Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-07-27
NO. 10


] supposs sasaz - aaot tAgfs, sbagt is nat
fs1 besy and wa 8nalss ass se sasA about
shis old saaa ~ sEsslsng Ii The q m sssos,
aecepkasaon of xhs - what N Il. 4
ask sha causts.y I ~ khe Esn i'll. /. is IL i
nos ataalings sbhhsry. highsay rehbesy y
And yaz these shiugs are fbgewn onE, peT-
haps rot fnsfuand, but they do operate ID
an apology and sxense In the minds Of
many, for tbs iafsny, the murders, the
tsreaoherons condacs OF this old man
Rsown, who wss nothing more than q
murderer, Fohber, q thief and traitor.
s'I think, Ms. PFesideat. that 30 far a.
John Bsown IL concerned the facts which
1 hare presented stand uneontroverted.
The Senator has failed 10 touch them.~
He has not FemoYsd them, but has ad
ded strength and additional proof to
what said in reference TO them. II was
nat my iatenIinn to consume this length
OF tIsss, and shoad not havs said
single word on the subject ii the resolu
lion could bare been adopted without
discussion, and especially 10 il refer
ence bad not been made to John Brown
not being murderer and q thief, iEvolv
ing the reputation and char seter of some
Of the citizens OF my own State.
"There does seem to be a providensial
int rIasition In this affair. Brown MUIR
deTed Doyle ind bis two sons. DOYLE
left willow and four helpless children.
Jnstice seems 10 be little tardy bat it
kept Constantly In pursuit of its victim,
and but short tiEne since tise man who
murdered DOYLE and bis twio sons, FELL
victim, with bis twe souss at Harper's
Ferry. | DO not say lhis wss a stroke Of
Providence: bat ii was singular coin.
eidenco. He whase hands we're red,
crimson With the baoad Of q father and
two sons, fell . Eiotipp - HaTper's Ferry
With bis own two E3rs. Ii srems that
Divine Providahec iAtended il as a re-
bnko, an illnsfratfs1 that Justice will not
only oSertake its Yicaius. bat vii! mpte
out justice in q Aiaailar Basser.
Il think, Mr. President, that | have
shown the tendeaoa Of The pslic8 10 which
| have called attRnsiap. Wrhef6er it has
been designed nj all tspses by thrss who
preached it or nsE, shall pot undertake
to any, but will say Stat the eject OF
that kind of teachiGg has been the result
Of which is SO ezi8aps; and | want to
say now in no spirit ol boastinc, to my
friends East ani Wesg, North aud South,
that the time has arrived when ansroaeh
on the Institutions Of the South 'ghould
cease the time ha4 arrived when We are
we'll nigh done making appeals to you on
this subject; bat all we a4k OF you is,
that am h~nfha~ ss fbs5 aa.v,.n a~w~s G.u
federacy, you viii understand and carry
out toe Constitution as It is, aud let as
cease this bicketing. Let us cease this
agitation, and stand upon tha Constitu.
ton as the epznmen altar, and maintain
all its guarantees, and swear bv oar
fathers and shs ued who made as that
the Constitution and lis gaarautees shall
be preserved aud, in doing 50, We shall
preserve the Union and, In preserving
the Union, we shall have peace and bar.
mony, and the uuexampled prosperity
which has visited our country will con.
tinue to 60 cn,'
Ii Is fortunate for the cause OF truth
and justice, and fec the future historian
OF this terrible civil war, that the correct
history CT old John Browns inauaura.
ton OF the policy of the republican, or
abolition party, xas made by so emiaent
an authority as Presidaak Johason; and
il it is especially fprtunate that this rec
ord mas made in the Senate OF the United
States. II is part Of the debates of
that BODY, whers Ii stands uneontradiet.
ed and unre;utei. Ii was sbe endorse
ment Of the policy Of this raider and
murderer, by the North, that startled and
aroused the South, and finally drove il
into secession for John Browns raid
so0A indoEsed hT the North. From al
most every church and school house, the
voice of prayer and lamentation went up
to Almighty God canonixing his name,
aud endorsing his infamy. The whole
republican press lent it's support 10 this
abomination; and with entire. consistcn.
ey, when lhe New England soldiers
marched throueh this city, they made it
bideous as bell by singing and shouting
hI Ifuhs Broacn's soslI 70 saas chtag On. ,,--
So it is, we haFh little doubt, saaschiaq
on, through seas Of ire, in company With
heuds, thieves end assassins, such aa
were bis eoHapauaons and abetsors in this
life. So il 10 nsarehiag on to the music
OF despoEism, ignoranee, revenge and Lust,
that sEells up like a. gorgon from the
bettomless pis, oat OF the brazen throats
OF the negro worshipping mpbsl March
ing on, as q pessilcnee or enntazioa, OF
thing pf horror and death marchCs on -
b. hind its march are the walls Of the
widow, the screams Of the ehiidren, the
vain implorations of Gcfeneeless old meu,
and the humiliation of manhood. Bs.
fore it, che insane Eihberisa and fanEas-
lie dance Of negroes, oF both whfta and
black cornplexion, rsaking night and day
bideous with inferhsI delight. Marching
poor esuutry alas, humau
naiurei Why do R'a Wrisa these things
nows Because re l9ye aud would save
the country. BaqansR we |wouid bring
cur sounsrgSnhn Of the North toTtii4Er sen
ses by holding up the John Brown raid
~ glass for sisaa to ssa their faces in.
We would remind thaa ebat there il both
q God and hissOrst asd that justice and
truth, sooner or later viii whip ali OF the
shams and lies asat vf che records OF ha-I
man events. II ahs South has folliss To
repent OIL, wa have erimes- crimes which |
vfll roll out Of abair graves and bans Us
like demons tbTpagh shs world. Vainly |
DO we heek 10 aSsafs ossFsaives, by shat |
ting oar eyes aaa ssyiag, sssils, arhas a |
good people aTs sal Thars IL an eye
thai We cannot shnt. There 10 nm arm
that ws cannot star. Tima ss an inexo- |
gabls aseassr og all msn's wssngs and
time will skrip M bare 20 tie bone. and /
zhow shat 9 careass Of Fraada and shams /
We are. We repeat sgasns she lass four
years OF Rspuhliean rala has been 4 stu /
psnduoas John Hfswa saizis Logically. /
constitutions ally, ahsy hasa bean iass that,
and noshidg mora. M has ma dara 10 say
. this, tbat Jehn Hgnwn had a. much |
and Iaw Tor wfas be did, ~ 1
me Repeblicaa aasnaisaFasioa had for
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