Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-26

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Sur.Iy the Yankee Bafion b the most
imps.aens nAsioa that evsr existed. Ne
eshsr would vsntare 70 sssd enisaarisa
10 h1stfls ssantry, Nilh ths purposes
announcsd ~ The New York TFfbsass
relative 10 No rumored nlssion oil the sws
Hlalrs.
Thls missiaa, ii appears, waald suscsaa
better, If direetsd to Raleigh, instead Of
Riehmogld. Yet the Confederate Govern
meat resides At Richmond. The PresiE
dent, who aiene, With the advice and conf
sess Of the Senate, 10 here and the Sem
ate IL here. The mission, therefore, b
nos for . settlement Of teg1as BY the only
parties who can settle then. It's greas
object IL 70 break up the Confederaey By
alternating the States separately, else why
20 % Ralsigh7 They both richly deserve
hanging, and IL they will 70 there, upen
snch mission az that, Without FIRST OBJ
tanning the consent OF The military suE-
lahogisies, which they can never obtain,
they will get whaE they richly deserve y
certainly. The cool impotence OF ths
lpsoposition 10 absolutely dslightfals-r
They tell call whom 1t may concern, =
before hand, the President among them,
that they are coming here 10 sou dissen-
tion among as, and break up the Coated.
ersey If they can and they ssek permis-
sion from the authorities TO proseeues
their missioni Was there svsr any prop
osition 90 unbiushingly Yankee?
The Southern people are 10 be unds-
ceiVed by Blair. They are to Be tanght
that subjngasion and dominion over them
and that devastation and spoilation, are
not intended. They are eoolly to be ask
ed to disbelieve the evidences OF their
own senses and when Grant tells The
world that ssa crow cannot dy over tbs
Waller without carrying its own rationz, p
be meant merely 20 perpesEats one Of
those grim Jokes Ia which Yankeedom 20
much aeIights-- that when Sheridan says
be has bGfnsd 2,000 barns Ia the VALLEY,
be 10 deoeising bis Government--whsn
Sherman cuts road slxsy miles long
through Georgia, barning numbering,
plundering a. he goes, be ID merely lss-
ting on . little extra gas. The Yankees
do not mean spoilasioB. The thousands
Of spoons they have stolsn-ths tens 81
thousands Of horses and cattle tbsy have
driven OF or Killed. pianoss pictures,
table linen, women's dresses, ETC., TO tie
value Of millions which they have apprp-
priated--ars not objects OF spoilation.
The kind, afsctionass YEnkees, wAo
are 30 anxious to bring ~ 70 our duty
that they murder as by the score wheneF.
or they pass through cur eountsy,. mean
none OF these things. What they DC
meaa Is an Abolition crusade. Permil
them TO set free Ill tbs negross-les them
strike dead three thousand millions 81
property In tbs South and they will b
satisfied.
The Ttibuas eonfesses that the objeel
| Of the mission 10, not 10 ohsaia peace,
but political advantage. Iss&w the In
tai eFeets Of the peace negotiations las
Summer, and 1t hopes 10 derive like I'd
yantsgea from similar canes at present
IL knows that the7s are Legislators ans
governors Of States always seeking TO p.
sail the Government On this side, and i
wishes to fomens this disposition. W,
hope, being thns forewarned OF their Oh
iect, the Bfairs will NOS be allowed II
come within our lines.