Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-07-14

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In the Crisis os Japs 9Th i ind the fsI-
flowing passage In shs article sransisssf
Efrem ahs 80 Os@sssr dies Eias UMiss /
ssIn shs speech resordsd aborss JsAf
tsuinsy Adsns, after haEias aavIssaa
friendly separation rather than civil war
adds:
@sTt would than be the moment 20 have
Issceurse TO che prscedenss furnished by
what passed as she tiaas Of the dxAftine
land aaoption Of tbs, lGsnstiluslea The
bond OF uniou which wonld have lest jss
fogces could be dissolved to allow the
fpsrsies thereto b aggregate thenselvss
aass By virtue Of sha iaw Of polatissI
lgFaEisy.' aa b sa
/ sfWs aan, herdly asd@ssaad bow kAis
/ truly prophesfe suggestion hss net Jet
been eSoked by any ones IL resumes, ia
fscs, In its most suecinck fora. she meet
psaasisal and most simple plan, the oua
having moss shaness Of sueesss, beipg ai
| ths saiae sims ths zoss soaisrD 80 The
/ ft'9nskitutfen 10 open the wAy for tiit
4 sradnai sreaAitfng of tho divskze& seq
4 liozassn - agE "a .fEa1
Fhs wsitex og that article Is right Id
calling the mode suggested by. j. q, .Ad-
| ans sfthe most practical," "moss simple;;n
Eslso, that u 10 oae shaving most chances
Iof saccsss;n but hs is miss9kss in stating
Il 70 BE- the ssnass ooaiaam - tbs Csassi-
| tation,o
/ Having for three years past advocated,
both publicly and prisssegy, this plan Of
MR. Adams, {sheughs % he Htasss IL, ID is
pne Adopted By tha. banners of ths Oon-
ssitation. and therefore not his, | ysntuse
to offer afsw remarks upon some very
TEsaI distiarsicns wfsiah all those must
! bear in mind Who desire 70 issd this .peo-
/ Blsfran civil was 10 paxmaasns internal
/ peace.
III The very 6rBs point towards a settle
inens between the NoYth and the South is
10 sscsstain what sgibunal on body politie
has aaEhoTisy 10 take Anal and blnaing
astipa. Ia tbs pre- enises. And there we
| mast start with the admission that Meth.
| ex the present Constitution, and viii less
the iGossrnaasns created by is, soutaias
1.-The proper powers over shis sahjecss lis
ia ]. q. Adams merit IN 1t alwsys was
fShat OF Madison, Jefferson and Jacksoa,
to perceive and admit shAs these are sub-
jecss which, both parpassiy ard aesidsns-
ally, were, left oas Of the Osnstitasian,
and which il lakes an asssmbly With orig
inag powers TO settle.
| The frss step. then, to peace, ir order
liza pssvms csTil cemfaoeion, ID, TO lay
AAowR as hasis tha f&ek shas naitheg the
coercioa of a State or States iato tbs u
lnion, nor the putting of State out of
ithe Union, are sabjests within the powers
/ OF eur General Gsvesnnsnt This con.
/ saded, and the Americas mind will in.
/ stinetiyely turn 20 and r. -comprehend the
1 precedent, which they have strangely fos-
gotten, and which was Set By the fathers
of the Ropualis whea they sss aside the
Il assisles OF eeafedssasioa and adopted the
4 present Cosstitutioas And our statesmen
too, wiIl then see more yividlg that it is
4 not national convention, aadeY q Con.
4 stisuticu siIans spoa she sukjses 90 be
Isotsea. bat o constitutional assembly su-
pszior to and above our present federal
/ law, that can alone finally, satisfactorily
faud, W1at's more, honorabiy to all, ses-
Ikle the difhSaasies In which we are in-
solyed. = ,s ap4 .asGs<
i We must, one and all, eo1no back so
| the corner stone OK our political existeuse,
/ whicfi is jeoTsained IN tbs words OF the
Il lIDeolaration Of indepsndsnce: q These col
onies ara and ofrigAi eaehs to be tnes aad
IadepcnJsng Ssates.n hak cur States
need again is, sell dfsposissoa-sn atsri-
bute denied no more absolutely by the
i king os Great Britain, than By our pres
lent Federal Administration. si
Il 1t faslpws fran the position hers taken,
that neither the President, nor Congress,
nar the Supreme Cours, nor all combined,
hSve power to recognize the Soafhan
Coafsdsgaey; but that aonssisaaas asseaa-
big haa. Yea, suaa "a ssssmbly has paw-
er 10 more, it san reconssrucs ths Union.
II IL can solve from hases and Is can bsss
1 frssa sHsclien, and Iiove it for the lassas
4 snsskats far asrs than the Fret. #
Sssna Of our frieads have favored psaes
Il ssna secogaision of the Southern Coated.
aracy; bat Is il nok far better way to gc
Ilfor peare and the reassartion OF the free
dom, indepanaenea and sovereignty ol
sash and susTx State Of the Union2 Ths
I.sgss named proposition is directly la tbt
II face of The express woras Of the Conssi.
tati On. which forbids States from enter
inn laso new confedeTssiss; the ether d
In ssries aecordaaee with the very fpunda,
/ tion On watch oar institutions ress.
Il Surely II mus. be plain 70 the somzon.
sst mind, that JED. Davis, when hs eco,
eomnassionzs 10 BnehsHan and Lincols
!. 70 treat fer resegnities, yielded his whsl'
ease, b aseriblag powers N these fane
III tionariss which he, Of all men, know
+ they do not possesss Besfdss that eours,
waas airsstsy Id the face VI che proesssiurl
, and pxin0aplsa Land fiown In shs ksneask,
! aad Virginia rssolutioas Of '0ss Thss'
n resolves rest uppn the trus idea, that ID
|, Ssases And che people skereof ere the sov
Il laxsixns &C shiskigssrnmsas, and that she,
alans asn aashsxatatisaly ssktls aGssssan
(which may asiss and ba fouad not am
lbfaced III tbs Conssitatioa. They mad
lshs Usssa, shey alone can klser It's 81
Epzsns iAwy shsg asans osa iawsaily die
aolFA isses snaafAag@s
II Ths adnisssoa that Liasaln, or Con
fxress may dissoiye this Unioa by rsseog
i aiming aneshsf sonfedkasJ, Yields ioss
!. n .sosssaxusEion of our auuz3AmentAl iaw
! 4 thsn tas. adnissisn tknt The Rrssidsns
asdsr the war peysrs h4s the anthsrit
Ii kboltsh slAFsfy; faF II sur Ksdses
3I1fvvernssent cAs dsssolve the Union, tha
] saxsy II can also % the oktSsr dss1, wal
! ii ssssshes ID pncoAsIisHkioaal mssna.
.I haBs wrattam ths foregoing from
1 / ssnesrs assSre to pssvsnt oux psStY hez
J sk~ fsEs poaisian, ard . inaicats
Il wsiss danny hsiahas spssiSzsis aAssr
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