Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-14

d We have discussed by our own standard
Il and aetermined BY yots, boz IL 10 beat (.
Him 60 cary owa His government sf Il
. world, We have impaired NOS what Z
5 has willeds and sald and dons, but whi
d u IS expeaient Tor Him 30 will. and 81
and do, according TO a aast4E, part
Eor q school. We have popularissd Cd
creedz, measured prsneipiss hg their utiI
itisss men By shsir clothes, and God bin
!, self by His supposed subsaryiaaqB 10 eu
: ideas. ,..r iii 1pI5-s
Let as ohssgvs the process The sout
I is slassholding. Ii Il SO constitutional
) ~ andisgally. Slavery antsts into sh
stguesaEe Of lis society; not i thing d
aeaidsnk, possibly nes sxsgywhsre of pra
faEenoe, baE an inheritance according 1
the aaamen Law of eArsh---a. providan
haal ardsr--without Which, Id Eisw d
necessarily, that is of naturally and s&at
fadiy existing divarsities Of race cuItuF.
4 and coalition, the ssaial state could no
have been constituted at all, and tsIife lib,
ertY and happiness" would haye been 10.
seeuEe 20 civilian and Christian people
Who had juss boaght them - 10 graat
praos. Slavery was not, indeed. thg sos.
neE stone, bua the practical canditsea oi
the Union, the Constitution and eha law D
Whatever disadvantages wera admitted
TO atteaded il, like all ether inssitutions
administered by men, it was held to he
legitimate. 1t had existed the usagaS Of
nations, for the ends of social eonservs-
| tism andof moral government, since Gain
Was stigmatized and made fugitive and
Tagsbend on earth, and Ham was cen
signed, in one line Of has desosndgnts.
| 10 the rule OF Shem and Jauheth. Iswas
eommon Law. Ik was iaeorpofatesi into
shs eiyil institutes Of Mases.a Es was re-
cognissd accordingly by Christ and bis
I Apostles. They regulated 1t b5 the Just
and benevolent pgeespss Of she New fas-
taEnsat. They coDdamsned all intesaed~
dlers with it-such aa they pgddioted of
the last days of the 0hristiaa dispense
saon--as "proud, knowing nothing but
doting about Questions and strifss of
WeEdss whara0f eometA snvy, strife, rail-
| lngs, evil saFmisings, peryersa .aispusiBgs
OF mea of csFraps minds and destitute
Of the truth, - from whom all lssdkYisttaps.
and especially the pastoxs Of the dock,
should turn away. The fathers were not
smsrkshly eoasideEaEs Of these things,
but they were not ignorant OF them
They accordingly held slavery to be ex-
eeptionahle only in its abuses, and that
Notwithstanding abuses, il should be left
to the regulations Of the ssatas o, whose
climate, sol, or other physical hsbitudes
or condition should need than 60 re-
Eaiu it. e ....
1t actually obtained, at the ADOPTION
Of the Constitution, in all bat a single
State which had early favored the intro
duotion of the new philosophy, and whose
experience had found it to be dnpro6ta
ole. Wherever IL WIS subsequently, ahok
lshed, Its want Of physical adaptation
and Its consequent inc0ng euiencds. not its
essential wrongfuluess, we're mainly the
reasons of it's abolition. Against that
10 an early period, Jonathan Edwards
had protested, in viudieation bf moral
government and, TO assert his Chistian
liberty, had bought slave. ThoughtfR
men we're not troubled By the thing ftself,
but only by its accident Phe phiioso.
pay Of sentiment and romance Ind not
then extensively infected the Descendants
OF the PuYitans. IL exeitable indiyldn.
ais among them had begun to feel the
aura Of the dawning iilumiuism and cos.
moPoaiIsm OF that period, and conse-
quently condemned slavery by that crite.
tFinn, even they were not regardless of
their ptghted faith. Fhey saw ho iusti.
fable remedy for the supposed dyil, but
Ia such amendments Of the Constitution
As are provided for in that fnttrurnept
itself, or in friendly constitutional letis-
lstion, or the insensihle inhuenceof nroy.
idential or moral causes, that could not
be reokoned or compelled beforehand. So
1t stood-an integral part OF the best So
sial sdifi0e that had ever been reared bv
man, and contributing, in it's awn consti-
tuted eTder, TO aB uBexsmpled prbsperity,
So Ii stood-an occasion, indeed. of
many wrongs and suEeriags such As ara
incident to earth, but Algo of invaluable
and otherwise impossible benefits to a de-
graded people, thereby brought nearer 10
the asages Of civilized life, and id a.
great proportion as cur own citizens, in
to fellowship with the Church bf God.
So it stood, till generation arose that
comprehended none Of theae living real
tiles, that honoFed not the God Of the
fathers, and for his everlastiug i#ord of
natural and revealed religion. sahstitutaEi
a''higher law" Among thezn w4re horn
the Abolitionists, who are nov, oIKcisIlv.
supreme over the Land. They we're AT
hrst, small class Of speculative entha-
siasts, intoxicated by the airy pantheism
Of France aud Germany, which had CO.
verify ereatned its spiEls into TOD "gIitr |
terIng gepeFalFiesn al the Desiaratien of |
Independence, and by that instrument an ]
sensibly infested the public mind, They
were men Of no mark OF 6gure, inHaasd /
Missionaries, mistaking thaiF own fansies /
for another gospel, which is not another,
destitute of all practical eondsrn Ter /
Church or State, and aEeetlag outy cap
possible or possible, andeHnsd and nnds- |
Enable interests of humanity In general. |
But they were ambitious, insiauating.
resslyed and reckless, Intent upon an
imaginary universal restitution, before |
God's appointed hna, by sweeping pro-
cesses OF what theF called reform, wlEhr
out discrimination of time, piaoa, axe,
sax, race, capacity or condition, and pas
sionately heated at eYils attending the or
dained relations of social lifs--evrla
growing not out Of the relations them
selves, but the bad passions of our eeaas
mon nature the vay passions hy which
fhey were aneonscioaaly infqmei i--they
Affected 70 restore eociety by afat destroy
ingits and, EhaneefoEward. not by the
renewal of individasl ninds aceotding I'd
Christianity, bus by political rsforna-
tions and rsconstrussiens, aceortiing 10
their own speculative aonoeiss. They aa-
pirad to . millsnnign not Of graob, bat oil
nasure; not spiritual By sbo power Of
ths Holy Ghost, but plaIonie, aaooraiag
TO the impalsss and sentiments of the
natural mind. Tbsg pat feeling In tha
place OF eonscience. Thay sabaiAtaEed O
man God for the iodrnaan imaginary