Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-11-09

The editor Of the Eonpaysa few days
ago was bsassing what the Republican
party bad done and claimed that ii had
saved the Union. We have charged from
time TO time that the Republican party
vas thu original disunion party and that
thrugh It's leaders the people Of the South
we're encouraged to secode.
Now the Republicans claim that they
have saved the Union by putting down
the rebellion that they were Instrumental
in getting up aud, therefore they are the
only Union men in the land. Here is
what the New York Tribune the leading
Republican paper said before the REBEL.
ion:
From the Tribune Of November o. 1860
IL she cotton states shall become salts
Red that they can do better ont of the o.
niou than Ia il. we insist on Letting them
20 in peace. The right to secede may be
a revolutionary one, but it exista, never
theless. We must eVsr resist the
right Of any State to remain in The onion
and nulIify or defy tha laws thereof. To
withdraw from the Union Is quite another
matter; whenever considerable section
Of our Union shall deliberately resolve to
20 out we shall resist all eoercivs meas
ures designed to keep it in- We hope
never 10 live Ia republic whereof one
section is pinned 10 another By bayonets.
tFron the Tribune Nav &c, 1850
If the cotton states unitedly and earn
estlv wish TO withdraw peacefully from
the Union, ws think they should and wo'd
bs allewed to do so, Any attempt to
compel them by force 30 Femas al would be
contrary tc the principles enunciated in
the immortal Declaration of Endepen-
dence. contrary to the fundamental Laws
on which human liberty Is based.
rFoon The Tribune Dec II, 1850
If it 1.-THE Declaration Of Independence
| juti fled the secession from the British
empire Of three millions Of colonists ID
I716, we do not see why it would not jus
Itify the seeessioH OF Eve millions Of
Southrous from tha Tnion in 1861.
"DoWN WITH THE OLD UNION"
| 10 the Tribune Of she 28Gh Of JaDua-
~, 1861, Greeley says: 4 .a"r
"Speaking for ourselves, We can hon.
estly say that for that old Union, which
vas keeps in existence By Southern mena-
ces aud Northern concessions, we have no
regrets, and we wish for no recDnstruc.
ton. Who wants any Union which is
soothing bat sentiment 70 laeher Fourth
Of July orations wilhal?"
fGresa- tlss TEissns Of FEB %, 1851
We have repeatedly said, and we euce
more insist, THAI the great principle EN-
bodied by Jefferson 10 the Declaration OF
American independents, that governments
derive their Just power from the consent
OF the governed, is sound and just; If the
Slave States, the Cotton States, or tbs
Gulf States only, choose 10 form an in.
dependent nation, they have clear moral
right to do 40. Whenever il
shall be clear that toe great body OF the
fSouthern people have become conclusive
IIy alienated from the Union and anxious
to escape from it, Ne Hill do ear beat to
forward their views. =
II this was not approving secession ~
do not know what was. Il was not only
urging the South to secede, bat assuring
thena that II they did 80 they would b
permitted to go in peace. Will our neigh.
Dor Of the Nonpareil please read, and
then say IL what We hare hitherto said
about the subject 10 not correct.