The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-09
I answer siat ) days labor, even in in


I answer that b days labor even ii
Council Bluffs, wier. coffee is forty cent.
per pound, will purchase ffona 81 to 4
pounds Of coffee.
10th. Have you svSr known q citizen
to be sent into bauishment Or exile un-
der Democratic rule? II ;.s,..t -
Iuanswer that if4the last Democratic
ADMINISTRATORS had done its daty, Il
would have banished ascore or more Of
lths leading spirits In the rebellion. and
saved the government snillions Of treas,
ue and thousands Of lives; and that 4
he pFassist Administration would Danish
q few more such traitors as vallandig.
ham. il woaId bedding good serSfca for
the country. ... ' ':'~ 9 - i.
Ith. Have you ever known time un-
der Demo ocratic rule when the greatest
cfitnes and outrage have been committed
tsy Ntf rulers under d plea Of military
necessity or 'sreasons OF state.'' '5 sS
Ianswer yes. Crimes, the most revol.
ting and fagitious, were committed un-
der both Pierce's and Buchanan's Admin
istrations, By men high ia authority. and
Winked at by she very heads of govern
ment. ] have known of no crines nor
outrages being committed under The
present Administration, under the plea
of amilitary necessity" or reasons aaa Il of
state, Pas insinuated in the above qaes
ton. "' ~z-.1'. ',-$*'sSI D..
18th. Have you, before this, known a
time when the military was made supe-
rior to the siVilspower?E = s..:@ j.. y 400
No; nor now, either. Babbitt ought
to know, if he don't, that the military
authority in this country derives all its
power from the civil law, and hence the
civil is at all times superior to the militia
ry power. <E'
18th. Have you ever known a Demo.
cratic Administration to tax the people
OF the whole country to buy the negroes
Of the Border States? -
No; nor any other Administration ,
though / have known some Democratic
Administrations use desperate means to
increase the facilities for individuals to
buy them. But happily for the country,
we have an Administration now which is
not disposed to deal in that kind of
property, nor increase the facilities for
individuals to do 50.
18th. Have you ever known Demo
cratic Administration to ignore the rights
Of States2 ~. j. =, .... =
No. l have known such Democrats as
Babbitt to even ignore the right of a
State or the people thereof to violate and
trample npon the Constitution Of the
United States, provided the object of SC
doing was to build up and perpstuate the
institution of slavery. i. - ..
18th. Have you ever known an admin,
istration in opposition to the Democracy
to leave the affairs of the country in as
hourishing condition as it found them
If Old Abe don't leave the government
in any better condition than the last
Democratic President did, he will proba,
bly, retire in everlasting disgrace, as did
the old Public Functionary." But.
have no fears on that head. ..... ...-...,
I have been very brief in answering
these questions, as intended to do but
little more than give negative or affirm,
ative answer to each question, as the truth
might be: and as I ana in favor of short
articles for newspapers, will reserve
questions for yoursnext issue,
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