Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-03-11

&8& "a MHHt M14E AExAM - 3 - %<&Asss ~ l
nills, whieh wsss IN opposfeie@ - both.
Tina aispe.isioa taf dissaaFb shs axas4ing
srasx al tkznxs, gave issalf shape and
kpsm shv the orgnnaxaaioa q whas was
ssllsa us Repahliaaa party, sha laading
ana fsmdsnsnsalp riaeipas ox which party
ysas h0sailisy % she inssituaion Of slaTsFy.
Nan a proaieas@ lisss and desperate
suxsunss, With shess wha aas<e exsxe4 Mp
On shs qaatiem Of alavsry, anitsd shsss
saEsxss % place ths Federal powss Ia shs
kaads % thai party whieh IN advance
os toe Presidential slession, had dsnaAfsd
Ia infldlisy 30 she aavsxnHaant. Ii Vas
sasaeanossa ~ revolasiaaary ana DANCE
Yoas 20 the psaaa Of tho saansEy, BY .
large uasiorstyof Eha American people, bat
a majority OF the people, In tina Naxthasn
states. aialed and dseisved together with q
desire Of change Of Administration COM
rnissdths executive auaAozisyof the govsrn
asns, 60 al exponent OF thia radical
revolutionary party. What we haze
already expsrisaoedof Rspsblicaa rule,
atsssss the ability OF THAI party 20 its
promises before shs election not 70
preserve bus TO dissroy, not to prosses
hus 10 assail, not 10 defend bat 10 altexly
disregaEd the plaiasst provisions OF eur
National Constitution sze
If LOYAL aitlAeus, before the pFssiden-
tial election, righsfully and srashfully de-
noaneed this party Is hostile 10 oar Ma
tional Government, 40 yes they haze no
ground to change that opinion. If their
theory was wraag then, their practice il
wrong to day and cannot reeaava the sn-
dassaIasns Of taoss whorwoald be eonsis.
tent. Ii it was wroag for political party
asking for thu administration OF tbs
Government, TO declare hostility 10 State
institutions, ia ii wrons for that party
when in powsr 70 exercise that power In
wasiax war against those institutions.
We believs with those who plsdgea thaiz
lives. their fortunes and their s&Gxed
honor to the caaas OF American Inder
peadsace, aai astestsd their sincerity
with their blood Ga every battle field OF
the Rayolation, that Governments derived
their juss powersfrom the consent of the
governed.
We do not believe that . minority
party, obtsing poweE under false pre-
tsnaes, have the right 10 Disregard the
expressed wish Of the majority, and thai
party ssnd It's minions of power will yet
fad that there is q terrible naturalization
for all who preferred aud brought about
tbs state of affairs BOW existing, rather
THAI the institution of slavery should ex-
ist 10 some States of our former Union.
While We acknowledge HOSTILITY to
slavery, as principle Of the Republican
party, We do not FORCES that the leaders
OF that party AZ general thing were more
thoroughly imbaed with disleyAlity 10
the doTesnmeDt, and desire OF self
agSandisemeat upon the ruins Of their
eoRasFy, than they we're Of ameEior&tasg
the condition of their fellow nau.
Philanthropy does nos demand, for Ehe
success Of its parposa q dismsmbe rment
of Government, or thai q country like
oars, With saeh institutions as il had,
should be dreached With frateTnal blood,
ii does not demand the infictiou of Q
greater evil upon the human family than
the evil sought to be remsdsed, nor as
great L. does not demand that the sworn
o1assTvators of our State and National
authority shessd violate their solemn
oaths Of ofiee, By trampling upon and
disregarding the plAinest provisions of
those Consultations which ihey had taken
an oath to support and defend. Il does
not demand that twenty millions of
American freemsn should be naats poems,
the slave to debs, which is slavery 10 its
most harrisd form, for the purpose OF
liberAting from servituds three millions
of negroes, Or that the sweat of the white
man's brow shoald be exacted to provide
food and raimeat for those negroes after
they are liberated, a. is now beiag dope
by the order OF shs Republirsa admins
tFatiou at Washington. Neither does il
require az . contrast to this, that AmeTi-
can eisixens shoald be arrested without
warrant xisd without Jury aud be
committed with out process to l0ashseme
prisons. The philanthropy of the Repab-
licaa party may reqaire all this and more,
bat thai philanthropy which teaches
peace on earth and good will toward all
men, from the beginning has deaied the
orthodoxy Of th3 Republican theory, and
condemned its practice as ssupsndous
iniquisy sought to be imposed on moral
and political principles. A majority
Of the American people condemned Re-
pubilcaRism, in the beginning, and if
wrong thsu, il is wrong to DAY. The
condition Of our country at the time Of
the organisation of the Republican party,
and its e3aditiou to day is 8 sad com
mentary upon true political policy, if the
policy ct that party, is the policy on
which our Government should be admin
istered. We believe that when men
violate the laws of their country, they
should be punished, and With US The Law
has provided apsnaIty. We believe that
when the executive trsnsceDds the rule
of action prescribed for him by the
supreme power of the Government, be
should be punished We believe thai
when public servants violate their trusts,
and psesist in such violations they should
be made to know and feel that the people
are conscious Of their infdelity. Ii 10 not
expected that human frailty would be- ax-
empt FROM error, in the discharge Of
public trust, but it 10 expected that the
public servant in the discharge of q trust
will not By his error, distroy the object
and purpose for which that trust was
created. With "a the people are or
rather have been the beneheiaries. and il
Is their Legitimate province to sec 70 Ii,
thai their Pablie servants do not diskroy
the aims and objects for which the
Government was instituted.
The advocates of the administration
say that oar excessive is an honest nan,
that the policy be has persued was with
view Of accomplishing good, others justify
his aes&~ is mas ever been thas every
malagaitar who violAtes the Law of his
counsrys when brought to trial either
justices ths act, or disclaims any Grim
inal intent, bat that crins may not be
committed with impunity, II has ever
been the policy Of the law Of every we'll
regulated State to hold the offender re-
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