Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-09-17


1sseAeg. Yoa asaounoa me, the Rsx.
Clssxs, and the oascasaa nampesing shs
6svsrnmsas, for attempting 10 free the
Negro from slavery, 10 sRaGt which 40
much labor and sasgiEos have bssmi be-
,ssowsa. Tha nsgro Taes, from sims i'm
znsaaoxial, has Sssa considered an iafs~
Yios rsea and while we acknowledge shas
tia aatssu mast sassr, aad perhaps BIO
prssipisassd into ruin by tho precess, be-.
isviag, ~ wa do, that sas saSs oulyse~
qassss tins fasafisiaa fsx acivilixaaien thai
he whies sass possess 10 slsvats TIE ne
gre to . level with, If net far above the
Aaglo saxoa, you nanst nsA sxpsss as Co
ahABslsn the posisicn we hass eheseu, hs
the consequences shaE they nag. $40
Fos tho iass twenty years the friends
Of tbs Csnssisasioa have amplorsd Is to.
desist from Rassaiag course 90 likely 10
aissapssA s Uaien, aad thsy have eontin-
asd, and sos ceased 10 warn as that if
We persisted, the hoErors OF aivil war
nav devastating the country, would be
the inevitable consequence OF such q
soarse. Bat we had embarked In the
enterprise, and the philanthropiss and
the ssatesman(el Of civilized nations, iE-
eluding the great statesmen Of our own
nation, joined with the clergy Ia the great
work of sauAlixing the black With the
whisa rases, aud - a Justification Of our
course, take the liberty 10 quote fsw
of the many sayings Of some of oar
greatest and wisast statesmen which say.
fngs express net only their own xiswa,
bue thasa OF the Rev. clergy Of ahs sevs-
raj ehazehes(2) who sympastiss wiah u,
~ also the open iazsdal. sTg ssf -
Il mast, however, be understood thai
Il w&s absolutely necessary Ia oTdss 30
bSiag the masses of the people, who had
been educated TO love and obey tia Con-
ssisuEion and the laws nearly TO alteration,
to believe thai this Classification was nei-
theE divine or juat, bat shaA On the con
trAry, ID 10 uajast, corrupt, "a league
With the asvil, and o covenant with hell. J"
This has been . heraalsan work, which
necessarily required years of toll hence
1t was commenced nearly With the time OF
the adoption Of that INSTRUMENT.
Josiah Quincy, alwg3s an snemy Of the
GaveEnuaens, iatgodaesd into a Maas@r
ohusests Legislature, q resolution in the
late war with England, declaring that il
was Is unbeconing moral and reIi-
gious people to exalt over our victories, -
over thai nasioa, sage e the ohligation
incumbent on the free States to deliver
up fugitive slaves Is that burden, and II
must BE- obliserated from the Constitution
asssvsry haxard.n .a.r
Han- Horace Mann, another Massaehu-
setts patriot |? D in speech said; al have
only 10 add, under fun sense of my
responsibility to my country, and to my
Coo 1 deliberately say, better disnniun,
better civil or servile war, bestsx anything
that God in bis pradancs shall send, than
the extension OF the hoands Of slaEeEy.'
Joshua r. Giddings, now consul
abroad, said IN speech In Congress in
1854 Is look forward 60 . day whsu
thege shaa be aeEvils inamreetiau In
the South, when the black man with Bri-
tish bayonets, and commanded by British
officers, viii wage 1 war Of extssmina-
sson agsinst che white man, when the
pas skar shall see bic dwelling in flames
and hiaheaEth- stone polluted, and though
may not laugh when their fear eometh,
nor mock At their calamity, yet shall
hail it - the dawn of political millsn'
iun."
Christ. Is thia right, and in accor-
dance With the spirit Of the Sc iaapxorsd
religion" you act upon and teach2
Bsedher. 1t is both right and in ac-
eordance with the dnatEines We teach
for If the slave Of the South does not
resist oppression be viii never gain his
freeaom. Bat listen to the teachings Of
the gTt at aHa COED msn of the repablie.
Anson Buriingame, then menher Of she
House of Representatives now foreign
| minister, said if asked to state specially
what we would do, he would answer,
| frss, repeal the Nebraska Bill; second,
| repeal tbSfugislve slave law; third, abol-
| ish slavery IN the District Of Columbia
| fourth, abolish the intersiRve trade; next
| be would declare thai slavery should aoi
| spread to one inch of territory Of tbs
Union; be would then put the. Govern
| meat actually and perpetually on the side
Of freedom-he would have Judges whc
| believe in the higher law and an anti.
| SLAVERY constitution, an anti slavery Bible
and an nti-slayery God"
| GhrtSG. Hau about this +? Is this, too
in accordance with the imp ouenueati
made By the s. congregations f'' Is bias.
| phsming against the Holy Bible, and Goo
/! himself. portion Of the /" impTovem snts'
i of Gods holy religion as promulgated
through Moses, the son of God? and ar
you acessssyS y the averhFoy Of tina
religion2 -.
Bee her must ask you to not inter.
raps a1s ugaa EbaSerocitsd sonss Of tht
views of the grs&tess aad best men % Of
theftimss- must, however, acknowledge,
THAI the views enunciated by these gen
tlenen, and others | am about to quote
are exactly IA accordance With my view
and teachings. know very well they d.
not correspond with your Law abiding
doctrines, but the negrs must be elevated
TO an equality with the white races, com
tcsal or come saoe. Down with whit
tyranny. o
| Col. LoFeioy, Al Aid to Gen. Fremoa
| lin bis " hundred days Of folly sndcrims'
in Missouri, on the floor Of Congress, h
1860, 9Th Of April, said -. Sir, thai
robbery, than piracy, than poligamy
slave holding is worse, more criminal
more injurioaB 70 man, and Consequent,
more offensive to God, A voice /" TO III
anti slavery goa.n) SlaEe-hoiding ha
been Justly designated rs the sum of al
viaair1y4 IaH svssy crime late the mora
sruoible, and dissolve aud combine then
all, and the rssssssant ansalgaas Is slave
holding. 1t has the evidence Of robbery
A mUmbeT-f'Yeu are joking"
Mr. Lopeioy. No, sir, am speakin
in dead earnest, before God, Gods ow
ruth IL has the violence of robbery, th
blood and cruelty of piracy. Ii has th
offense and brutal lusts Of palygaay, q
combined and coasspsrased in itself, Wit
aggrasationS THAI heither one Of thea
crimes ever dreamed or knew of.
EeaasasE Wade 1af Chic, Oh tas fae
" of the Senate, delivered himself thus