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

Y Tksxt4aBsErwes shpslla 600 vtsis sHs
eouatry Ansa fissea& 10 IN pGlisasal Manas !
1 slsns Of the day, would anqaestioaabls
los puzzled to know what The people 81
she Republic have keea for foar years
| Sighting about. lie might read up all tha
histories written By nil tho sides, and be
20 less bothered whaa he examined tho
present condition q lha psopls and tbs
differences which ossupy shslr TINT. He
woald be told thai certain rsbrls desired
I 80 destroy the unIsn, ana lhat the paopls
determined that It shaMad not DO destroy
led, and fought 70 Grub the rebellion and
preservs the union aud Consultation. But
"a would ask, add Justly ask, bow does il
happea, thka, ghAE 20 N any Of Eh0a3S0rsh
refuse to have tbs Union preserved? - that
whereas little while ago they professed
to be fighting to compel the rebels to re-
turn 70 tAe Lnion. khey noe declare thai
they shall naG be perpissal to eosnes back
to the Union at al, exrept on hard terms?
IL certainly seems to be u remarkable
change of position, or else remarkable
Inconsistency. The President. RSouth-
efn maa, from State whoee inhabitants
are largely rebeliious, 10 diligently st
work seeking to securas she position of
that state 10 the Uuiea~ 7he very men
who advocated bis election to the position
he occupies flor tbs Vice President il
chosen expressl y to be President if tha
occasion calis Alm) are opposing his wish.
aud ara Determined that Tennessee, his
oFn Stale shall not be allowed in the I'm
ion at III, however hard sue NAV beg to
come In, unless she adopts social sys
TEN unknJwn even ia the great Middle
States. Asts.s...s
Dill these men ever love the UnioB?--I
Was tbare ever any truth Ia their profess
lous of devotion 70 sgaatry and Consti-
tetioR? There il tthia moment no OBJ
stacle TO the perfect adjustment of the
Union and supremacy of the laws, except
the hostility Of the Northern disanioaists.
But the stranger would inquire: s'Are
these loyal men who oppose the President
AID throw obstacles 10 ths vas of LaianS"
Ia their own eyes they are loya!j bat the
fact is that this word loyal has been sal.
these enemies Of toe Union it means to
think As sAey do on political questions.-
Thus the most loyal of them wers those
sh9 called the Constitution league With
death, and who designated the flag as
"uate's polluted rag" In general, they
regard loyalty al measured By ones at
tachment to the colored race-not By the
good which he would do the race, bat BY
the amount Of bis zeal for the eause Of
negro and white equality. 1t is true that
she crCel tender mercies of these men
have Indicted more misery on the negro
race 10 one year than it bad ever suffered
before in = century, bat that is not taken
into their account at all.
The stranger therefore must wait awhile
before be can understand American poli-
tics. II is should tura out that people
and their representatives sustain the wise
course of President johnson, aad restore
the Urion TO its ancient peace, be n ny be-
lieysThaE the war wss prosecuted 10 SAP.
press rebellion and sase ths .beuefecas
government which our fathers deEised
and left 10 Us. Bus if the people do NOT
sustain this course, and 60 Wild after De.
gro equality, be will probably come to the
conclusion that the American var was Il
free fghE in which every man went for
himself and that the Fevointiouisis of ths
North won the power, and used it. as ia
naiics always do, for tho ruin of good
government aud the destruction Of the
entire fahric.-N. I. journal Of Com.