Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-09
THURSDAY, MARCH 9,1ses.

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mo prufisah hia contracts b giye to zbntle.
asas, bf otsf sehd5s; there have bsessi II
| yish snd iiisrstIye etaSss IA chat siirae.
zion s. has not been she road To weslsf
Ispd pstronage without power, wishoal
/ Iphsrorags, nd pfaes ID nifsr, no once u
hesfew, noshing With which To tetnpt 81
begaflas dazsle or allure, we have sEocd
hrnaly up0fi cur eonest Convictions of d.
/ tY in striving 70 prolnbte khe weifare oI
Four country, and preserve The repubileAr
fosin of goyernment beaaealbed hs BIZ oul
fathers. Ittsa fact shaf has not escaped
tzy obssrsatiou, thas By d sinsnlar r6in
eidenee many Of fhess who baga Wanted
Esd loudly their pafsiotisn have beer
faade immensely NeaIthy through It's Ia
ssflimensalisy. Ga coarse cast 90 fmph
sAsions ppon iisinter rsstedness Of raekfss,
lshoHzh The fact IA oAe that 70 those iii
MInad 10 be csnspgi6us iHight sugxesI
inaitS reflections. PaEsdosism has been
paying virtus thus far under tss war and
stisn policy r y i sseions saat ]
Siytdt has BEEN 80 easily soinsa fntn sSid.
For, us on the OTTER haDd, there has hser
prescription and ersecation; for as hare
been the hastile .snd the mob ugoS us
bare rested the darkest frowns on power,
and the heaviess Enafedicfions and curses,
Apostasy on the one hand rendered gold
en- reward, on fhe otner fr0sned tee dan
gers Of q prison. Afeu VITO thus display
their highest Enaraf hsroism are not very
likely 20 be unpatrlotie, or TO be guilty 81
treason. The virtues, like the gvaces,
generally 20 hand in hand. 1t is proud
subject for cangfatnistion that, HesrIte
all tetrifsdily adverse influences, the
number q those wbo denounced this war
has been steadily aad rapidly increased.
From q few hundred who dared 10 ex-
press themselves La opposition to il 10
1861, they are become hundredsof thous
AndsFin 1865, aud til progress Of events
Il daily adding to theirssuum bers. - i
Bat TO retcrn from this iizressinn. No
superstrucsure resting apon talsahaosi and
error can endure. Wars for ge9graphi
cal anity end 10 disintegralion. Wars
fUr religious uniformity eGd in further
religious divisions. Although the odds
may apparently be in favor Of the c5er-
eion party, set they really, on account oi
the physical and moral difficulties Of tbq
undertaking, are With the separatiouists,
Our Army has done all that brave mea
could do. No soldiers haze ever foughi
better. TheY have, ia the main, been
ably cornmandeli bot brave qs they tire
and able as have been our command
efs, they cannot overcome impossihi lities,
The extermination Of the Southern
people is an frnposeibility. The failnrs
Of success proceeds from the fact that
Fefght or ten million people, lighting upon
their own soil, are fully match for
eighteen millions Of people whose armies
bayet0 be transported rast distances al
frightfal exptBse, TO the scene of action.
Time aud space fight upon the side Of the
Passaiied, and veil make up for the differ
enee ia plumbers.
So much for the mere physical differ
enee that attend the war upon cor pars.--
Il has been waged for four years upor, 4
scale the magnitude of Ehich has sstun
isBei the world, AFmics % ir1fipnss
were naver Before brought into the field
~ aEy earilisssi saaasEy nj threa times anl
rbpnMtinn. The experiment. Of war has
been fully trjed, and has resulted ID
widening ths breach it was intended &c
heal, and Ii has well bern denominated
Ia the Chicago platform, "a failure" Il
is useless for gentlemen to deny this; they
may point TO the territory that has been
apparently won nod the victories that ws
have gained, bus wiiat results have fol-
lowed Z The victories have been harren
and unproduetivs Of good and the terri,
tory won il really nothing bot the ground
our brave soldiers stand upon, and which
lis commanded by their gus. The wave
of the hostile population divided by tht
invading army closes up immediately be,
bind it, and the feelings OF the people arC
more intensely bitter against us, ard they
are more thoroughly united for separa
lion from as lhan they we're when they
commenced. Mono OF the consequence,
have followed she eaptuaog VicksburE
Atlanta, Savannah, and other points thai
were anticipated hy the advocates OF tbs
present policy, as Ii is equally certain thal
a sinilSr disappointment world follow
their capture OF Richmond, Charless9n,
add other slrougholds yet in their pos
session.
The war is ostensibIy wagsd to preserve
intact our political institutions it is in
fact destroying them. Instead of being
ealcalated 10 prevent future changes and
nnd revolutions, It is really begettius
them. Those who desire to preserve ex,
isting conditions Of society and be spared
future revolutions should use their inau
ercs to bring the war to speedy tevnin.
alton. IL 10 unsettliug everything. -
Il Is engenderihg discord and bitterness
where before there vas concord and bar.
m6ny. Ii IL developing epposi
tion of interests where before there wal
Supposed to be uniformity. IL is Srea'
ting sectional interests, difference and 40.
inosities, IN addition 70 those hereto forl
existing. Il Is multiplying the genius 0I
terrible social change and revoiutiou.--
The most radical, revolutionary, and dis
organizing doctrines have been brost int
vogue by the war; doctrines which sweeI
away the whole fabric of our instisatious
We are iD fact vibrating between ana geh,
and desposisrn. Some of the question:
aireaay growing out of toe war vii! b
Iimpossibie TO sessle, and may gsodac'
esfls scarcely inferior 10 the wAx fsAelf.--
The most hateful sleinents of SSsssTa aat
strife have COW fairly entered sAs Afaesi
can kedY- polite, aud he xeusd be won
dsrful nagfeian indeed who could eaas'
Ebesn to Be exercised. How sbsasa IA
idea that IL 10 aequiesce la she separasloI
Ief she South, osber sections viii ssnmeai
asely and neesssaFiiy fellow iss exaEnvas
TO af6rm that other States xla secsde
Iasless foreibly prevented, is 70 soafasl
that shere aFs fafai defecss 10 the uslot
somewhere, and that is wili rataFasl,
samble ss pieces unless prevented by fovc
tihie measures. 3 @
The Argument If uar opponents prov
I 700 much. Ii IL reallv true that MI fhi
ieompenens parts Of our Confstefacy arl
I held together solely hs force, ara that al
are HuxisysH to eAsare from d gxlIihs