Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-07-16
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/ IhsVe seseivsd your letter inviting M
: IA nsss yosxsslt md 0&hv gentlemen con
! etisg \ onnitt psantsd By eez
, sairi nsenb exs q tbs EsgislAsurs designs
ted as Republican and Union members, !,
i With aathosisys afseT eonsslasisas wit
y eemnsi AsssM skAAr IA sAnix4&iana, tie q;
the time snd place for holding . ssas
Convention fes ths lsomlanasson 81 Stat
ohcers. will give you the reason VIII
think IL proper TO decline this invita-
/ 4ina. xafa
whom the committee was appaiased witE
which you invited me to consult, adopt.
1 ID an addtsss and resolussDna deaasins
certain principles and inviting to con.
Ivantion which they recommended, Gal
Republicans, Union Democrats, and 9th.
81 Loyal ssaaasss, ssppsssers 81 sas Ad'
ninistratinn and responding 10 she prin-
ciples and policy" ses forth in such ad.
drpss and resolutions.
/ / cannot call myself 'sa suDportsx 81
/ the policy al the ADMINISTRATOR - and ]
| do not @raspehd to the principles and
policy set forth in the address and reso-
lasions," and .therefoEa though .. loyal
ssRzaa, ansaa enhssasd ialhminyita-
ton.
| lam ready, indeed, TO suppost shs Ad.
ministratien ia tie psosesatioS osf the
war for the preservation sf oar Gbnstitu-
tional Unibrs, and know tassat to this pol
l iey the President il pledged by Numerous
acts and declarations, the sincerity of
] whieh do rot question. But whether
he viii adhere to those pledges in spite
Of that pewsrtul influences Ia his own
| party which is seeking to convert the war
saa4o ssa Ahalasisn wass is yet TO be prov
| ed. He has already recommended an
inpoElant naaaure which In my Judge
ment is impolitie and unwarranted BIZ the
Constitution. With respect 60 the vital
| questions that remain, regard the spoil
| ICY of the Administrator as ssmeshsa
unfxed and uncertain, and until / see
more clearly what it Is, | am unable to
! salf sds Ss sa4p ssa."
BHslayhs AslB AIasabjeet which does
not seem to emharrass Republicans who
are open opponents of the policy to which
the Presidtas IL pledged let Va consider
| the propos ed union upon its merits. Is
it expedie1t, and will it promote the pub
BE welfare to unite with the Republican
TaEty, upon the principles Of the Logis-
iasiEe address and resolutions, for the
paAkp0se Of. dafsstlHg .stss asIh@Ssasie par
t. Of this State at the approaching olec
siIn That is the question.
A year ago when the country was in
imminent danger, the Republicans Of
<asg ! ork aad other Ssaaesg invited Dem
ocrats and all other loyal men 70 lay
aside partisan controversy and unite with
them in the support of the war for the
Consultation and Uaioa. No other mo
tive or purpose for war was then heard
from the leaders of the Republican party,
or Indeed ID Aay quartes baFins che
slightest itaaaenoe upon puSHs ep8rIa on.
The messages and speeches of the Pres
idens the proclamations of his Generals
piedeing aAe pablis faith 10 the people of
the invaded States, and of which his
mere silence was an Approval and coDar-
nation g; the resolutions 0fEongxsag pass
ed almost unanimously, only two Repub-
lioaas voting against them in the House
q Representatives, che language of the
press and Of popular meetings-aN uni
ted in declaring that the war was to be
prosecuted not to subjagate the South,
nor to change Southern institutions, nor
to deprive Southern men Of their rights,
buS simply to establish the authority of
the Constitution over all the States
Such we've the appeals and assurances
uusier which the war commenced. But
when we had half million of men and
arins :. when our armies we're filed WITH
Democrats and others who volunteered
to fight for the cause and not for abolit
Ioa when Maryland, kentucky and Mis-
sot1ri, relying upon cur promises, has
sent loyal men to Congress, opened their
territories to our troops and placed them
selves In pux powsz--then hES We heard,
tina SLAYER beiag tAs .eaase Of shs war,
slavery must be destroyed IL is noto-
ri9us, that at this day large portion Ito
sag the least of the Republican party
repudiste these pledges, and trample on
their own Chicago platform they are the
open advocates Of the abolition of slave
~ in the States and measures of con6s-
cation so sweeping aud relentless that
their like has not been known since the
DAYS OF William the conquerer. They
have kheeraes, several theories. Some of
th4sm maintain that the seeded States
are out of the Union, and therefore have
no rights. They adops the doctrine a
secession, attaching 10 it q consequences
shas enchanees itsshsufsiity. The States,
they say, are gone as States, bat remain
a. territories, subject to absolute power.
This is the theory Of NJ, SalaueE. 1t j.
the theory aaoptea b. . kraa ) m lssAi SO b.
che city or New York, over which a son
af Alexander Hamilton presided. Others
d4rive the power from different source.
II may be done, they say, By y tbs var
pasFsF in Other words, By despDtie pow
ef ? And to what a miserable state must
that country be reduced, where il shall be
thought Justification Of cvery violation
Of constitutional law to say 1t may be
done By the POKER Of war
I know that all these gentlemen claim
20 be promptly even) the friends of the
Union. They would sooner abolish
sIAxery than the Unlo1 saaosid perish
They would exert a military despqtism
in the South for the sake Of The Uniou---
They are so passionate in their love that
they would sacrifse Iaw, liberty, the
Constitution itself, 30 save sAe Lnion.s--
Vel, the Union, 70 which they are 90 de-
voted. is one for whisb fcoaksss have
| no respecs or assacEansats q kBow DO
Union bus cur OenssisationM Union of
free aaa equal STaEes, Itis ~ akassof
words 10 eail anyshaag elss ~ unisu.-
Ilpoa saa naw plasform, nkIllipss who
dsolarss that for twenty years hshaa been
i lhs ensrny of the unisn, and aasxisbn,
/ who formsrly stigzaalfxad u ~ . compact
with He'll, ara both Union men. Isis the
| qpinion Of these gentlemen that the Law
/ of God ana The Constiasaiea BIT bae Unised
| States are at yarienca with each other,