The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-03-30
WHOLE NO. 205.
TnE clylL war rExAs.

| The civil war so much dreaded is not like
ly to be enc IN which either the free or the
Northern Slave States viii take part: the
strife will arise between different factions
of the sseessiouists within their own do
main.
The news from Texas is Of great impor.
tance, and comes TO Us in a shape which
gives il an apparent title to our belief. The
Convention Of delegates 10 that State, whose
olhee was to prepare an ordinance Of seces-
sion aad submit il TO the people, arc play
Ing the part OF the Long Parliament. They
have rsurpcd the dominion Of the country
and claim the night to act as its masters, 10
coerce submission to its DEGREES, to incor-
porate the State Of Texas with the Southern
Confederacy, and force all its public SER
vaults to take an oath Of LOYALTY 10 that
government. Houston, on the other hand.
claims fer his State the right of acting indie.
pendently of the others; if the right To
separate itself from the free States Is ad.
mtsed, be claims, by still stronger relation.
the right OF keeping itself seperate from ,hs
SIX cotton States; he insists, with great
reason, ,ha, the regularly elected lesisIa-
tnre, which is shortly to assemble. forms.
with the regularly elected. Governor. tho
proper governments Of the STATE. Il, ia sa,a
that the old warrior is even raising troons
to contest with the u.urping Convention
the right Of administering the affairs Of
TeIas.
fhese events do not surprise us; they are
the natural consequences OF the method
which. the conspirators Of secession hayv
taken TO carry their plans into effect. The
people have not been consulted-not even
IN the State of Texas. In none Of the other
SIX seeding States was the question Of a
dissolution Of the Union submitted to tho
people. Ia Texas the form of popular
vote on the question was gone through with,
but the sense Of the people was not taken.
ln "estern Texas the anti-slavery question
prevails, but Its expression was smothered
there by the same means that it was siepccd
IN Kansas when the Missouri invaders came
in arms and made a Constitution for tho
aeiua! settlers. The people of San Antonio
were kept from the polls ut the point of the
bayonet. The whole affair was a shameless
farce. A more honest and becoming meth
cd by far was adopted in the other Gulf
States--namely, to implore secession upon
the people without asking whether they
would be satisfied with it or not. Is it not
wonderful, therefore, that in Texas, whero
the secessonists have behaved the worst,
the reaction should begin soonest, and that
the violent methods taken should begot vic.
lence in return.
We can easily conceive why Houston
should object to placing Texas under the
rule of Jefferson Davis, whom the people OF
Texas have taken no part in e'eetlng, who
is no more their sovereign by the public
consent than Santa Anna would be if he
were to land at Galy yeston, prd who is busily
occupied with his councillors in founding n
military tyranny which is to reach from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Rio Grande. Tho
warrior of San Jacinto aequiosces in seces-
sion, but wishes to preserve somewhat Of
the spirit of popular government in the
institutions. He has the sagacity TO SEQ
that # Texas be once tied TO the chariot
wheels of the Southern Confederacy she
must be dragged after 1T into tho ruin to-
wards which 1t is rushing. lie prefers to
keep Texas disentapgled and independents
no vassal of the new born despotism, able
to take advantage, at her own discretion.
OF any opportunity Of extracting herself
from her present perilous condition. .s..
We do not suppose that the design of
possessing Texas will be easily relinquished
by the Southern Confederacy. Texas has
greater extent of sea coast than any other
of the Northern American States, with tho
exception of Florida a coast indented with
many bays and harbors she has an interior
scanned with numerous rivers: she is vet to
be the seat OF vast population out of her
domain new States are yet to 10 formed
hers is the frontier from which the expedi-
ton OF the new League were to 60 forth to
dismember Mexico, seize on the Northern
provinces of that Republic, and pushing
their conquests southwark, plant slavery
from the Rio Grande to the Isthmus Of
Tehauntepec. The opposition of General
Houston to the association of Texas with
Mississippi and South Carolina, il SUCCESS
full, illustrates this project. 1t must be rut
down, and. if the other States are strong
enough, will be put down. We shall not be
surprised to see the army Of JEFF Davis by
and by crossing the Sabine to fight battle
on the old war ground Of Alamo.
Meantime. other and almost equally vehe-
meut manifestations Of discomfort reach Us
from the cotton States east Of the Missis-
sippi. We have already quoted some bitter
complaints of the tyranny Of the new
government from the Alabama prints
Yesterday we gave a sample Of them from
Georgia journal, and to-day we copy
another from Mississippi paper. The cx.
ample of Houston in resisting the usurpa-
tions Of the Southern Confedsracy may be
initiated IN the other cotton States, and the
fame now kndled may spread from the
Sabine to the Savannah. ...... ...-....
What course the federal administration
will take in this matter; what aid or epcour-
agemens it may think proper to lend to.
Houston IN his opposition to the revolution
lists who have established their bead quar-
tiers at MONTGOMERY, it is almost too early
even to conjecture. General Houston has
always. until within few days, been es-
teemed firm friend Of the Union. By tho
men who first plotted notification and then
secession, be 10 intensely hated; IL they
carry the day against him, and get posses-
sion Of bis person, they will assuredly hang
him. We hope that some explanation
honorable to bis consistency will be found
for the part be took in compelling the fed
eral authorities to deliver up to the rerolu-
tionists the public property within the limi,s
Of Texas.-E. Z. Post.