Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-08-03
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TME MEw KoRK gRsHuaE o. I
STANTON
The AhoIs&ionissa sthsrsaboatsn are xery
bitter agslast II, on aossans OF sas ont.
spoken dapEnciation i tbs abasss, smsr
aaa despotie aeis OF the Admin
i~stratiou and It's si1ars and ahettoTs thro'-
out the land, and they are en- cola ly enrag-
ii at as because Of our remarks relative TO
tho iaxess, xuranesk and greatest daspot
in the pation-E. ~. Stanton. NE adj
NIT that our observations In relation TO
the Secretary oF War have been personal
and severe; bat we claim that they have
been truthful and na more caustio than
his acts Of meanesa and despotism re.
qaiFsd az The hands Of every la#er Oh this
country and it, former free institutions.
Bat IL re have been ssvera and personal
agaiast this asuFper and therefore merit
the condemnation Of HE RepahiicaB-Ah-
o~iisionIsts; what words OF condemnation
have tbsy for our very ''loyai'' Cossmpo-
rary, Horaca Greeley, Of tho New York
Tribuas2 The Tribune has an article
commenting on the action OF Mr.. Stanton
ID closing Ford's Theater, which il quite
az caustie end TO the point as anything
we have ever said Of this would be per-
petanl Depot. While We Il not regard
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the dosing Of tie Theater As beginning
to compare IN meansss and despotism with
many other acts Of his; yet that oct alone
il sufficient to eonsign him TO everlasting
infamy 10 tho mind Of every true loves Of
tbs peoples rights and Constitutional
freedoms and liberty. Here is what the
Tribune says abouf it:
"Uuder whas Law, BY what right, did
/ Edwin II. Stanton thus depFiye John T,
Ford Of the use of his private property?
1t sur ely sill not be pretended thai an i'm
minent, oyeFvuiing public danger dictated
tho Secretarv's high handed course. VIZ
have heard that he apprehended a riot il
case the theater were opsned-so be arbi'
tFarily closed ii. in pursuance If I policy
TO which Abolisiouists Of other days were
long accustomed without becoming recon
ciled. The police fear yoar property vii
be injured if you use ii; so-instead oil
protecting you in it's use-they forhlt
yaa using il al all It would take a Iona
and severe training TO enlightEn Us as Il
tho beauties Of such legal protection.
"Nr. Ford, il is snid, evineed bad taste
or a deficient sense Of rropriety, in uu'
dertaking to reopen bis theater within
three months after Mr. Lineoln's assassi'
nation, Very likely. But in shat claus,
Of The Constitution. what chapter Of tn
Statutes at Large, do We End the Tezula'
tian of public or private taste, tho en-
forcement CT due regard fer rFonrfe;T
made a duty of the Secretary Of War;
II he il to regulate Other men's regart
for appearances, for decorum, who is Il
zegulate-or e~dueate-his?
awe know nothing OF Ford nor Of hi
theatcr but what is everywhere current
But suppose be is ia debt, and bis credi
tors want their pay-suppase bis proper
ty heavily mortgage1, and the interest eat
ing him up-sapposa him to bavs a theat
rieal company en- his hands md no mean
of paving them except from bic receipts
Ills loss by the suspension Of bis bushes
for eleven or twelve weeks. while Wash
ington was full If idle soldiers Just pal,
OF, must already amount to many thous
aHda of dollars; who Is to reimburse il
And BY what right is be foreibly depgivei
Of the use Of bis property. the means o
rayiug lis de3ts, in obedience 10 others
seuss Of ffness7 Why should thew crime
their regard for our late Presidents mem
orr At bis expense rather than their own
"Wa urge these considerations With n
idle concait Of influencing tho conrse o
Secretary Stanton. Thsf fEneliaf1ar
~Ree4aa inrapebis If camprshsndiag tha
nuF f0HRtrY hes, or shall hare, anu ollie
lac MGu his otcn arbitrary cil- But b
cannot remain in Office f~oregeF; and. whel
be ~retires, we hope to hare a restoration
Of tie privileges Of Habcas Corpus and ID
supremacy of Law; and then te shall
hops for a legal scrutiny of ON Of hi
mans sffanfasiic tricks" and an adjudi
ration b tgeeR them and The persona
rights they hare Futhfossig riol7ts@.-
Meantime. We onlv xish Ii to stand o,
record that We bold bis assumptions o
power utterly ussrarrGnied and seiihou
ezcusa."
What now have The trucking, time
serving AbolIsiouists to say about ou
abuse Of Secretary Stanton? nare th
Nonbareil copy this article from III
Tribune and approve the remarks Of thi
great apostle Of ,,Ropahlioan-Aholi,io
ism? We think not. Burke lacks ia
manIiness TO condemn what be knows /
be acts Of despotism perPetrased By th
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