Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-14

II tioEls, and nthay accidental pecuIiaxiti
OF the individuals who fell It's snare.
I'll Great errors do not obtain cuyrer
! Saad become eject, bat as they are pt
Aisssd 20 base psafsrenss 10 xeseectal
!, authority. upharpily fos the soust
Abolitionists soquired that advantage.
II For IL wzs an Illusion that gIared, af ii
. same time, up9n bAe BeneY Oluus seaks
cad ihs iEfataassd iteazaars of ear
mon salgasipn$ and csptivated. for a tim
some whom it conId not absolutely !,
dace or h6peiessly destroy. It Wa 30
when andeE > similar semptatioa Ia Il
mother country, sons such men as Es
ipud Burke and Robert Hall we're born
on the deceitfaf current Of falsa opir
Fidas till the roar of the tlitnblihg eata
EFaet awoksth them, and they we're hardI
stEsd By spriaging into &sha addies, d
eiinging TO the rocks. FnsEetfuL of th
lessons Of history and revelation, the
were slow 70 believe that wisdom whic
boaSssd such great things of superio
Light and . heavenly seAarity could b.
Alter all shalleW aad dalasiYs. The
Esympathized, generously or beneTolentlY
with afflicted humanity, and the painte,
@Es&za OF universal emancipation wfsfcl
played before their sxaaEed faneies seam
I'd realization Of what belongs only Z
an age in the dark, unreyealed futurit,
Of Provldencs, TO which we have yet *
pdss amid scenes more terrible than am
lot The anteeedshs revelations thYougf
which Jesus Christ has been advancing L
Ills throne OF jugment and OF glory
80 here; q few ike Adams and Chan.
RiHg, to say nothing Of distinguished fiy.
Ing men, ey We kaoW net What secret No.
ltical or phiIosophia bias, what. vein oi
morbid sentiment, what blurred, ethical
or theological vision, By words whose
IseaHEDg they did Aot measure, by srga-
soaings consistent With some of sheir ac
kqgwledged principles, and uuworthy Of
their intellect and their fame, gave en-
eouragement, if not patronage, to the
.daageroas idoaatRy. .n' - - ra -
AbolisiaR became an insaitation. organ
io and vital-body and souI--a Rorkiug
power, representative of new type Of
moral and social dom-improfad, com
pEtaensise, philosophical and destined to
PrsvaiL. AS its gaady ssphistry took its
n4taral, popular effect, il assumed 10 be
arrogant, insulting and encxoaching. 1t
y ~ enyious Of GODS appointed orders,
tAe'faEnily, the State, the Ohureh-snd
scEuplsd bot 10 sssaiL kheir blood4oemens-
ed foundations. 1t labeled the Copssitu-
ton as "leaguq with death, and cove
nant with helf.'' n set up its propagan-
d., assenblsd It's conventions, and sent
Abroad its agents. 1t became a subtle
dlsputant, cunning iRnoVater, a daring
rtfoFmer, hery agitator, yigulent de-
cI7imef, d malignant denouncer, ifnplicaa-
bic peTsesaseF. dainipg confidence at its
acquired aaosndancy oyer the simple, she
fsEful, the curious, tbs imaginative, the
eaEilnental, the undiseipliued, the pas
81 Jnate-it aspired to popular control
aIll revolutionary distinction. But to
that end il must become religious. Itwas
ready for the occasion. Ii appealed ac~
corlingly to the moral sense now iostled
from ITS popularity. 1t APPEALED to scrip
tore, now twisted by improved versions,
arbitrary criticism aud fantastic eommen-
tar IS, from its literal, direct and scien-
tiff meanings, till it was made as sub$er-
VI nj and obscure as Deiphic oracle
th very scripture which it had before de-
noe .1eed as hastlLe 10 its ideas, or had
dlSparaged as unworthy of competition
VI L its higher law. 1t egen clothed itself
in Jhsrobes Of sahctity and kept its Sab
batAs. II assumed control, extensively,
Of The religious press. Ii 'aSccnded the
platform and the pulpit 1t figured at
II dispensed, sr eathedra,
thr Jracies Of the new divinity, and ina.
pr, Gated the wrath Of heaven upon all who
refus sd fealty and homage. To the sarns
en'!, also, it must be political, Ii affected
the wall-being Of the State. 1t studied
intrigue and fnesse. It became an ex-
pert. It mastered all the chieanery of
wins, eancusas and conventions. Ii cal
culai&l its forces. 1t disciplined lis
ranks. Ii found the balance of power,
and then sold itself to The progressive
patty. The price was the government Of
Of the country. The object was the dis
solution of the Union, and then the iutro-
duc:ion of its new Jernsalem-R Returning
Church and State Mechisedek
king and priest-impersonated in an
Ind spent or Tribune. We have seen
with what u Shylock sayageness il has in
sisted on the bond. Wa have seen how
sausiy the constituted keeper Of our lib
critics has consented to the sacrifice. -
Such is tha moral ra0ord Of Abolition
am, brought down to the date OF the
proclamation. Il has been
but inperfectly understood. Hence our
Wise and learned civilians
layo left it too mnch oas of their reckon.
ng Of our public diaioplties and dangers,
because it is moral and therefore not Oh
;hs line of their professional pursuits
But that is false 70 fact, dfshonorabie 10
aisioRy, and dangerous to the Church and
State, Ii Ia TO heal tbs burt of the daugh.
,er of the peapIe slightly, and perpetuase
and war. The moral oues-
.iou which divides ls Is supreme. There
Jan be nov no sound philosophy, no com
1Eeheasiye iudgeInens Khesa il ID net 40
Installed, and all judgement will be unjust
without ii. Abolitionisn stands out his-
ioriaally, the active, practical cause Of all
bur tEouhlar Without iss othsr exissiag
,auses would have been Of no effect. II
was ipanifssly so Ehsn Il began to figure
IN the halls Of Congress. IL has been 20
ID all our subsequent discussions, which
aaye fillea the land with skifs, rsssa
II was more manifessly 50 In It's alli-
ance With miscalealating politicians 10
The Fremont campaign, and more dscise-
lvely in their demonstration ak Chicago.
Il was so met less remarkably In iGs ap-
prorristiop ef religious men, and the
OF equally miscalculating rep
of the churches. Many of
Eh&e good and patriotic citizens, lay and
clerical, Rsans net wha4 they did. Their
eyes were holden. We hlaIaa sham aea
for bad Intentions, bat bad mistake,
On the stormy sea Of politics, and in The
clouds Of spssaiasioa and romance, they
bad lost their reckoning. Thsya wsrsl
blinded by old prejadioss al sacs and
party. They heedsd not those great men
who died utsefing ths yoice 81 remon-i