The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-13

q Ceapaaiss A, B, md G, Of tie I'd
Regiment lows Volunteers, hertofore ou.r
tered in this City, marched aboas two nile,
south OF town, yesterday morning, and zen
into camp. on the bank Of Musqai,oe Greek
Col. DoDcg took command of the B.,..l.
lion, superinsended the surveying Of ii.
| grounds, etc. The site selected for the an.
canpneot 10 oss Of the best for the purpos.
10 the vicinity Of the Cisy-on : beautiful
high plaseao, With ample parade grounds-
wood convenient, and water in abund.pce
mot % far away from the City as to b.
ineonveniens, bat joss far enough 70 be on,
OF the way Of teams and dust. Camp
kirksood, 10 the name given to the new
enesnpmens.
G. Parson Brownlov recently declared
10 relation to the Union men of East Tenn
essee: We intend to fight tho secessionis.s
until he'll freezes orer, and then fight them
on the ice, - Or any other man,
4 WAR FoR THE RIGHf1 OF The
PEOPLE.
The most frequent argument that 10 used
against the prosecution OF war BY the Ma
tionsl Government for the suppression of
rebellion IN the Southern States 10, that il
10 wrong to compel . people to live in alli-
ance with ~ when their hearts are 90 alien
ased that the Union cannot be cordial or
frsternal. The Continuance Of political re-
iations under circumstances of force on one
side and inability to resist on the other, it
10 held, 10 incompatible With the theory az
Republican inst buttons. Republican GOV.
eminent becomes merely military despoti.m.
ms view OF the question pending be-
tween the United States Government and
the communities in rebellion against il, and
TINS mode OF argument in behalf Of rebel
non Is common to our own citizens Who op-
pose the war, and to the citizens of foreign
countries who have allowed their sympa-
thes to take the same bias. II there were
no stronger reasons against the justice OF
this view and the strength Of this argument
than the necessity Of nations to preserve
their natural boundries, and to maintain
for their citizens unrestricted commerce
over natural high ways, this necessity would
be plea enough to Justify the United States
Government in the most determined resist
ancs TO the designs of the rebel States.
A free white population Of the loyal States
OF the Union, in the valley of the Ohio
the Missouri and the Upper Missis..,,o;
rivera, amounting to about twelve m,,j;ans
in number, find the Lower Mis- siss: nm; rive,
TO it's entrance into the Gulf Of Mexico.
natural and cheap high Wv TO the ocpun.-
This highway has bees for CITY years in their
anuisturoed rrosse ssion and eninymept.-
Nay NOR tbs proprietary interest in the
.err's' .nclosing this natural highway,
VS. purchased by the Government Of the
United States, for the express purpose of
securing to the population of the West and
Northwest, lin common with other citizens
of the couotry,) the free enjoyment Of this
highway.
Now, one of the original rights Of man.
kind, right that precedes Government it.
self, is the right Of propsrty-,he right
peaceablv to enjoy that which ones money
has bought or his labor earned. The brief.
est statement, indeed, that We could give
of the necessity Of Government, would be,
that IL is to protect property.
Looking ut the rights Of the people Of the
United States to the free navigation Of the
Mississippi, River, in the light of property,
purchased by themselves and paid for, may
we ask, under what prerense Of reason or
humanity, by what plea Of Christianity or
Republ,canism, they can be expected to sur.
render this property? And yet it's surrend-
er is precisely what secession demands Of
the Government of the United States; and
it is just this that sentimeptalists ut the
North, and shallow as well rs selfish think
ers abroad are asking our Government to
yield.
The free navigation Of the Mississippi
River from it's head to the Gulf, is not only
secured right Of the people Of the whole
United States, but to the twelve millions Of
inhabitants in its upper valleys it is prac-
teal right, one that they deem vital. The
fact that this should be so has been recog.
mixed from the foundation Of our Govern
ment; and on this ground President Jeffer-
son bought Louisiana in the nations name,
and violated in his own opinion the Consti.
tuition Of the United s ates. But il Pre,i.
dent Jefferson could venture to strain the
sacred National Charter that be had helped
to frame, on supposed political necessity
that existed only 10 the future, by how
much more should President Lincoln, of the
present day, defend the rights so acquired,
now that they are so important to the po.
litical safety and domestic well being OF
millions Of citizens resident on its banks and
on it's tributaries If the barren right was
thought BY former statesmen to be worth
M infraction OF the Constitution, what a
rebuke is that historical fact to those capti-
tious critics who, in the cause Of treason,
impede every step Of the Government by
comp;.nts Of the unconstitutional mea-
sures Of the Administration in defence Of
- -;oh, measures demanded by the exgen-
-ehrlhou 80 monstrous IN its char
acter as to be in a gre.
for in any previous legislation
Twelve millions Of free citizens OF the
United States are required by sentimental
Peace Men, at home and abroad, to give up
forever their property and their franchises,
to abandon TO foreign control this natural
channel Of communication with the world.
The demand is u heavy one, truly; and in
" hat behalf is il made? Simply that the
so called Southern Confederacy may be.
come sovereign power and civil war cease
in the land. And the result would be, that
about three milIioos Of iahabisnnts on the
lower banks and tributaries, and about the
mouth Of the Mississippi, would succeed -
the possession and sole free use OF the river
which twelve millions of inhabitants, having
equal rights in its use, would be compelled
10 abandon. The statement Of this propo- |
sision is enough to stamp it for enormous
and incredible impotence and absurdisy.
But, cay the stupid arraignsrs OF the pol |
icy OF our Government, it will be easy to
establish friendly and favorable commercial
relations with the seeded States, and a pro- /
irahls and unrestricted commerce might
continue as heretofore. Yes, il would be
easy to make treaties-and easy to break /
them. And II the bonds Of . Constitution,