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

mitting such loose phraseolo2y and sue
imsg:pary rights, We should violate the frs
principles Of our political organic alton
should fy in the face Of our history, shou.
trample under foot the teachings Of Jaw
Hamilton. Washington. Masshali, Madison
Dane, Kent, Story and Webster, and accsp,
ing only the dogmas Of Mr.. Calhoun a in
, faliible, surrender forever our national iau,
and our national existence.
Englishmen themselves live ia q unite,
empire; but if the kingdom Of Scosians
should secede, should seiIs'all the na,iona
!. property, forts, arsensls and public treas
ure on its soil, organize an army. seut
forth foreign minister to Louis Napo.
leon, the Emperor Of Austria, and othA
powers, issue invitations to all the pirate.
OF the world to Prey upon English commerce
screening their piracy from punishment by
the banner Of Scotland.and should apnouncs
IT'S intention OF planting that Gag upon
buckingham Palace, il is probable that a
blow or TWO would be struck to defend the
national honor and the national existence,
without fear that the civil war would be de.
nounced as wicked and fratricidal. Ye, i,
would be difficult to show that the State of
Florida, for example, q Spanish province.
purchased for national purposes some forty
years ago BY the United States Government
tor several millions, and fortified aud fur
nished with navy.yaras for national uses a.
national expense of many more millions,
and numbering at this IN oment population
OF only $4,000 white men, should be more
entitled to resume its original sovereignty
than the ancient kingdom Of William the
Lion and Robert Bruce.
| The terms of The f-.atv Lat-non E.~,.. =
and Scotland were perpetual, and SO is the
! Constitution of the United States. The
United Empire may be DESTROYED by revolu,
tion and war, and so may the United States;
Out peaceful and legal dism smb mbermens
without a consent of majority of the whole
reople is an impossibility.
| But 1t is sometimes said that the American
Republic originated in secession from the
mother country, and that it is unreasonable
/ OF the Union TO resist the seeding move
ment on the part of the new confederaey.
But II so happens that the enc case suggests
the other only by the association Of contrast.
| The thirteen colonies did not intend to Sc
cede from the British empire. They were
foTcea into secession by course Of policy
on the part OF the mother country, such as
/ no English administration at the present.
day can be imagined capable of adopting.
Those Engishmen in America were loyal to
the crown; but they exercised the right
which cis-Atlantic or transatlantic English
men have always exercised, of resistance to
arbitrary government. Taxed without be.
ing represented, and insulted By measures
taken 70 enforce the odious, but no. exorbi-
tant imposts, they did not secede, nor de.
clare independence. On the contrary. they
/ ma IA =
! In the words of the "forest born Demosthe-
nes-as Lord Byron called the grea. Vir-
ginian, Patrick Henry -"The Americans
petitioned, demonstrated, cast themselves
at the foot Of the throne, and imp.ored its
/ interposition to arrest the tyrranical hands
OF the ministers and Parliament. But their
petitions were slighted, their remonstrances
procured only additional violence and insult,
and they were spurnsd with contempt from
the foot Of the throne.
| The "Boston massacre" the Boston port
| bill, the Boston "tea- party," the battle Of
| Lexington, the battle of Bunker's Hill were
events which long preceded the famous Dec
laration OF Independence. 1t was not till
the coonists felt the redress for grievances
was impossible that they took the irreyo yooa-
bic step and renounced their allegiance to
the crown. The revolution had come at last;
they bad been forced into into it, but they
knew that it was revolution, and that they
were acting at the peril Of their lives" We
must be unanimous in this business" said
Hancock "we must all hang together"
"Yes," replied Franklin, "or else we shall
hang separately"
The risk incurred BY tho colonists was
| enormous, but the injury to the mother
country was comparatively slight. They
went cut into darkness and danger them
selves, but the British empire was not
thrown into anarchy by their secession.
| Thus their course was the reverse Of that
adopted by the South. The prompt seces-
sion Of seven States because of the consti-
tutonal election Of President over the
candidates voted for By their people, was
the redress in advance Of grievances which
| they may, reasonably or unreasonably, have
expected, but which have not yet occurred.
| There is the high authority Of the Vice
/ President of the Southern Confedsracy, who
| declared q week after the election of Mr..
| Lincoln that the Election was not cause for
| secession, and that there was no certainty
| that he would have either the power or in
| clipation to invade the Constitutional rights
| Of the South. In the free States it was held
| that the resolutions Of the convention BY
which Mr.. Lincoln was nominated were
scrupulously and conscientiously framed to
protect all those Constitutional rights
| The question Of slavery, was one which had
always been an open question and on which
issue was DOW joined. But il was no oues.
| ton at all that slavery within State vas
/ sacred from all interference br the General
| Government, or by the free States. or By
| individuals in those States and the Chicago
convention unanimously asserted that doe.
trine.
The question Of free trade which is ,hruss
before the English public BY manv journals,
| had no immediate connection with the seces.
! ION, although doubtless the desire of direct
trade With Ec.ors has long been . promin-
eat motive at the South. The Gulf States
seeded under the moderate tariff Of 1857,
| for which South Carolins voted side BY side
With Massachusetts,. The latter State, al
though for political, not economical reasops,
| i, though, itself obliged since the secession
| 70 sustain the Pennsylvania interest by vo-
| ting for the Merrill bill, 10 not in fsvsr OF
protection. On the contrary the great maa-
/ ufae,ures on the Merrinae river have leng
/ been ,pderendent Of protection, and export
many million dollars worth of csstsn and
other fabrics to foreign countries, usdsr-
selling or competing with oil the world IN
opsn market. II vould Be impossible for
sny European nation 70 driv. u. American
manufacturer from the markets Of the
American contipent in the principal articles
/ Of cheap clothing far she masses, tariff or NO
..ria. Thi. Is statistical fact which caones
be impugned.
The secession Of the colonies, after years
l Of oppression and er,ssano's for which re-
dre.s ha. heen sought 10 vain. left the British
/ empire :. 900 miles Oh, in security With Con-
s,ituiion and lavs uGimpaEred, esen ]. iss
/ colonial territory uas seriously diminished.
| The secession Of the Southern States, N
! .nnfsrnn, of any other remdy for expected