Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-01-30

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g the following resolution reported BY Il
q seasss semmiatss 20 shlrsssn, sppointe
% 20 eousider fha agftated and distraese
g oondisivn Of the country.
40 Resogusd, That the COMMITTEES have nj
a. bean able 70 agree aron any general pla
q sajassmsass and report shas fsct 60 th
ss senHse, together with the journal on th
committee
Il Mr. Douglas said:
: DIR. PxxsIpzss: :~-No5 act of ny publ
life has ever caused nae 80 much regre
as the necessity Of voting In the specia
= committee Of thirteen for the resofutio,
trspozsiaS % the Senate nax Snaniaisy &
Tagrse upon any general plan Of adjust.
ment, which would restore peace 20 tbs
country and insure the integrity of tbs
r. Union. 1--we wish 10 understand shs re-
al causes which hare produced such wide
spread and deep seated discoBtent In the
slave holding States, We must go back
beyond the recent Presidential election,
and trace the origin and history Of the
y slavery agitation from the period when 1t
first became al active element in Federal
politics. Without fssiguing the Senate
with tedioaH details, may Be permitted
to assume, Without the fear of successful
contradiction, that whenever the Federal
Government has attempted to decide and
control the siaysry question in The newly
4 AeqaiFed Tefffsories, regardIess Of the
wishes Of the Inhabitants, Alienation of
feeling, sectional strife, and discord have
ensued and whenever Congress has re-
Trained from such interference, harmony
and frasernal feeling have been restored.
The whole volume Of our nations history
may be confidently appealed TO IN support
of this prspesisicA. Theusss memorable
instances are the fearful sectional eoutro.
versies which brought the Union to the
the verge of disruption in 1920, aad
again in 1850. Il was the terriserial
question in each case which presented the
chief points Of difficulty, because it in
yolSed tbs irritating question of the rela-
tive political powsr Oftthe twa sections.
All the other questions, which entered iG-
to and served to increase the slavery agi-
tation, were deemed of secondary impor-
lance, and dwindled into iusignifcanse SO
ssoE q the territorial question was def-
nasely settled. ~ Il = IS sss 9aas
fgaA tks psxiad 81 the osgs4ixssioa Of |
| the FEDERAL Goyesnlnent, under the Con- |
stitution, in 1889, down to 1890, ali the
territorial govarnmants had been srgsn-
ixed upon she basis Of nom interference /
BIZ Gsngvess with the domestic institutions |
Of the people. During thar period seve-
ral new territories were organized insIna-
ing Tennessee, louisiana, Missouri, Mis-
sissippi sna Asabasaa- in no oss Of these
territories did Congress attempt to inter
fere with the question Of slavery, either
70 introduce or exclude, protest or pFphib-
1t. During the whole ofthis period there
was peass aaa GOODWILL between the peo-
pie of ali paris Of the Union so far as the ,
question of slavery Is concerned.
Bat the hrss time Congress ever at ,
tempted to interfere with and control that i
question, regardless of the wishes of the | 4
people interested In ii, the Union was pat
in jeopardy, and was only saved from dis (
solutia9hy Kte sdopaioH Of the eompro- {
mise of 1920. In che famous Missouri i
coa4rsysps she Asajogisy pi shss soah de- I
manded that Congress should prohibit $
slavery foreyer Ia ali the territory aeQnir-
ed from France, extending from the State o
of Louisiana to the British possessions on
the North, and from the Mississippi to the
hBGAE AAaAHS4lHSs 4 We SOlkn ALA VIC
nainority Of the North, on the (
stood firmly npon the ground Q
Of non-intervention, denying the right Of I
Congress to touch the subject. They did
Dot ask Congress TO interfere for protaa-
lion or for any purpose; while they oppos- a
ID the right and justice Of the exclusion.
Thus, each party, with their respective q
positions distinctly defined the one for a
md the otlsar against congressional inter ii
TentiOn-m maintained i'm posation wish dea. Il
oerate persistency until disunion seemed q
Inevitable, wAen \ pympFomiss was effect m
d by an equifabIe partition of the terri s
ory between the two sections on the line in
t 36S 30, prohibiting slavery on ths one =,
ids and permitting it on the other. iu
In the adoption OF this compromise, M
sch party yielded one half Of its claim In
Or the sake of the Union. uwas design a
d 10 fern the basis of perpetual peace On fo
be slavery question by establishing a rule a.
. accordance With which all future coEk
royersy would be avoided. The line of th
artifieu was distinctly marked 30 far as al
ur territory might extend; aad, by ire th
stable inference, the spirit Of the com yi
rouaise required the extention of the AZ
ne ON the same parallel wheneysx we vi
8ould extead our territorial limits. Ths th
forth and the South-altbough each was of
issatis6ed With the termg of the settle bi
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