Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-12-10

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Now and khen, We cordially aeree
with the New York 1156tBae, and
whenever 70 do. we sAakea nOt1 81
1t. to encourage. tflat pestEaesstaal
sheet 10 speak olat more truths. LII
the 1rl5slss would only serve the
cause OF morality and sound noti0nai
progress, with half the zeal that II
serves EsnaticisH and the cause OF
the devil, she sheet would be edited
10 some purpose. A grain OF bright
truth eIElasnated Fr0km tte pages Of
the Ts,ibaAr In the iSHae o. the 18th.
THAI l1s.. ma has ever prof zss.d 20 To
the organ of tint .Pariiana.n Read
It's Il E-...-sa.l III the tersn puritan
issn.n
In m artitse on The deshronesnent
of the Ina saaa aT Mastzat by the Wa.
habeas, ii saya = IRexe Nasiabeee
are lie puritaas OF M0hamedanisn.
THAR usgta:t waa 10 restore a pure,
pFi nifive, and vigorous Mohaule-
dlnissn In the place "a the Iethargy
which had spread throughout .hra-
bia.n koW fDT the Ti9aiae's idea Of
"pugitaElsai 1t says "Those
Wa tabees are religious fanatics of
me worst class, AMI thus Ear hive
ben aa.lso.sais.e ~ cotIlsllers1, Arts
agriculture. and progress lrrgeneral. I"
This pestilentiai organ nf the New
England puritans has unwittingiy
blarfed out an undeniable and easily
proved truth. We see all around as
the destruction Of trade and com-
merce We see and feel high taxes j;
We realize terrible poverty; we are
carrying an ilnunease debts. We find
in the south eight millions of intel
ligent, refined whites, crushed to the
earth politically: degraded to the
condifioa OF the serfs OF Ea-
rope; not only politically but
socially. We see the inferior
lgnorant and anifnalized negro, these
slaves" OF yesterday, made equals
to-day, backed up by an army of
white soldiers, 70 enforce this shock
ing and society destroying equal
lty.' We se.A the onga huge COM
gneree OF the South biightest, as by
the lightning stroke. We see soul
4iekeniig restitution. slow, lingering
death, social and physical desulation
sprsSal4tlg Ingougii that once rich,
powerful. and beautiful South, and
eating, like "a foul cancer, into this
very a,ortn. We see the gradual de
cay of the whole of this once great
and growing republic, which ten
years ags1 bid fair tn oyershadow In
commercial and political glory every
othe8 nation on the great globe. Ali
this wc sess. rs the fruits OF pariSs1ss--
is,a, New England puritanism. that
peculiar Ism" viii h the II b4 Ne
has labored tn spread over the eoan-
Try fer the past thirty years.
We agree, all the thinking, reason
ing, normal minds on this broad
earth agree, with the T-it1He, that
'puritanism, I" let II break out where
Ii may, whcf 1er I'm the pagan East,
or the Christian West, Is a curse to
mental and physical progress, and
will, Ii not crushed cut like b foul
weed, oyerfun and destroy all the
gpod things which make life desira-
bile We are net surprised at the
disqualification OF the r. l6usae. 1t
i a mighty hard job to be steadily
consistent, while backing up a false
principle. Now and then, when the
devil. who is the father of all the
tttsstr active agencies which make up
spuritan;sin, faF moment Is
caught DOING, and it sometimes oe-
- a little truth and honesty man
age 10 maze themselves known anu
| heari. This was the case wash the
| Tub se, in its definition of "puri-
| kanisgu.n as s.raiigioas faaaticis:n OF
the worst type. ~ Da.J- HOOK.