The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-02-11

fathers nave al gone u0Wu W sucas 4Ssss
resting place in peace. Washington u
sspultured near his placid Potomac. Adams
sleeps like ! giant, taking his rest, in the
retired grave yard Of his native place, and
Jefferson lies enshrouded on the heights OF
his own Montacsllo, where the FIRST rays OF
the morning sun kisses the summit q hls
grave, and fingers ct sventide around iss
base, a. If both, to allow the shadows OF
night to darken the spot, consecrated by
the purest elections Of free people. Day
after day, and year after year, their warn
ings Of danger have been reiterated, and
their hopes and desires announced and YET
twlthstanding these, tho slave population
have increased from haif million to over
four millions. Louisiana and Florida, have
been purchased at an expense Of sc, 1000
out Of which six slavsholding States have
been carved, sending twelve Senators
and twenty -four Representatives, to repre-
sent the slave. holding interest in Congress.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri have also
been admitted to the Union on the same
footing, adding six more Senators and q
moro Representatives in Congress. And,
last Of all, the ssLons Star Republic" Texas
came crowding in with her two Senators and
two Representatives, making nine slave
holding States added to the Union, and having
at the present time 90 slave-hOlding members
Of Congress. And, to crown all, through
tho influence of these States, the whols
power Of the Government is subsidized, and
the guarantees of the Constitution, when in
the least calculated to thwart their interest,
is treated as nullity and citizens under the
panopIy of its protection are treated with q
cruelty more infamous than anything con-
tanned in tho code of Dracco. Men may
cone to the North, from the South, and
proclaim from every church and every school
house, on every hill every valley, under
every green tree or on any of our fowery
carpeted prairies, the great advantages of
slavery and the importance and necessity Of
having our State Constitutions SO altered or
amended as to admit the "Patriarchal Insti-
tom among US. His rights as an American
freeman will be respected, and his life, limb
and property protected. But let North
man in any of our southern States, breathe
aught against slavery, and wo! betide him,
and all that is dear to him, and every yea,
this prescription becomes the more insup.
portable. Despite of all these draw backs.
America, to-day, presents a picture Of which
a world might we'll be proud to boast. And
shall VIC now draw aside the veil of futurity
and peer away down through the vista Of
the future, to that period still hidden in The
womb Of time, when the universal brother.
hood Of men will be recognized and freedom
reign universal.
The data upon which all conclusions Of
| Tue f.s~IU aIo nAou, 5. A.. .svvsd Do Of the
past, and the mental actions of the present
taking these as starting point, we may
safely scan the future.
When We look upon the internal commo-
tions, which at this time have gained such
fearful ascsndenoy in the ranks of disun-
ionists in the South. The deep hatred of
the North. men against slavery and its con-
oomitans evils, and the general and almost
universal overthrow Of Empires, the
most powerful of earth, where long, contin-
usd abuses Of power have existed, We might
have fearful forebodings Of tie future, and
hastily come to the conclusion, that the
American continent, like othernations Of the
earth, is subject to perpetual oscillation; and
that all the grandeur of the present, and all
the glory Of past, were to be buried once
more il the rubbish Of the temple. Tha,
Bunker Hill, the monument of nation,
valor, would again crumble into dust, and
that the graves Of our venerated fathers
would cease to exert their nob.e inspiration:
upon the minds Of American citizens. Tha
the generations which are yet to succeed u
will have to dig in the Earth for the moul
dering records of our history, as We now d
Of that race of intelligent men which one
inhabited this country, prior to what VI
call the aboriginal tribes, Of whose histor,
nothing remains but their sal monument
and decayiDg Notifications. following thes
and the fast decaying tribes of their con
querers-the native Indian, century ago
an innumerable host, stretching from tn
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean-ts day scarcely
a vestage remaining.
Following this train Of thought, we nigh
hesitate to start forward in our exploration
of the future and, were it not for the goot
genius which prompts and guides, We woul'
fain desist-were tho fate Of our owl
beloved America left alone in the hands o
secsionalists, which always are disunionists
hope would die within u, and gladly woul'
We turn our face to the wall, and take GU
departure for the bright world above ~
ere the agony and commissions Of dyinj
nation appalled, rs.
But from this dark picture Of the future
let as hasten toone more congenial TO the sen
timents, the hopes and ASPIRATIONS Of ever
lover of his country. The conservative me-
Of the nation are unawed by sectional strife
and look calmly on the conflict that is wsgin
fsrcer and hotter among sectioualists- the
ore the safeguard of the nation-the bull
wark Of the Constitution, and come what
ever may, they will ever be found firm
the wave cinctured rock Of the ocean
threats from all assistants, will fall a
harmless around them ~ do raindrops upo
the plumes Of the eagle. They. know n
North, no South, no East, and NO West
but, moved BY higher, more noble and MOI
patriotic impulses. see nothing but ii
Union, a. tits, and is to be-who guard tn
provisions Of the Constitution, as do Cheru
BIN and Sersphim, with flaming sword, th
portals Of its entrance, swearing fealty
Ill legal enactmcnts, bs they ever seemingI
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