Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-02-23
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EUFroRs i FRoPRIgroRs.
NO. 40.
BLOOD on a0Lns

We asked this qaestion hus litts
waila ago, aud the Greats of the nas
week compel as 10 reiserata is. with Al
1 the emphasis We can eammand. Whiel
Efs he most precious 70 as--the .hlood d
oar sons and brothers, ar the gold 81
Wall stree. 7 lii no name Oh him wbf
l gfseth lifs-ars We prepared 10 consIna,
tkaa indsiinlts prosecution OF d war whict
has 90 debased and denarallzsd az. tia,
We gee In the auessioa Of waaing o,
osasing 70 wage ID, only she consequent
iiaefuasa0ns In the gold anarkes2 Are ws
ready 10 20 on and make the South !
ehaEnel- house and the North q hosuital-
| la order that prices NAV Yisa and fall.
With the ebb and aow Of Kindred blood I
Has the denon Of gambling 30 taken pos
session Of cur souls, shas We ars wsiling
to be on those
sswhass dies are hunaaa bones ",
These are no fanciful questions. No
honest and candid citizen can look his
nsighbor In the face and deay that
tn&f axe ~ true. sha railing. aaessiozs1Ii1lI
4 Z. !. : :
y ~ In \
f1IIt ~ - \ S1 = y = II.
Nevtf wss sts tSl1 III . kuf ~ -
fore with eiphercd aud mysterious dIs.
patches. Never we're the avenues Of
oiiieaai and quasf-oficial information %
beaieged. Never was money "a fraelv
oiisred and lavishiy spent, to purchase
sl,e earliest tidings Of results. And for
shst Vas II TO penetrate the dark Fa-
tufe of our eouHtry y--so fathom, if possi.
Die, tue depths Of the gull. upon ahose
edge We are trembling wa ID IN f,ar-t
fni solieituds fer the freedom of ourselves
and our posterity for the lives of our
0Fsthren--for civilization and republican
Institutions may, even for chrissianiEy
lfsen, sraoug us !? al these thinvs wers
Involved every consideration sacred Il,
Humanity and patriotissa we're bound nr
10 sbs issues under discussion. Ana
yet. What man of truth viii dare to aay.
that shey vera . feather in the balance Ri
shs feverish tunult In rneflss hearts p
From hour 20 hour, by day and by nleht,
the qaestion was of moneY and NIX u sbs
country. Il was Of gold and NOT af blpoa.
When il has ccne 10 this II ID tins for
she most desperate and reckless to pause.
Better disunited laad thousand tirnes,
than land whish Is capable Of sralSoking
sn the heaysa' gore of ifs children. Iflhis
es What war has brought az TO, already,
better peace upon any terms, and thanks
% God FOR ID Better anything, than the
fate Of . nation which Ii batfering awav
its own sapl. Better save what ia left
OF onr manhood, If we have to giYe no
everything else for its salvation. The
laws of the moral world are AZ stern. ia
their penalties, TO communities a. to in
diFiduals. No country can long sursive
the moral disentegration as has Just
been scandal onsiE developed among as.--
Sectional rebaIlioa and foreign enrnity
are nothing to the dassructioa which
mant rome bE snoh roskSnae1s< xke E1sxs
il ta .hsm ~ hese sola - lySs MI
sur xik ~ bend, md ssell
ox sa I 9exaaas5sa musf tS1t1 11i
hista n kMils, unisss ihis h1 ffns. II
epir5t nf sneh ts4 xnak tha
gaos llissdea spoke, Ehfonh ths u.
Gasy fses ne sssss asa kssss
was tnrneo asrNIe her eaake atykns.
AMI garable fer gold On Freeacrn'a SHRINE r.
Il -Daily 3gaos-