Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Il 1868.

~ Aa@0. Chy censuE@ nc pFave man wi
Dc rushed palriosicaiiy into thfs war ne
y thar viii qaarrel With any one, here
or elsewhsEe, who gave 70 II IN honest su,
7, part Had sheif convictions been fnyni
3. 1, too, would doubtless hare don d. the
q did. With MY convictions / ccnId nor.
= bat vas aRspreseasasive. War a
q lssaa-by whose aes-nos mine. Th
q hRasiaent, the Senate, he House, and th
= country, all sand that there should he IRA
= -HaE for The Union union of coaxe
q and good will. Our southern bsethrs,
d were TO be whipped back into Ioys an.
Q Fellowship at the point Sf the bayo
: net On, nsonstEops delusien / cas
comprehend . war 70 compel . people 4
aeeepf . master; TO change form d
! government 70 give up territory i 20 do.
! moIan domestic instiLations- short .
, war OF conquest and sabiugation: bat J
var for unionI Was the UaioB thns
madet Was i syer thus preserved a.
olr, history viii record that after rearlp
six thousand years Of folly and wicked.
meas IN every form and adnainistrasiaa "a
government, theooEatic, democratic, mon
archlo, oligaFchic, despotia and nixed. ii
was reserved to Ameriean statssmanshin
In the niaeseenth century Of ths Cbrisr
sian era to try the grand experiment on d
scale thh inoss cost and gigantic in It's
proportions, Of creating love BIZ force.
ana developing frategnal aaection by war;
ana history will record, too, on the same
page, the utter, disastrous, and most
bloody failure Of the experiment,
hqt to return the country vas az var:
and belonged to that school or polities
which teaches that when We are at war,
the doVernment-I do not moan tha Er.
ecutiVe alone, but the GoYernment--is
emitted TO demand aud have, without Pa
sisfance, sue1 number Of men, aud such
amount OF money and supplies geugrally.
a. may be necessary for the war. until an
appeal can De bad 20 the people Before
thas tribunal alone, In the first instance.
q must the question of the continuance Of
the war be tried. This was Mr., Cal.
houn,s opinion and be laid it down yery
broadly and strongly In speech On the |
lean Dill, In lS4l. Speaking of supplies. |
be said: F'
81 hold that there is a distinction in |
this iespeet between state II u,..se and |
war. In the latter, the right of with. |
holding supplies ought ever TO 3c held I
subordinate TO the eaergetie and success |
ful prosecution Of the war. 90 fnrthar I
and regard the withholding su.pIiss'
soth rtetc Of forci. g TIE co,afyu into /
q dsSlosoraaLe peace As not only TO BE-
wat 1t hns been called, moral treason,
but very little short Of actual sason
ITSELF" s. ..'~N- 'D
Upon this principle, sir, he acted after t
wards IN the MEXICAN var. Speaking of
that war In i847, be said
EVERY Senator knows that | was m
posed to the. war; bat none knows bru.
myself the depth OF that opposision.-
With my conception of its Character and
consequences, # was impossible for me TO
vote for il. - ss- ~
And again, in lS48:
But after the war was declared. hv
authority of the Governments, / aco,n.
ssced is sDhGs could aos a,sveaI, ana !
ichieh IL isas impossible fol p,a h a~-
resi-; and ! taen felt it TO Be- my duty 10 |
h1 ,oar T a. sHssss s6ado so g s fsr sh e %
seat the eeilg and dangers euh soh.fh IL
threatened the country aad the ia&itiu- 4
iOas.H
Sir, adopt ali this a. my own position
Ind my defense; though, perhaps a civil | >
var, / might 60 further in opposition, | | {
'ould not, with my convictions vote men | /
md money for this war, and would not | b
Is Representative, vote against them 6
mean that, without opposition, the Pres '
dent might take all the men and all the y
money be should demand, and then 10
loid him to q strict accountability before n
he people for the results. Not believing !
be soldiers responsible for the war, or / l.
IS parposess or its consequences, | have >
'ever withheld my vote where their seps- ?
ate Interests were concerned. But
ave denounced from the beginning the a
surpations and inffactions, one and all, .
t Law and Constitution, By the Presi- I,
ent and those und.r him; their repeated d
nd persistent arbitrary arrests, the sus- {,
ension OF hdbsas corpus, the violation r,
4 freedom Of the mails, of the private ~
oase, of the press and Of speech, and t,
ii the other multiplied wrongs aud out p
ages upon pubIio liberty or private right. eI
fhlch have made this country one of the et
'orst desposisms on earth for the past ii
Eenty months: and will continue to re- a,
uke and dehounce them to the end: and a,
he people thank God, have at last heard bl
nd heeded, and rehuksd them, TOO. To er
be record and to time appeal again for &C
y Justification. er
And now, sir, | recur to the state of d
10 Union to-day. What is il? Sir, "a
Fenty months have elapsed, but the re- /
ellion is not crushed out; its military yc
aver has not been broken; the iusur- h.
snts have not dispersed. The Union ia or
't restored; nor the Constitution main. uo
lined; nor the laws enforced. Twenty. 4,
xty, ninety, three hundred, six hundxsd Il,
.ys have passed; a thousand million D.
zen expeudedj and three hundred thou- nh
nd lives lost or bodies maneled; and so
day the confederate flag ia still 81
,ar the Potomac and the Ohio, and the tn
government stronger, many tn
mes than ut the beginning. Not . ga
ate has been restored, not any part of tri
y State has been voluntarily returned th
the Union. And has anything been an
anting that Congress or the States, or fe,
e people 10 their most generous enthu- en-
asm, their most impassioned patriotism Of
ald oestows Was it power2 And did re,
II the party Of the executive control the rai
tire Federal Government, every State VIC
'TernmeHty every county, every city, III
cry town and yiiirge la the North and ne
ests has II patsonagef All belonged la
it. Was it iuausuoeY What morsS ea,
i'd not the school, the college, the church, an
G press, the secret orders, the munich
lity, the corporations, railroads, eele- Nv
apis, express companies, the voluntary W
sooiationsy all, all, yieldit to the Ut Fr
ost2 Maa il saanimityp Never. was an Ia,
administration 80 supported In England co
America Five men and half score m,
newspapers made up the opposition.-I TO.
as il sathusiasn2 The enthusiasm was az
natiaals There has bean anshing lika a.