The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-22
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! ia viii receive essential modi6catieus ever
in tie special session Of Juiys hut sAs woes
caused b. secession and civil war are inf.
nites and whatever Be the result Of the con.
i test, tAis generation Is not likely to ferese
the injuries already inflicted.
4 The great secession, therefore Of 1906 81
isa rebellion, ike any other insurrscsion
| against established suthcrity, and has been
followed by civil war, a. its Immediate and
inevitable consequence. II sucoessful, il 10
rerelution, and whether suscessful or not is
viii be judged before the tribunal Of man.
kind and pcsserits according u he eternal
laws Of reason and jsstice.
Time and history will decide whether il
was good and sagacious deed 10 destroy
fabric OF 20 long duration, because Of the
election OF Dir. Lincoln; whether il we're
wise and noble to substitute ossr large
portion Of the American soil eonfederacy
OF which slavery, in the wsrds Of its Vice
President, 10 the corner-stone, for the old
Republic, OF which Washington, with his
ewn hand laid the corner stone.
!, 10 conceded BY the North that il has
received from the Union innumerable blsss-
lings. But It would seem that the Union had
asso conferred benefits on the South. II has
carried its mails at large expenes. II has
recalturca its fugitive slaves. II has pur-
chased vast tracts Of foreign territory, eus
OF whics . whole tier Of slave States has
been constructed. II has annexed Texas.
1t has made war with Mexico. II has made
an ofier-not likely TO be repeated, however
Ito purchase Cuba, with its mult,tade Of
slaves, At pries, according to report, 40
large as the sum paid BY England for the
emancipation Of he. slaves. individuals in
the free States have expressed themselves
freely on slavery, as upon every topic Of
human thought, and this must ever be the
ease where there is freedom Of the press
and OF speech. The number Of professed
abolltionists has hitherto been very small,
while the great body Of the two principal
political parties in the free States have
been strongly opposed to them. The Re.
publican party Was determined to set bounds
to the extension Of slavery, while the DEM
ccratc party favored that system, but
neither had designs, secret or avowed,
| against slavery within the States. They
knew that the question could only be legally
and nationally dealt with BY the States
themselves. But both the parties, a. pre-
sent events are so signally demonstrating,
were imbued with a passionate attaehmsns
to the Constitutisn--to the established au.
thority Of government, by which alone our
laws and our liberty are secured. All par
ties in the free States are now united ns
one man, inspired by noble and generous
emotion to vindicate the sullied honor Of
their flag, and to save their country from
the abyss OF perdition int which il seemed
descending.
or the ultimate result 10 have no intsn-
ton Of speaking. Only the presumptuous
will venture to lift the veil and affect to read
with accuracy coming events, the most mo.
mentous perhaps Of our times. One result
is, however, secured. The Montgomery
constitution, with slavery for its corner
stone, is not likely to be accepted, a. but
lately seemed possible, not only BY all the
slave States, bat even BY the border free
States; nor to be proclaimed from Wash
ington as the new national law in the name
of the United States. Compromises will no
longer be offered by peace conventions, in
which slavery 10 to Be made national, me-
groes declared property over all the land
and slavery extended over all territories
now possessed or hereafter to be acquired.
Nor is the United States' government vet
driven from Washington.
Events are rapidly unrollng themselves,
and it will be proved, in course Of time,
whether the North will remain united in its
inlexible purpose, whether the South is 40
firmly united, or whether counter revolu-
ton will be cfectual In either section, which
must necessarily give the victory to its op-
ponents. We know nothing Of the schemes
or plans Of either government.
The original design Of the Republican
party was to put an end TO the perpetual
policy OF slavery extension, and acquisition
Of foreign Territory for that purpose, and
at the same time to maintain the Constitu-
ton and the integrity Of the Republic. This
at the South seemed an outrsge which Jus.
tilted civil war for events has amply proved
what sagacious statesman prophesied thirty
years ago-that secession is civil war.
II all is to end in negotiation and scpara.
tion notwithstanding the almost intsrmina.
bic disputes concerning frontiers, the
stronghold in the Gulf, and the unshaekled
navigation Of the great rivers throughout
their whole length, which il IL probable,
will never be abandoned BY the North, sx-
cspt - the result Of total defsat in the feld,
il 10 at any rate certain that both parties
will negotiate more equitably with arms in
their hands than il the uuarmed Of either
section we're to deal With the armed. II 10
comes to permanent separation, tso, il 10
certain that in . comm oDweslth which will
still slsry in the name OF ths United States,
and whose peopls will doubtless re-estab.
lish the old Constitution with soms impor.
tant amendments, the word secsssioo
will be sound Of WOO not to be lightly
uttered. 1t will have been proved to de-.
signate, not peaceful and natural fusctioa
Of political life, but to be only another cx-
preston for revolution, bloodshed, and oil
the horrors OF civil war.
1t is probable thas long course Of years
will be run, and many inconvenienees and
grievances endured, before any ons Of the
free States sscedcs from the reconstructed
Union.
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two in front Of us, on the fAilrsad during