Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-05-01
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4 FEW Ra.Aas auEsraoNs AsswEa
4 The Ksokak Gate cfsy, . Republics
jnarnal, desires information from Il
4 Quincy Herald upon the following points
Il We're not the leaders Of this secessso
/ EEaovensat the same man who aecede
Il from the Democrats aonvaution az Cha.
II lcsfOR because thai convention refused {
adopt she brsckinriage slave code paal
Iform 7 Did not yoa and the DoagIa
parry Eafnaa TO yield 10 shair dicsasio
even 20 save the party? Was not sha
gafasal and the Consequent disruption q
ahs Democratic party the opening wedg
@ the present secession and disraption .
lie Union Is it not probable that th
same leaders, supported by ths same nas
ses in the south, would have seeded fEou
The Union and broken it ap, jass as the,
Iaid from the Democrats party, hai
Douglas been elected aud adhered to q,
||Rrinciples of shs platform which you re.
sassd TO suzTenaar at Charlsston2 Wouis
~ have Surrendered the priaciples apoz
which he waa elected and suffered the
siava ooda prop&gandisss 10 have snsir
own ways Are the Republicans, thea,
any more 81 faalk in the matter thaa the
Douglasises were, and would have been,
had be been eiaoted pa "'
To the first Of the above questions, We
answer, that some Of the leaders Of the
secession movement vsrs the same who
seeded at Charleston--but not, as init
m ated, altogether, because the Convsn-
ton refused to adopt the sIave-code plat
form. Personal hostility to Douglas had
much to do With thas secession. The rea-
son theleaders gave to their constituents,
however, was the refusal as above. In
answer TO the second question, we say,
the Douglas men refused to yield, tbs
mass of the party sustaining them. Ia
answer TO the third question, Fswas not
tn refusal, )" &C., We say, not necessarily.
Ii the Republicans, when they found the
Douglas men thus true to the Union, as
they proved themselves at Charleston,
had abandoned their warfare upon Doug
las and his friends and had agreed that
the platform of non-intervention upon
which he was a candidate should be sus-
tanned, the masses of the people of the
South would have accepted it and been
satisfied to remain in the Union. We say
th arefore, that il Douglas had been elec-
If the elections that came off In
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in Ooto-
Der had indicated Douglas triumph, be
lo0aLd have been sleotsd,--for he would
then have carried several slave States,
With Now York, &o-if, We say, Douglas
had been elected, ''the same leaders" Of
secession would NOT have been supported
BY ''the same masses in the South" and
tn States that have s'scceded from the
Union and broken 1t up" The masses
of the people of the South, in spite of the
efforts Of seoesaionists and disuni9nists
would have been entirely satisfied with
Douglas and the Democratic platform be
cause, if Douglas had been elected he
would have received votes enough in the
north to have satisfied the masses of the
Soath that there were still Democrats OF
Constitutional Union men enough in the
North to guarantees to them that their
rights were secure. The Charleston Sc
eelers were able to influence the masses
Of the South, not because they were enc
mics of Douglas and his platform, bus be-
cause they satisfied the people of the
South that Doagias could not be elected
and for The reason that tbs Republicans
would not meet the people of the South
half way. upon the Douglas platform of
non. Intervention. II Mr.. Lincoln had
planted himself squarely and 6Fmly upon
the doctrine Of non-intwveation, there
would haTe been no secession. It was
not because Douglas and his friends
woaId not meet them half way, oonceding
something while they too cOnceding some
thing, that the people Of ths South fol-
lowed OF the secession leaders, but they
followed Of the secession leaders, who
are the extreme and ultra men OF the
South, simply aud solely because they
found there could be no compromise Or
settlement Of the question ia the Union--
Why not ? Simply and solely, because,
as they plainly saw, the Republicans. Of
the North were following OF the extreme
men of the North. The two extremes
could not be rsooaailed, axcept upon the
Douglas principle Of non- Intervention,
Tho South were ready TO aeceps thai, IL
the North were-and nos otherwise. They
in the Union until they saw shat
the Republicans we're strong enough 10
vose down Douglas and non intervention
and then they followed the lead OF the So
ceders and weas Out Of the Union. Thsy
did not foIloso the seessssOa leaders osst of
the linton sagstH It tsas rendered absolate-
lg eeTtaia thai Douglas cossld not be
aiectsd. II Douglas bad been elected he
would n0a bare sssarrandersd the princi-
pies upon which he was elected and srf-
cred tho slaye-code prepagandIsts 10 hare
their own Way fer the masses OF the
South would have been sasisaed that his
principles would be fairly carried cut aud
would work them no injustice nader their
constitutional rights The Republicans,
therefore, in oar yiew Of the matter, are
more at fault than the Bongiasisss, for
the Dougiasites sustained . platform upon
which tbs whole unioa eoald hare been
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