Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-12-17
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BaALOG UM Ns. i
TIE GHOST OF. MosaEs, THE PROPHETS
GAaAs7 AED THE APoLTIEs oE Rev HEN.
BY wAkD REECHRR, 80
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adultery, Aad murder; possarisy may d
all this. But the African must be freed
AhaA be freed, "shoagh, shs very heaven
do falls .. 49,.
The var now Fagiag in ths land is Il
become che hbsrator of the slawe, Al,
when this ahall h&vs been accomplished
Our motives will be understood, and ap
pEeciated. Our aim is freedom Of Cd,
negro. Ii the effect be to crush out ma,
tioas, shs negro must be free, If the elfecl
be civil wars. determinations Of races, o.
inadeltty-sbe negro asaH be free!
You complain that our 'sonee free'
government 10 transformed into a des.
posism; and that men are imprisoned on
suspicious of aiding and abetting the
reoellion-that the writ of habsds corpu,
~ suspsnded-that no charges are pre-.
fsTed against state prisoners, and that "a
trial is granted, and that no opportunity
10 allowed she prisoner to clear himself
fEom the suspicion thrown upon him By
Reason Of his arrest.
The Coostisusisn In such times as these
is Of not much use. "Fhe necessities of
war" must make despots of the heads Of
government. The laws must give place
10 the vigor of dsapotie power, Iadivid-
uals are nothing aud isolated cases of
suffering should not be mentioned, while
nation lie lighting for its existence.
"The constitution Was framed, and in-
tended for times Of peace, aud not for
times OF war like these. know the con-
stitioD to be stumbling block to den-
ocFats," who have always cen great
ssicklers for the Constitution and laws,
Fugitive Slave Law" aud al.
Ghost Of MJses.--I consider the moss
of The arbitrary arrests mads by the gaT-
ernment in the loyal States, sheer pesse-
culion of the political party, which by its
obedience to The Constitution and laws
and by It's drm adherence to even handed
justice to all sections of the Union se-
cording TO the laws, elevated the nation
to what it t0Gs-(a a nation enjoying de-
gree of prosperity, and happiness nepsy
attained By any other nation under hea-
Ven,) By the party in power which has
made the nation what il is, By iis rsflsal
10 obey the Constitution aad Laacs, where
those laws effected the interests Oh other
States, although no apparent injury could
accrue to the States disobeyiug the COM
pact.
Nearly all the clergy Of several secss,
professedly christian, who denied the
apostolic succession, taught their follow
ers desobsdience to the laws of the land,
and Of God; and political demagogues,
took advantage Of the mis- guided masses,
and thas the nation has been brought to
wAat il Is, by the ruthless hands Of de-
signing Rev. hypocrises, and unprinci-
Piled demagogues.
| desire to be informed of the cause of |
the arrests of the best men Of the nation |
without process of law, and incaroerated !
IN the dungeons of the American BastiIes,
without being charged with crime of any
kind, denied legal council, denied the |
privileged of communication with family
orfriends, If the causes is not to be found |
in party hate, and the fear of being de-
tCcted in some Of the infam 1us plots TO
rob the treasury, secure TO the tyrants the
position they nov hold, and which they
acquire, At the expense of the destruction
of nation! pray tell as where we may
look for q substantial! reason for arrest
ing Cap. Hill Of Magnolia, Iowa, after
having been indicted 10 loyal (2) State,
where the moral pestilehce of politicuI
abotitionism had infected nearly the
whole population, was told by the officers
Of the law, that the government had con-
ctudef thasno crime ha been committed,
and that the charges were withdrawn by
a aoiIs being entered in the case; at the
same time the Infamous Marshal held in
his pocket a telegraphic order from the
arch traitor Seward for Capt. HiIl'a at
rest for treason Ia crime verbally stately
be was arrested and ss"s4ggIed away to the
bAstils and dungeon for months, not
knowing for what, as the government had
Withdrawn the charges which hal been
preferred against him by Indictment, -
Hill was set At liberty; bat why was be
imprisoned? ? Why? Because be be.
longed TO party who raised the nation
TO what is scas, and not to tho party WHO
has reduced 1t to what it is.
For what crime was shs persecutad Ma
hony shut up in Bastile For no other
reasen, than that be ia a ss szyasr for the
loss Of the government he loved 50 much,
and because be exposed some of the traa-
son of the tyEants at Washington, who
joined the Rev. infdels Of the country Of |
bis adoption, in the overthrow Of ito
government, and in adopting the despot- |
ism which these syrants have long sought
to establish,
The imprisonment Of ex-senator Jones
Of the same State In Bassile is but an-
other evidence Of the deep seated hate Of
the treacherous, and traitoroas Secretary
Of State toward the lovers Of the govern
nent as ii tcas. The Senator 600, vas
incarcsrated at the dicfum of the man
who through his treasonabie doings, has
done more towards precigiEating the ruin