Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-06-25
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II 10 any other record necessary than sha
| Of this oae meeting TO show where the ab
olisiouists were acting, and IN what di
rection their exertions we're laid out p
We have q host oswitnesses, in the shspr
of speeches, resolutions, addresses AMI
the like. But we refer to one becsuse
shows not only that they were acting fol
tiisunion, bat that they knew themselves
even in 1859 to be cooperating with soutl
ern treason, and accepted and acknoTi.
edged tbs Confsderaeys We have befoss
Us the proceedings OF meeting hsld in
the State Of New York. which is reported
to have been stsended hy great crowd oi
| people. The chairman Of the meeting,
the Vice Presidents and the Secretaries
night vel ohieet to The pablieation os
sheiz names as shia sisas, fer il IL nos inn
possible that some Of than have repantsd
Of their grieYous mistake and become 10y
al men IN the Union. Their names are
all before US in the report Of their pro-
ceedings at this meeting. held in the State
of New York, in December, 1859. Among
series of fierce anti-slavery and anti
American resolutions, the following was
adopted ''unanimously" as the record as
sures US, asd with "spontaneous bursts Of
applause"
"l0th. WhsrsGs, the dissolution of the
present imperfect and isaglorio,Is UaioR
bsttcesn the tTes and siare States, 1eoisld
result in hs ocerthroto Of slavery and The
consequent formation IF more perfect
Gsad 81 ,rIoaas Union, s0iahoGI the iacssbus
gf sldueTy: therefore, ....
"RKSoLyKp, THAr WI INVITE 4 YREE
CoaREsPoNDEScE wtTH THE DIsuRIoSIsTs
on rHK SoUTH IN oRnKR 10 DRvIEE THE MOST
SUITABLE MEANS 70 sECURE THE coHsugaA-
TioS $50 DKroUTLT TO BIZ wIsHED.'"
Another resolution directed that the
proceedings be sent to Governor Wise Of
Virginia, and the last resolution Of this
meeting, in series u thirteen, was one
directing the publication Of The proceed
ings in the country papers and in the New
York Tribtme. We presume shsy were
not admitted TO thai paper, but tits part
of the history of the times that the men
who acted Al this meeting were also CO.
operating with the Tribune in tha pohEi-
cal campaign then going on, and expected
their afkiiation to be recognized by that
paper. But although their proceedings
were not published, the Tribune has no
word of denunciation for the men who
thus openly proposed correspondence with
Southern disunionists. We do not speak
II it to blame the Tribune. That paper
was acting with political party for po-
Titicai success. But that which we have
said is history.
When the Government of the United
States looked for Northern sympathiuers
with souehsEn rebellios, did it examiae
the history of that meeting? When it
sought the men who oorresponded With
the South for the purpose of bringing
about disuniou, did ii inquire into the
rules Of this New York meeting, which
directed the opening Of correspondence on
the subject.
The page of history which we have open
cd Ia black indeed. Il RAY veil appal
the strongest heart, when We reflect on the
extent to which this same radical disuu-
ionism has been permitted to co. But
we have not opened them to discourage
any one On the contrary, tits to rouse the
spirit Of every lover of bis country, every
patriot in America, shas we direct attsn-
ton to this Infamous story. Its lesson is
one of love for the eoantry and for the
principle OF It's fathers. In times iike the
present there should be no mistakes - Ia
the real dangers which menace the Re-
public, n9E error in selecting those agaiAst
whom to direct their endeavors. Men
should not be deceived by the fimsy pre-
tense Of loyalty which cid time disunion-
lists put On in che present troubles. Il is
truth, plain as daylight, which no man
of the radical party will be ready to deny,
that that party is opposed to the proseeu-
ton Of the war war for the Union - ii
was, and only in favor Of it for the es-
tablishmeus Of some sort Of Union in
which their views Of slavery shall rule the
whole country. ...........-.
In this very hour Of our calamity, the glo-
ry of Massachusetts, is dimmed by the
voice Of her conditional uuionist Govern
or, who tells the nation that it is doubt
fuI whether Massachusetts, will 1ght for
the old Union, bat that she Is ready to
hght for she freedom Of tho negroes OF the
South. But Massachusetts, gives the lie
70 her Governor by peuring out her sol
dieEs for the struggle, and proving that
all her valient and patriotic sons have not
yea gene TO tho field, dat she hAs more
left, and abundance who lore the Union
Of Washington. The eutise North iss we
believe, earnestly st wsrk for the Union.
Tha President is laboring for that Union.
Congress has pledged itself to conduct the
war for that Union. And that Union can
never be made strong until the 'tDisun~
ion men OF the southo ere satisfied Of
their impotence, and repudiated BY the
Union zaan of the souah, nor until the
North with strong voice and firm band
controls and snnihilates the disaniom men
here, who In ths memorable words Of Ar.
Blair are "aidors and abestors al ths
soushaxn Confederacy.'' A'.< t&~
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