Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1860-02-29
COUNCIL low Il MORNING FEBRUARY 20 ls6o

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y "This Waa ID be dsaa by insredncil
into our lsKiAlaai0a ; asw poliey, whi
denies 70 0enaresa q poger nlai inAsa {
. liz by tbe4EsnnaAss ud eur gosernnes
and exaraisaa By il fEssA TIE hsgiAnin
whiah declares that ia be Nnc0nstit
tionaI which the makers Of the aeastitl
sion deciKred 60 BE Constitutional, a.
! wAseh rests up0l tae strange mssuml
tion that the gnyerkansms ek stss uniss
aStes cAnnot set np Ana nainsMia
Ehe territories 6 tbs unitsd Sksteg
form Of government demanded By ! n
4 5ority Of our people, and Identical
| Ehs disputed partfcalaF, With the gUYI
of goysEnment Of q majurity uf ii
! STATES OF or eoneeasxaey. IL the ns
who did this thing aid not know Chs
their action woald again prod dee aalaon
/ as Agitakior, heart burning, isaiena
| and ill-wiIl, shey were 20 Wholly ignor
/ ant Of siae tenpg anu feelings Of on
/ people as 10 make them unsafe pubii
servants. IL bAey did knew, they wer
aRfAishfuly Ia aithar Biawt shey wsr
faithlsss ta the pledges thsy lad EiEsn
g ths lRdaesnspt foF plseing power i
/ thsir hands. y 80 1'''-' - ~ - t.5'
What, let ias aak this House, What /
meant By snis part Of has sisssagefa
i not o. diFsst sharge thai PFssiasn
Pierce and his political friends hat
made pledges for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning position without any intent up
on their pars 10 carry 0ut tRoae plsagel
faithfully? ? Is not thai the plain meau
ing of this language I? And further
athe Governor states that, after Prssi
dent and his friends h&d obsaiued tn
power, fsthsy did rot gedsem thsii
pledgss,F ] undertake to say, Sir, shas
this assertion Is as kratuisous as il il
anfounded in fact. The whole extracl
which read is but . repetition Of ths
views and assertions Of a Seward, !
GiddiHgs, and Chase, &c assoeissel
for Fred Douglass. -
That the DemoeEaEie party or Con.
gTess was faithless 70 its pledges, in che
passage Of the Kansas Nebraska act, ue
man who knows tho history Of that mea-
suEey and the history Of the Somprsmise
measures Of 1850, can have the bardi-
hood to assert, unless il be q man who
desires, as in this instance, to faIsifY
the records, and ofFsr an indignity 90 q
paFsys which, 30 say the la&st Of Is, Ia
equally -hnneat with the Anthar of this
message that the Democratic party was
fsithI6ss 70 the pledges made as the
time President Pierce was elected.
Again, Sir, an imputation Of the
grossest character ls souchsd in the fol-
lowing paragraph ..
sfDid the. e.msn who passed that act ex-
pecs and desire that struggle 20 be q
friendly and peaceful one7 The eoun-
try would fain so believe, yet such be-
lief requires that We should attribute to
them q want Of knowledge and fore
sight bat little less criminal in men in
their positioa, than would have been the
expectation and dssiEe by them tbas the
struggle should be as il was, & hostile
and bloody one.'
Nov, appeal 20 the honor sad can
dor Of every man on this foor, and TO
you, too, Mr. Chairman, IL in Jour So
Der moments of rejection, cat of from
all political excitement, surrounded By
no partizau considerations, if goa be-
lieve that the authors Of the Kansas
act desired a "hostiIs aud
bi0ady struggle P'' De yuu believe,
gentleman, that the authors of that mea-
sure desire that the struggle in regard
to the government Of the Territories
should be anything but "friendly aud
peaceful one 20 No, gentleman, and
ihe man who would ''fain make yoa be-
lisye" thai the party which urged and
passed that measure, desired anything
else bat an amIsAble aTrAngem ent in re-
gard to the Territorial question, de-
serves the sxeeration of Every honest
man. The inaendo is as mean and con-
as il is false and cowArdly.
ssy, Sir, that the object Of those
men who passed the Kansas Nebraska
act was q noble one, founded in Ehe con-
stitution OF our country, warranted By
the history OF our Institutions; il was
the assertion Of tie natural rights of
man, and has received the endorsement
Of q majority of our people ..- .~-ss T.
But desire to read from another por-
ton OF this message I..
s'It was insisted in substance, by our
Southern brethren, and either openly or
taeitly approved by many in the North,
that IL our people should find upon our
borders, or withia reasonable reach OF
as, weak and belpless n2tioa, who
could be attacked With comparative
sAfesy, and whose form Of goysgnmsns
did nos attain to cur standard Of per-
geetiou, il was not only she privileges,
but the mission, Of such Of our people
Is desired 10 engage 10 the iAadable an
dsrtakiug, 70 invade her territory with
irs and sword, to bring upon bsr peace
ful inhabitants, men, women and chill
dren, all the horrors of var gnd haT-
ing thas carried through snd perfected
3 process Of "regsporasioa," to eatab-
Iish on the ruins Of her government our
own free inEtIsuEions, promiBent among
which, according to the advocates Of
sSis- sRaa1aisa saEs- atandm human slaveTy.D
sew, Les me ask, is there q Ensn on
this aooT, in this House or out Of is,
who knows aught Of she character Of oar
Southern brethren, who viii fer mo-
ment withhold the csnsnre which this
portion Of the message 80 Justly inertia
Ha4 ttsis doctrine, 'Flhs substance Of
which," the Govgnos says, has been
tsinsistsd on by the Soulh,n ever been
BY the uu3 ted South as
their dostrina2 ThsFs are some eddIs-
brained politicians, I sdmit, Sir, in tbe
South, Rs we'll as Ia the Northern States,
and they, too, somatifnas By accident
get 20 be Governors; bat the ASSERTIONS
Of one or two fanatics of the South .sre
not 10 be taken - the criterion of Soash-
srn sentiment, any more than eught this
mass of palihesl abuse, called By its
author al Insugaral address, TO be 10 :
ken a. 9 sample Of che intslligoaee and
sentimans of ths &0rshern people. They
are as a0yGl 10 oar instisuti ons, as warm
suppoTaags Of cur Constitution and laws,
as the gensleman who undertakes 10 in
tegp4eE lhsir opinions aud doctrines
and zaay be permitted 20 sag farthss,
that = fnan In the Southern States who
claims 10 be 3 statesman would net re-
fnse, to aid ia the anforeameat af he
laws of Congress, che fugitive slaysaaw
not axcsps@d. a
2 II may be that there can be- found In
the sonsh men wAo wsrs ID favor Of In.
vading Nicaragua, Cuba, and perhaps
Kansas. But lee us take tue casa cl
Kansas. Did the eisiAsns 0f the sprta
undertake 30 ssinvmsis that Tagrisory wit
Gre and sword, Aad bring upon be,
psaeeful Inhabitants, men, wumaa, an6
fshiIdrea, Aia shs horrors Of war ps Ne
Sir, shs inyas.an aaAa from Anoshsi
qaartcg, Jim Lane, With hia wraAnhaG
saad ct nQlitiegl fh hiesss@na eaa shxoass
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