Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-08-01
vol. 10.

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The altraists of the North and Of shs
South sgres upon one doctrine Of
Congressional Intervention In regard TO
slavery IA tha Territories. Mr. Clay, Of
Alabama, and Mr. 6iddings, OF Ohio, do
not differ II all in reference to the power Of
the Senate and House of Representatives
st Washington 10 limit the natural rights
of the white msa ef this country. We
are treated every day TO long and hack
neyed aTgum ents, designed 70 prove that
the celebrated sOrfinsnoe OF l7ST's kept
negro slavery out Of the Tertiary of the
North west. Let us look o aaamens at
this matter:
Slavery was actually astahsished In the
region in question. Ii existed 10 Illinois
just Al it does to-day in Virgins, and the
famous oOrdinanee0 was regarded as
political myth. The people Of Illinois,
when forming their Constitation,= Yecog-
mixed slavery as one Of the institutions Of
the territory, and made provisions for its
gradual extinction. The arrangements
for its ultimate prohibition were based
upon the discovery that it's continuance
was incompatible with the interests of a
climate like that Of Illinois. Ii was 40
more adapted to tAs cold bleak winds Of
the Western prairies than would be the
orange, sg-treey OF the magnolia grandi-
aaEa- Il perished ~ woald perish del
iease maiden of Florida, If suddenly ex-
posed 10 sfNar' -westeso in RAfin's Bay.
Slavery 10 al institution which, from
time immemorial. has followed cotton,
rice, sugar, and whatever else hourishes
In The nexShburAoS<l of the tropiss. The
4. 200. 900 slaves af the South, estimated
10 be wsgsh $S,209, ,00O, !, ,09o . sulz hara-
ly less than the debt of England would
everwheim With peeaniary ruin In one
day thaiT owners II the inclination of the
equatorial plane Oh the earth to the plane
of its orba were 20 be SO changed as to
add q IL deg. o4seld to Florida. Even
the hemp and tobacco of Kentucky and
Missouri s6ord slavery only precarious
existence, which will undoubtedly be pro-
longed by ultra Nprtharn agitation.
In the Convention which formed the
Hrst Constitution Of Ohio, the question
arose whether slavery should be adopted,
and 80 close was tse matter in Commit
tee the ca&iiAg vate Of the chairman de-
esded IN faroT Of p Frse State. The man
who gave this vote was the founder, if we
mistake not, of newspaper still publish
ed In the city of Cincinnati. He was, we
believe, what was called in 1902 DEM
ocrat. Experienee would have demon
strated the fnpra4tieability of continuing
an institution like negro slavery IN the
Territory of Ohio; yet in determining the
provisions Of cur Constitution, the Ordie
nance Of '8T was not considered one of
the high contracting parties.
. Is is q truth which cannot be repeated
too often that Congressional Intervention
never prevented the establishment of sia-
very on one foot of territory within the
limits Of this Repablic. Ii is truth thas
ap to the period when ultra abolition az
itatidn comm the original States of
the Revolutionary era were gradually en-
gagged In adopting free constitutions, and
thus when the storm broke forth in the
North, the Southern statesmen iramsdi-
asely acted as q positive barrier to the
progress Of free territory.
The Ordinance of 1887 is magnificent
Platonie generally, conceived in the loft
lest spirit of patriotism, bat, practically,
as InopexatiTe in the Territory of the
No-4h ~aof an o%n ana sa Sn~Ias,nssta, ~
Aristotle, the reseripts of the Emperor
Domitian, or the game laws OF Norman
king.
But we have saif the intervensienists
are not confined 10 the North We have
q band Of enthusiasts living along the
banks of tha Savannah, the Flint, the
Black Warrior, lhe Tombigbes, the swa-
nee, the Fenaholaway, the Consenh, the
Cape Fear, the Sabine, the Appalaehiola,
the OckatockanS, the Tennessee, the
Kentucky, the james, the Cumberland,
the Potomac, aad even the Ohio river
whose Paradise 10 bounded by slaye
code for the Territories. These men seem
TO be laboring hand In hand with the Pc
nobsees, Kennebec, Androseoggin, and
Susqushsnnah. nltraists Of the North TO
keep the nation on the verge OF civil war.
The aayocases OF slave code for the Ter
ritories are destined 60 an overwhelming
defeat. They viii not be able TO present
as formidable Q. front In 1860 whether
they shall sail under American or Demo-
cratic coIors, as the Isle Of Wight pre-
seated as iasuFrsctsonisss 20 the British
EmpirsS s 84A Z A.ass14 g.tss
The praudsst banner taat can be borne
---the one thar should be hung to the bat
tie aad the hsssxe---ahe one that hiss guid-
ed the patriot aud enahrouded tha martyr
in the darkest days OF human history
the banner that has aever fallen bat with
the rise Of tyrAass--the banner that shel.
tered the heroes of she Revelation, and
cleaned as the mast s-haad of the Cousti-
tuition when she rode the mountain wave,
and hurled hsr khunders In defiance Of the
whole navy OF Britaia---shs only banner
that will survive the inpending political
storms Of the coming year will be that
of Non Intervantion Popular Soyer-
eighty.
DARaxgoys PIAYxHlSa.-A little daugh-
ter Of MFR. McIDaniels, In Mason Co., Va.s
three years old. few mornings since ran
into the yard ok the hoase, highly delight
ed with pretty pIaything ii had found,
and was talking Ii 10 show iss m0ihsrs--
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