The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-11-02

lion dissolsss all LAWS Ter the proses.'ou !.
life and property of The rebels. BY sne very
net, Of rehe!liou. sha rebel forfeats toAsne
:, r--rr.fcr. a yaiiisf which be rebels posn
his nreperfy and his life, and holds hcnce-
firth neither. save AZ its mercy OF dsscresaen;
II it we're not so, the governments wouie
have ,.o rfghs 10 cun6soase the properly o.
the rsbe,s, or to attempt to suppress reeei--
liau by force of arms. If the slaves held IN
IA rsbellious States are propetit. shey are
forfeited TO the government, and The govern n
msrs may confscato them, a. cotton, fees
tobacco, or any ether species OF property
found In the hands Of the reefls.
The same principles that gives 70 tar
Garrrn,nen,s the right 70 cpnhscate nase,oi
cotton owned by a rebel, gives II . right 10
conhseate every negro slave claimed oy
rebel master. This is perseatiy Clear, ana
is Implied in.the recent aes OF Congress on
the subject. But if these people held as
slaves, are not property, they are or Should
be regarded as citizens OF the United States
owing allegiance 10 the Federal usvermnent
liable to be called into the service OF the
Union in the way and manner u deems
most advisable, and il layai, entitled 20 the
same projections from the Government rs
any other ella Of loyal citizens. Nobody
can pretend that 6 i.S.sssS.sisi Government Is
ofdigad. by virtue of the laws or nsa-
gas heretofore existing in the SAWS
States to treat these people as prop
erty. Whatever might have been is
ALLEGATION before the rebellious acts Of
those States, that obiigationis no longer 10
force.
The present rebellion proves what
thoaghlful and far Seeing mea.nail sections
of the Union have long seen and said. tha'
the preservation of the Union with the slave
system Of labor extending over one hai! o.
il, and the free labor system over the oiner
half. is. in the ordinary course OF human
affairs, an impossibility. Senator Seward
or rather Mein Herr Diefenbach in cur he
rietr before him, was right IN saying there
is IN ssrrepressibie contiicto between the
two systems. They cannot longer coexist
together in peace and harmony; there Is an
irrepressibie tendency in each to exclude
the other /; and. no possible wisdom er pru-
aenee on the part OF any administration
can harmonIxa their coexistenee under one
and the same Governments. You must
make your election between the systems,
and adopt for the whole country either the
slave system or the free labor system; and
the real signifcanee of the contest IN
which we are now engaged is, as to which
of these systems shall be the American sys-I
TEN. t -
However homogeneous in race or char
acser. habits or manners, may be the peo-
pie of a country 10 the outset, they separate
and grow gradually into two distinct peoples
with almost entirely different ideas, habits
and customs. if one half of them in the one
section adopt the slavery system, and the
other half, in the other, the free labor sys-
ten. We have in the United States not
withstanaing our common origin, our COM
mon language, the similarity ofeour laws,
and our hab4tual iutercoarse, crown almost
into two distinct nations. The Cohfedert,tes
are Americans indeed, fer they hive
been born and bred On American SOIL: but
they no longer retain che original American
character while in the free States, batting
the alterations effected by foraign emigration
that character is substantially preserved. -
We Of the North are the same people that
made the Revolution, won American inde-
peuaenee, and established the Federal Gov
eminent. This divergence showed itself even
At the time Of the Revolution, and it has grown
greater and greater ffem the beginning of
the present century; and ifthe two systems
of labor are coniaued on American soil,
must still continue To grow greater and
greater, till the people of the two sections
grow up into two absolutely distinct and
mutually hostile nations, no longer capable,
bot by the subjnsation Of one by the other,
Of existing unierons and the same govern
ment. The only way this divergence
can be checked, the unity and homegene.
BUSINESS of the whole American people re
covered and preserved, is by the nssimln.
ton of the labor system of the North and
the South. ~ aettaft tt'St's.@h .',.%
We of the North cannot and ought not TO
accept the labor system OF the South. But
the Slave States. by their nnpr evoked rebel
lion, have given us an opportunity of peT'-
forming M act Of long delayed justice TO the
negro. population oftiie Uniop. and Of assirh-
Hating the Southern labor system, TO ours.
This assimilation is n, the bottom Of the
Southern rebellion, and the South has risen
in arms against the Union, chiefly for the
purpose of extending her tabor system over
all the free States. In doing go she gives
US the right, in our own self defenee, to
extend our free labor system over all the
slave States--4a right which. but for the re-
betipu, We should not have bad under the
Constitution. HE.sgjas -
If this prove disadvantage 60 the south
ern States, owing 10 the peculiar character
OF their laborlng populations, tbey have no
right to complain, for it is a disadvantage
they have brought upon themselves But
this will be a disadvaasa gaioniy as enmpar.
ed with us Of the North; for it will be bet.
ter for the South herself TO have her negro
population free hhorers than it is to have
them slaves. In counting the population
Of the South, we must count not merely Der
white, but also her black and colored popu.
lation. The moral, spiritual and materlal
well being Of her eight millions of whites.
These black and colored people are as much
human beings, whose welfare is as impor-
tant and as necessary to be consulted by the
statesman, the political economist, the NOR
alist aud the christian, as that of any other
portion of her population; and what they
would gain by their emancipation should be
thrown into the balance against what might
be lost by their former owners.
But even the three hundred and fortv
seven Thousand slave proprietors would IN
reality lose nothing, or gain IN moral more
than they would loseiD material prosperity.
We do not believe southern society wonld,
IN case OF emancipation, be eqaal to what
itwould be if the whole population were OF
the white race. The negro element would
remain in that society, and, wherever : il
remains it will be an inferior element /; but
far less 80 Is free, than as enslaved. The
white population of the South must aiwnvs
suffer this drawback for having collected,
or submitted 20 the collection of a large
Afrfcan population on their soil, and they
have no rightto complain if obliged to maks
expiation, as long as the world stands.
for having introduced and sustained the in.
stituiion of negro slavery. Bnt ASIDE from
the Disadvantages Of having its Iaborlpg pop.
ulasion of race with which the white race
will not mingle, the South would gain bv
the assimilation OF her labor system to that
of the North.
INCIDENT OF THE BIG BETHEL FIGHT.
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