Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-10-24

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evidences af kind Dlvins Pxosidsasss I'd
/ ass ths favored aaaion df tho woslksls~.
LfCheeEs,I sas II
1 Tbs simpls question now asissa MhasAex
we ara viIling to live - wa ksse livsi
unjeg the ganssisutioa thai oanl sathazs
made for I'd; or whether we will JOIN Ahis
aatisslaFsry abolisioa party lii shaaxing
/ the Rnvexnanan and take the ahaacss Ut
their making besssr one fsr usao GriSs
OF sno, 90, 2 and applauss.l s
Thar proportions mean ResasuEiazs
| Rndisguised rsvolmsiaa. lQsiss Of fsshaass
no. aad aheags.1 Thsy Gannok Garry cad
thait principles and preaAEys the Uuion Of
shese Ssatss. They are n0s willing shis Cow
.ernmans shall rensain On lhs prineipaes np-
% xhlOh Is was saadas Suppose fhs idass
| which Mr. Seward and Dir. Lins0la nsw
tell ron are great oeatssi idsas bad pre-
Failad when this goyaEnzaent was paaas,
and ihs immprsal Waahiagtan nhen ha
took his seat - Prssidsut og ne DMxsn@I
sfies aasd QaaIk1 Z
- ! 81 j -
asrsosi M y. Nat Washinstsrs Enae
tkla stsssnens. & ahas 8 veal r ! Sssn 'sae
rssqlH na ypa Ehink - ftn E1AGsl
woai4 bare pusFefsd - - slaEnhai&-
ing HsAtss, and thus - 1bolishcd sIssr
II sxssyNksre y ~ lcsiss of
ssnes On ~ of - I'd y itno3 nra6.
shls, Z not naFtsia III tkstssiys slssA-
bot oag 9tesss Il u kasa oss-sotsd aheI
one tres Stats. r ihm fRstaned slsEsxs
hr o uenstisHiind paosision o. every
foot Of AnsSao soifa [Appiknss,l lesgs
The frisnfs ck fraedom, Is this 1ay-
egnmenk wn1 made, only slaiued thak shs
people 81 81 Slate sheala be pssmssssd
70 regulat md control the slaFsry aass-
tion r nssiyes., They ware not will
IND ~ Y day, when We we're shs miaor-
in - IT, slava States the majority. to
eAsrnR The Federal GoyeEnmans with this
pawsrs No Northern man sysz desired 60
snfruss The Federal Gogsznmeat witk pow
ef aEes slavery, until the sgava states bad
bee6fne q minority, W. Of the NORTH
struggled Tor the prinefpas al nonrintes-
ference By the Federal Eovaxnnaas. and
the night of the people Of each Ssass TO
control the question Tor themselves until
We Incorporated II into the government.
Under that principle, six OF che original
slayeholding States hase becoms free New
York, Gonneoticut, Rhode Island. New
AAmpshire, Nav JsEssy and Peans5iva-
MIA. . fs7 r.siI.gs
By what authority did they abolish sla-
very9 Did they do tin obedience 10 an
act Of Gongressf Did they ask the per
mission of Congress when they did it2--
On tie contrary. ..Eash- OF those States.
held slavery and projected il a. long "a
they thought il was for their good, and
abolished It when they thought il 10 be
their interest to do 80. Thus, you see,
thai under the principle OF nom -fnterven-
tion By Congress, and shs right af aaeh
people 10 decide for themselves, sha free
States have increased from one 10 ,eight- |
cen. BEGINNING With small mihorityy
We have become . eontralling majority,
under the operation of that Just and equaa
principle which allows every body 70 do |
as they please, ARaAow, wa wish 70 NJ
verse that principle Had exercise power
over The South which We never wo'd hare
Submitted to when we were the majority,
u it fairP l. is honest for Us now mere
ly, because we have got the numerical
strength, TO eSarercise q power which ws |
deemed unjust and oppressive Whan we
were the minoritys Loud cries Of No.
and spplaass.l ARE you, the descendants |
Of those ancestors, who resisted this fed |
eral power when IN minority, now pre-
pata To violate the Fundamental principle |
Of self government, because you hare got
the power to oppress other peopls2 (Cries
of ssNo.ol / tel you, nay friends, there il
but one path Of duty and of safety, and |
that is the path marked ont by Qlay, by
Webster, by Cas-, and Upion Wings ana |
Union Democrats ia the compromiss
measures Of 1850, [Immenss applause.l
The principle on which those measures
rested was non-intarfersnee BY Congress
with slavery eithey in the States on Terri
lories. In 1852 the Whig party, ssAega-
hlsd In nalihnal corysRtions aaismsd thai
prinesple as > fundauansal aftisls u iss |
sresd, and the sams year hha nsuao0Fasio |
party aasemhled lR eoRTsasioa, iaoogpes-
sssd the same article ID onE creed
Thus only eight years ago, every Whig
and sysgy Demooras In Amexiea stood |
pledged By the platform of his p4sky t0i
Ne decsgina of nan-intexxsntioa. fsTkas,s |
sa5 and applsuse.l II Ia true thas Ms. |
ssssa saa!ssss lss pslHaiplsi hss |
shst Me cid Whigs and shs old nsh0-
sratss gexsy wssep pledged % u. InasunnA
% the Whig party with which he used % |
profess 70 act and with which Lincoln |
prosssssd to be identi6ed was pledged 30
Ii, he new tells ypu that thas party was !
ncf reliable, and that II wss cheat and |
5dalvsjsH, he aauHsas tha Whia parss al |
having bean guilky Of srickery, frAud add
sreachsry, and yeA be appeals 10 The bld |
Wings 70 Qo1s ap and hslp him 70 elect |
I.iHcela aver the Aemocpsts, f@u0ad. |
give Il TO hims,n and applxnse.I Nhy can |
We not te-day stand BIZ the pxiacipses On !
which our fathers made the constitution. |
and by which we agreed to, stand in 1850,
In 1852, Ia s54, ana III SO 81
-Four years go there ware but two
sFassas ID Ameriean nqlisias aA TIE slsYeFy |
question was Intervention and The |
5ther was non inseryension. The Rspub- |
lican PARRY then stood pledged TO shS doe |
trine thgs Congress should soaGol tie /
question BIZ slsydry Id the Tegrtsasiess and
ths Democratic party staod plesiged th the |
'docsrine of nom interference h9 Congress,
Thns the contest was fought bstwsen Bn- |
ehanan and Fremont. The old line Wings
chiefly supported Buchanan and BreGkin-
ridge, because they were pledged 10 The
a.astsine Of the Compromise measures BIZ
1880,
Thoss candidates were elected on shas
principle nf non- interference and popular
sovereignty, ssThst's 30, and eheaFs-
Since shat election two sectional parties
have come Into existence. Now, yoa aad
the Republicans OF the North dananding