Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-08-20
COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %. lssas.


deny the fact or ito application here, NIB
il nee prepared 20 DENY the existence Q
tha Rev. Mr.. Kailoch, on. his church mem
bar Mn. Hayes who peeped aftax him All
blackmailsd him, and shsa axpossd him
y IL Mr. Hayes turn to-day, IL may b
Mr.. kallocTs turn 70 do that dirty worl
Tor Mr.. Hayes to-magrow. @t &"
1t is Mr. WashbuFa's "a turn Row. TINA,
be the 6oFdonss tnrn by and by+ HAT b
the turn whose it may, the systan of
barbaroua age and people applied 10 Ia
control OF civilized mankind awakens th,
Rercess resentment. Men have put u,
With the savagest OK task masters. The
have endured the bloodiest tgrgnts with
out resistance for many years. They hay,
submitted 70 the King Of Prussia-to th,
Csars--to the Hoass Of Austria and or.
sn TO the Turks. Bat . government o.
msddling philanthrophists they eannot
bear. 1t resembles the government oil
vermin more than any human despotism
Individually vile and odious, but quits
Insignificant whan collected, they arr
all pervadiDg, all devoaxing, APPALLING
loathsoms TO every asnse, and insolerabls
TO the strongest body, and the. krmesi
mindi Thus the Government Of the Rob
espisrres, the MArats, the Washhurns, the
Hobasss, and the H&yes, is the oppression
which maketh the wise man mad II
made the Gordons mad when il was first
spilled TO them, and what they uttered
under ita inhuancs was temper tTsa-
aon. Yet there was sease a. we'll as TEN
per-n they preferred JEFF. Davis to an
Abolition government. As understand
an Abolition government, a man usfahi
endure il. A man might endure the gov
ernment Of Mr.. Philips, for be 10 gen.
tlsman,-oE of MIR. Carlson, for, whstsy.
cr may have been thought Of his sanity,
bis integrity was never questioned bui
che abolition government which they un.
derstood was the Inquistorial-tha CELLAR
the siHk and cess pool committee which
stood before them, ordering them to put
out aag-Snd think there IL no man
of spirit with that In his mind who would
nos prefer ths wolishness of g Davis to
the pedieulousnes of Washburn !
The Gordons have done no wrong
They do not hate their native country,
though they cannot like it's inbecile gov.
ernmeut. A government which has ev.
srything given TO il by generous people,
and which does nothing but waste time,
make proeiamations and feed Contractors,
cannot be liked or trusted until it alters
its course. itmust continued suspected
and unpopular, if tits, with every advan-
tage and opportunity, unable to securl
peace or make war ! These sentiments
understand them to express. They have
a right, moral Is well as legal, to express
such sentiments. They Ought to exp press
them and Woe to the fanatic who shal
meddle with them, or with any one alse
IN this way hereafter.
OPINION or THR COMMISSIONER.
The complainant in this case charges
the defendants with "giTing aid and com
fort to the enemies of the United States, p
an informal mode Of describing the oifsnss
of "adhsTina to the enemies Of the Unit.
ed States, giving them aid and comfort
In other words, the aceusation against tn,
defendants is treasou~for under the Con.
stitution and laws Of the United States
treason consists IN ''levylag war agaius
the United States, or in adhsring to it
enemies, giving them aid and comfort
And the punishment of this offense il
death.
To constitute thia offense, some oUeT
act, either in leVying war or giving aiG
and comfort to the enemy, must be prov
ed. Il is we'll settled that no words, Of
intentions even, however hostile or disloy
al they may be, are sufficient, il they haY
not ripened into acts.
The laws Of the United States hare thu
far failed to make opinions, sympathie
or intentions, or expression of these, bow
ever disloyal, base OF hostile to the exist
ing Government, an offense cognizable b,
the Courts. Such conduct is left for il
punishment the just and indignant Judge
ment of mankind.
Our sole duty here is to administer th
law as we ind it.
In reference to the two younger Cor
dons, it is but just to state that so far 4
can perceive, no testimony whatever ha
been introduced affecting them and th
testimony, so far as il relates to MFR. Goi
don, SEN, is mainly to the effect that b
received letters from customer in Balti
more giving him rebel accounts Of tn
| movements Of the armies sooner than the
were publiGhed in the papers here.
In reference to the remaining defend
snts, George and Henry Gordon, althoug
the testimony is much more full of q
pressions Of sympathy with the rebellion
yet I fully concur with the views stale
fairly by the learned District Attorney
and it is entirely Insufficient to prove a
overt act of treason.
Ny only duty, therefore, is to oFdt
that this complaint be dismissed, and h
defendants discharged.
F, The crowd in the court room burst iEi
applause which nobody checked, an
many people went up and shook hand
| with the Gordons.
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