Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-07-07

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education is all military his political
t.atian, are all biased hy tbs swagl AMI
the hunors oe tbs batlle- field, all well
en0agh fgr TIA mere soldier : all sad e.
aoagh for 9 cations contemplation, but
they are not enough to grapple with ques-
tlons OF slasesmAnship and constitution
al gaaraatees where liberty is the stake.
We are not surprised, therefore, that
Gen. AcOlellan sA0nld speak OF the stan.
gled skein" By whirh meals minds are
elouded, and the resort 10 xhich be adj
vises, trust to God and kgha On. We have
sarfeit OF this kind OF sstangled'' politics
and prayer for light IL 10 man, not God.
who has plaaged as into our misfortunes.
Ii was man, aos Gpd, who elected Abra-
ban Lincoln, the rail splitter, Pxesideus.
IL waa Eaaa who elected our Ce0gressman
and their tsgislatioa looks mach like
saag . cork ard rather rsean at that
Ii the people had turnsd their atseasiou
TO prayer warshy ri the ssprines Of
Peace, !" before they Sound tha ship siak-
Tag, il would have been Of Eass e0uas-
qaenes9or good-nox skey are allwansed
10 bale water and atop the Leaks and do
their praying ghiie they woyk.
Politically, Gen. MeSialian could no&
have dane more snfortaaats shiag Cor
hiwseif, nor q moEe fortunate thing fer
the coantry than 10 haxa adsaassd sueh
sentiAenss jast at this tiEne. Satisfied
from bic aetisus here ia 1861, while 40 =
der Governor ID snnison, and from all bis
actions sinee, where political opinions
bad ANY eonUecslOn With bis aesions, that
be xas pos sne mah to place as the head
OF tha DsmosRatic party as q political
leader We have as tenderly as eirearn4
stances Eeali admit, 50 indicated. And
what bat ambition and aspolicy'' ever
caused tae uenhegs Of Congress to adopt
him and Try 20 fsEreGhim upon the people
as the leader of the Democratic party,
we never eosll comprehend. His amia-
billy OF character, his PERSONAL attach
meats to the Democrats party, his scien-
ti6e education, his devotion to the arts Of
wafs all tbeae ara well snoagh, foe aughi
wa know but there are many laen Of fns
requirements who are abe most unit Of
ali men 10 whom to eutguxt aha liberties
OF great peopia aa such q time as this.
These States haSs got to be dog, as IL
were, ont OF greaG Eniry pis and pas In
motion around center, which will nos
strive to absorb ihena into ons great dee.
potic whcls. IL the planets we're to get
out OF their orbits and rash xiljiy 10 the
sans shsir csnteF, there might ssiil be q
sun, il is true, baE coaid be no planets
AIR, Lincola woald cast US into one great
nalioaal aracible. aud reane us with the
6Es of Glsspotlsm, and Gen. McClellaB,
perhaps anwittiugly would lead as into
the same vortex Of "nationaiisy," to un.
sangie the aksan xhioh folly and wicked
neas have badly complicated. We m .1st
and the right end of she thread, 20 pa
tisn:ly to work and aarasel the aomplica-
sioas- Instead Of cutting the skeia 6y toe
keen implements of war.