Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-06-25

PROFESSOR LrsrxaER

We emitted to announce In our last
issue that pgoTKssog LzsTsaKg, the un-
rivalisd teacher Of our City High School,
bad resigned bis position in the School
and had opened recruiting ofEss in this
city for the purpose Of enlissing recruits
for the 18th Iowa regiment Of Infantry.
We are sorry that the Professor has been
forced by ill health to relinqaish the
iaudable and highly beneficial pursuit Of
ssteaching the young idea how 70 shoot, "
for the less baneaaial and altogether
more brutal employment Of enlissing men
to shoot their fellow eounkrynnen. IL
seems however, that such things ander
present circumstances, mnss BE done,
and we have no doubs bat the Professor
viii gain as great celebrity IN his new
vocation, as be has msrited and gained
in the one just resigned. We notice
however, in the call which Lieut.. LISTNaER
has posted upon the corner Of the streets
and by the "Way- side," that the recruits
enlisted By him are to be used in the
maintenance Of Ssthe Constitution Gs IL is,
and the establishment Of the Union as it
aoas,'' befsge the secession Of the South
ern States. From these unusual and
significant words found in che Lieuten-
ants call, we infer that he is Of the
opinion that troops have bean called into
the fsld, who came not for the purpose
of maintaining the Consultation as ii ts,
nor Of re-establishing the Union as II tcds,
and we also infer from those words, that
the Professor would be very far from
eulfsting in a cause which was calculated
to produce different result. Such men
men who contend for the Constitution
asuis, and the Union as ii soEs, are
PATRIOTS, and the only true friends Of
their country and the constitutional lib
erty Of the people.
Had this spiris animated the breasts
of the people Of the North-had they
guaranteed to the people Of the South,
that they should be secure in all thar
constitutional rights-had their motto
been the ssCoustitutioa and Union oHe
and inseparable," As n IS, instead Of
"cTHE CONSTITUTION AND UNION,
COVENANT WITH DEATH AND A
LEAGUE WITH HELL,7 there would
hare been no secession and civil war, and
peace with all Of its blessings, and fra
ternal and never ending friendship would
have reigned supreme throughout the
length and breadth of this once boosted
Gland of the free, and home Of the brave"
Bat Abolition Republican fau&tiolsn,
has brought upon the country the present
hlighting and devastating civil war, and
we now fad those who hare battisd all
their lives at the Ballos-box for the Con
stitution and Union, volunteering their
service in the field, As the last desperate
resort to perpetuate and maintain that
which Observation-Disclosures aeknowl-
edge thsy have besa trying foE NINETEEN
years 60 destroy.
We fear thai there viii be division
in the camp, when Nm. IaSrsozR enters
with his regiment in support Of the Con-
stitution as i! is, and the Union as IL soss,
for the leaders "hereabouts" say "d-m
the old Constitution which recognized
slavery, and the old Union With slave
holding States; if slavery san't be abol-
ished and q Union formed without having
slave States in it, LET THE C0NsTI-
TUITION AND UNION GO TO HE'LL"
Here We have the prospect OF al ''irre-
pressible conflict, !" between those who are
fighting to save the Constitution as IL Is,
and the Union as 1t tods, and those who
are fighting to ssnd both TO Hell.
We hope Professor LnsISdgR may sue
eeed in maintaining the Constitution IA
it is, and establishing the Union as il
was; bat from our stand point Of OBJ
servatiop, we are inclined to believe, thai
those who are wiling 10 eonsign beth K
satan's dark dominions are largely ii
the ascendant, and thai the Professor
regiment will have to make amasterly
retreat" if it escapes being captured BY
the Abolition hordes, who, under the
pretence Of maintaining the Constitution
and Union, tranple the frat under foot
and deolare their willingness to let both
60 to He'll, rather than fail in theii
schemes Of emancipation.
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