Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-02
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Under the above caption The New York
Daily News has The following excellent
article:
$50 those who contrast the men and
circumstances oil oaly few years ago
With the men and circumstances of the
present, the change must be apparent that
has come over the nation. As Charles
Kingsly says somewhere, we think ID bis
Essay on Sir Walter Raleigh and His
Tine, when speaking Of the period In
which the young courier was ushered on
the stage, 9AIl 10 lie, court, church,
statesmen, courtiers, Wit and science,
town and country, all are shams; the days
are evH; the eanker Is at the root of sill
things; the old heroes are dying one by
one; the Elizabethan age Is rotting down
as all human things do, and nothing is
left but 70 bewail With Speaseg, The Ra-
ms Of Time,' the glory and Eiftns which
have BEEN, the greater glory which might
hare BEEN" No thoughtful student Of
the lessons taught by the worlds history,
can be for a moment surprised at the
present position Of affairs, both public
and private. The corruptions, both IN
church AMI state, the gambling spirit thai
is turning business pursuits into mere
games OF chance and hazard, the reckless
disregard of truth manifested in high Of
fetal circles and srmeating al ranks in
society, tho reckless prodigalisy that is
sapping to its foundations the old time
morality of .his nation--all these are the
pernieious fruits Of civil var. Such com
motions have ever produced them, and
ever will. The men Of the past, those
giant minds who laid che foundation OF
this Government. never thought Of ofHce
bat as sacred trust borne for the com
mon good.
"They never looked on war bat as the
last necessity for self-defense and self
preservation against foreign foe. They
never hoped for victory bat as the bless
ing of the God of Battles on righteous
cause. Under snch Influences, show did
@ little one become thousand, and .
small one strong nation.n How did the
seed they sowed in tears swell 10 . gold
60 harvest. How did the trea shey plant
ed in the night, and watered with their
blood, spread out aud ill the land. For
abiect poverty more than Oriental
wealth. For growing forests, scattered
hamless and towns impoverished by the
struggles OF the revolution, fields white
unto the sickle, fair villages In smiling
beauty, dotting all the land, cities whose.
commerce filed the earth. And, now,
this large hearted craftsmanship has aa-
ished, and pigmics fill the seats where gi-
ants were wont to sit. ALI tbis lofty pa.
triosIsa aud prosperity has disappeared,
blown away by the suiphurous breath Of
the most exhausting evil war the world
has ever known. Deceived, cajoled By
the promises OF hendish fanatieism, the
people OF the North have been led step By
step 'fato the furious whiTl of an unnatu-
raj and unconstitutional struggle with
men once their brethren, and into It's DARK
aud bloody depths have gone down the
accommodations oil more than half OF
fury Of wealth md prosperity, and the
precious lives of more than q million Of
men. The insane idoaiism Of s'lihsYty,
fraternity and equality" made shipwreek
of France. Ii ID Tbs same ideallsrn that
to-day rules the hour Ia this distracted
land, aad Is fast Turing - On to raln.ss-
VIII mt The people shake OF The speli OF
this Abolition delrston that has 50 long
taken captive their sefases and awake 10
the peril OF tbs boavau