Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-12-31
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Beeeher.-One thing we can do; and
th&s 10, We can form respectable nation
hy ourselves iadssd ~ waald hays dane
50 ferry years ago, lad the var wtfh Eng
and continued mach iongar: 1. o., We
would base annexed ourselves to Can1da.
Ghost + Noses. again you are mis-
taken for IT New York alone, and sin
gle handed; "pus her foot down." you
N ass GTsBsb9iagly obey. The people are
aware Of yous disioyalsy In the war of
1919 to your goverume nt, and they are
acquainted With yaar modes of exhibiting
that disloyalty. Then as now; your in-
hdei clergy were asaching and preaching
disobedienee to the Constitution, and
laws; treason stalked abroad, s'aid and
comfort" in every co nceiyabIs manner
was given to the enemy. Beaeons of
'fBlue lights'' we're raised to conduct
ships of war, and other crafts, into your
habors for supplies and trade; quotas Of
troops were refused on terms equal with
loyal States, and Secession Convention
which dsliberated in sefTss session the de-
struosion of the Republic. Your trea-
son did not stop thsre yoa have plotted
it, in one or another form ever since,
until you have brought ruin and dostruc-
ton upon a once happy people. You,
like yourseIpss, have tanned thirg mil
lions of loving brothers, and kindreds,
into haters of each Other, thieves, robbers,
and murderers.
The WEST, ia to be subjected to these
raligious mouHtebankb, and Puritanic
TRAITORS !? So far as the West is
concerned nothing could be more pleas
ing, than to see South Carolina and Massa-
chusetts sink in fashdmless ocean, were
IL not for the possibility of rising gen.
Grafton occupying thesa States who will
have become sans; in truth, by reason of
youE inhdeiity TO your Coantry, 10 our
holy religion, and the God Of Heaven,
you have brought on cur peopl,, civil
war, and on the world despair, Of real
izing her highest hopes, prostra;cd true
piety and Christian religion, and On the
ruins thereof, you have reared tina hydra
headed monster of INFIDELLTY, and
upon yourselves swift destruction, and
the eternal curse Of God and gained
nothing bat eFternal tiffany in the pres
ena world, and just Hetribution in the
next.
Our nation is fallen ani the gentle
and peaceful laws ara condemned, As also
are the laws of God. Instead of obedi-
enoc to the laws, infdeiity to th m has
plunged great patton into civil war--a
war Of brother against bruther, kindred
against kindred, father against son and
son against father; all by reason Of sys-
tematic teaching of ha9e to the Consti-
tusioa and laws and hate among Chris
tians to each otheF, BY ths infdel Clergy
Of the congregational, who by SO doing
praise the wicked. Read from XVIII
Of Proverbs the 4th, It and 9Th verses.
They that forsake the law, praise the
wicked bat such as kaep the law con-
tend sith them.-Wh0so keepetb the Law
is wise son.-He that turnoth away his
ear from bearing the lay, even his prayer
shall be an aboBsinalidl."
"a He that passesh by, hnd meddieth With
strife belonging not to him, is like
one that taketh dog BY the ears, rs mad
man, who easteth fire b rands, arrows and
death, Proverbs" XXVI, lTth and 18th.
. 30 meddiers of strife that belougeth
not 20 you. Ye Rev. gpoGrites, traitors,
infdels; it is you that tsketh the "dog
by the ears" it is you like the "mad man
who eastsfa frebraa4s, grrotss, and
death" among the good people Of your
late government.
You, hypocritically charge Go'i's peo-
pie with having committed some great sin,
or sins, for which lie has in His wrath vis-
tied vengeance upon thb nation by send
indg sedition, and the dire calamity Of
civil war, by which mean ns rivers of blood
are being shed and death, and desolAtion
are brought to every household in your
late happy country; q nd you sbrewdI-
insinuate these great 81 ns to consist in
withholding contributions from your
" congregations. " TFacE, magdaien,
sewing, mite, missionary" and other
swindIing societies, and in the people
themselves, refusing to make pretention
Of miraculous" con versions to the
denominations Of the congregation :" or
in other words the people failed to ''get
religion" and Join the infdel "congre-
cations" which throug gh their iuhdsl,
Rev. Clergy, have pluga d the nation into
ruin.
These infamous dodgts and frauds, are
practiced upon the people for gain in
proselites, and contributions! CASH II
If any one will take the trouble to read
the doings of the Jesuita Of the middle
ages, he will read the d9ings of the Rsv.
inf iels of these times. rft.
You charge the people (who are com
j paritively innoesutl With the crime Of
| plotting treason against the government,
| for no other cause than 10 shrink the re-
| sponsibiIity of the enortnity of your uwu
! chieanery and Jesuisic4l fraud, in the
| eyes Of the people. Y4ia are the trait
ors--gosl are the plotse9s Of debauche-