHt. Local priue WAS somewhat WOUNDED
by the action Of the Convention on the OPP
itol Question. Reflection has, however,
satisfied US that as the Capitol is not likely
!" be retained here permanently, the true
interest of our city and county will be pro-
NOTED by accepting the generous grant EN-
braced IN the permanent location Of the
State University, with its munifcent endow-
ment, and relying upon the actual resources
and advantages Of the City, Instead of those
temporary benefits flowing from the location
Of the Capitol. The grant made by the
New Constitution to Iowa City, is perma- |
nent, substantial; shutting the door against
the future diversity Of the University fund.
Such considerations, coupled with the des-
picable character Of the assaults made by
few reckless journals upon the Instrument,
have brought US to regard the New Constr
tuition with much more favor than was felt |
at the time of its adoption. And, we mis-
Judge, if the effect has not been similar up
on the public mind generally-Iora City