Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1860-03-07
couNeTL RIVFFs, IOWA a0RNIG. MARoH 1860

. aaa Uuioa, aAey are equally dssissass i
: The pcweF ia thnss pavts ef chs terrier
; eedsd hy France 30 tha Unitaa States b
: the name Of Louisiana. Slavery h q
, this Union the subject Of Internal legia
] lasisa In the States, aAti In peace 10 cog
d nixahla By Congress Omly as IL IL taelsE.
tolerated aud protested whsEs is sxisal
. blythe Constitutisn of Ihs unitsd Ssases
and az ID minglea in their intsFcours.
. with other nasiSns. Arkansas comes
) and has the right to came, into Chi
. Union. With hex alaEa laws.s kt is wTi&.
ten in the bond, and howsvsy msy la.
, meus thAs il ever was 30 written, mnsi
faithfully perform It's obligations.
. asa conteut so rscsixs her "a une Of tha
Slave statsa nf this Uniaa.p taE $50
cay, Sir, you Old Whigss now Re,
pablieaus, have found new political
faith from thss Of y. q. Adafasl gou
nov say, no more Slave States, and ysu
demand that Congress shall prohiblt
slavery in this very territory OF LoRasl-
ana, Kansas and Nebraskasl Mr.. Ad-
arns declared shaa he vas Bound By the
\ bend and his cath soi support the Cos.
stiEutio Of the United Ststesi yoa Sira,
have taken the sams cath and are h0aana
/ bySil9 same nonu-baf you seem t0care
NOS for either, In your hot haste 70 reach
the spoils Of publis plundeE. You say
! Congress has payer to exclude slsVery
/ from any and all tho Territories Of the
/ United States. How do you now stand
With John Quincy Adams, your forrner
gFsaA leader He says it is In the bond /;
be says that tbs iphabilauts Of the Ter
Fitory Of Louisiana (Which includes
Kansas and Nsbraska, hare ths right
/ 10 come into she Union with their slaves
| and their slave lava, just &s the original
/ Thirteen States came iHto the UnisAs
/ Did not those States come into the un~
/ ion as Slave States Il ia written in the
bond, aad you aSs bound by your o4tia
to abide By ths obligstioB. appeal to
| you Republicans on this Aoeg 70 pause In
| your mad career; you are violating the
| prineiplss Of the Fathers OF the Rspub-
| lie you ara sxeapassing 90 the Oonasi~
tuition Of your country you vail aeasEoy
| the Uaion Of these States, aad With its
dessrSAtion, the highest hopes ef the
grsat and good, not only Of our own
county, bat of Ehs sarld.--You say the
South viii not withdraw--gsa 1 answer
yoa, they will thsy must do SO, TO ssys
their honor and their ibsrty, If yoa per-
sist, through yoar numerical strength,
to deny them equality and their iust
Constitutional rights. Five noble Free
States have been made out az territory
voluntarily donated by the State Of Yir-
ginia I'd the Natioual Government, and
which Daniel Webster said, In 1850, had
brought over eighty millions Of dollars
into. the National Treasury Let nae
ask you, Sirs, and The whole people Of
the Free States, 10 do unto your South
cru brethren as you Wouid have them do
unto you.
You say the South has governed as
from gha Foundation Of she Republic
This 10 nos "a. Bat, sir, as | remarked
few days since in debate on this
question, If the Soath shall goveEu the
country az sac has governed, ia such
man as W Washingtoa, Jefferson, Madison,
| Monroe Rnd Jackson, les her govern for
ever. care not 10 get hold Of tbs
purse strings Of the nation | care not
for Ufice-but do care 70 defend our
free institutions and the Consultation
! Of my country, which our Fathers gave
10 Us, aud which desire to leave unima
paired to my children, when l. am gone,
/ And, Sir, will defend them With my
latest breath.-I Applause,
! Siz, lsa Eaa call F0GE atsaAkiSa 50 yosaE
opposition 10 slavery eIt has always
/ existed: treat il as did Webster and
| Adams, and Clay; treat it as the Faith
ers did-tet it hide its time. Sir, what
| are you 60 do With she slaves IL you free
them The value Of the alaxs property
! In the United States is estimated TO be
| two thousand millions Of dollars Sir,
on the principle alone Of dollars and
cents, can yaa blot out Of existence that
amount Of property without bahkTaPtiug
! the countTy} SIR, would not there be
an "irrepresstble conflict" between the
races would not one subject the 9TH
err? Either the white would subject the
black race to slavery again, or the black
subdu5 the white, Is not the Negro a
mAn2-theugh tAe lowest order Of the
human race. The European is The supe-
Eior If the Negro in every attribute th&t
sssimilates man 10 his God. Will you
turn the ignorant Negro loose, With his
british nature, upon the white woman
Of the South f---the bloOd-thirsty negro,
20 murder the white woman and children
we're unfortunately murdered By bTu-
tai Negroes. Are you prepared to lei
them loose from their bondage, aud 60
witness like saenss in the fairest portion
of our Lniop? ..-......
/ Another thing, Sir. You saY ws don''
want them here keep the negroes thers
in the alaVs States. In the name OF hR.
mauity, open yonr doors s0d take then
, In. Wunid you thua aabauch thas-nobl'
, people, and degrade that beautiful coun.
! try-as beautiful as tbs sun ever rost
upon-by keeping them there? The ne
gfoea will either master tia whites OF To-
, whites the negroes. Mhen yon pas
, through an Ossau Of blood, thea yoa 'sgai
see the full result of your course.
Go back, sir, to the Colonial histor..
: of Amerioa. Who planted slavery hers
? Did the South, who, when the wholi
! country was opened TO slavery, did no
own a ship Every civilized nation Of
; the globe trafieksd in the negro race.
! was considered q lawfRl srafiek. G.
= and consult the books. Well, after the
came, who traded in them p-Massaehu
: settB and her ships brought them hers
( " hen tbs veios of abolitiea of the slAw
4 trade arose in FiEginias Massachassss
n and South Carolina were the most siren
e uous opposers. That propositions cam
j. from the South, hns by your Norfhsr
z shipping. and tRalie in negroes you mad
i yonr money, and pat it into yoar oM
n pockets, and to Jour own uae. And no
: that the South is snvolved IN this matter
" we'll may they say you, return as ou
d money, With interest, before you requt'
!. Of as TO give up sbe property wa bold.
i Sir. TO illustrate this mattsr--auppoa
r . nan sells you d horse, and y0u haY
> taken care Of is the slaim 10 prefers
"a that the mother of the hoEss was stole
ss Nov, mast ypu give up sha horse, bseaal
g. the mother OF il, in the hands OF anothe
ls vas stoteng tApplanse.) Who shon
lpaY back the purchase money g--she M
as Who bought The heessy or the man vi
a had stoien the dam Sarely not q
se man who bought the horse. .e-
M But, SIR, I rsuat call your attention
e. what has been said By much greater n
Ii than mysals. read FROM the gpsaeh
nd Daniel Webster, the same the gsntlena
ty EMr. Gurisy1 read from the other da.
ee asIasaEy has existed In tbs w0EiR fgS
time immsnorial. Thsge was slavery
txs the earliest period Of history amona !
IL oEisntaI nations. There was alavs
Ia among The jew; shs theocxatic Roye1
b. menk of thaa people issued no iajuncsi
10 asatngs IL. As the inkvDanesi ~ ok OhT
M / tsanisv shs R0nnn wogid was fall