Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-12-10

Kszuysass sEsa shs ss@ssssies sks amali
aronortioa of the ssgioa which has as yet :
So bsossKAs iate culkiyasion, and also
lha large "a rapidly increasing amount
81 lea pvod &ctss md 20 shall De be oser- /
wassasned Wsh "a md4nitude OF the psps- |
pecs prsssntea. ard yss this region has
40 Sea coast and touches no ocean any
q IRIS NA7UgSL ouTLKxss
as mart Of one nasion, its psopia HOW
NAV and and may foreyag And their way
so EaFops by New York. v Soath Ans
isa and Africa By New Orleans. and 70
Asin by HAn Franeiseo. Ba1 separate
our eosamon country into nations, - de-
signsd by The present Tebellioa, and every
man ia this great interior region 10 there
by cEs OF from soma one or more OF these
ausls4s, NOS perhaps BY barrier, bus by
embaEv aaaing and oneFoas trade Fegala-
sioas, and this ID trae wherever . diyid-
Ing or boundary line may be fixed. Place
o. place is soath Of Kensueky or north OF
Ohio, and still the truth remains that mona
south Of il can trade 70 any port or place
north of ii and north of 1t can trade to
say port place south OF 1t, except upon
ssrEns dictated BY Government foreign
30 them. These outlets East, Vest, and
| South, are indispensable 20 the veil being
OF the people iuhabiting, and to inhabis
shis vast interior region.
Which of the three may be the best il
no pEopsr question. All are bsttss than
either, and all Of right belong 10 that pso-
pls and their successors forever. True
10 themselves, they will not ask whsEs
line Of separation shall be, but viii vow
ratheE, that there shall be no such line.
| A eoaAos INTEREST.
| Nor are the marginal regions lesa in
tereated in these communications - ant
through them to the great outside world
They do and each of them must have &c
cess 70 thsir Egypt of the West witheu
paying toll at the crossing Of Our nation
al boundary.
SOURCES OF QUIZ NATIONAL EXISTENCE.
Our national life springs not from on
permanent past, not from the lands W
. inhabit, not from our national homestead
/ There is 40 possible swerylng OF this bu
! would multiply ana not iassagats IsEal
among US. La all its applications and at
q titudes il demands union, and abhors sep
a aratiou. In fact it would ere long fore
, re- union hover much Of blood ana Urea
! sure the separation might have cost. Oa
strife pertains to ourselves, to the pass
r ing generations Of men and it eaanC
, withou. commissions be hushed forsyel
With the paSalng Of one generation.
AMENDMENTS TO TIE CONSTITUTION.
With this view Recommend the fol
q loving resolution and article amendatt
: Nv to tho Constitution of the unike
d States,
4 HesoIUs Z, BY the Senate and House {
a Representatives Of the United States
a America in Congress assembled, swt
q thirds of both Houses concurring, tn
n the following articles be proposed 70 Il
A legislature or conventions Of the sever
a States as anendm ents to the Constitute
n Of the United States, all, or any Of Whi'
articles when ratified BY thFee-feurths
the aaid legislatures Or conventions 70
valid a. part or parts OF the said Consi
l. tuition, naraenly:
;" CoaPKSsATgD EAANCIEATI0E,
in ARrrcLE--Evsry State wherein slave
ID now exists, which shall abolish the san
therein at any time or times before &
a. frat day Of January, In the year OF O
r. Lord 1900, shall receive compensate
10 from the United States bearing inters
i at the ruta of -, Cor each slave shown
i have been therein by the eighth census
ID the United States, said bonds to be d
J. Iivered to such States, By insta.
a ments, or in one parcel, at the oonpIetit
a. Of the abolishmenG, accordingly as =
O. same shall have been gradual Or ak q
- time within such State, and interest shi
be begin 10 run upon any such bond OF
W from the proper time Of its delivery
,s sferesai ii and afterwards
in Any State having received bonds
he aforesaid, aud afterwards introducing
va tolerating slavery therein, shall refu
Id to the United States the bonds SO recei
an ed or the Ealae thereof, and al intert
ly paid thereon,
r rHE SLAVES FRKED BY rHR wAR.
ARTICLE -. All slaves who shall ha
n. actual Freedom by the chances Of var
A. any time before the end of the ]
c. bellion, shall be foreper free; but
n owners of sach who shall not have be
al disloJal, shall be compensated for tbs
Of at the same rates as is provided for Stat
sb adopting abolishmeus Of slavery, bat
n such away that no slave shall be twice q
counted for.
70. VOLUNTARY e0LoRGzATToA EK TIE UEET
H. STATES,
=. AKrlcLE --. Congress may apprepl
re- ate money or otherwise to provide I
ar eoloniEang free eolored persons with til,
ns own consent Al any place or places wis
"a in the United States. ..
h. THE ARauMExTs rERRKToR,
va beg indulgence to discuss these pr
to posed articles at some length. Wfth0
en- slavery the rebellion would never ha
no existed without slavery it eould not co
be tinue. Among the friends of the Uni
d. there il great diversity Of sentime
and policy In regard to slavery aud t
d, African Yaee amongst Us. Seme wou
pa abolish ii suddenly and without aampe
N satiou. Some would remove the II
he people from ia, and some would resa
I'D them With as, and there are Jet ether m
th nor diEeTsikies. Because of these dive
d. ities We waste much strength in ssruggl
Y, amongst ourselves. By mutual eonct
10 sions we should haFaoaize and act
o gesher. This woald be . compsomi
sk among the friends and nee With IN
Of mics OF the Union. These articles a
Ia intended TO embody plan of Huch IN
BY tual concession. II the plan shall
It, adopted IL 10 assumed that e-nancipatit
will follow, &s least in several of t
States, ssss....as PSI. .,.s+ ~