Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04

:, nfss appeared IN America, The right
declare war, 10 raise and support sfsale
and to provide and maintain = aayy y
usarped BY the Execative: and ina lit
more than two months q lard and nav
force OF over three hundred thousand tat
WAS In the 1eld or apon The sea. An arm
Of pubic piuderera followed, and Isl
/. ruption struggled with power and j
friendly strife FOR the mastery al bone.
: On the 4th Of July Congress nss, anc
Q 70 seek peace; not 70 rebuke usurpatio
Z Dor to restrain power; not certafnIy /
deliberate not even to iegislate, bat /
7 register aud fatify the edicls AMI acts )
. tho Executive; and in yeur lang iase, ii,
: upon the frat day Of the session, TO ftvok
q universal baptism Of Are and bloc,
AMID the roar oS cannon and th
] din Of battle. Free speech was bad onI,
at the risk Of q prison possibly OF life
topposttion was siienced by the herc.
olaInor Of s'dislgyalIy.n All business
! not Of war vas voted out of order. Fiv,
! hundred thousand men, an Immense na,
w, ana two hundred and ifty mIIIion,
OF money were speedily granted. il
twenty, At most 10 sixty days, the tebel.
hon was TO be crushed out. To noubi
I il was treason. Abiecs subm.sstob was
demanded. Lay down your arms, she for
peace, surrender your leadera-forfestare,
death-this vas the only language heard
on this door. Tbs galleries responded /;
the Corridors echoed and o0bsraasors
and plaeemen and other yenal pAt.
riots every where gnAshed upon the
frispds Of peace as they passei bv.-
In FIVE weeks seventy eight public and
private acts and joint resolutions i, in
the Senate and House, quite as numerous,
all full Of slaughter, were hurried thro'
without delay and almost without debate.
Thus was CIVIL WAR inanguratei in
Ameriea- Can any man to-day seb the
end Of it?
And now pardon ne, sir, if I pause
here moment to define my own position
at this time upon this greaf question.
Sir, am one of that number whohaye
opposed abolitionism, or the political dc.
velopment Of the anti,slavery seatinenti
OF the North and West, from the begin.
nlng. In school, at college, st the 5ar,
m public assemblies, in tie Legislature,
IN Congress, boy and man, "a !. private
citizen and in pubic life, in time of
peace and ID time Of war, at all times and |
u every sacrifice, Ihaye fought az ii nst it. |
1t cost me Ten years. exclusion from ttice |
and honor, at that pYiod at lift when
honoFs are sweetest. No mattar; Elaarn. |
ed early to do right and to wait. Sit, il
is but the development uf the spiriE of
intermedling. whose children are strife
and murder. Cain tFou led himself
about ths saoriaces " Abel, aud slew
him. Most of the wars, eonteuti lns. .lia.
CATION and bloodshed, from the baginbing |
of time, have been its fruitl. The shirt
OF non-interVentioh is the sery spirit of
peace and concord. do aok belitvethat
If alavery lad never existed. Lerd We
would have bad no sectional contvo yersies,
This very civil war might have happened
dfty, perhaps a hundred years Eatdr.-
other and stronger causes Of disoontent
and OF disunion, it may be, have existed
tween other States and sections, and are
now being developed erery day into ma
tarity- The spirit of intervention "a.
sumed the form OF abolitionism because Ii
slavery vas odious In name and l.y asso.
siation to the northern mind, and be- (
cause il was that which most obgio nsly
marks the different civilizations of shetwo 1
sections. The South herself, in her ear. {
y and latter efforts to rid herself Of il,
lad exposed the weak and offensive d arts I
If slavery TO the world. Abolition ia. d
taught her at last to search G
or and defend the assumed social, Eco. I
ionic, and political merit and values of 4
be institution. Bat there never was an t
lour from the beginning when il did not t
esn to nae rs clear az the sun al broad t
loon, that the agitation in any form in {
be North and West of the slavery qpes. q
ion must sooner or later end in disuaion
nd civil war. This vas the opinion and Q
for years Of Whig and Demo. Y
ratio statesmen alike aud after the Iun- a
dissolution Of the Whig
'arty in 1854, and the organization OF d
be present Republican party upon an ex- f
lusively aatislavery and sectional basis, b
be sEent vas inevitable because, in the Il
hen existing temper OF the public mind, b
nd after the education through the press
nd By the pulpit, the lecturer and the Ii
olitical canvass for twenty years, df a
ensration taught to hate slavery and the Ii
outh, the saccess Of that party, pos 4
essed, as it was, Of every engine of po- Q,
sicsi, business, social and religious in b
uenee, was certain. Il was only a cues Ii
on OF time, aud short time. Such was W
3 strength, indeed, that do not belfegsI oil
lat the union of the Democratic party S
4 1860 on any candidate, even tlioagE Il
c bad been supported also BY Tie eukite ia
l-called conservative or anti. .Linaoln pl
0te of the country, would have avaAledI th
, defeat il; and IL it had the success OF az
he abolition party would only have been bl
qstponed foRr years longer. The dis la
As bad fastened too strongly upon the W
stem to be healed until it bad run it's tb
Jurse. The doctrine of the ''irrepressi- fo
e conflict" had been taught too long Ok
i'd accepted too widely and earnestly "a
e out, until Il should eulminato In 7se- Of
,ssion and disunion; and, If eoeraionI Is
ere resorted to, then in civil war. Ibe- m
eyed from the frat that it was the pur- be
,se Of some Of the apostles of that doc to
inc to force q collision between the Ia
orth and South, either to bring about /
paration or to And vain but blobdy pu
'etext for sboiishing slavery in the di
.ates. In any event, knew, or thou gbt W,
knew, that the end vas certain COLTS it
n, and death 10 the Union. an
Believing thus, | have for years aAss 90
those VINO taught that doe io
iue with all the yehemence, tho bItler- tin
So, If you choose thought it q right IL
lus, patriotic bitterness-of an earn fr,
/ and lmpassioned nature. Thinking hu
ns, forswaFned all who believed The ha
,ctrine, or followed the patty which Of
nght il, With sincerity and 1 depth Of In
inTietion as profound a. ever penetfa- Is
d the heart of man. And when, for de
ght years past, over and over agai j, | an
I've proclaimed 20 the people thai the ge
ucess of sectional ANTI slavery party N
oald be the beginning Of disaaion ana 70