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


be Wsndsll Phillips theory q. admiss.
airing The govsFnmsak, malo xe4loas sn
heir leaders, wsrs dssirous Of dividing
he people into tao classes, anl by
the asoepsalion Of certain teams, |
beg ssA thsig leaders sacA - Greeley,
Phillips, aad saah like, we're
Q Dc cails& patriots, al others traitors. |
Sew 50 far - . mere name il concerned. |
70 wall call tham anything they like, bat
- fear shs sssas 81 shs niggsr wila eaingI
% them still.
The moulding aahes, Of Clay, Webster,
oalhoun and others, may fret In their
soiEas when we begin 70 call such men
~ Horace 6reeiy, Wendell PHILIPPE, and
their followers patriots, bat II they will
only renoanos thsir treason, support the
@ Constitution a. IL Is, and the Union 40 III
was, we viii dois. This class Of patriots
formely known rs abolisioniss and secssa
iouiss, are now divided, each following
sAe skeleton Of y representative Govern
nasat, bat II TO day they will unite With
nss We may yet give peace 70 this dis
traesed country. But We hare no ground
for such hope with an act Of Congress
relieving the President and those acting
under his authority from all penalties
attached 10 the violation of the laws, and
she assurance by Federal harpies thai
thepresident il 40 honest MAI, the votaries
Of frenzy, fsnaticism and hate, parsues
the evil tenor of their way. But there 10
a limit to naiadminisfration as there Ia
10 everything else, which cannot be sx-
oesded with impunity. The English
Government made il fondumenkal
maxim of their Law, that their King could
dp5no wrong, but the English people at
times have thought their king did
wrong. Charles the First By dispensing
with Ststates, which had long received
the assent OF the English people, assum-
ing to himself the supreme authority of
the commonwealth, By tho exercise OF the
proclamation power, in utter aisre-
gard Of the will and wishes of his people,
lost his head. Yet thsre were those who
who claimed that Charles was an honest
man. Robespierre had the character of
being an upright honest man, but be de-
manded 10 many victims for his bloody
gaiiosins-ths people became siekened
and hoEri6ed al his honesty Of purpose,
aud invited him TO realization Of that
refined instrument of death with which
hs bad shed the best blood of France.
1t has ever been the part of wisdom, to
be governed 10 some extent, by the his
tory of the past. and this Republican
Abolition party who took control Of the
Government with the sEowed purpose of
Destroying it, would do we'll to take timely
notice and govern themselves accordingly.
They can accomplish nothing bat evil, In
the policy they avowed before they came
into power, and which they have practiced
since, for the simple reason. that in the
persuis of that policy, they have violated
every prineiple of our Consultation, have
indicted evils ten thousand fold greater,
upon every man, woman and child in the
land, than the evil they proposed to
renedy--have extorted blood and treasure,
to establish dispotism, Aad crafty hate,
which viii soon, il it is not already,
ba as abhorred at the North, as it is At
the South-they have inflicted wrong
upon our Government and our people,
which no human power can remedy, and il
they persist in their mad career, Birnam
Wood yet may come to Dunsinane. A
Congress called together, by the Presi-
dent Of the Uaited States, on the 18th day
of July, 1861, declared that the war was
nos waged for conquest, OF sabjugation,
or for interfering with the rights or
established institutions of the States, bat
to defend Ehe supremacy of the Constitn-
ton, with the rights aud equality under
il ltnimpaired, and as soon a. these OBJ
jsct should be accomplished the war
ought 10 cease. The people relying on
this solemn assurance, were willing to
make any AID every sacrifice for the
Government they loved and adorea.
IL ia needless for me to say, that the
administration from the frst to the last,
has violated this solemn assurance given
TO the people on the part of loyal
men in Congress who intended What it
declared, as TO the objects of the war,
but which has been used to cheat and de-
lade the people into the support of a
policy, which would not bear an avowal,
at the time men aud means were
wanted, 70 carry out the policy of Repub-
iiesn rule. We believe that more can
be done to unite the Union by peace than
by war. No Union has ever yet been
formed 70 continue, when united by so
unnatural bond a. hatred, and the IN
ion thus formed Is unworthy of prearva-
ton. The people Of the North mar be
willing TO support legitimate Govern.
meut, bat we much doubt whether they
would be willing TO bear the burthsrn i'm
posed by governing 10000, 900 of
people against their consent. So far "a
am concerned | have never felt that
interest IN the people of the revolted
States, than | would have imposed upon
the people Of the North, the bondage and
servisude of debt, TO extend a Govern
ment over them, against their consent !;
nor has the relation of master and slave
been 50 abhorrens to nae, that would 1t
any time during the existence of the
Union, have disturbed the peace and har-
mony Of the Government, single hour,
TO have liberated every slave in the land.
have no more kindly feelings for those
who are dicsasorial, proud, and arrogant,
from wealth accumulated by the labor of
ons whose skin is white, than have for
hose who are dicsasorial, proud sad AFRO
grant, from wealth accumulated By the
labor of one whose akin is black. IL
may be less offensive, TO those who would
be the champions of freedom, to call the
Due an operative and the other q slave,
bat here, where you and | have cast our
iestinies, We do not eat our bread from
the sweat of operatives or slaves, nor
DO We expect, for all time 10 come, 70 pay
tribute TO she demands Of thoss who do.
ii the SOUTH valued slavery more than the
Uuion, aud New England valued ft less
than the liberty and the political, and
social equality Of the slave, we valued itI
more than either. for we made neither of
these demands upon it. We would have
avoided tbs var by compromise and con-
Citation, We would terminate the war
Al ~ a -.