Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-06-11
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I FAs House being In Committe oil Ii
Whole 90 the stasa of ths Union, N,
! hIcHAsBsoa saifi:
Mr., caAIaaAs.. { desire ghis aa1ear,aia !
. 70 submit d few remarks for Che cor,s;d
sFstion OF the House and the country.-.
" ls act ny purpose 70 discuss qaassson
: psssaaaing % che army already In IA
held, which, if judi0ioaaIY oa6eared an,
) managed, II able To crush out the rebeI
laesas 1 shall airaaa my aksenEioa, there
fore, to the eonsidssaaiou of some Of tb
many new aaesEieaa whish are oentannai
sly arising during the pregress Of thil
terrible civil var.
Dir. Chairman, shere ia a manifest snx,
issy, an overweening desire, a persisted,
purpose upon the part Of promineni
members al the doainaDs party in sbi,
savefnmsnt, 10 plaea upon fesms oi
equaiity and mako participants with al
ia tha Tights Of AaasFieaa citizenship an
inferior race. The negro race. which L
incapable OF either conprehcnssiux or
maintaining any form Of govesnmcns-b
whom liberty 10 interpreted as liceusious-
ness-ls sought to be exalted, even at the
ooss Of the degradation Of our Own aesh
and blood. = 'N N''
| We all remember with what intsnsa
SUBTRACTION recent order of the Score
tafy Of State, Mr. Seward, one Of the
chief clerks Of the President, was rscaiv-
ed IN certain quarters, because is declared
thai no fugitive slave should be retained
10 custody longer than thirty days, unless
"ey special order of competent civil au-
thority.p
| Inat | may do no injustice to the head
OF TIE State Department and his unwar-
raated assumption Of power, quote the
| ofaciai paper itself:
DEPARTMENT OF swArx.a
wAaHIEaToR, SsaaaFy SSEh Tsss
sAMs Lhe Rresideas af TIE Caitea States being
sssatsd iat aas selaawiag insaguessess 60 nar
~ u sesa ia soas DisiEics, and that EAey can
@ es sxeeassd wiiAeut waiting far legislation by
osasseaa, ana dissessd hy him 70 convey thean 70
As marsAaI Of sAs Dissrics Of co4unabis. you viii
~ fssSAks ante casteeg any pssseaA laiaea 10 be
heis 70 service or labor within the DIatrist or
else%nsfs. and RSG charged wisa aEy crime or ms
aerneaaor. unless upon arrest or commitment,
Pa{saAai p law - faSitives from aush service ar
aeos and yoa win Ras retain any surh suxstt,S in
east0ay beyond pasied Of thirty axys fyaus their
arTest and commitment, anlezs By special oFxler Of
eanpeient civil authority
You will forthwith caass uuhliest,Ap ia he u,sa.
" VI rs order. and 81 TIE axplsssioE Of tan aays
. asf eafon Fos viii Apply the same to all persans
10 yoEr custody
Tn4s order has 30 relation to any arrests made
" MALT tsry anthayity
an, siE, Jour 0oSdieBs sexvaas,
WILLIAM n. SEWARD.
While MIR. Seward was issuing this Or
der for general Jail delivery Of the ne
gTses, be was also sending, under a usur-
patton Of power, and in violation of the
iaws and the Consultation, hundreds OK
white men and women to ill the cells Of
The prisons In this District and through |
out the loyal States. : Against many Of |
thsae white men and white women TINS
inesrcerated BY this d@potie Secretary of |
State, no charge has ever been made: !
fhey are imprisoned without the form or |
authority Of Law, and thus the personal
liberty of the Caucasian is ruthlessiv vi |
oIased while the African is m ,st tenderly |
and carefully guarded, even to the nuIIi- |
ncasIon OF State easements and the re-
tional st.tates. Let q runor BECOME /
otrrant that negro has been deprived of
libeFty-either in this District |
or anywhere else-and there arc duxenk |
OF hepubtieazn members upoa thls foer
striving TO obtain the a.tsassgu Of the |
Honse while they nav offer resolutions
iRqniring by what law, By whom. when,
and where, these objects of their uudt- |
ylaed aaeetaons may have been arrested.
But never yet has any one Of those phil
anthropie gentlemen made inquiry for
the law or the authority under which |
white American citizens have been kid
mapped by the State Department, drag
ged from their homes, and left to pine
and die, perehance, in soRe Of the nisny
bassiles which this Administration has
Ii is well known, sir, that If auv white
citizen, perhaps father or brother, de-
siFes to visit relative or acquaintance
IN the military service Of this Govern
n nsnt, that be is Obliged to secure n .pass'
from some competent authorisy; and to
obtain this, be is required upon his honor
to declare his loyalty aaa kdelity to the
But the negro goes and
comes within the lines Of our Army with
out pass, whether his destination be
towards or freaa she sasmy; the color of
The black man is his passport, and Ia re-
selYed o. equivalent to the pledge Of
aosOr and d ioysisy upon the parf or q
white person.
In this District you have abolished
slavery. You have abolished it hy COM
by adding si 900. 1000 to the
national debt, and tax of Sf3, 900 to be
paid annually, as interest upea this sum,
'y taxes imposed upon the laboring While
people of thase States. Not satisfied with
aoang tsis much for your especial favor
te, ysa exteaa the freedom of this city L
nd the hospitality Of the Government to |,
III the runaway negroes in the country
sno choose to visit the District OF Co
usnbia. Hoa issue rations 90 them day
Lfter day, and week aEEer week, rations
Thich must be paid for through the sweat
md toll of tax-riddan white men. You
4se thas supporting In indolsnce handreds
af'ou hundreds OF black men. How many
md at what cost am unable to state,
because when a resolution, asking for
Dis fBsormasion, was introduced by the
honorable gentleman from Ohio, fMr.
SQxs 1t was immediately talteA by ahe
aepubiiean majority npoa the other side
'lae of this House. Those gentlemen ,
a4ze not les this information 70 10 the
they shrink from The sxposars
*hish . truthful reply 10 sugh inquiry
seuid make. The resolution of Mr. Cox
LAO asked fog Che number Of negroes /
snnpl0ysd as ssamsters in the Arsny. and
" what wages; but this waa equally OBJ !,
ectionable, for it would hare illassratad ],
DO fact slssa negroes by The hundred are |,
tessiving better pay - driYess than ous
svn white sons and bgoshers are for
aeytling theiE lives ~ soldiers In the
ssfence OF the Union and the conssisa-
len.
Having been shus deprived og obsain-
q oshsaal Information apcn these qucs- Ii
.ioass s1a obliged to gashsr my statistics
from such sources as I can. fshall make 1
40 statement that have nas vaee;ye<y