Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-25
TaE DEMOCRACY OE TEE WESTERN
SLOPE.


EpEToRs BIZ TIE BUeLR At a aass
meeting bel ID by the Democracy of Mont-
gomery and Page counties, at Ross' Grove,
Jackson township, Montgomery county,
Iowa, On shs lAsh inst, on motion Louis
Wilder was elected President and II. Des-
eombes, Sc retary and r E. FindIey, as
sistant. o q motion the President was in
strueted to appoint committee to draft
resolutions.
Committee on resoiuaous-Henry Muir
ray, w. G. Means, L. Reeves, VI. Moore
and O. Thair-retired, and after short
absence, returued and submitted the fol-
lowing resolutions, which, after being
read, we're unanimously adopted.
/. Rssoltsd, That il 10 to the people We
must ioek for = restoration of the Uaion,
and the blessing of peace, and 20 this end
We shall direct our earnssi and honest ef~
forts, and hence VIC are In favor of the
assembling Of national convention OF
all the States at the earliest practical pc
Fiod to SO .djust our hakional difficulties
that the States may hereafter live in bar
mony With each other, being secured in
their rights, guaranteed By the Constitu-
ton. .-E
3. Resolnsd, That we earnestly recon-
mend cessation of hosEilities for such a
period as may be necessary to allow the
people OF the North aad the South to ex-
press through national convention their
wishes for peace and maintenance Of the
Union - il vas or . reconstruction with
the righss pf all States uaimpaired.
ss- R<soIpSd, That the GeneFal Govern
ment has no power under the ConstiGa-
ton to tax the people of the State of Iowa
for the purpose of raising money with
which 90 buy slaves Of the Southern
States, and we now declare ia advance
that all debts contracted or bonds which
maybe isau I'd for the purpose of paying for
any suah slaves we hold 70 be utterly void
for want Of authority to issue the same,
and the State Of Iowa viii not consent
that her people shall be taxed for any such
purpose.
1, Resolved, That we condemn the
Emancipation Proclamation Of the Preai-
dent, and that We will not fight 10 free the
negro.
5. Resoapsd, That we are. oppose I'd 60
being ruled any longer by despot, snd
We call on all loyal citizens to shrox Of
the yoke OF Daspotism and restore peace
and harmany once more TO this troubled
land,
6. Resolved, That she Abolitionisaa
must be defeated As the ballot bex. or the
Consultation will be utterly destroyed by
them,
J. Rssolued, That we will assist the
citizens of this State to enforce the laws
to rid the State of contrabands.
s. ResoHeed, That we will not permit
any more tAulawful arrests, which Is con-
trary to civil law; bat our citizens must
be tried by the civil laws Of this State.
9. Rssofasd, That we approve Of the
course pursued by Gov. Seymour, of New
York, and the Hon. c. L. Vallandlgham,
of Ohio.
The meeting was ably and eloqasntly
addressed by W. G. Means, 10 his usual
good old patriotic style, denouncing all
ensnaies sp the Constitution. After
speaking was over, there was carried forth
from the wagons, boxes, buckets and bas-
kets heapsa up With cakes, pies, bread,
turkeys, hams, In fact, every
thing yoa could mention, and on the
desks Ia the house, on logs and on the
wagons (shere not being room for all in
the hoase,l We partook Of one Of she most
dinners ever gotten up on tbs
Western Slope.
On MOTIFS IL was agreed that the pro-
seedings Of the meeting be published In |
the Council Bluffs ga4gls and Burliag son |
argus. /
LOUIS WILDER, Pres't.
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