Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-01-15


.wAR or xMN AleLI1EM PREss
4an SovkRH Es
Evsly dag bril- i ~ i esA and &C.
sumaissing svidssee N she aeep laid con-
spifaoy Of the abolition faction to oyeE-
throw the government founded By WASH
ingtou~and the heroes Of the Revolution.
Yesterday tha thrsa morning abolition
journals Of this cisy--she Trtbsas, ths
Times and the RssEa published siaal1
saneoasly ~ elaborate attack an The.
Constitution Of the Unitsd States, the
founders Of the Union, and the President
and Cabinet, because their war ry 10 not
emancipation" but "the integrity Of
the Union % because, having enlisted
| three quarters of 8 million Of men to
| fight for one idea, they do not now break
faith with II, and compel them to Eight
| fsr another. These journals give the ben
eft of their ejaculation to q foal TRADE
! Of the abolition ehisftain, Weadeil Phil
Inns, against the administrator and the
| system Of government which its head and
every member Of il have sworn TO uphold.
In other words, upon the principle that
the end sanctifed the means, be Gala up
on them to become psrjurera and coVen~
ant breakers, q class of men Of whom we
are told that shsy are ''abhorred Of God, "
Is they are By all mankind.
Philiips paints tbs iegiamate govern
Easss al Washington in darker coloss than
The rebel government at Richmond. He
saws all the audience "know him as an
abolitionist, and he is glad and proud OF
the name.n sEAs 81 abolitionist," he
continues, 81 hare little more interest In
this war than the frontier mans wife had
in his struggle with the bear when she
didn't care which whipped" Again, he
ayows that he has been all his life tsa
disunioniss," and that he Efdidprufer dis
union to being the accomplish OF tyrants'
that is, Of shareholders. He allows
thai sour fathers, when they framed this
government, admitted the existence OF
slayery and tolerated it." Yet he con-
fesses THAI the deliberate purpose Of his
existence has been TO break this govern
mens ND. He says :-''I endeay0red hon.
estly. and am not ashamed of it, to take
nineteen States out Of this Union and to
eonsecrate them TO liberty" And the
only union he viii now tolerate Is q union
with slavery cut cut of it--eut out fin a
war of ideas, millions of people graph
ing each others throass, every soldier in
each camp certain that be Is hghting tor
an idea that holds the salvasion OF the
world-eysry drop Of bis blood in earn
est--saeh war as hnds no parallel near
er than that Of the Catholic and Hugue-
not in France, or than that of aristoeras
and republicans in 1870, or Of Cromwell
and the Irish, tahea victory nseonf szteT-
miaaItofs."
This Is worthy of the man who, not
long since, iectured in this city upon the
bloody massacre of st. Domingo, hold
ing up she black leader of this horrible
negro insuxreetion to the adnirntion oil
the world; worthy of the man who &C
companied the remains of John Brown to
their last resting place, and pronounced
over this horseIhief, midnight assassin
and leader Of q serTiie instruction a
funeral Grafton in which the convicted
and executed feIon is apothesiGed as q
martyr and demigod.
The lecturer says, ''if the sbalitionists
are the cause of the var, they have reason
to be proud Of it's But be is not salts
fed with the mode in which ii Is carried
on. he says be goes for the war ''from
sympathy with the negEo,n whereas the
Union savers sustain il only 'tfrcm 30
, idoIatrous regard for the Union Of 1882
and he accuses the government ofpartiei-
pating in the general idolatry, instead OF
''HritinS emancipation on its banners, y
which alone can give it success. essays
there is ga despotism at Richmond and a
despotisIa at Washington, and it is only
q question Of preference between them. +"
He does his utmost to discourage the val
, for the Union. He says s'there is not an
element Of good in it," "We shall never
get out Of ii without debt of at least
two thousand millions Of dollars" p
''Debt is the fatal disease Of republics /; p
it f'kept England back in ali progress al
: least q hundred years" Gan immense
disbanded army, the fruitful, inevitable
source Of fresh debts aud new wars
"Habeas corpus, the right of free meeting
/ and free press, The three elements which
distinguish liberty from despotism, and
ali the Saxon blood has gained in the bat
ties and tolls OF two handTed years
these. every one of them, are aRuihilated
in every square mile of the republic. We
live to-day, every one OF as, under mar
tial law or mob Law. "The Secretary oil
State puts into bis Bastile, With a war
rant as irresponsible as that Of Louis
XIV, every nan who be pleases ans
, you know that neither press or lips MAJ
venture to arraign the government with
out being silenoed." Nor il that ALL
ssFor the srst time on this continent wg
have passports, which even Louis Bona.
parte pronounces useless and odious, anc
for the 6rst time spies frequent our cities
In fnc, 'sthere is no single right thai
government finds itself able to protect
except the right Of man to his Slaves
Such age his charges against the gov
ernrnent. But this, be holds, would BIZ
all endarable il il should result in tht
emancipation of parcel of niggers. bnt
il not, not and be appeals TO the repub-
Iieau party TO prevent the restoration Of
the old Onion, BY telling them It vii
ruin them. f'ReoonstTHot this govern
ment," be says, sand for twenty years
you can meyer elect IA republican to the
Presidency" Here Is the grand secret Of
the radicals wishing for the defeat of tbs
Union army unless Il abolishes slavery
But such Is the reasonable audacity Of
Phillips thai he proposes tosupercede the
President and ths administration il Ihay
will not proclaim abolition TO four mil
lions of negroes, His words are :-"In
order to DO it, &e nineteen millions Of
educated Christian Americans need not
wait for the win or the wisdom Of q single
man; weNare NOS to wait for Framont OF
McC lellan. Government il not our die