Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-06-15
Tryino 10 Get Riuht.

4Aa iSa43ng AeP1J!icahs OF 4le eouR-
tfy having sustained Secretary Stanton
ia his usuEpaiions of power and 10 tha
illegal arrest aud imprisonment Of pr.
soEs, and the danying to them them tbs
beaeEs Of thu BsiG Of H45eas CsrplLs in
States whare ciril saarts were. III lbs ex-
ercize az sa@ig fa,l powers AMI no rebel
lion existed, are turning frtIa ahe error
Of their ways, and arc trying TO get right,
by insisting On the enforcement If the
Frovisioas Of tho CgasTNu:iya which
they haze ignored fJss years. 81.
Mr.. Greeley, Of the y. i. Trt5s5re, re-
fsTring to~a secret trial before a ras,itary
court IF tAs assassination con4gfFators,
C5ss the following emphatic language in
relation to Af. Stanton AID tie Attorney
General
awe warn al aao take ar f8tuu'ary
part in t!z5a strange rsucaeJiDeF taGt tie
rebellion j. Impressed, The War d: an
oaj, aal th4 right to su.F@ai tide gaiFil.
ego OF hI5gas corpus ami maze tLa will
81 a Secretary Of Var the supreme law
q th Lana, h4s expired. II cdr present
Sac:ctlry cannot be made to realize
these grave truths. il Is high time lie had
a successor; aai If cur Attorney Gauar.
"a! believes tn Esasi!az. Of Secretary
Ssvasl now 81 : lily tr;hkls before q
military commission" be baby needs
his own time for the completion Of bis
legal studios, wdiiatbe Government needs
a different az Officer, I'll re Esay be POI
liter Ways IL setlias forth these conT;c-
tons, bat mons Of these would 90 tAcn
jastits."
Greeley speaks SOM plain traths in
the above truths that il would bs ex.
cacdiugly f'ilsloyal'' in Us to utter
truths which If uttered by ~ would be
uahacd,i; but a. they have been utter
ei By Grealsy, We trust sensible Repub-
liaans will listen to them They point
out the path By which the powers that be
can return to the Constitution AMI be.
come supporters of sba Government, and
executors Of the sill Of tho people, from
whom al legal power ia this country en-
auatss, AM which will is expressed in
the Constitution Of the Uuitei States
and the laws enacted ia accordance there
with. aliseuiegoas IS Greeley has been
In times rast, DO nov seems to be re-
ponting aud turning from the error Of bis
ways, an1 il DOW earnestly eng ,eei in
trying 10 get tight himself AMI 10 got bis
friends riy., apou tbs Consultation, and
for this We giYs bin credits an / hopa be
may WELD hls powcrfal pen With as
much success in trying to get right, as
be dill while trying 10 lead bis followers 10
a wrong aiFassian. Greeley Is nov al.
voaating what the Democratic party has
been c3utenlipg for, for the last four
years, and ia this he Is a. much Coz.
perhead as any naa liyias, Q. T.. Vallan-
dia1am not excepted.
! liroeley, ike thousands oF Cooper
haAda,'' oaa's zee tic consistency IN a..
mandiag obedience 10 ths Constitution
on the part OF rebels, whils our highest
officials ara constantly violating its pro-
visions. Thera is not 40 Intelligent man
10 the onion who does not know that
thsse military courts are held Ia direct
violations both she letter and spirit OF
i tha Consultation, and now since Greeley,
Tie great lender OF the Rapnhlioan party,
demands their abroga ton, we hors nj
tls lesser Lights viii supper. bin 10 tha
stand whieh be has taken.