Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-03-12
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i appEahsasions af . d5asolasian OF sh
Bnina, bus shsse apprslisnsaons did no
arssa froza any inaioations sisa ths Ssaah
Dn the sonsxaryy tasy afose Fran ifs1ica
kians In shs Ncrshs shortly prior % th
anaexalioa of Texas he legislators b
Massachusetts, declared. by ooIsarYszs
resolutions, thes such annsxasion weuis
ha saolasaDn of shex xofsasaHte es the Uniol
and woald justify dissoiatioa; and thl
Legislature of Vermont did seaasshing oi
similar impoxt; and as ahaat the sam,
time the following named members oi
congreas from the North issued an ad.
dfess ato shs people Of the free srates''
In which thsy used language which VI
viii pFesently aaote; John Quincy
Adams, Seth M, taates, SFm, Slade, WA.
B. Calhoun, Joshua Ii. Giddings, SherIack
/ j. Andrews, Nathaniel b. Borden, Thos.
@. OritEeaaea, John Mattocks, Christie
pher Aorgaas .JDsnaa III. Hsward, Viosory
Birdseye and Hiland Hall. la their ad-
dress they use this language:
aWe hesitate not 70 say that the an
nsxatien Of Texas, effected By aug set or
proceeding of she Federal Govegnmenl,
or any Of its departm ents, would be idea-
teal with dissolution. It would be . vi
citation ofsour national compact, It's OBJ
lects, designs, and the great elementary
principles which entered into it's forma-
ton, of = character SO deep and funda-
mental, aud would be an attempt to aa-
thoxaEs an Institution and power of ma
taEa 90 unjust in themselves, 80 injurious
90 the interests and ahhoFreat 10 tas feel
ings of the people of tho Free States, as,
in our opinion, not only iaeyitabiy 10 re-
saat ia q dissolution Of the Uraoa, bur
FuLLy TO sgsTirY IN; and we not only as
sert that the people Of the Free States
ought not 10 sHbmis TO H. out ae sag
sc1sh confidence they tcotId mol submit to
i. % .15tr
If We strike from this paragraph the
words "annexasioa of Texas'a and stthe
people of the free States, . and insert the
words 'fpersonaI liberty bills'' and athe
people. of the slave States,'' and make
some verbal alterations TO preserve che
.Eepse, the whole will read very like the
addresses Of Southern members Congress,
and the resolutions Of Southern State
Legislatures for some months prior to Sc
session, .. ...
The South have rested the assumed
right Of secession apon the very doctrine
of this korthern address. This doctrine
is that the Union is compact, which is
binding only SO long Rs it shall be, in the
estimation OF eacA separate State, faith
fully observed By every other State.--
Under 1t these Northern members Of Con
ggsas claimed taat the act Of annexation
Of texas would Justify dissolution, and
under ii the S8ath have claimed thai the
Northern personal liberty bill and the
election of Il Northern sectional President
would justify dissolution. The oaly diff
ersnoa betwean abe Northern and Soath-
ern advocates of the doctrine ID that the
Northern advocates did not enforce II Oh
the happening Of the threatened eonsin-
ganny aRd the Southern advocates did en-
force ii. ...
So the postiIent lIuctrine Vi the right
OF secession is of ana-slavery origin
We know of scarcely pestilen: doctrine
In this country that is act of anti-slayery
oTlgin.e :4..-. ....-
Sevesal Of the signers of the address
are dead. Those liyiag are among the
most violent ''uniou" men to be found in
Ehe whole iaad.
The anti-slavsry party was always a
disunioa party until il conceived tho pos
sibility Of carrying . Presidential cleo
tion and lnaugurAting IN anti-siavery
administration ut Washington. And by
the anti-slayery party VIC do not mean
tbe Garrisonitas- None Of the signers
Of this address were Garrisonites, We
mean the party who commenced the anti
slavery agitation on the question of the
admission OF MissouFi in 1890, and re-
newed it on the question of the annexation
OF Texas, in Is4S, voted ia Congress
against supplies for carrying on the. Mex
lean var, and resisted che acquisition OF
GalifoFala and other Mexican territory ia
ls46, invented the Wifmnt proViso in lS47
aud betrayed the. Wing organization to
AbUlitioHism Id i555. this was n dis
union party, Hie say, unsai, in the year
Last named, Ii conceived the possibility Of
seiZing upon the Federal ogerniBent and
welding It's power against the institutions
of one-half the States. 1t will be dis
union party again just so soon as 1t shall
lose ali hope that this war can be convert
cd into an engine to Sfdestroy slavery"
These "Reminiscences OF political history
ara interesting and profitable, and it il
the duty of Democratic journalists 10 re-
call them for the instruction of The psesshs
generation. .Fs .s~