Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-10-08
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The dsSp0tism Of the Administration
has become so apparent and its effects
are SO damaging TO the prospects of the
Rspublic&n party in New York, that the
leaders Of the party are beginning to op-,
pose it. We are glad that the Republican
press has at lsngth discovered whittier ws
are tsnding, and that the sess OF the Ad-
ninistrnsiou are not all iusti6 abts or is-
gAl. We have sonssnded all along that
in making arrests andtn tbs imprison-
meat Of oitixsDs in the loyal States, in
military prisons, the Presidenswas sxsr-
sising unauthorized and despotie powsr t;
bus va had not dared to say that bis aets
would bear . comparison with ths "worss
Of dsapOsisna in foreign laaas." Had
We aaia %, we 700, mighs nov hs is ssoss
confinement in al Eastern bassile. 3
The New York Worias > kspabliosn
paper, after Hssisins ssssrai arbitrary
arrests recently made, eoEnasnts ediscFi-
ally al follows
ssThers il reason 10 belieTe that there
ara azores il cot hundreds OF men now
living ia different federal forts, who are
no more guilty Of any real wrong toward
thu Government, aithsg IN Aes or IN par
nose. than one half Of she .asH who walk
BrUadway. And jet the ban 10 upon
thuEn. Aad they wait in vain for relief
Il In ons Of the alarming symptoms OF
the decay Of the old spirit thai the Pso-
should have 90 long quietly saamitsed TO
thsas atroeious violations OF their most sa~
cred rights. b.. *&szE
Nsysr ia the DAYS Of the most ramP&ns
tory power have the securities Of private
individuals been thus fagrsnay ever
for1dsbfss t ss "a u sA "a tisf Vt sas neg 9
ths PrstsndsS In SIS and rs, the Irish re-
ballions in '9S and '45, tbs Reform agisa-
tious in 81, and the Later ChaTtiss move
ueuts-wsre ever any sueh arbitrary pre-
eeedursa vsnsursd upon. On two OF
three occasions tbs hdotas corpus @S'
has been suspended, bat than Only on 81 :
press authority Of PsFainsas, snd with
she limitatiop that the dstainiag Of lndi-
vidaak shouid NOS sxEand begAud ger"
tain time. Lr.5 .s-
Rxsa shssedEAion laws Of the elder Ad-
ans, oppressive as they ware, stIH preVt-
del for trial by jury. We haEs to 90 ."
the worst dsspotisms of fsTaiga l&ndsy a.
uoug the bastilss Of France, the leads
and wells of Venice, or the dungeons OF
Naples, TO dad any saeh syssem Of sroi-
imprisoumsut 40 has prevailed fer tue
last rear under this free American Rspab-
lio. IL this usurpRtion 10 allowed TO 90
on uuopposed, a. it has hitherto, the
friends Of human liberty, the world over,
will have reason to dlsown Us as recre-
anita" a.. 5-s ..:-
For denouneing and opposing such H.
legal and dsspetio acts of the preslasas
a. are above referred to, We have been
called q traitor and Secassianist; but
when the editor Of the World dsnounces
the same acts, and ia stronger language
than we dared to asss no Republican deg
dare howl "Seeesb" as him.
When the Republican Press takes
ground against the exercise OF desPotie
and unauth priced power b. the President,
it Is aign that his acts are becoming seo
iutolersbls to be horns By the masses,
and that there 10 danger Of political rev
olution Ia the North. Tbs Republicans
are getting scared, and If the Democrats
maintain their grOEpd, Yielding nothing
that la right, and psaesabiy submitting
to nothing that 10 wrong. there is still a
hope thai ooHstisusaOnsl liberty may be
maintained and psrpesaied. But in or
der to secure this blessing beyoad any
farther doubt, they must elect Democrats
to ofice-Dsmocrats who have never en-
dUrssd sny aoss sf #islating fhe 0onasitu-
ton and trespassiug upon the 0onssisa-
sional rights Of citizens, on the fimsey
and unssnsbls ground of estate or Mill
t&ry necessity" IA.