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

sIss uIts, by the Breoe3dge M1ng 81 ihe
BLACK Rspablican party. We NOTES shss
shsrs, 90 Nd all other points in the ssate,
The big guns ~ skas wang are composed
Of the oAcs holders azdsr the present ad-
aiaistration, and though they strive to
keep IL ths back ground, yet their anxiety
- the aafsss Of DovGisAs, and the sae-
sess of Lincolns il 20 great, th&s sksy'
eaaaos keep behind the serssR. and lss
sha BAH roll On saasaiagiy without any
motive power froa Ne po~ess TIM be.
Do these men prefer tho eiectios Of
Lincoln TO that Of DoUaLAsf They most
eestainly do, else they would not recon-
nsnd the holding Of convention to nom
mate az Electoral, State, and Congress
sional ticket Thsy know thai they can
not poll Ave tA0asand voses fer such
ticket, and they also nass see that with
Ave thousand votas withdrawn from the
Dsmocrasie party, thai Lincoln viii GER
tainly carry tie State. Ths same may be
said of Iliinois, Indiana aud all the North
srn STATES. ThiG the leaders Of the Breck
ia3idge wing Of the Republican party
kaow-aad thsy also know that with all
the Northern States, except Oregon and
California, Lincoln wiz be elected, and
so knowing, we ask any candid man If
they are not Indirectly supporting Lincoln
and Black Republieanism?
They agree in principle with the Re-
publican party ~ 10 the powers Of Con-
gress over the subject of slavery. They
contend that the people Of Territory are
not sovereign, but are subject to the viii
Of Congress, and ean do nothing except
by permission Of Congress, and this brings
the two parties together as -, the powers
of Congress. Having settled the ques-
ton among themselves rs to the powers
of Congress, next comes the issue as TO
how that power shall be exercised. The
Republican branch says Congress must
prohibit slavery IN the Territories. The
Breckinridge branch says Congress must
pFoteet slavery ia the Territories. The
Seward wing fatroduees bill to prohibit
slavery, and the Breckenridge wing 20
protect it, aad at this point both agree
ing as to the power, the 6ght as to its APP
plicaiion viii commence, and then that
''irrepressible conflict" proclaimed By
Seward, and repudiated by Breckenridge,
will actually commence, and With either
of these parties in power, there viii be no
peace for the country, and no business OF
any Importance TO it transacted in Con-
gress.
Bat should the doctrine of Non-inter-
vention by Congress prevail, and the sub
| jeet Of slavery, like ali other subjects, be
left 10 the people of the Territories to de-
eide as 10 its existence or non-exist -riee
in the Territories, this fruitful source Of
| agitation will be removed frem Congress,
| and the legitimate business Of the coup
try will be attended to. This viii give
the South an equal chance with the North.
All kinds of property, recognized as such
by any and all Of the States, can be taken
there, and there be held subject to such
laws as the people may make In relation
thereto. If the people are in favor Of
slavery, they will enact laws for lis pro-
teetion-if opposed TO the Institution,
they viii prohibit it, This is fair to both
sections of the Union. But if the doc
trines Of either wing Of the Republican
party prevails, the sSSsiager" will be the
engrOssing subject Of Legislation, and We
win never have any other legislation IN
til we get rid of that subject, and the in
evit&ble result viii be either division oi
the Union or the abolishment Of slavery
in ali Of the States, This we believe is
the aim and object Of these Two wings Of
the Republican party. The disunionists
Of the South, with their co-workers at the
North, are determined, Il they cannot
have their doctrine endorsed and elect 8
President faVoring slave code, that Lin
coin shall be elected, and then the time
will have arrived when Yaneey L Co. are
to 'sprecipitate the cotton States IN rev.
olution," for the purpose of dissotving
the Union. We care not how much Mr..
Breckenridge and his friends may pretend
to depreqiste this result, nor how loud
and long they may proclaim their love
for the Union-tseir acts and words are
all mere preiense to hide their prinei-
piles and real object, and we appeal to
their course in the Northern States for
proof of this assertion. There might be
some reason in running Breckenridge
ticket in some of the Southern States,
where it is alleged that the friends OF
Breckenridge are largely in the ascendan-
CT in the present stnte Of affairs, with the
object in common With the friends Of the
regular nominee of the Democratic party,
to defeat the Republican party, but there
can be no reason for running such ticket
in the North, where il IL known that the
only effect produced will be the election
of Lincoln. We said there might be SONS
reason for such course, vet we do not
admit the honesty, justice or democracy
of such course.
All admit that the Charleston OOnven-
ton was regularly convened, regularly
organized, and regularly proceeded to
business, and we hare failed to dud any
argument TO convince us that that Con-
yention, consisting Of 300 delegates, be-