Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04
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axmsss bonds Oh the Uniaa. Bas Afsss L
Ill, shs Strongest Of the many original q
impalling causes Of the Unioas was shs .
sscusiag u domestic txsneulliisf Tns q
ssakssmea al 1857 well knew shai G
ssswesn shistser Endspsndsak but ocn~ .
sixuoas States with nafafA boandafy !
and With noshing % separate them e.
oegs tia mMchineTy OF ssmiIar govern. 10
iasansss shese muss Be . psrpaaaais IN faot q
an ssasrpesassbls sonaiCsa % larisdieslon d
and interest," which, theEs being no other
sommoa sxbisar, eoald only Be Terminated |
bv the coufiica af the sword. And ths
statesmen Of 1869 ought 10 know that two
or more oonfedsrasa gosesnments, made
up Of similar States, having no natural
boundary either, and separated only 81
difEexent governments, rannos endaxs
loug together In peace, unless one or
more Of them be either TOO pugiflanimous
fog rivalry, or loo insignificant TO pro-
woke ia, or too weak TO resiss aggression.
These, sir, along with the sstahl ishmsnt |
of Justice, and the securing OF The general I
welfare, and Of the blessings OF liberty TO |
themselves and their postarity, made up
shs caussss and motives which impelled
our fathers 10 the Union as first,
And nov, sir, what one oil them Ia want
ing ? What one diminished On the
contrary, many Of thsm are stronger to-
Jay than in the beginning. Migration
and intsrmarriage have strengthened the
ties Of cons&nguinity. Commerce, trade,
and production have immensely multi
piled. Cotton, almost unknown here in
1887, 10 now the chief product and export
Of the country. IL has ses IL motion three
Eourshs of the spindles Of New England,
and given employment, ,drectiy or re-
motey, to full half the shipping, trade,
and commerce OF the United States. More
than that cotton has kept the peace
between England and America for thirty
years and had the people OF the North
been rs wise and practical as the states
meA Of Great Britain, is would have
maintained Union and peace here. But
we are being taught IN cur hEss century
and as our own cost, the lessons which
England learned through the long and
bloody experience of eight hundred years
We shall be wiser next time. Let moi
cotton be king, but peaeemaksr, and In
hsris ths blessing.
A common interest, then, still remains
TO u.s. Ard union for the common de-
fsnse, at the end Of this war, taxed, in
asbted, impoverished, exhausted, a
beth sections must be and with foreign
aeets and armies around Us, viii be hfty
fold more essential than ever before
And finally, SIR, without union, oal
domestic tranquility must forever remaiE
unsettled. If it cannot be maintained
within she Union, how then outside OF it
wishous an exodus or colonixation OF tn
people u one aectioa or the other to
distant eountgyS Sir, repeat that twr
governments 50 interiinked and boun'
sOgesher every way by physical and soei@
Iigmmsats, cannot exist ia peace withou
common grbiser. VIII treaties bin
US What better treaty than the ConstitH
ton /? What more solemn, more durable
Shall We settle our disputes, then, b.
arbitration and compromise Sir, lie
rs arhiErate aud compromise nov, insid
Of chs Union. Certainly 1t Will be quit
easy
Ana now, sir, to all these origina
causes and motives which impelled t
aalon at nEss must !. be added es ~.
association under a common Govsrnmen
have most fully developed. Chief anon
these are canals, steam navigation, rail
roads, express companies, the post ofict
agent of good and evil mixei-"spiri
Of health, and yet goblin damped"-i
free, the gentlest minister OF truth an
liberty when enslavei, the Simplest il
strument of fslsehood and tyranuy-th
magnetic telegraph. All these haV
multiplied the speed or she quantity c
trade, communication, migration, and il
teroourss Of all kinds between th
different States and sections and thu
50 long as healthy condition Of the body
polite continued, they became powerfr
eemsuting agencies or unfon.' The nc
meTious voluntary associations, artistic
literary, charitable, soaI, and scientific
until corrupted and made fanAtical th
vAyioas ecclesiastical Organizations, nc
til they divided and poifsicxi parties, 8
long as they remained AL national 40
not sectional, were also among the stron
ties which bound Us together. And u
ali of these, prevented and abused f.
some years in the hand Of bad or fanati
cal men, became still mors powerful in
Bsrumentalisies In the fatal work Of dis
union Just as the veins aad arteries {
the human body, designed TO convey Ii
vissiIizing fluid through every part Of i
will carry also, and with increased n
pidity is may BE-, the subtle poisiou whie
takes life away. Nor is this all. Ii ws
tAYaagh their agency that the impfiosione
Winds Of the civil war were all let loos
81 fret with sudden and appalling fury
and, kept in motion by political powe
they have minisseTed TO that fury evl
siHcs. Bat, potent alike for good az
ssii. shsy may yet, under the control
the people, and in the hands Of wis,
good, and patriotic men, be made ii
most effective agencies, under Progidenc
In the reunion Of these States.
Other lies also, less material In the
nature, bat hardly less persuasive 10 the
iuhaenee, have grown UP under the Uniol
Long association, common histor
national reputation, treaties and diplG
matte intercourse abroad, admission
new States, . COMMON jurispugdene
great men whose names and fame al
the patximony of the whole eountr,
p&triosis music ana songs, common be-
tle-Aelds, and glory won under the san
nag. These make up the poetry of Uniol