Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-03-11
: COUNCIL BLUFFs, IOWA, WEDNESDAY MARCH Il, 1853

!. war, aud brought Il On, hot as i 8srrisbl
J sesasgss bus a. great national hoiiaa
, ~-rhaUe ssus 1tha zaassAooa ssaag. spAs
. tasy sss 4 fosls 10 siop LAa soaTs bsss IN
I ssad that u shall step Itself (Laughlsg.
] That IL The ssatesnanship OF the ne
whe eoasrDi che iessinias of shfs ouc
; gFeatess 1asson on earth. If il be do
stepped upon soms fair and rsssonabl
terms not Implying separation-- that I
will not eohseut to--f fapplause, l+-but /
Is be nos, BY the common cosssent o.
4 tbase awo governmeats, stopped there
thea viii be realized III our case wha
GTseley and sumner viii do BY Invoking
the intrposatiou Of foreign powers.
Thega was . time When psaaa uaishl
have been obsainsd BY Foreign meaiatitn.
/ TIE proposition OF naediaGioa has been
| made BY power that I believe TO bs
/ Ifriendiy TO tho governments Of the United
Skases, il she II not false TO NIL her Eiss-
| tory. But our WondsEful Secretary of
State still maintains, with most marvel.
ous psrtinacity, that these people on the
SeasA are nes besligerenss. In his cbr-
rssponaaaeey h appears EhAk be 10 still
pTQfeanaiy impressed with tha sonyse.
ton that after all JEFF. Davis is a myth.
! and there is no Confederato government.
| de says there is no South and no North !;
be is going 70 reverse aa geography, hal
new editions printed, act aside all bis TO-
~, establish new nomenclature for the
country southern States, n northern
States, no Davis, no Lee, no ssStone-
Walln jackson. lApplaase.l Sir, this
government is made mockeEY in The
eyes Of foreign governments By the
miserable twaddle~oF q man who calls
himself Secretary Of State, and who
holds she place that Wm. l.. Marcy ohce
honorsd< tApplaase.l
The war nast step, or 90 on for The
negro, for the abolition Of slavery. for
the destruction of State rights, and to
kindle ap the flames of Beryiis insurrec-
tioa. fOriss of sFNsEsr."I That is the
alternative, | am ready 10 trust the peo-
pie of the United STATES believe they
are for the Union as our fathers made it;
| believe they are satisfied that th is is q
miserable crusade against African slave
RI, With which you of Ns3 Jersey have
no more to do With than with polyg4 my
in Turkey. Why, sir, New Jersey was
the last Of all the free States to rep heal
the law thaa allowed tbs right OF trApsit
and temporary sajouFn to the people of |
the South and their servants. lSevRral |
voices interrupted and exclaimed, ''Ik IS |
NOT repealed yet, aud never will be."l-
| am reloiced to hear il, and to know THAT |
one State yielded not 10 the black 4or-
rent of AbQlisionism that swept over the |
land. (Applanse.l have said that, up
on the basis that existed between the sec- |
tions Of this country fifty years ago, the
Reunion OF these States is a practicable |
thing, and in time an inevitable result
Que year ago to-day the hope Of re- or
gxniEation Of the Democratic party VI ere
as dark and as gLomy rs to-day are the
hopes Of reunion. That party MAS ppb-
lieiy and formally organized on the 9Th
day of May, 1862. When we were stri-
wing in Washington City for an organi-
EatioH Of that party, our enemies-Fes,
and nsu who lad been in our party
locked at our efforts very much in the
spirit With which the Antediluvians
watched the operations OF the venerable
Noah, when be was building
the ARK, and whom thsy considered, no
deabt, tbs greatest fool Of his age. Thai
WAs supposed TO be the character of the
men WHO undertook TO develop that uow-
erful but unorganiaed sentiment iu the
northern and western States, and which
aRally gained signal triumph. w here
he your Bastites now, your arbitrary ar
rests, your trampiing under foot the fr ee-
dom OF speech and Of the press, the viola.
lion Of the solemn rights secured by The con
stItuton to the people God grant, vkhat
God alone can grant, good sense enough
10 understand the temper of this people
not again to attempt TO in
augurate reign of terror. [Great ap-
plause.
We have submitted, a. no people oaght
ever to have submitted for an hour not
for moment, to the taking away Of our
rights. Why did the people do Sd p
Not that they loved liberty less, but the
Union more and they were willing TO
surrender into the hands of men whb be-
srayed every trust conEded to them those
precious Iegacfes which were inherited 4
rom our fathers, for three moathb, on
he pledge that the rebeliion would be
hen crushed out. We never intended to
be crushed ont ourselves. Laughter and
applause. But the people can be no
Onger deceived the scales have fallen
from their eyes and their liberties are
being correctly appreciated by the peo-
pie as they never we're before. For two
hundred years no Minister OF Great Bit
sin has dared 20 tampar with the bqdy of
Nh Enghshmaa without being pun Esbed.
" ben, in 1868, one huadred years ago,
he Minister of George the ThirA, he
who tried the experiment of eonqaering
htrteeu rebeilious colonies, that mon-
'tss laid his hand upon the person OF ous
If the worst men ia England, John
Wilkes, the people of England, seeing
heir liberties involved in the person Of
John Wilkes, rallied 10 his defence, and
he Chief Justice of the Csmn ID Pleas
ssaed writ Of habsas corpus and said /
The King has . right to know through
us courts what has become of the boJy
II one John Wilkes" Aud Mtaiaster,
md AiAhony, and Reeve, aad Col. Wall, /
hsy we're denied the Wrik bat, had they
lot been surrendered, the people Of the
United States would have served pop {
ar writ Of Adbeas corpus 10 kndw what {
lad become OF their leaders. tDheers. :
4es not this experiment De tried | sm ]
10 friend OF this administrator, as you |
ii know, [cheers and laughter, though {
{ has befriended me much uuifEension- !
Jig husI would wAispss ia their s&r, :
d The accents OF q friand, tsTTY aos that /
Experiment again" Loud cheers, II /
ramper not with the rights of 2b ,000, 900 3
Il Freshmen. You deceived us once you i
,snsass deceive as again. Do NOT pass
Ioas ssonassons Bill BOW peaaiag Ia the
aouse 70 suspsad the wriE Of habsas eor-
,as everywhere. WhaG Beosase there
. 4 re6eIfiou in Soush Carolina, men
x.A 4 q