Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-03-11
No A.

IN fraitlass battles, while ,oshsx nasls
are willing spectators of khs national j
icide. "Promofe the general yeIfaxp
why every calamiky That var saa es,s.
. upon nasioa, bears heavily apoa .
hopes and efforts ID sxist in psaea syl
as the part or former nationality Lad
vfuaal welfare and self sgrandjzsma,
has been ffs ruling passion Of thoss
power, while the pablic welfars has bee
wholly discarded. In addition Ia shas
| objecss, bad 10 view BIZ the fran ara OF a
| Constitution, there was vet another. n
mat was 70 secure shs blessing Of lib
sfty to themselves and their possarisy.-
Yes we who live in this the latter part o
sha nineseeth cenEasy are. that pastexits
Tor which our fathers thought by Ia
adoption OF the Constitution they Ia.
secured the blessings of liberty bayon.
the reach Of despotic and arbitrary pow
or. We should bare been 10th 70 bsliev,
Q few years ago thai the liberty OF th.
citizen would ever depend upon the vii
sf execntive ministers, We. should hay.
secuted at the idea, thas o tina wouls
eVer arrive Ia our history while We wsr.
pretending to livs under that Constitution
70 which IL attached the names az Wash.
ington, Hamilton, franklin and othera.
whose memories are halloved Ia onE af.
fections, when American cisisena would
DC hurried OF to toathsome prisons. hy
the nlnions OF arbitrary poweg, without
any enaTge OF crime being preferred
against them, or any other warrant than
she will OF shose who had taken a sol
etun oath to preserve, project and dsfend
the Constition- which declared Ia letters
OF living light that no such crimes ahoaId
be perpesrated in the name OF iiberty.-
Wish q free and eulignEened people the
exercise of dsspotie power ID OF brieE
daFatior, for the conseioasaess that man
has rights which DO 'despotisn can ex-
tinguish, which no Tyranny can take away a,lI /,
soon applies, tho remedy. The people
may suffer their rights to be invaded BAT
that invasion win not be Of long dura-
ton. There is principle in man which
viii ever be at war wit6 the exer ise of
despoticpowet and that war when once de-
ciared will ever beI tfiumphans. In
days gone by, this principle has been
Eheauging spring Of reYoluions, has nov
I'd the foundations Of mighty thrones, has
accelerated the DOWNFALL of eranirea, has
sounded into the ears of desposs and IT,
rants, the fearfaf u1oanlrgs OF coming
storms, -zu7 II win ever 20 forth at isa Iap-
pointed time as the bright angel ot God, 10
Iahar the prison door, silc6or the needy,
.eieive she oppressed and pour 'aood al
light and love into the darkenad ana
ireary iuseliects Of those who have felt
md suffered from mans fnhumaaity to
nan. 1t is truth verified By the histo-
y OF other governments, that no State
;at1 exist without being soon exhausted,
EAlch maintains over the one hundreth
'art OF 1t memebers in oERee, in arms,
md in indleness.
II cannot be expected that our govsrn-
aent viii be an exception to this unex-
'rabte law, which, when once violated,
aust speedily result 10 exhaasGing the
aeans and resources of eRr national ex-
stence. We see sBarms OF public Off
ers in our midst eating ont tba sghsiss-
nee Of oar people, nearly . million of
nen in arms uader the pay Of the gov
rnmenh a part Of the menial popRlaEion
at the public charge, with
ommand from the president, to the re-
aainder OF this latter class, 10 no longer
erve their masters, but become burshes
0 the people, as are those now fed and
ationed, By order Of The Administration
That this state of things will bankrupt |
be nation, if it bas not already, Is a |
upon which no reasonable mind !
or a moment entertains doubt. 4 gov
like everything else, has Its |
rice, it is worth jast so much and
is worth no more. But the price |
{ government Is the reverse OF the com
lon standard. The better the govern-
lent the less the cost to the people, the |
ForSe the government the greaEer- the |
ost to the people. II principles, Of right,
uestions Of interest and points Of hon
Z, require extraordinary expenditures
nd sacrifices Of human lie, it may be |
rell, bat when the Administration, dis. |
agards the rights, tho interests and the |
enor of the government as well as the |
sople, the people have no other aIteraa-
We left than the establishment of an or
ef OF shings which fe them will seem
lost likely to effect their safety and hap
iness.
We do not believe that mortal man esuld
sVise better form of Government than
he one We have, and when we speak al /
he Government we do net mean the
iminlstration, but il the administration
IS SO dlsarranged and broken up the
achiaery of the Government, that it
ever again can be put in Successful
perasion 20 serve the Gods fog which il
as established, the SOONER we cast ita
roken and disbonored fragmsnta aside
10 better, and establish 3 new order Of
lings, giving TO each peculiar people
hose interests are idenlicial agovernmant
7 themselves, We cannot see thai the
'iling millions of our people, are likely
receive any corresponding bsae6ss fog
he aacrihces they have already made,
nd that they viii be required TO make
N all time to come, by the crusade
srriea on against the institation of
avery by the administration under the
retence Of administering the GoseTa-
Ient. Neither can We see one singse ray
| hope for Union OF the Govegnment
o continuation Of this paliey.
The present administration by aosiugi
! Disregard Of our GoHstitusioa, per-
arting the war from restoration of the
niea, to a var for sha Emansipasion Of
ayes, may have gratifed the hate, and
ranted the demands of those who Do
red The stats Of Affairs now existing In
IT unhappy land, bat by 80 doing il has
mt she death kaell of abe Union. There
no manifested fseIiug d Union either
! the North or the South tins East or the
Fest, bns thsra is . feeling Of hate not
alded by reason or restrained by law
hieh leaks 20 70 shs prossrasiun and I
ain Of eli thiags. Ii ID darkness, fssasy,
snatisisna asd nate. ss0f all shimgs Ia
ading therin, the upper saps which it