Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-18
COUNCIL j BLUFFS, Iowa, 4,


q st AmMw es saHTM-z2sx NassouaSi
HmAp9rARTERs - Rxa. y N.
.sg $50 SaF saauAsy %, isss
DxAK BuaLg :-irhis department OF tho
| army, commanded by Brig. Gen. David
| son, started on tAa 18th iast. from Camp
Chase, assx Vaa Barsas and afssr aye
daYa nslsk over one or tho roaghess,
| moss aesslats, sterile and bFrren paris Of
tho State, we asrifsd Il saia place. We
have travelled oxas shs oxaxk Mountains
ThRs Ia certainty . very unduiating
| country, but Ia Minerals il IL rich, The
hira and aoantaias are fall Of iron and
copper ore; thsra Is saough iron Ia these
sr@ad old meunsains 10 girdie the Amer
lean continent, and construct a metallic
| aoss across the Atlantic. This country
| is well timhared, consisting Of dsass for
l.ssss o4 Pine, oak sud Ash. Why the
minerals Of this country are not manutae-
tarsd By some saserpgising companies 10
q woaaer to your correspondent. ~
The department Of the Army OF South
east Missouri contains about eight thou
sand msn, this includes lufaasry, GayAl-
ry and Artillery, the Illinois 37sh, Iowa
23a, Missouri 25eh, under command Of
sAat Democratic patriot, Col. Harding,
Wisconsin 4sh and 7th, Nebraska lss, In
| diana 9Th and 18th, foar batteries and
ave batsallions Of oavalry.
The marches over the State have been
conducted With spirit aud good discipline,
With one exception, and that exception Is
in the Abolition postion of the army;
this, it is trus, is ! yary FsaAa portion oI
the fpzces, yet there afs soaAs "a tbs ar
my, aud when Isay aboaisiaa Ayao means
mean thereby Republics, bat I refer tc
that party that nourishes the sentiment
that the African 10 an equivalent to the
white American ia all points and shades
Of view, and must give those Abolition
lists, here In the army, credit for honesty
am candid in tho stsaeasaass when tel
your readers that they ass sasA fanatics
that they think they are doing thei. eonn
try q service, in good faith, If they tax
the life of any citizen In the country thFo
which they pass. Thsy do nos wish tt
know what his sentiments or wishes ar
on ths war question, it is enough 10
Ethem 10 know thai he 10 q citizen OF
! slave State, be must die hs Is not ht q
live on this terrestrial ball, because h
does not reside in . free State. / hav
seen this class Of persons go 10 tbs easl
zsus houses on me w&y-aids, the fAmilis
\ have been rabbed by both armies for To
past Is months; here is half dozen staEy
! ing chiIdren, shiseriag around . log nr
! wish gaassy syes and smansated forms, de
maading The ssa8 Of life TO retain life i
taeir bodies, and yet, in the face OF a
these craving, hangry children they wOul
rob the house ofsshs last potatoe or meas
urs of Indian meal, or any thing they ma
chsnee 10 see, they will appropriate
their own privass parposss farmers al
made barren of stsck-hnuses, of the
j flood and raimsnt, and all this is done, II
what? Because he is citizen OF Sta
whose constitution recognizes slavery
= an glad to be able 70 say that only Al
: oaissons will commit such barbarous act
Tbs srue Republican always repudiat
sach. crimes bat it is sufficient to pro
shst they, tha true Aboiisionisss are Ela
on the war question, have given the
OF credit for honesty, and am sure they
:, honest, but are mAniaes sn the slave
or question. The property of Rebeis shea
ag be oonhscated; but it should be done
proper authority, and be should be ma
" " to feel aud know that hia property is IA
10, ca because he bstrays his country but
NC property should not be taken simE
ss. because he lives in slave State, and
OF not informed why be has heea strip
II, of his property. .s.
mi This Union is dear to rs all, and Ia
Us hard il the heart thai woald lacerate
IL iuto parts. Give Us the Uuien agH
tT, and let the naa Of Louisiana and de
IN gia excAaags his cotton, tobacco III
y n and the orange Of the South for the 90
pork and barley Of the North, give US b
.an mutual feelings Of symRathy from kie
: !, d. to the northern Lakes aad thea We
.n- defy the combined daspots OF knrc
A. then. and then oniy, will we be ha
b1s a. q nation bat never, 20, never les
.s5 usople of the United ststsa peTseeuts
own people to actual starvation, 1t ssal
and in wicked 60 to do, and shouid not
rery sanctioned. -. .... III. a.
n.; lam in the army, lore the Amer
Ih., people, love the hills and valleys OF
s;vsi country, lore her rivers and lakes
ow when your correspondent IL . mass
d. cold clay there will still bs . warm
sble In his body for the love nf his eoansr
build will oppose secession ga any prinea
As TO the negro, | will have nothing
in with him, i will asithsE pss Or abuse
hair Iwould oppose the SECESSION OF oF'
nsxt or Calsfornia IS bitterly. as would
of Virginia; but 10 the aams Of haana''
would ask the American people nj
EMIT haeona mad or insane over the dark {
arg ,ion AZ the. day--ths negro. Me,
uRy ,;nss of war. sbould exercise their,
- .o.ira saenlties az much "a THAR con
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