Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1861-09-11
WHO IL AT FAULT.

L. WHO IL AT Fault:
There is clearly something wrong some
WHARF. Instead of any progress being
made in putting down rebellion, it seems
very difficult to hold our own. In every
direction our forces are threatened with
defeat by superior numbers. We are out
numbered in Virginia and Missouri. St.
Louis and Nashington-yes, even in Gin
cinsti, Philadelphia and New York are
threatened. Wherever we take the field
the enemy is sure to concentrate q supe-
NOR force and either defeat and rout as
on stop CUR progress and put us upon the
defensive This state of Affairs cannot
continue. We must either put down the
rebellion or make the best terms we can
and sahmit 70 the rule Of JEFF. Davis &
20. The fault is either with the people
OF the loyal States or with the Govern
ment. If it is with the people they ought
30 be told what is wanted. They can and
will furnish all the men and money that
ia needsd. If the fault IL IN the Govern
ment let Us have change. Give as q new
Cabinet in part or whole. New vigor
may be thus impaired. New nance may
give confidence and break the general
gloom and distr1st. Men are Of no con
sequenee-parties are Of no consequence.
The best services of the best men in the
country are needed at the head of affairs.
The country is everything-eyeEything
else is subordinate.
The above which We clip from the Bur
hngton HGsokeys, Is very important
question, and had it been asked By Dem
ocrat instead of disanion Black Repub-
can, the author would have heen threat
ened with halter, and the words 'straitor
secessionist," would have been rang to
all the different changes which Abolition
Ism and disuni0nism could invent. There
Is more in the above article than would
at first glance appear. SIN every diEec-
tion cur forces are threatened with defeas
By superior numbers" says the Black
Republican HGpkeys. This ia q candid
admission and very significant one too.
Look at ia Our Government askad for
$4O0, 900, 900 in money and ADJ, 900 men.
Cong-ass gave 500, O00, 900 and the re-
quired number of men, and yet With this
immense amount of money at the dispo-
sal Of the Government sour forces are
threatened with defeat by anpeuor mum
befs." ''We are ousnanbssess IN Virgin
ia and Missouri" And whas OF itf-
Why, it proves that in those States large
majority Of the people are determined to
dissolve their connection with the North
ern States. If, With the hordes mat are
poured into Missouri from Illinois and
Iowa therss cannot be- mustered enough
Union men in Missouri 10 overthrow the
SecessionistS, is it not time to pause and
reflect Does it not prove that the South
cannot be conquered, nor whipped in.o
submission to the Government -?
The HaUk- Eye comedies both Of the
aboss propositions, when it admits that,
"wherever we take the field the enemy il
sure to concentrate q superior force, and
either defeat and route our forces or stop
their progress and put them on the dsfen-
sive." Is this true? Ii il is, il is high
time that q stop be put to this expensive
and bloody war, and not in the Language
Of the Hs1ok- Eye that We Submit to the
rule of JEFF. Davis l. Co.," but that we
acknowledge the independence of the
"Southern Ooufederacy," and enter into
treaty of amity, peace and commercial
relations.
The HGs0k- Eye suggests the formation
Of q New Cabinet, as the grand pauacae
for all Of our National ills. He says
"New names may give confidence and
break the general gloom and distrust. p
Ii the present Cabinet cannot give conf
dence and break the general gloom and
distrust which ovsrhangs the nation, We
donsf know WHARF tbs men arc 10 DO found
in the Black Republican ranks, who car
remove the gloom and dissrust which now
enshrouds the people Of the entire nation
They cannant be founo in the Black Re-
publican ranks. A party whose only ain
has been, since its organization, either tc
free four millions of negroes, or sacrifice
the Government and destroy the liberties
of twenty-five millions Of free white men,
can numbeS bat few men In It's ranks
whose names would give confidence and
remove the gIeom and distrust which theiz
accession to power has created In tbs
minds Of the people, Such party is no'
the party to rule al such time As The
present. Il must be hurled from place
and power, il we would preserve our lib
critics.