Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-28


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More than sixt@a msHkhs ago, the
10 readers OF the Bsgi1 win remember !,
hat we said, that the AboaitiDn Coa&sass ]
md the Administration sAils protesting
heir lore for che Union and declaring !
;ha. sAey had 40 designs upon the i..ssi-
susioa Of slaysrya wsre acting hypocsisi.
saliy--shas their action In adopting Ms, !
erissendsn's resolution in July 1881 was
msrely . hliad to keep the border States
from joining the seashsrp Ceaisdaraays
and that when every town and city In
Kenlucky, was garrlsoasd By federal
sroops, then the mask woald Be thss~n
esF, and The Ab0lisisa policy Of the Ad-
minissrasioa, would DO announced and
how do We Hna the case standing at shis
timer r--s.. ~ /
The people Of Ksasasky, Missouri and
MARYLAND, had sonadsaoe in the honesty |
Of tins Administration and bslisyed that
Mr.. Seward truly represented ita asati-
meats, when be said in his letter to Mr..
IDAxxoS, our Minister at Paris, under
date Of April I'D, 1851: \
ssThs condition Of Slavery in the sew
erai States will remain Just The sans
whether ii 1.-THE ssvolasion) succeed OF
lfaiI. There Ia not even pgesaxt for TIE
. complaint that the disaHscsed States are
, Ito be conoursd By the United States, and
! the condition OF eysry human being IN
; them, win remain subject TO sSactly As
. same Iasps asd foT#as Of administration
! sskssAsy hs reuOlsasoa shaA sssccsS or
= l,rksihsr e aaau fad. Ia enc case, the
= States would be federally connected with
a the new Confsdegacy in the Other, tAsy
woald, IA now be members OF the United
ls States but their constitutions and lava.
n customs, habits, and institutions, in "a
oE thar case, will remain the same.
he ssIt Ia hardly necessary to add 10 thii
ea incontessihle statement the further faos ID
new President, ~ well a. the citizens
= through whose snHragss he has come int
u the Administration, hare always Tspndla
. ted all designs whatever, and whersys
! imputed to him and them, OF Distributing
~ the system of slavery ~ it il existing IN
= der fhe Consultation and lawss Tbs e9ss
hosrepsr, aooaId not be fully presestsd
. 8 TcsTs to oBsil 10 say fhas ANY ssoa q
q fort on hiss part anonLd Dc asseoasfsss
ftsoaaI, aad off his @Gettoas IN sAt
diYscssoa s1ossld Dc prseealed BY the tsad
rial aashOTilg, svsB though they srss
. G$ssnisd to By Congress aaS ths people
II Having full coa6dencs in the sssersia
made by MFR. Seward; tha& 'ths eond
.- ton Of every human being in them III
.. ssasss) would rsmain subject sxaCtly u
saae laws and forms Of Administrative
. whether the resolution shall succeed I
.. whether il shall fail, - and believing sh
=. Mr.. Seward meant what he said, VII
:. he said that ssaay effort on the part Of d
=. President to interfere with slavery in q
>. > States would be unconstitutional, " "a
u iority Of the above named States Esaaai
;. ed loyal to the Union. They now 81
: that all these profession Of respect I
the constitution were hypocricsally ma
>. for tho purpose Of keeping them qui
:. until the States we're occupied by fsdes
sroopS. when the Administration COZ
.sas urommulgste its abolitiouism With Pc
'Srs feet safety.
ion The people of these States now ii
:. themselves in vice. The President b
assumed his true character, and divulg
bis abolition policy, just when they q
powerless towards protecting thsmsslv
the againat the invasion Of their Oonssis
ga sional rights. The policy adopted By t
be President we predicted would be bis p
m icy more than sixteen months ago, and
the ia policy that had it been proclaimed
nee that time, would have put an end to
bic war long before this time. As We th
tier said, the President vas educating
ing peapIe in aboiitionism, and has been g
the ing them occasional lessons in the shS
an. Of reverses, repulses and defeats OF
hat army, until the people Of the North ha
lily gone over TO sbolitiOnism and are rsa
in 10 enforce his doctrines oy FIRE and awol
hat notwithstanding Mr.. Stewards dsolal
of ton, ''that aay such efforts on his p'
of woald be unconstitutional"
on We make . note of these facts ne
.nse so that our readers may bear In nj
ger. what our predictions have been In rega
fed the hnAi termination of this oesolati
ap- war, hoping that they may be eonVin'
not what is to be the final result, and n
be shape their action accordingly.
Ero- again repeat what we said two years q
of "A divided Union has no charms for |
but we believe that it will be dlvid
10y and If a division must take place, let IL
free dona peaceahly-war eanaot create friel
son ship, fraternity and unioa--d the Sea-
tent ern States seiu leave the Union, let th
the 20 10 peace" How much better wo
ing, it have been Tor the country, both No
and South, had this course been puEsu
par How many precious lives would have b
|, 10 saved, and how many millions Of doll
} in taxes would have been saved to an
rw ready over burthensd psoplsp
.hIa Ii is not too late yst, to save hnadE
- oil thousands Of lives and thousands
"a millions Of treasure, which will DO
,h.. and sxpsadsd II the var goes On.
Let an armistiee be eoncluded-a G
al. venticn of all the States both North
-. South be called, and IL terns Of Un
t. cannot be agreed upon, let terms Of di
80 ion be agreed upon. IL is bssesz 20
this now while there Ii something lsst