Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-06-05

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| GEzs BULLS s~-kk N&@ AAAs sASu as1AsSSeASsa
Of your correspondent to engage In . con.
trovsrsy with the editor Of the konpareil
I'm ssgsra % azy q The aaasaers which wsHs
The subjeca of my fornss comnnnica-
lions. 1t 10 not my desire to do SO at this
time, nass Lea 70 reply to BIS sctiralous
language. IIeazned long since, that "shs
ksenest rebake for ribaldry is contempt"
The NoRpeTsa kaek occasion TO eall ay
attention to a resolution passed BY the
Iowa Legislature at Its last session. but
did not publish the rssolsation as II soaa
passed. In ny last mentioned that it
was not publahed correctly; and, after
stating the resolution - Il vas, asked ths
NompareI what, If anything, there was in
what / had previously written, 1t variance
with the spirit of the resolution IS adopt
cd. In answer to this, the Goaparal pre-
tends to quote from my former eonsan-
nioasiou, and In doing so, makes use Of
language, placed under quotation marks,
which is very different from anything |
syer wrote. There is one Kind Of sssInaTt-
ness'' about that, but there il no kind Of
honesty in it.
de then quotes and comments upon the
following from another Communication:
s'We deny the CONSTITUTIONAL right m
one State or eight States, 70 secede from
the Unioa, We deny also the right of the
President, Of State, or any number Of
of states, or even Congress itself, to make
s0ar upon othsr States because they have
seeded" 4
To the first sentence Of this he heartily
subseribes-the second, be says Ia Gan
improvised fotiaR, without even The poor
merit of a yestigs Of authority forts
foundation.n Let as see whether it be
fiction or fact. Has the President this
Eights Jude Story, in his Communications
on the Constitution say
''The power to declare war, if vested in
the General Government, might have been
vested in the President, or in the Senate,
or in both, or in the House Of Represent
atiEes alone. In Monarchies, the power
| il ordinarily Feaked in the Executive. Bat
certainly in Republic, the Chief Magis-
trate ought not TO be clothed with pow
err 20 summary, and, at the same time SO
full of dangers to the public interest and
the public safety. 1t would be, to com.
NIT the liberties, as well az the rights OF
the people, to the ambition or resentment,
or caprice or rashness of single mind.
In aRepublican Govern
ment, war should never be resorted to ex-
cept as last expedient to yindicate its
rights for military power and military
ambition have but too often fatally TIL
umphed over the liberties of the people.
This reasoning was decisive in con6ding
the power TO Congress"
Alexander Hamilton said: "If on the
one hand Congress has the right to de-
clare war, it is on the other, the duty o.
the Executive to praeFrs peace uHti1 III
declaration is made"
1t will not be pretended that State has
the night to declare war. But the most
important question is, can Congress.
which alone hiss the power 10 declare var:
make 1ar upon any Of the States of this
Republie2 In the convention which fran
ed the Constitution, MIR. Edmond Ran
dolph of Virginia, presented plan oil
Government, in which it was proposed &c
invest Congress with power to 'eGA Jord
| the force ofths Union against any mem
Der Of the Unson, faaling 10 fulfil lis dsttl
under the articles hersoE" On THU
proposition, Mr.. Madison said;
ssThe more be rejected on the use o.
force, the more he doubted the prac.ica
bility, the justiee and the efficiency of it
when applied TO the people collectively
and not individually. 4 Union of tn
States containing such an ingredient
seemed to provide for its own destruction
/, The use Of force against State would
look more like declaration Of war, thai
an infection of punishment, and wo0l
probably be considered by the party at
! tackled. a. dissolution of ell previou
compacts By which it might be bound.
madison papers P l40.l
Alexander Hamilton, after the forma
ton of the Constitution, and before it
| adoption, in an article published in tn
Pederalfst, while urging the people to &C
! ceps of this Constitution, said;
, "Whoever considers the populousnes
: and gtrengsh Of several Of of these States
, singly, at the present junetuEe and look
: forward to what they will become even a
the distance of half century, will at one
i dismiss az idle and visionary, any sehem'
which aims at regulating their movement
. by lava, to operate on them in their col
n lectiye capacities, and to be executed D
a coercion applicable TO them in the sam
= eanaeities. 80 When the swoY
is once drawn, the passions Of men OF
4 serve no bounds of moderation. The sug
|. gessions of wounded pride, the instigt
D tioas of irrikated resentment would be al
! to carry the States, against which tt
: arms Of the Union were exerted, to al
extreme necessary 10 aTengs the atfron
/ or to avoid the disgraee Of submission
] The first sear Of his kind t0oss!d probab
J terminate in dissolution Of the Unaoi
4 s~ The majesty Of the nation
i authority must be manifested through U
medium of tia courts of justise--tt mu
j carry It's agency TO the persons Of The eli
i Ssns."
D, Afterwards in the New York eonve
.
y ton, which adopted the Coassisution,
], alluding 10 the same subject the SAL
! great statesman and patriot said: 81
Of haa been obssrUed TO coeTcs a State, 70 0
y Of the naddsst projects tAGt t0as eusT
i vissd. What picture do
d. this idea present to our viewf a natl