The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-22

stroyed by violence. Peaceful acousescenc !,
10 such conbinations 10 perjury and t,easo,
on the part Of the Chief Magistrate Of "a,
country, for which be may be iupeacAed snt
executed. Yes men speak Of Mr. Lincclr
as having plangsd into wicked var. They
csnsuse him for negcsissiug with ensoys whs
came not to settle grissanees, bat 70 demand
recognition Of the dismembermens Of ths
republic which he had just sworn to main.
:sic.
Il is true that the ordisary daily and net.
ty aAairs Of men come under the cosniasnce
OF the state governments, tending thus to
foster local patriotism and local allexiance.
At the same time, as all controversies Be.
tween citizens Of different States come With
IN the sphere Of the federal courts, and as
the manifold and conflicting cerrents Of %
rapid q national life as the American, can
rarely be confined wi,hinnarrew geograph-
icai boundaries, It fcftsws that the federal
courts, even for domestic pArposes a. well
as foreign, are parts Of the daily, visible
functions Of the body polite. Ihs Union
10 omnipresent. The custom heuse, the
courthouse, the arsenal, the village post.
office. the muskets Of the militia, make the
authority Of the general government con.
slant fact. Moreover, the restless, migra.
tory character of the population, which
rarely permits all the members OF one fam
lily to remain denizens Of any one state, has
interlaced the states with each other, and al
with the Union, to such M extent that Z
painless cxcision Of portion Of the whole
nation is an impossibihty. To cut away
the pound Of flesh and draw no drop Of
blood, surpasses human ingenuity.
Neither the opponents or friends Of the
new government, in the frst generation af.
ter its establishment, held the doctrine Of
secession. The states' right party and the
federal party, disliked or cherished the gov
eminent because Of the general conviction
that it was a constituted and centralized au-
thority, permanent and indivisable, like that
OF any other organized nation. Each party
continued to favor or to oppose strict con-
struetion OF the instrument; but the doctrine
OF notification and secession was plant Of
later growth. II was an accepted fact that
the United States was not a confederacy.--
That word was never used in the Constitu.
ton, except once by way Of prohibition.
We were nation, not copartnership, ex-
cept, indeed, in the larger sense in which
every nation may be considered copartner-
ship-a copartnership Of the present with
the past and with the future. To borrow
the lofty language Of Burke:
"A State ought not to be considered as
nothing better than partnership agreement
in trade Of pepper and coffee, calico, to.
bacco, or some other such lew concern, to
be taken up for little temporary interest,
and to be dissolved by the fancy OF the par
ties. II sto be looked upon with other ref
erence, because it is not partnership in
things subservient only to gross animal ex-
issence, Of temporary ane perishable ma.
ture. 1t is q partnership in all science, a
in oil art, partnership in every
virtue and in oil perfection, q partnership
not only between those who are living bat
between those who are living, those who are
dead, and those who are to Be born.v
And the simple phrase Of the preamble to
our Constitution, is almost as pregnant
''To secure the blessings Of liberty to US and
our posterity."
But as the innumerable woes Of disunion
out Of which We had been rescued by the
began to fade into the past,
the allegiance to the Union, in certain re-
gisns of the country, seemed rapidly to d.
Ahtussbs ~ WAC CSCINcu W tOS 6uUtiS XeUl-
US Of Mr.. Calhoun. one Of the most brilliant
and persuasive orators that ever lived, to
embody once more in a set Of sounding
sophisms the main arguments which had
been unsuccessfulIy used in former gcnsr.
tion to prevent the adoption Of the Consti-
tuition, and to exhibit them now as legiti-
mate deductions from the Constitution. The
tariff controversy was the occa-
sion in which the argument Of State sov.
ereignty was put forth in all its strength.
In regard to the dispute itself, there can be
no doubt that the South was in the right
aud the North was in the wrong. The pro-
dsction BY an exaggerated tariff Of q revs-
nue rs much over and above the wants Of
government, that it was at last divided
among the separate States, and foolishly
s9nandered, was the most triumphant reduc-
flo dd absnrdum that the South could have
desired. But it is mono the less true that
the notification by a State Legislature Of a
federal law was greater injury to the whole
nation than foolish tariff, long since re-
pealed, had inflicted. II was q stab to the
Union in its vital part. The blow was par
liallyiparried, butt may be doubted whsth-
er the wound was ever healed.
VIZ RibtCCtiSC fsstc"s IIC0 Ia0V
the merits of these questions
must be considered rs settled by sound think
ers in all civilized lands must, nevertheless,
still remain in some countries the subject Of
honest argument and legitimate controser.
y. When all parts OF Q country are repre-
.ented-and especially in the case Of the
United States, where the southern portion
has three-ffths Of Q certain kind Of "prop-
er.y" represented, while the North has no
property repressnted--feason should con-
lend with error for victory, trusting to its
innate strength. And until after the seces-
lion Of the gulf states, the moderate tariff
u 1857 was in operation, with No probabil-
ty Of its repeal. Moreover, the advocates
of the enlightened system Of free trade
should reflect, that should the fourteen slass
States become permanently united in sep.
Arats confederacy, the state Of their inter.
pal affairs will soon show remarkable rev.
olutiop. The absence Of the fugitive Law
will necessarily drive all the slaves from
what are called the border States; and be
must be . shallow politician who dreams
here 10 England, that free trade with ell
Ihe world, and direct taxation for revenue.
will be the pslicy OF the new and expensive
military empire which will ariss. Manufac-
sorss ef Gotten and voolso viii sprips up
On every river and mountain stream In The
northern Stare states, the yast mineral wealth
Of their territories will require dsvslopmens,
and the cry for pTotectisn 10 pstivs iodus.
sFy in one quarter win BE- - surely needed
- will BE- that other cry from the Gulf Of
Mexico, now partially suppressed for ebsi-
ous reasons, for the African slass trade
To establish great gulf empire, including
Mexico, Central Awefics, Cabs, and ether
isIaods With unlimited cotton feids and us-
limited negroes, this 10 the golden vision 10
porsuit Of which the great republic hss been
sacrificed, the benefeens Conssisution sob
verted. Add already shs vision has fed, bat
the work of destruction rsmsins.
The mischief caused By tssiR, however
selfish OF however abssTd, msy b. issposs-
~. In the last sisssees years there have
been foar separate tssiss passed By the
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