Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-06-11

wires and children, In oar. large citie
are suaherIng Ter The want Of AaapIoymeui
| speake advisedly when say thai th
RspRblican party are already paying, Q
' tax gathered money! In this Diisris
alone, over three huadred thousand dol
; lars per aanum 70 buy, oloihe, teed, an
: exals the African race. Thasior the ne
i groe yon expead more in single year u
aLe District oil Colnmhia than yoa sp
iproprists for the goFarnment and pgpssc.
ton OF all the people in al tho organ,
ized Territories Of TIE United States. Tbs
negro is made superior, in your legisla-
tl0n, 10 the pioneer white men that settles
the great West, and, amid haEdships and
dangers, lay tho foundations of new com
monwealths; ths hardest and aohIesi
men Of our common country.
So the people are taxed yearly nore
for the bsnefI of the black raca in this
1 District alone than 1t costs to maintain
the burdens Of State government in either
lows, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Maine, New Hampshire Vermont, Con-
neatieut, Rhode IslAna, New Jersey, Del
aware, or Maryland. ys.s.e. -
But it is not In this District alous THAI
yon require the people to pay tribute 60
the idol OF your affscsions. Wherever
yon ind Our Aarmys With one or two
honorable exeepsioRss you will fad that
hundreds OF Eations are being Issued daily
70 unemployed negroes who rendezvous
10 aud about the camps; wherever the
Army is they are being empleyed IN
various capacities as coed wages, and to
10 the utter exclusion Of white labor that
DOW languishes in iTkaams idienaas
throughout cur country. / state, there
fore, and think tTuthfnlly, thai the gov
ernment is already payiag Sl00, 600 per
day for the support and employment of
negroes-pagtng il, TOO, oat Of money
ralsed through the toll, aeprivations,
and taxation Of our Own kith and kin.
In my district, Mr., Chairman, nav Goa
stituents are selling corn ct siRht cents
par b3shel in order 10 support their
families and maintain the honor and
integrity of our Governments. Shall
money thus raised and for such 6 par-
pose be diverted to the ensartainsaeot of
the Africaa2 Will my people, will the
people anywhere, indbrse the party and
The Administration thai tins seeks the
elevation of the negra esen al the cost of
ruin to their own race
One might suppose that your ardaF Inn |
the care and protection of the negro |
would stop aud eoel hsrs bet no, you |
60 still further. Having made hin your
equals As civilian, yoQ now seek to |
place him On the sama level with Ameri- |
can sailors aud soldiers. First came the |
order of the Secretary of the NAVY, Mr.
Welles, as follows:
NAVE ngS AaTARMT, April 10, Esa2
sIR: The approach Of tks bot ana sieAIy .eAsen |
upon the Bouthsrn coast aF sA4 United stSxss TsT
aeIs y imperative that every pEsCaRtion shoaLa be
na tAA ezrallsat SaHIs&sy ssaa:s&sSs "a sss5zrr1r
ihe large numbag Of pegaeaa known a. contra
bands aockin& TO the protection Of the United
states Hag R6cras oFEcYtunity 10 provide IN |
Svsgy department Of a ship, sxppciaIIy Ter boA..S
TeNs, seclimsted labor. ne dag officers are re- !
uirea 10 obtain the services Of these persus for
ne eesnsu % s1liatiag thaaa frssly in the Navy.
@ltA theaE eoaseat, raainE Ehan as boys at aiEha
alne, or ten dol ara per manth. and enc ration
Let AoHthly Es&ara be made Of The Hnlssey OF |
AIS elAss Of persons employed each vessel HnAer
gRryABt,
GIDEON wELLks.
Under the plea of the approach a the
,iekly season, Mr.. WelIes issues this or
ieri under the same plea the negro NAV
De called into any service in the South,
.hrough the sickiy season, but the terri
Die eheet 1t might have upon our Army
ma Nary vas not thought Of BY any Be-
publican Official until very recently.
haying made this progressive step in
our Navy, tas my colleague from the
bureau district Mr.. LoTejoyJ would call
~ Ii remains TO be erauiated in our
Army. Not long does it await an itnisa~
or General d. N. Hunter, commanding
q the military department of South
jaroliua, Georgia, and Florida, issues
N order to enroll companies, regiments,
md brigades of negroes in tbr military I
service of the United States. II
Thus, in less than two wears after the
accession to power Of the Republican
1arfy, the negro is made, as far possible,
be equal Of the white man as O civilian.
sailor, and soldier. Nay, mere than |
his, the Constitution is violated that
white men may be bereft OIL guaranteed l
fShsa' White men are stripped OF the
.Enef OF American citizenship in order I
hat the negro may be clothed therein.-- |
Ail this has been done against the earn
st protest OF all conservative men. And
propositions and amendments 10 bills, .
money foE the suppression :
i the EebelioH, which provided that no !
moneys should be diverted either to the ;
reeing, the support, or The enlistment OF !
'eroes, hase been ivari&bly voted down t
y the Republican party In shis House. i
worse than this even, General Hunter, :
hls zeal for the negro, withdraws The Il
'rotection OF his army from the lbyal =
iuzens OF Jacksonville, Florida, In or
er TO perfect his great negro boarding I
.oase and Afriean military academy al I
be mouth OF the Savannah river. This Ia
undoubtedly In harmony with his 4
riliiaut discovery that African slavery | {
M martial law are incompatible. Com {
aon ninties have heretofore considered | q
aartlal la8 and slavery, either for whites i
: blacks, among The most eoncordant z
Institutions upon earth. This proelama- .
osy eotnuander, who vies in profundhy | t
fish the irnraortal General Phelps, uf- .
oabsedly considers martial Law the >
cry Jewel caskes Of American liberty. In
My mind, MIR. Chairman, reyolts at
be idea of degrading the citizen soldiery 4
I my country to the levei of the negro. i
iF, the American volunteer has always t
ean osar reliance IN peace, and our gin- a
ication 10 var. am opposed, and you Q
Ill find the volunteer army Of The union
pposei TO the eaaalixation in the ranks 1
citizens and siaves. Having made a
acf EFFORTS for The nsgrpes OF the United o
'sates n soaia SEEN that yops zesl In |
heir behalf would lag and languish.-- G
|nss no; yun now 90 wandering aInong
he isiands Of Che sen and over The CONT Il
snts ef the globe 10 pursuit al nagroi :
rincipaiitfss and republics which Youl Q
aay recognize among the Powers of fhsl
asth. Hayaf and Liherla farnishes far
tg matter for yoar iufasuasioa Ia gassen !
pou, and Fou 81 encs precsedea 10 es- )