Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04

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'ystssa faIns;a- and, threat@iag serviie !
asurrsction With Ill Il koriors, has yet {
'oolly sepealed q shs mdgssnest Of man !
Eind, al invoked She hlsssink OF the God
II peaos and lovsa III declaring ii . 1
Ailits1s nscsssisy, m tssantisl measure I
Of war TO subdue the rebels, yes, with J
admirable wisdom, he expressly exempss
from lis operation the only States and ,
paxts Of States i'm the South where he has ,
the military peHer to enforce Ii. II
Neither, sir, can you abolish slavery b. 1,
argument. As well attempt 30 sbolish
marriage or the rslation of paternity.
The South b resolved 10 maintain
ID ct every hazard and by every
saarihea; and IT, tsEhis Union can
not endure part siase and part frss,h
then Ii Is already and anaily dissolved. /
Talk nos to ma OF ssWsss Virginia.
Tell me NOS Of Aissoasi, srampied under
the feet Of your soldisry. AS well talk /
to me Of Irslasd- Sir, the destiny OF |
those States mast abide the Issue 81 the |
, war. Bas Ksnsasky you may and soughsr. |
And MARYLAND s9s s#2
91'sa In ass ssass lissa tAsas woatsa assa,'
Nor will Delaware be found wanting IN
she day Of tpal. A'@
But deny the doctrine. Il Ia full Of
siisuaion and civil war. IL is disunion
itself. Whoever 6rsE taught 1t ought 70
be dealt With Is not only hostile 70 the
Union, bat an enemy Of the human race.
Sir, the fundamental idea of the Conssi-
tuition 10 the perfect and eternal ceun-
pasibility Of union of States "pars slaye
. and pars free 20 else the Constitution
. never would have been framed, nor the
Union founded and seventy years Of
! successful experiment have approved the
! wisdom Of the plan. In my deliberate
, judgement, coufederacy made up OF
. lslavehoIding and non slaYeholding States
Is, 10 the nature OF things, the strongest
Of all popular governments. African
! slavery has been, and ID eminently con-
sentative. Itmakes the absolute political
: equality Of the white race everywhere
: practicable. 1t dispenses with the Englist
order Of nobility, and leaves every whiss
!. man, north and South, owning slaves Of
. owning none, the equal of every othel
: white man. Il haa- reeonciled untyersa
= suffrage throughout the free States viii
!. tha stability Of government. / speak no
- now Of its material benefits TO the Nortl
4 and West, which ara many and more oh
- vious. But the South, too, has pro6tet
n many ways by union with the non
: slaveholding States. Enterprise, industry
Il sslf-reliauce, perseverance,, and the othe
ar hardy virtues Of people living 10 highe
= latitude and without hereditary servants
: she has learned or received from th
j North. Sir, it is easy, know, 70 de
"A noanee all this, and to revile him wh
: utsers it. Be il 50. The English is, 9
l. all languages, the most oopious 10 word
of Of bitterness and seproaeh. 'Pour on
ne | will endure"
~ Then, sir, there 10 not a. fsiFrepressibI
be conflict" between slave labor and frs
60 labor. There is no eoaaiet al all. Bot
D. exist together in perfect harmony in ii
%. South. The master and the slave, Il
er white lAborer and the black, wog
", together in the same field or the sau
N shop, and without the slightest sense
i'm OF degradation. They are not equal
n either socially or politically. And wt
of not, then, cannot Ohio, having only fri
n labor, live in harmony with kensucA
ito which has both slave and free Abo'
nv all, why cannot Massachusetts allow q
IT'S same right Of choice to South Carolin
st; separated as they are a Thousand mile
ot. BY other States who would keep the pea
Iut aud live in good will /? Why this civ
nd war? Whence disunion ? Not fro
he slavery-nos because the South choos
le- to have two kinds Of labor instead Of 90
re, but from sscsioaslism, always and ever
ID where disintegrasing principle. Seetio
mt al jealousy and hate-these, sir, are Z
he oniy elements OF conflict between the
Is, States anu Eaon9n powerful, they are ,
nd not. at all irrepresslble. They sxi
zen between families, communities, town
ess cities, counties, aud States and If q
the repressed would dissolve ell society al
nd government. They exist also beswe
be other sections than the North and Soas
ere SeesionaIism East, N any years age, Cd
TO- the South and West united by the ties
on, geographical position, migration, ints
ty, marriage, and interest, and thus strO
bic enough to control the poser and poll
in of the Union. Ii found US divided or
nal by different forms OF labor I; and wi
Pc consummate but most guilty sAgacity,
ave seized upon the question Of slavery
ills the surest and most powerful ia&trume
or tality by which to separate the West fire.
ax- the South, and bind her wholly to t
AXE North. Encouraged every way FRI
5ti- abroad by those who were Jealous of 0
its prosperity and greatness, and who I'm,
lb- the secret OF our strength, it proclaim
lite the "irrepressible conflict" between sla
bat labor and free labor. Il taught the peoy
Alb Of the North TO forget both their duty q
srv their interests and aided by the ar
ude hcial ligaments and inauenoa which mo
to sy and enterprise had created between (
les. sea- board and the Northwest, it p'
a." suaded the people Of thai section, also,
is yield up every tie which binds them
TO the great valley Of the Mississippi, and
sill join their political fortunes especial
st wholly, with the East. It resisted /
ith fugitive slave Law, and demanded the c
elasion of slavery from all the Territor
rk, and from this District, and clamor
nd, against the admission Of sny more sla
hat States into the Union. 1t Organizes
ty, sectional anti-slRvsry party, aud I'd
I ID drew TO it's aid as ven political ambiti
ons and interest as fanaticism and At
t. twenty-five years of ineessans a
Sd vehement agitation, il obtained posses
it's ion finally, and upon that issue, of I
Ills Federal Government and Of every Sta
ro- government North and West. And |
Of day, we are In the midst of the create
.tic most cruel, most destructive civil war on
ars waged. But two years, sir, of blood a
eat debt and taxation and incipiens comml
oial ruin are teaching the people of I
the West, and trust Of the North also, {
to folly and madness of this crusade agais
son African slavery, and the wisdom 9
md necessity of union Of the States, as 0
lst, fathers made il, "part stave and pa
ii free" -
Of What, then, sir. With 90 MANY cans