Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-08-04
THURSDAY, AUGUST !, 1864.

- ~M ID sssss sgss - f5Ei II
i aud spiendid bat gloomy dsposasus ~
Ing lke dark shadgw upoa ahs futaa
of the AmeTican seu&iDeuk.
II When MI. LlneoIn oailsd upou the nss..
i sscsdiug 6tn3snto fnrhish him re- ,01
men, = be nd against ths 6satee wAia
kad seaededs ~ ennonneed, Il ebek. hi
fiatsnEion - deetrny the old oeverui.sua
IA wksu ssFssin M ~ Btofss sseeds
4 90 has denan6, ~ 0seiafsd sIDu, ikaa III
4 Hss xflline iAat IA sAaald ~ destEeysd
None Of the anndftiana saenisisa ~ nsk
d revolation Ia the Gcvernnsnt aomnias
fwere kantine. The ofkcsts Of State
whose SWORN aasy Ii wss 10 pfo<scs sn,
defend the cid aovsFnmeas, forsosk Il
and the people abandoned L. From shs
| moment IL ceased 10 exist, and ne haal
bsea living practically Tor more skan tire
ysasa andar aew Goseramens, Cor
srnmans necessarily dsspoaie, hsesuss thl
Consultation being set aside, the man wh,
rules ever us ID absolutely without re
ssvaint Of any kind, except shaa imposes
hy hia own will. We haze nes awsa sh.
bsneft OF shose gestsietieas aean poWm
which, 10 other ahsolnie Governmsnts
h4se been inposed by ancieas and long.
essabsfshsd asagcs. Our Hves, liberty,
and property, are wholly IL tho mercy 81
Abraham Linsoln. The shirteen colonlss
while depsndeai upon Great Britain, wsgl
whsfly independent of each other, exist
| Ing under separate charters, or roya
gFauts, and hsEing each it's own aevsrns
Or, Legislative Assembly, aud Coarts oI
| Justice.
Whsn these Colonies declared them.
selves indspsndent of the mothsg counssy
they each hssaEae 3 separate and inaepsa-
dent Ssases OF nation, and were sahss-
4uensly recognized By name ~ such, ID
f7S3, BY tbs only Government intarsssed
in she dsaisl. The Articles OF Uonssd.
eraiisa which ware snsersd iaso By shs
State aossrnments daring ths RsvOla-
sionary War, in lTTT, ysDaiasd In feses
until rhs sdopsioa OF the Federal Censti-
satisa, whieh vent into cperssiaa In IT.
80. Ii did rot ixpais she sovereignty Of
any one cs these States, OF naksans, Ray
more than did offensive and defensive
treaty Of France and England, In the war
with Rsasia, diminish me sovereignty oi
eishog Of those. nasions. The Federal
Constitution, 90 framed by the Oonsaar
ton which met In PhiIadelphia, On the
25th Of Msy, 1857, did not, nor hare ANY
EoR the amendments Subsequently ngsde
thereto impaired OF taken away soTarsiga-
y from any State By which ID was ad0p-
ted.
The peopls of each State retained their
separate existence and nationaiity, az
completely after thsy bad seyeraliy adop-
ted the Fedesai Consultation, as before.
There was in the Convention las appears
by the Madison papers and ~ We are in-
formed By Luthsr Martin in hfs address
before the Maryland Legislature, semi
monarchical or consolidation party, and
this party was, of course, ia faYor Of cen
tralizaEion, bat when ID found, as il soon
did, that the semi monsrchical idea was
wholly impraeticabie in the then state of
feeling, both in aud out Of the Conveu-
tion, it abandoned along with it, the idea
or consolidating territory 90 vast, with
30 great varity Of soil, climate, protuc-
tian. ana material interests; aud Ia wAieh
tia habits and character Of the people in
the diTereat localities must differ 50 wide
ly under oae repahlic, a. an absuadity toe
great to be contemplated for an Instant.
Two ssparals attempts were made III
the Convention to consolidate. The aSss,
By Edmund Randolph, Of Virginia, who
proposed In his sixth resolution 10 coafeY
upon the Government of ths Dnised
States tha power to coersa disobedsenE
or refractory State. The second, by Pat
terson, Of New Jersey, who submitted q
similar resolution, though couched in diff
ferens ianguage.
The folly aud dangers Of these rssolu-
sions having been fully exposed la the
Consensioa by Madison, Hamilton, Ma
son, and Martin, they we're voted &cwH
unanimously, each State casting enevotel
These we're the only sstsmpts which weFs
made IN tha Convention 20 consolidate
the peaple and to tranafsr their sovereign.
ty to q new nation, proposed 20 be area-
ssd by the Convention. Their failurs
visa noss signal and oomplete.
The philadelphia Convention was 4
body Of delegates from each State, oals
authorised 90 draft Constitution, Anl
mot empowered TO give is the isaas valid
| ity. FIf
The draft Of the Federal ConssssutioE
vas reported By Washington to the Con
fedefate Congress, and BY its order sub,
missed for adoption to the people OF tha
separate States ~ . sseparate community
| or nasssn, and, oil coarse, dsrives all il
powers, within State, from the ccassn
of the people thereof, to whom il occu,
pses The sx1ae relation 40 that bald bs
ihsir sspasxss State Gassrnmsats.
Tbs sonaiasioa TO Which aryiYs. ID,
that the people a3 sach Ssass eonslitas,
substantially i sotsssign nasson, thA
each Doc, By the adopsscn OF the Fednra
Conssitasiouv and sisc Of Seass 0uassi,
tuition, created for itsslf swo dissiaet gsv4
ernments or agents. upon each of whon
1t eoDfssred cesssinRpeciEsd powsxs, and
that shs powsss of one OF bosh ok shss.
agents nay be reroksd by the people q
any State thsmsslgass whsusssf In shsii
sovereign viii, sueh revocation may bs
come desirable
Having, as ] think, shows thai sacl
Stats d rsslly sovereign, and shas this 3
the main psineiplss shs;sssy eokasr ssDn'
Oh eur system sf keysznasns, Ii assssss
Esaxiiy folIows that the call OF Dir. Lin
coin for seventy-6ys thousand men, ant
ths Acqaissssuee Of Uertaia Hsases III tho
aalss the msa to be asea In wsr 8ss Ens
Statss whish bad ssserted sAeiT sossF
Il = - "a a ~ -. "A - q . = - =
1 sf such iastrusasas--is wAs Sab ID th'
heart OF eur palilieAl sysssm, ard axsstsI
sfy follow eisisens, kswase u esaKsllz
ID powsr. it wAs ahs grsss seafos i
Aaxissy so aas Fssalukionssy fathsrs whsI
/ they cysassd or fsdesal sysssx. TIL.
wAs nothing which they 20 mach dssadsd
and sraffzs wfx5n& fh<0s ssxk 81 sstus5x ~ ~