Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-06-15

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10 The advent, progress, duration, or 6nal
Issue OF o civil was which kas naccked, ID
far, ths presuiencs Of tbs wisast states,
men Of Is wsli the Old World a. the Asw,
. 10 20 dispsragemsnt Of any juigment ol
intellect iess than divine. In any egent;
1 beg that 1t be announced that upon all
questions Of yaticination ap TO this point,
am '4paired OFFS gith the Secretary si
State. Mr. Seward. But as TO the pres.
enl and future, and the new and stupen.
deus questions which every day viii now
be developed, public man's position
must be determined, not by bis mistakes
where all have erred, but By bis capacity.
bis integrity and bis patriotism, The
day has passed when the party epithess
upon either side, which were without jus.
ti6eation, almest without excase, even a.
mid she saaeoF OF civil war and the
beat OF partisan diseussions, ought
any longer 10 be tolerated. No man in
the Dsmoeeatie party Ia tha North or
West, OF responsible or recognized posi
ton, was for disani6n or separation for
It's own sake. But II any such there was,
false 10 the government of the Union, be
was false also 10 the SonthaFn Cenfedera-
CT; else bis place would have been 10 the
ranks Of her armies. Some, indeed, not
macy, OF the ablest md nost sincere and
honest amongst ns-men, who, 10 a-day,
changing their opinions, are the worth.
est of trust, and speak strongly as one
not OF their conviction believed that on
| ~ through temporary recognition Of
Southern Independence, could the FEEDER
81 Union be restored. Such, too, had
been the declarations before AMI in The
beginning Of the war, Of many distin-
guished men in the Republican party,
some of them still 10 high position, sx-
pressed in language the most emphatic,
going even 30 the extent Of permanent
separation. The record of these deelara-
tions remains; but 10 quote them. or to
name the authors, Is needless The ar
gument stands sufficient Of itself.
1t is not that the Democratic party op.
posed either the civil war, or the peculiar
policies upon which it was conducted,
that is to exclude them from the conf
dnnee Of the people. Scarce promlEcnt
man ia the Republican ranks, unless Of
Democratic anEecedeats, from the late
President down, but opposcd-many Of
them with unmeasured bitterness and vi.
olenee-tha prosecution Of the foreign
Mexican war. Devoted wholly to the
Union, the old Union, in any event, the
men of the Democratic party judged Of
the var and of its policies solely by that
standard, and upheld or opposed them
accordingly. The party and / refer TO
the question because it has been made the
snhjec. of recent newspaper comment
will, indeed, certainly not follow the Chi
cago Platform Of 1864, as political text
book now, any more than the Republican
/ party, or its heirs or assigns, will adopt
the Cbieage Platfoyra Of 1860, for To 6
same purpose in the future; not that the
former vas not the very best practicable
at the period aud for the occasion which
brought it forth; but because, dealing ia
4 tiue Of war almost wholly with ques-
tiqns of policy, not principle, il would,
ia time Of peace, be quite as inapprupri-
ate as the code of Justinian or the jour
nails of the ContinentM Congress. AL
that need now be asked of our political
I foes is, that it be quoted correctly; thc
more especially since, through the woTk
Of n committee made up of some of the
/ ablest and truest men 10 the convention,
and adopted by that body unanimously
amid the rapturous applause OF two hun
dTed thousand freenen present or at hand,
il survived but eight days-dying Of cir.
cumcision. Bat thars is ore crown OF
glory, at least, during the terrible trials
Of the last four years, richest among the
treasures of the Democratic party, which
cannot be taken away. II it sail 50 hap.
pen that to the Republican party is due
the honor of maintaining the Union, to
j the Democracy the country is indebted
4 for the preservation of whatever remains
Of that other aud even dearer birshfighl
Of americans--c constitutional liberty and
private right.
But laying all these questions aside for
toe present, trust that all men who. in
the old Roman phrase, feel alike concern.
ing the Republic now, may be soon bros
TO aet together. He who eannot at this
moment, for season at least, forge! his
private griefs, or lay aside bis preiuirecs
against men an. parties, for the sake Of
his country in an hour OF trial which de
mands oil the wisdom Of the wise and The
utmost drmness Of the stoutest hearted
among us, is too much of d partisan to
be anything of & patriot, Fortunately
among politicians the labor is usually mot
difficult. II the melancholy reflection Of
Cicero, in bis later years, wese well con
sidered and just, that true friendships nro
most rarely found among those who con.
Germ themselves in public affairs, 1t is
quite certain also that pcrdurable rnmi.
ties are equally rare with them. And it
is the motive, not tbs ncw association.
which marks the change Of party habi
sudes, as patriotic OF corrupt, II was
not the mere fact that For aud Burke
united in coalition wifb Lord North, that
made them all odious TO the British pco
/ pie, but because sbs purpose and eireum.
| stances Of The coalition were unpopular
and uot just. Here and now the var
haying accomplished MI that the sober
/ and rational among its advocates ever
| elaimed for 1.-THE breaking down of the
chief military power oi the Confederate
| government we haTe reached the point
where all that class amnng It's supporters,
OF whatever party must now unite with
The friends OF peace aud conciiiaticu, in
exhausting all tho art 81 statesmanship
to thu end that speedy and perfect peace
paciGcation, and wiih il real and cordial
reunion may be secured. The questions
which belong t6N state OF var are, in
them very nature, and from necessity, 10.
tally distinct from those which arise upon
u cessation Of hostIiities. Men who have
hitherto agreed on other issues, will differ
widely now, and naw party associations
must follow. The hereditary supporters
u the President last inaugurated must
not assume that as matter Of eourse,