Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04
NO. go.

Q Epy declaring goug papss promises - !,
7 iegal lender Tor all dabss.f Waa rsaea
e wanted Z You had al, ths xeyeauss !
+ the Uaited States, diminished i.dsad. y
!, still in gold. The whols waalthr al !
country, 70 tha last ldellaz, lag nj svs
teet- Private iAdiEidaAls,. saaainip
esofssosaslona, the Stasa govaxnan ena, !
4p saeif tre9zx gsga JOG aaoasy, Or, nsal
J Euh reckless psodsgalisy. n, ssrs
eastern cities lent yoa gl5a 00o. n
Songress voted, first. $3.50. 00o. 6(sl, ~
next Sao0, ,0O0, 900 more Ia losna. =
them, hrsts 80, ,000, 900, than AID O0o
wv, nsxt $s0, ,000,000, and. in Julv i =
4l5O, 600 900 b Trsasury roses !. -an,s ~ n
Secretary has issasd also d paper = posa
age eurseney, In sums ~ low as tiv
cents, limited IN amount onIy by his dis
efetion. Mar, mare already since 4,
aLn of July, 1901 House has appropriate,
$z,0lI ,s64, ,oNs almost every dollar uith
out debate, and without recorded yoae
4 thousand milli0ns haya been exoanssf
sinee the. l5Eh Of April 1861 ! and ! uus.
ltc debt or liability Of sI.y0a. md ~
algsady Incurred. And to s,arrnovf m
tnis stupendoas outlay and indebtedness
. system OF taxation, direct and ,lndirecs,
has been inaagurated, tbs NEST onerou
and anIass eEer imposed upon any bus a
conquered people. =. -
Aonsy and credit then, yeu have had
IN pFodigal profusion. And wexe Tne,,
wanted More than a million rxasbed, Ia
arms Seventy Ave thousand first. and
fhe country stood aghast at tbs anlti.
tude, then eighty three shounaaa ,uavs
we're demanded and thEes handred asd
ten thousand responded to the CALI. tn
Presldent next asked for four hundre.j
thansaods and Congress in its zenerous
coincidence, gave ham Eve hundred thou.
SAND and, not to be oatdoae he took aix
handEed and thirty-seven thousand,
half OF these melted away In their srst
campaign and the President demanded
three hundred Thousand more for a.
var, and then drafted yes aaother thrae
aanqFea = thousand for nias months. ,The
tabled hosts Of Kerxss have bean ont
numbered Yet victory Strangely follows
tne standards Of the foe IRON Great
Bethel to fleksburg, ehe battle has not
aeen 70 the strong. Yet every disaatar.
except the last, has been followed by
eau Tor more ssaopss and sveg time 20
tar theJ have been prompslY furnisked.
From the beginning the ser haa haem Goa.
Quoted Hke . political aasapalsn. and IL
2 mas been the folly Of the party Ia po#ss
Enas tney nave assumed thai numher aiane |
would YIN the .feld in . contest net wish
paLiets eQt with musket aud ssari. Bat
aamhers you have had almost viEhont !
aamheF-the largest. BEST appointed,
best armed, fed, and clad hoet af bravs |
men, well organized and yell disoiraued
ever maFsha:ed. A Navy, too. not tho |
most formidable perhaps, hus the |
most numerous and gallant. and the |
'osEslsas IN the wnrlds and against "a
1s Ss a4uooss without a nary At all.
Thus With twenty millions Of pSonIe.
'na every element of strength and force
u tcommaad-powar, patronage, influence
lnaEInltys enthusiasm. confidence. Grad
:, money! men, an Army and q NAVY the
argest and the nablest ever set in the
leLa or adeat on the sea Kiah the aupuoYr.
lLnost seEyaie, Of every State, eoanty and
Congress swift to do tha bidding of the
Executive; without opposition anywhexa
home, and With an arbitrary power
fhich the CzaE Of Rassia nor the EnDe-
or OF Austria dare exercise ; vat after
early two years of more vigorous prose
asion of var than ever recorded in his
Dry after more skirmishea, oombaks and
atties than Alexander, Caesar, or the
rst Napoleon ever fought in any FIVE
ears Of their military eaFeer, you have ,
tterlys sigaally, dIsastroasly--I viii not ,
" lgnominiously-failed 70 sQhdae ten ,
Iillions of "rebels, J" whon you had taght ,
re people OF the North and Weat not on +.
to hate bat to despiss. Rebels, did / | !.
" Yes. your fathers wera rebels, or !
our grandfathers. He who now bssfore !
10 on canvas looks down so sadly upon !
), the false, degenerate and iulbeciIe !
lafdIaas Of the great Republic which he !
'unded, was a rebel. And yet we, era =
ed ourselves ia rebellion, and who have :
'steFed aud fraternized with every insur- :
ctIon in the nineteenth century eTerS- i.
mere throughout the globe, would now, !
irsoalh, make the word ssrebeps a re-
'oaeh. Rebels certainly they are but !
the persistent and stapendoua efforts .
the most gigantic warfare of modern r
mes have, through your incompsseucy 7
ID folly, aEailed nothing to crash them a
Il, cat oH though they have been By your =
ockade from all the wexld, and siepena- =
L only upon their own courage and re- i
urces. And jet they were 10 be usseriy i
nquered and sabdned in ak weeks, or +,
rec nonshs Sir, any judgement was :
aae up and expressed from the first. --- :.
earned it from Chatham ttMy I,ords. j
"a cannot conquer America" And you y
We Dot conquered the South. Won ney- i
Tll. II Ia not in the nature Of thinvx !.
&sIhis much lass under your auspices, i
1t money yoa have expendend without =
nlt, aud blood poured ous like watsy.-- Z,
Heat, debt, taxation, these are your tro- r.
ies' In vain the people gave you srsa-
60 and the soldier yielded up his life.
'lght, tax, emancipate, let these, ;, said {,
} gentleman from Maine, fMr. PIKE, "a = =
last session, ''be the trinity of our i
vation." Sir, they have become the il
nifty OF your damnation. The war for -
Union is, in your hands most BLOODY
d costly failure. The President eon. -,
Ised 1t on the 22d Of September, SOL !,
My, ofheiailys and under the broad zeal =
the United States. and hs has now n
,eated the confession. The PRIESTS and !,
,bts OF Abolition taught him thas God !.
aid not prospeE such cause. War for 3.
J Union was abandoned; wax Tor the =;
gro opsnly begun. and With stronger II
ttaillons than before. With what sue. Il,
10? Lst the dead at Fradarsckabnrp = :,
Fioksburg answer. x
And now, sir. can this contiuus p--l n
hence the money Co carry il one-- r.
hero the mens Can yea hegrow p l.
aIn whonf Can yea sax more viii II
people bear il : Wait TIL you have II,
leeted what il oil ready levied. How
NJ millions aore of tslsgal tsadasss-- III
DAP forty-sesan per cent beIow the par =
gold--oan yoa aeasg Wall men enlsss d
N az Ruw pvs,sa e.k t -