The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-10-13

J conservative eject of ownership operates
with as much force op the nan With hun
dsed dollars ID m old stocking ~ on his
pcishhar with a.miisio6 il tho funds. Da-
ring ,ha Roman Reyolation Of As, the
hessars whe bad funded their gains were
amen. the stancnest reactionaries, and LETT
i Rouae with the nobility. No question of the
abstract right IL property has evcr entered
directly into our pelitics, or ever viii .-the
point Ut issue being, whether certain ex-
1 Iesrticnal kind Of property already privileged
beyond all othere, shall be entitled to stir
further privileges II tho expense Of esesy
other kind. The extension Of slavery over
new territory means just this,--,hat this, one
kind Of property, nor recognis ed as such BY
the Constitution, or Il would never have
been allowed tAepter the basis Of rcprcseu-
/ tation, shah COZ Fcl the foreign and domestic
policy ef the Republic.
A sres: deal . said, to be sure, about the
rights of the South; but has any such rish,
been iufsingc61 sWhen man ,nscs,s non-
ey 10 any species Of property, be assumes
the risks to which il is liable. Ii he bur a
i house, il may be burned; IL ship, il may
wreck !; II horse OF an OK. il mar die. Now
ths disndvaxtsgs of tho Soathcrn hind OF
property is,-how shall We say il 20 a. not
10 violate our Ccnstilatioaaf obligAtions?
that is is excep,ieS lhea iSeaves yir-
i lsinie. Il u 3 thi1 ~ IN Bog
ton. IL bccones man, speaks human lan-
gaase, appeals to tho justice Of tho same
! aod whom We all .cknowledg, weeps at the
/ memory Of wife aud children left behind
! in short, hath the same organs and dimen-
/ sions that Christian hath, and is not dis
/ tinguishabie from ordinary Christians, ex-
| cept perhaps, by asimpler and more earnest
/ faith. There are people at the North who
believe, that, beside meam aud tau,a, there
| Is also such thing rs Sausa, who ase old.
! fash oned enough, or weak enough, to hare
their feelings touched by these things to
I think that human nature Is olGcr and more
scared t%an any claim OF property whatever.
aud that it has rights at least rs much to be
respected as any Hypothetical one Of our
I Southern brethren. This, no doubt, makes
| it harder 10 recover u fugitive chattei; but
the existence Of human nature in a ,nan here
aud there is surely one Of those accidents to
be counted on ut least as often as fire, ship
wreck. Or the cattle disease: and the f.lat,
who choses to put his money into these i'm.
ages If bis Maker cut IN ebony shoutd be
content to take the incident Risks aieng With
the advantages. We should be very sorry
to deem this risk capable Of diminuiion !:
for We think that the claims OF common
manhood upon US should be ut lealt as strong
rs those OF freemasonry, and that those
whom the law Of man Turns away should
! iind in tbs larger charity Of the law OF God
ana Nature reader welcome and surer
n,,fn
negro nau, and on Southern evidence, too,
as long us he is counted in the population
represented on the floor Of congress,-for
three. ttths OF perfect manhood would be
high average even among white men; as long
as he is hanged or uorse, as an example anu
terror to othcrs,--for We do not punish one
animal for the moral improvement OF the
rest as long as hi Is considered capable Of
religious instruc'ion,--f NO fancy the
goriilas would make short work with mis-
saonary,-as long AS there are fears Of insur-
sec,lon-,for We never heard OF u combined
effort at revolt in menngere. Accord.
ingly, We do not see how the particular
right, Of whose infringement We hear 80
much is TO be made safer by the election of
MIR. Breckenridge, or Mr.. Douglas, there
being quite AS ittie chance that any Of them
would abolish human nature as that Mr..
Lincoln would abolish slavery. The same
generous instinct that leads some among Us
to sympaihxe with the sorrows OF the be-
reaved master will always, We fear, ufu-
snce others to take part with tho rescued
man. 49,. r.. -..s.ss F-s ....o... - q
Bat If our Constitutional Obligations, us
We like to call our constitutional timidity
or indifference, teach US that pal ticuiur
divinity hedges the Domestic Institution,
they do not require us to forget that we have
institutions OF our own, worth maintaining
and extending, and not without n certain
sacredness, whether We regard the tradi-
tons Of the fathers or the faith Of the uh,!.
dren. II Is high time that We should hear
something Of the rights OF the Free States,
and OF the duties consequent upoh them.
We also have our prejudices to be respected,
our theory OF civilization, of what consti-
tutes the safety Of II state and iusures it's
prosperity, to be applied wherever there is
soil enough for human being to stand on
and thank God for making h,m man. IL
conservatism applicable only to property.
and not to justice, freedom, and public hon
or? Does 1t mean merely drifting with tho
current Of evil times and pernic,ous coun-
sells, and carefully nursing the ills We have,
that they may, us their nature it is, grow
worse? a.s.. .s ....... e
To be told that VIC ought not to ngi,ate
the question Of Slavery, when it is that
which is forever agitating Us, is like telling
man with the fever and ngue on him to
stop shaking and he will be cured. The dis
cussion of Slavery is said to be dangerous,
but dangerous to what? The manufac-
turers OF the Free States constitute a more
numerous class than the savsholders Of tho
South: suppose they should claim an equal
sanctity for the Protective System. Dis
cussion is the very life Of free institutions,
the fruitful mother OF all political and NOR
al enlightenment, aud yet the question VI oil
questions must he tabaoed. The Swiss
guide enjoins silence in the region Of ava
lanches, lest the mere vibration Of the voice
should dislodge the ruin clingipg by frah
roots of snow. But where 10 our avalanche
to fal:i 1t 10 to overwhelm the Union, we
are told. The real danger to the Union
will come when the encroachmcnis Of the
Siaye-Power and the concessions Of the
Tradc-Power shall have made it burden
instead Of ablessing. The real avalanche
to be dreaded, are We to expect ii from the
ever gathering mass Of ignoran brute force,
with the irresponsibilty Of animals and the
passions Of men, which is one Of the fatal
necessities Of slavery, or from the gradually
increasing consciousness Of the NON slave.
holding population Of the Slave States OF the
true cause Of their material irnposerishment
and political inferiorisy7 From one or the
other source its rulnous forces will t,s fed, /,
but in either event it is not the Union that
will be imperilled, but the privileged Order
who on every occasion Of a thwartcd whim
have menaced its disruption, and who will
then find in it their only safety.
We believe that the ''irrepressible eona
| iics'-fot We accep. Mr.. Ssward's muchs
denounced phrase IN all the breadth Of mean
ing be ever meant TO give its to take place
in the South itself because the Slave. Sys-
tenn is one OF those fearful blunders in
political economy which are sure, sooner or
later, to work their own retrbution. The
inevitable tendency Of slavery 10 10 concen-
trais in few hands the soil, the capital,