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

10 appeal 10 arns and lnyoks the blessing
ii providarsas on : Just saass."
Vice prssiasns stapAsns said at Mont
xsmsxy, in serms eqas1E plain :--"osr
solis shoaIa BIZ msrksd BY desire aa|
preserve and maintain peace With all
States and people. II this cannot Be
saaas, lst mot she fauls Lie n our deor.-y |
While We shoald make aggressions On
none, We should be prepared 70 repel |
shssa made by otAers, iestham onsaa fraa
Whatever qaarsas they may Wa ask ID |
others simply to let Us alone, and to b.
permitted to look after our safety, seeu~
rity and happiness in our own way, with
out mOlessing % .giying ofisnse 70 other
people. Les then peace, fraternity and
liberal commercial relations with Ill ths
world, be our motso.''
At the date Of Mr. Linsoln's inaugura-
tian, ha found commissioners From the
Montgomery Government awaiting his
accession TO oflce, sopEopose negotiations
for peaceful solution Of the questions
In controversy. The Commissioners were
not officially received, and their overtures
were Indignantly rejected. Further at
ssmps4 through Judge Campbell, failed
In like manner. Jefferson Davis, in
his message Of April 29th, said:
Il awe protest solmenly in the face of
/ mankind that ws desire peace at any sac
! rihce, saTe that Of honor and indepen-
! dsnee We seek no conquest. no aggran-
| disemonss no concessions Of any kind from
. the States With which We were lately con-
federated ali We ask is to be let alone /;
that those who never held any power over
us, shall not now attempt our subsection
by arma. This ne viii, shis womust re-
siss to the direst extremity. The mo-
) ment that this pretension is abandoned,
! the sword will drop from our grasp and
7 we shall be ready to enter into treaties Of
e amisy aad commerce that caHsot but be
mutually beneficial"
Again, the preamble of the Act Of the
: Confederate Congress, recognizing the ex-
= isteuce Of war between the United States
J.. and the Confederate States, reads -
e Whereas, The saruSss efaxts made By
] this government to establish friendly re-
D lations between the government and til
- Confederate STATES, and 10 settle all CUES
d lions of disagreement betweeB the two
}, governments upon principles Of right, JUS
: ttoe, equity aud good faith, have proves
!. unavsiling, by reason of the refusal of th'
It government of the United States to hole
y any intercourse with the commissioner
|, appointed by this government for the pur
lie pose aforesaid, or to listen to any propo
!. sal they had to make for the peaceful so
n luton of all causes of difficulty betweei
= the two governments.
10 Afterwards in his message of July BOT
b Jefferson Davis distinctly denies that b
ID designed offensive war, and charges a
- follows :--"Commencing in March las
> with an affection Of ignorance Of the sc
cession of seven States which first organ
iaed the government ]; persisting, in Apr
p In an idle and absurd assumption Of the q
r. list nee Of riot wlieh Was TO be dispense
p by posse eomisssas coutinueing in sue
ID eessive months the false Representative
NJ that these States intend offensive war, /
At spite of conclusive evidence to the contra
~, furnished as we'll by othcial action q
IN by the very basis on which this Govern
OF ment ia constituted, the President Of til
IN United States and his advisers have sac
10 ceedsd in deceiving the people Of thos
to States into tho belief thai she purpose Q
ss this government was not peace At homt
~ bat conquest abroad not defense Of il
r own liberties, but the subversion of thos
Of the people of the United States"
90 And Vice President Stephens, at Au
10 gusta, July 10th, reasserts that the Goa
I'll federate States preferred the Union {
be separation. He suid eve appealed
st them tthe NORTH We believe ii "a
ea best for all tho States, as Washingto
D. presided over the convention that mad
O. the Confederation, that all the Stats
~ should remain in the Union, faiahfull
10 performing each for itself the obligation
4e Of the Constitution"
n We have thus briefly, but carefully, ri
OF viewed the course of the leading men {
TO the Seeded States, from the election
TO November TO the assembling Of C9ngres
D in July to prove that they deprecated civ
'Is il war and that however they may hav
be regarded the s&ight of Secession. the
De would have gisdiy remained in the Unio
Ill even With large concessions on their pa
CT Dad similar apvansaa been made by ID
. dominant party Of the North. 7 We hole
ne therefore, that the Republican politician
= are entitled TO large share Of the n
y sponsibslisy for the dissolution Of shs On
:" ion, as well ~ for the present war. W
DC balieye that there was NOS one of the ns
maroas pkans Of adjustment that the pos
~ Pile the whole country would not have RAJ
= lied by an immsnse majority, for shs sal
t. Of national unity and and peace. W
y believe shat, evsn now, FOR humanity
o sake and to avert the crushing burden
70 that . protxaeesd war must satall, bot
I'D sections would, II permitts.is adopt 40
honorable measures to end sha war al
"a x..uNnR.xt ~axkIass.saA sEzs.