Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1866-02-15

"a from hsFm,s ana Il ns bpfnios L wosId
have bses1 hefsaF bad the Ffssi dsnt issued
ut ones gsaesal smnssay prosiamatioDs
and restored tbs shahass corpus, Tscogpiz
ed al once the fact thAs the rebellion was
over, ths States sliEl in the Uaien, and
left the eiSiI anthoxities. TO DO the bal
arce.
This would have been better Aad speed.
Ter. Thisswas not done, and we have 10
take things as they are.
had very satisfactory interwiew wish
the Presidtas day q two bsfore the
meeting Of Congress, His Enessage con-
tanned all that | expected. Aess are more
potent than wards, and the pFesieent, by
Withdrawing bis Provisional Governors
from North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi and South Carolina, and rec
cgatxinx The Governors elected as the
proper oficers 20 dlschaIge the duties of
The place, hes showH bis desire to do all
be essa % In the Iremises. repeat that
,his is ala be can do now, reofganiEing
them as States la shs Union with the
rights Of States. The Republicans In
Congress are opposed 10 this. The Pres
idenl says the rebellion is over, Congress
Gays no, the Yebeilion is still going on.-
Between the President and the Radical
Republicans there ID ''deap ditch and .
high waii.n The Radical Republicans in
Congress don't want the Union; they
mean to keep discard and anarchy tEium-
phant ~ long az they have tina
power. Their expalsien froGa place By
the people is ceftsan- There Is NOT to-day
in tic land Except 10 CeagTesa,l any op
position to the Union, the Constitution
which makes the UnEan, or The laws pass
at in pufsnarcs OF she Constilulion, yei
the Radical Republicans say The rebellion
still continues thas it viii last and con.
time until the negro is allowed to vote
in all The States lately In rebelIion. Ne
gro voting Is now the tsst of saoyalty.' .'
All the States and people opposed to this
are 10 Eehtlion. By this test Connecticut
at her last election, placed herself in, re-
bellion. 80 did Wi,cvusin, Minnesota sAd
Colorado. Massachusetts, allows the ne
gro TO vcte. Rhede Island, Vermont and
Maine, | believe, do the saIae. All tbs
rest Of the States, ] belieTe, deny the ne
gro sbis rriyiicgs.
Thirty States are certainly Ia rebellion
according to this test. Four, say six, arr
'sloyai," have heard the story Of ia.
| ror who disagreed Sith the rest, whrF
| asked By she Court If they could agree Il
a verdict, e. id, ''No, M. Judge, THY Ar
eleven of the mest contrary men | evei
saw Massachusetts says there are thir'
ty odd Stats 10 Eebelliou. Tie capital
w ashington and Georgetown, by the moe
unanimous vote OF the people, ara in re
bellioh.
/ need not argue Che question now tba
the negro 10 an inferieF race TO ours, ThJ
history Of all time proves this. Tke4poP
ular vote Of the pfopls every Jwhere dem
oustrates the fact that as will nos follov
the example Of other republics On thi
| continent, who have been plunged int
] and keep in anarchy by eonfsrring th
right of suErage upon inferior races.
would not throw q straw in the Hay Q
the unfortunate African. The white rae
perhaps have done the black and red race
much wrong. Ia the contest now 30 en-
sue the black man will disappear as III
red one has done. When Ia eantaes thi
inferior race only learns and practices th
vices Of the superior. am doing wha
experience teaches should be dons by ex
oIuding from the greatest privilege knowl
to civilized people al inferior races frou
the bsllot- boz. They have never preserT
ed it when committed to them.
| In conclusion, think it 10 our DUTY il
this contest to overthrow the Radical par
ty, a mere faction now controlling AZ,
running the conr try,
Let us give the President an earnes
support in e1tesminating thia faction.
I | am truly,
| wa. RICHARDSON.
w. r. DcwBaEL, Peoria, ILL.,