Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-01-22
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4 pesisioa was few day ago presented
10 Oougrsss, signsd leinsly by leading
and asowsd Abolitionisss pf /
New YORK, praying sha presidsns and Goa
xress 10 issue proclamation, proeaasaa-
Ing freedom 10 all ssas1s, .n0s only 70
slaves Of Rebels bat q Gnsoss sssss.-- |
This memorial in substance declares the
Consultation g naIlisys What language
can be more to the point than The foAow-
iag pasagrAph sI ls.l.1
THAT By tho very asa ai me 1saave
pawer sfsalk. We aAvss all Of q, osen rs-
leased from every obligation 10 tolerate
any laager its lsiavesyl sxisseaee aIaong
as.~ a~...ae a#R /
We are at a.ioss 10 eoa5sesare hy What
rule thsme Ssw YORK. naenaorlalists haTe
convineed themselves that the rebellion
Of one ses Of men has released anoshar
sst from their Constitutional obligations.
We bad supposed that the #aK. i hsang
prosecuted to enforce the observance Of
the Constitution and to bring all men to
subuait to lis authority and obligations,
but if these New Workers are right, we
are laboring under a delusiss erros. We
had supposed thai the provisions IL the
Consultation, which gives the right 81 the
owner of an escaping slave, 10 re-eapsuFe
him and bring him back TO service was
an acknowledgment Of the right TO held
and own al&xes, IN all States where the
Stale laws and Constitution did not pro
hIbit the citizen from holding and own
ing them. In fact the portion OF the
memorial above quoted admits the Con
stitutional existence Of slavery, and the
obligations to tolerate it; bat contends
that the citizens of the free States, "by
she very set of the slave power itself !"
have been released from their constitution
al obligations. II this il trae doctrine
ii theyiolRtiou Of the Osnssatatioa hs one
BARK. releases the other from its eonsti-
pa sza@sAsE AsAs>n a-a-4ssAAsy --~~~ - L.
tar stand betwsea ths slasa s~4.a E-.~~
States? The State Of Wisconsin and
other States, passed laws making it aPenr
al ofFenss for any Of Its citizens to aid
in returning fugitive slave TO his own
eE. Eot only did these States make it
penal offence for their eisizans to aid in
returning fugitive slave to his master
but they made it penal offence for the
master hi1asslt, to attempt to reclaim his
runaway slave, and in thai, these States
directly violated the Sd clause Of section
ID article 9Th of the Constitution, which
declares
''No person held TO service or labor IN
one State, under the laws thereof, eseap-
ing into another, shall, in consequence Of
any law or regulation therein, be dis
charged from such service or labor, but
shall be delivered up on claim Of the party
TO whom such service or labor may Dc
due"
Now, if the doctrise promulgated By
these New York memoFialists, is true@-ii
the failure Of one party TO observe III
constitutional obligations, releases th'
other, then in that doctrine, Secession
dads its justification and defense. Il
that is the true doctrine, then the present
war is the wicke eldest and most unholy wal
ever wagei since the world began.
For our part We repudiaae this Aboli'
ton theory. We believe that the wal
can be legally and legE&i nasely prescott
ed, only, for the maintenance Of the ehoI'
Constitution and the preservation of the
Union. That when the unity Of tho
States is restored, thai eveyy State, and
the citizens of evsry State, must be ii
possession Of all the constitutional rights
which they possessed prior to the Rebel
hon. That q war prosecuted with the in
tent to deprive the States, or the citizens
of the States, of any right which shey
have under the Constitution, is a va
against the Constitution itself-is a wal
which every patriot and isvsr of freedom
should oppose. If slavery is an evil, i
is one which the Constitution tolerstes-
it is an evil which neither the Presidsn
or Congress can abolish. and when 9th
er the President OF Congress or bo&h to
gether, proclaim emancipation to tb'
slaves, they make war upon the Constitu
sioB-treat it as waste paper, and the va
viii degenerate from ONO supposed to b
waged for the maintenance Of the Con
ssitution and Union, to one for the liber
alton of degraded set of negroes-theI
will the Rebellion succeed.
PESDLEToy'R sP ECH.