Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-16

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tha Revahaiean Rarty@
Al spiey and snssressIng debate trans
pirsa 10 shs Unitsa States Senate on FRI
/ day, shs lTsh ID February, On iha nasy
appropriated Bill, when slr. HALE dweil-
iag At length upon theastoaading eoTrup-
ptioaa Of the Navy Department. psad
bis parting compliments to ahs vsasfabls
se>rssasy wxlEss. We copy from TAa
Daily Gsobs, tho pishy points IN the dis
eussioa on shs political parties Of the day
and their history.
Mr. HALE said:
Lat. szs say alwora now shout eur Be
pnblgean party or our Union party. !
know that the Chairman OF she Commit
tee on finance il growing little impa-
aiens. bus beg his pardon while coEtin-
40 n lttls longer. MIR. President the
history Of that party which has controlled
this country recently, do nos say 1t con-
trolls ii now, bat The history Of that party
which Hasie the great revolution in poll
sics il very curious md very instraess
i've one. We began shen Sc were brs .
handful. IrecOgnize around me now bat
yery few faces that wore familiar in those
early, consieis and struSgles bet We went
un. Ws we're defeated; nc expected 10
he,.and we vent to work and prepared TO
be defeated again the next year. We ex-
EuecteTi It and ne gos 10; re we're not dis
appointess We were net y ssheaifhy po-
iiticaI crganixatian,n as vas said on THIS
aoor. By and by, however, we began 70
increase little bY little, bat still only
10 be DEF, atea. The party with which
acted nj that time wanted candidate for
the Presidency. They wanted man who
was ready TO be abused, yiliheds denoanc-
ed. and snecrel ut. They wanted man
who should be g mark, butt for The rid.
icnle Of Whigs and Democrats. thank
uay friends that theg did me the honor TO
select me for that place. ! stood up at
sha time whsa ignominy and repfoach
was all that was in my reach. sui We
| iaasasea. In the frst place We beat the
| Whig party Ia 1852, or We did very con
siderable part tcwszd is. De you re-
member, sir, remark that ar. Hunter,
of Virginia, made on this aoor2 There
was no WhEg In the United States who
depIored the destruction Of the Whig par
| ty more than Mr.. Il. III. T. Hunter, Of
| Vireinia, for, said be, and it did great
credit TO his sagasity, ssif yos put dawn
the Whig party, the probability is thai
ron will gel another party ia iss places
thai it will not be 70 easy TO bsat-"
Mr.. DAVIS. | will ask the honorable
Sehaaos il Dir, Hunters expression was
not in this form, that II they pat down
the Wing party they woasd get @nother
party in its place that wonld have n0 such
honest principles and purposes - @hs
Wing party.
Mr.. HALE. / hare no doubt that is
she war the Senator from Kentucky wo'd
bsys expressed Il IL he hai been talking
about Il at ttiAt time, lsughser, bot that
Is not the way understood Il; THAI IL not
according to my recollection. However,
sir, we continued to increase. and by and
by il hegar to look as IL this new party
would st length, 1t sonae time, have the
ioaves and fishes of efiee 10 dispense.
Then it seemed as If new political Pen
secost came on the land. Converts came
faster than We coald discipline them.-
The doors Of the party we're vide open
like the sanctuary Of God TO ali offender
and the thief and the hypocrite did not
stumble on it's threshold, bot in they
came; aud the profigate in life, The vrnal
fnpoiities, tie malignant al heart, apd the
/ L l. all ere4 h.
great malsitRdes OF the poor and the bon
eat and the disisterested and the patriots
ie. But, sir, when the apostles weat fish
i ing and thraw sul their meta and made .
great haul, they caught Gsh ufevery kind
So all these people came in and we were q
great rarity. 1t happened 10 as just as Il
has happened to a great many before, ane
| will happen = great many times again
the converts that were the most recent
and from the most bitter of our opponents
were the most noisy in profession Of see
for their nsw found faith. eonfess
sir. President, that vas astopished be.
Eyond measure when I found cut after wi
actually came int power that all tke or
feers at the end OF the avenue In tht
Treasury, the Post 0fSce, the War and
all the other Departments, bad Away
been Repubiicaas, and the greas trial Of
their life had been to smother their desr
convictions upon the subject of anti-sla-
very, and their great JOY was that Ia tht
providence of God, time bad come wher
there was no obligation on them TO b.
byposrites any lenger, bat when sbeJ
could act with the party with which sbeJ
had always sympathised. LaughteE.l
| That has been our experience. Well
sir, thase new men got IN, and they bfgaE
10 sAy to the older, though certainly no
/ the better soldiers g You have performed
Iyour mission; shs Opposition was goot
Iraace for yon yoa wefu capital for de-
nouneihg tbs Demosrass, and you pa
them down; bat ws do not think upos
the whols that yoa are quite 80 good 81
run this fnachsne as we.v Very good
sir, We araesdei to the pruprEesy Of th,
proposition, and tse history Of the ccun
| try ID demonstrating the truth thai hssEo
Iry has denopssrated a ahousand times be
lfore-it il the history 81 politics IL IS fhi
history Of humanity, it Il the history .
/ the world.
1 Mr.. CoSSEss. 4 las Oh assars.
4 Mr. HALE. Yes, II il with scm.e na
lsuFes. Thai ia n fact, Ii i o Iaw of ma
tare. DO not Taeasion these thsngs 4
| Rnd fault With them, I am perfectly con
tent that things ahaii be as they are.
believe lhAs We asu Get gsyesaai enilEell
Ihy Accidsnl, but Thai there Il provE
! dsnee 10 these matters, that Providc0e
shares our eDds and guide the mssns p
Iwbich they are TO be hroaghs aAoal
81
Mr. sAULSBr1RY. sfs, President,
: do moi knew bow The apesch of the bon
! orabls Senatar SFom Nem Ham pshife, Ml
fHals,) hss Impressed others, but ou
Il Ehing Z knowa that hare been yery mssc
dsItehted i ID sir, I rseoIlss whse thi
|. pessy came into pSpsr, and when n ~
!. | strufelIng for pSxsF, sbs eeed old gIoFi