Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-11

y by tie Engffsh King aud minislry. y
even by Ne English peopla, With Is -
anhosraacs as 4 wtskea real ssanss
= rlghaal authority as we Affect 20 raxza
"a resistance Of the revolted STATS
!, Federal authority. The Law of reyolutfs,n,l
or that by which theif charaeter Is .sgI
- gsnssadly astssaaiass, is that q rsigs
p makes right, " that success Is jnssasaa
n tiop. 8
= The impartial studant OF history. hes
ever win be enforced to the conciusgo
Il kaas there have been xevolasioss whss
4 hare failed that ought to hare succeaded
Q and that there have been successful ge
+ golations which ought to have failed
aay own opinion sir, il that thia reyoIn
tioa ought TO fail anI kss gOa make TIA
Elgsnal IN the coAslasiaa whieh wa,
I wrongful in the beginning becaus,
10 was trhosiy s0ithoist cause, but becausa
ats causes did not amount 10 ;useityVa
tinn. No porsiom of peopls have.
righi, fer Light Or Trivial causes, or freu
lapprehsnded evil, and without frst AK.
haussfng all reasonable ard proper means
toavers Ii, 70 plunge the who.e country
inse civil aar. Bat, sir, while believe
tha causes ef the pseaent revolution were
nos sut1clsns 70 amount TO q justification
OF il, and while, therefore, | believe il
oasht not 70 succeed, am equally honest
10 my conviction that Iis &Ssh sacrsad ttss
al paTposes during Ibis Administration.
at least-uniess this Administration and
this Congress shall change their policy.
a1a be governed by wiser couuspls in tie
future than they hawe been ia sbo .past.
Ihas MAJ be considered PLATA talk in the
american Senate. Some may even effect
70 treat it, as the honest warniug Of
chsthaH, to the English Parliament was
treated, as disloyai. Had sae Euglish
Parliament listened % and acted anon
his adyice, the colonies had been saved to
she crown. Had this Administrator
listened 30 and acted upon the advice sf
taose @nom they, in their supereiiious-
ness aad haaghainsss at power, have prs.
sumeo 70 dlstrnsts iHkEead Of war and
carnage, peace and harmony wauld
every where throughsutIthe land have this
day prevailed. 7st- &. .s.a.:s 4
.l THE cAUsE oy Tax RETeLUYoS.
,ths causes ct revolution do not gene |
Fstly lac On taa surface Of thing. Thay
are not usually what they seem to be- |
They are not so often Isolated acts of |
oppression on the part Iof government, a. |
the assertion of tie rfg ght 40 t,rincjple |
Oh the part Of government TO DO them. |
u was not simply thfa imposition of q
sFining tax npon tea that caused the |
american revolution, bat IL was the as
sefaoA OF kaFiiament 70 tax the colonies
without their CONSENT. 1t sxas a aea-
troFersy between the croxn and his min
listers on the one side, and the ueople of
the colonies cn the other, in reference Ia
the powers of GeveRnrn ens under tina
ERglisA constitution. The IMPOSITION dF Z
the tax aad the attempt to ealleet il 4wers
0nly tne oecasIon OF testing the right
ciafmed by force of arms. The student
sf hisssry will fad no asfieulty In trac-
ing the causes vf oar eresen& revolution
10 radical and fandaasntaI diiFsrenoa
10 the true theory of our Government.
and the limitations updn Federal or Stat.
AasAoFisy. Is this Government, of the
people Of the unisea States as q quasi
Political bodys aesiag fightfuIly by forse
IT popular numerical maiorftv, sha | !
Toiee Of which majority, constituti0naIlg /
ieoides che character OF legislation, or e q
! Government of ths people of the r
states, representative 10 It's character.
ND limited IN its pow #srs legislative ~ $
fell as executive and Judicial, by the T
leiegation OF Authority expressed in the
fsderal Constitution The non delivery h
Il fugitives from SEW tse and Labor. d
be raid Of Joha BEoFn into Virginia, r
he election OF Abraham Lincoln as Il
PRESIDENT, none Of these were the cause, 0
n my opinion, of this revolution bat It 9
Tas the assex ilsn OF tbb power and duty Il
{ Congress, and of she people of tbs a
rec States, to abolish slavery, 8
r SO circumscribe and limit Ii 81
hat f'pQbIic mind cool IL rest in the con- II
iction of its ultimate extineGion.'' Il q
as the assertion Of tlss right to abolish, Z
ccompaiaed By such hcts as epinctd tas u
tlrposs to abolish, tadt led 10 this rsgolss- b
o. ~ O.
Kz- LaECoLS's INpIFFERESeE TO IT. y
it must have baeE apparent to the n
resident, as 1t certainly was TO eyeFv- n,
ody else, after bis ELECTION, that unless q,
'nle means Of paoiRcation were adopted, ?,
lat an attempt at national disruption a,
Is inevitable. Suehan attempt be may ii
ave regarded as unreasonable, as Grim. =,
Iat bat neither it's uureasonabIeuess ~
Or eriminality could excuse the joeular al
difference With which he SCENE to re- ~
ard it. He hal been victorious in the a.
'litical race for powbr, and could have al
iorded even to hare been generous ee
FaAds those laooring under apprehen- A
ons of evil 70 themselves from his Ad- "A
inistration. But, siF, when he saw that ar
Q whole coan try was agitatad and filed =,
Ish alarm, and that the work of dis an
ption had in fact commenced, it was nr
iminai indifference on his part not TO s.
ve assurance 70 bis eountrymen that in
g constitutional rights Of the people cn
the several States should be maintain
!, and the Union preserved unirnpariad. an
here then was bis lbve for the Union r.,
ben those who were eEpAtgioticaily strur- th,
ing by day and night for the adoption ab
some peaceful and honorable mode of
justment we're needing words of en- III
uragement, and WERE anxioasly seeking
sistance from thobe about 10 be TO-
llied into power, dip he whisper aaght thr
hope In the ear When, in disguise, We
sought the eapit4l Of the Republic, st
d found good and wise men, repre- op
ntatives OF the States that had not tte
eeded, endeasoring to devise soyne try
sans TO arrest the work of pational dis frt
did hh aid them BY his ms
unset, or encourage them BIZ Lis be
omise When, befsre his inauguration IN
President, he anssred shis Chamber
d found Gritsendau and Douglas / eg,
d their eoiaberers eadaAserina to sro- sio
re the adoption ofEmeaselres Oh honor DO
lie compromise, didIhe request one OF Yo
) political friends tb aid them In sAeir sh,
tTiotio efforts The only response Be pu
er designed TO his inquising And dis l la
sssnd foyssasvvfneY vwas slap ,sfsrnsE "a 4 = 4