The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-01-11
WHOLE NO. 246.
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Wendell PAiliips delivered q sddfcs, 4
New York City, short time since, ssshs
aSsase OF ths couatry,s from which Ns
saks the following extract:
Whence came this war, ron md I nsed
not crrioasly inres,iga,c. We may take our
standpoint Tor granted. While Mr.. SUN.
aer on the ono side ard Mr.. Everett on the
other agree, you and lmAy :ake for granted
the agreement Of t~a sooA opposisc states-
men, the result Of the common sense or this
silc Of the water and Of The other, tAat
Slavery i the root o. this war. TApplause.1
| know some men hare loved - trass II so
disappointed ambition, to the saccsss of tAs
Retusliean Party, eoasinc.ng 1000 no.
bles q the South, Who have hitherto fsr.
nished Us most Of the Presidents, Generals,
Judges and Ambassadors, tha, We wanted
that they should have ieave 10 ssay al home.
and thar z. .noo, 600 Of Northerners would
take their sharo Of public affairs. do NOS
thnk that cause equal 10 the result. O.hor
men besides and before Jefferson Davis aud
Goy. Wise have been disappointed of ,hs
Presidency. Henry Clay, DAME! Webster.
Stephen Douglas, were more than once dis.
appointed. Yet who believes that either.
or aliof these men could hare marshalsd
the North in arms TO avenge their wrong 2
Why, then are the pigmies Of the South able
TO do what the giants have named could
never achieve? Simply because there 10
radica! difference between the States they
sway ard the States which Webster, Doug.
las and Clay led to battle, ard that differ
ence is Slavery. | know party victories
may be the occasion Of this war, 90 tea.
chest was tho occasion of the Revolutions.
Il wen.to the bottom Of Boston Ilarber %
the nigas Of tho 10th Of December, 1893.
but that tca-c chest was not the cause of the
Revolution. Neither IL jefferson Davis
Ieirea. laughter and applause.l lfyou Viii
look At the map and notice that every Slavs
State has Joined, or tried 10 join, the robsl-
lion, and that no Free State has done il, I
think you cannot doubt Substantially tho
origin Of this convusipn.
Now, ladies and gcaslemcr, you know mo
those OF you who know mo at ALL simply
rs an Abolitioniss. am proud that you
have known me Us such. (Loud and long
arp!ause.1 10 the twenty City ysars that are
gonc--l say it with no occasion 10 offend
any man before mol fiud no place where
az American could stand, with decent self.
respect, except with unintcrmis.ed and loud
protest against the siu Of his native land.
| Applause.l But. ladies and gcoslemep, do
not imagine that como here 10. night to
speak to you simply as an Abolitionist, ex-
as an Abolitionist. Ny interest il
this war, simply and exclusively as an Abo.
Iitionist, 10 about as much ended as your
in novel, when the hero has won the lady.
and the marriage is comfortable celebrated
on the las. night. [Laushser.l know the
danger Of political prophecy, kaleidoscope
Of which not even Yankee can guess tho
nexs combination, llaughscr1 but for al
tha. venture, the syssem OF domestic Sla-
very has received its death.b blow. loud
aud prolonged applause.
Let me tell you Why think 20. There
are but three paths out Of this war. One 10
the North conquer tbs second il, the South
conquer; the third 10, compromise. Now,
If the North conqners, or there b. = com-
promise, two things, one or the other, must
come. Either tho old Constitution, or
new one. l believe 20 far q the slave
clauses Of the Constitution Of 1850 arc con.
cerned, It lis dead. ltappesrs 70 mo inpos.
siblc that the thrifty, PAINS taking Norths
after keeping SOC, 900 men idle Tor i've of
three years, as the cost Of two million dol.
lars dsy-aftcr that flag lowered as Som.
,er--aftcr Baker and Lyon and Ellsworth
and Winthrop and Cameron md Ward hsvs
given their lives to qaell the febellios--sf.
ter oar Massachusetts boys, burning from
the plow and tbs workshop to guard The
capital, hare been foulIy murdered on the
pavement at Balsimors-l cannot believe
,ha. the North Is % lost, 30 craven sbss she
can be pot back and made y ssasd agsis
where she stood on the 4.h Of March, 1851.
(Loud and long applause.
But IL there bea reconstruo.ion with The
slaves clause, then In little while, longer u
shorter, Slavery dies. Indeed, on any ottse
basis than that os 1889 she has nothing - d
but die. fLaugh.cr.l On the scsif&y,n 4
the soush-nc, cannot say oopqssr-ay
lips will not form thss wofd-bnt Y she
balks q. of victory, the snly WY she can Do
Il, the only path she can tread toward n
y to write emancipation on her own bsassf
and bribs Tho aristoerass and the tfadsrs of
the cid world 20 divide the n.jestis Rspsb-
lie, whose growth nstss them snsioss -
whose ,rads sripples their ows. r sisAs
~sy The slave goes free.
unies, Eogland posrs bsr 6sst Sithis 1six
m onsES along vut VVess1 sSc Sssess - SyvSS
,rrios into sepsrsis existsscs, hut fre0 ~
basis u peEro freedom. And !, for. 49,
vill uos yss believe that he NORTH viii ssaia
consent - share its shame. lApplAssssl
with ne, therefore, feliov-si,issss, - =
msrs Aboiitionist eTslssivsly - sses-1
hsye little nore interest - shis sas thAs -
frontissmso'. wife bsd 10 bic struggle VIII
shs bear, ~bes shs dids's sAfs which viaD-
ped. TGrsss nsfrissss.J
Bat before leave the Abolisisnisss, -
me ~ word. Soss men ssy ~ ass -
eas,s o. this var. Gsnslsmes, - - -
100 nsch hoaor. fLaughtsr.1 ~ ssss,
" hays reason 70 BE- prosd sfi6 1ss -