Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-12-03

One of the charges made by Dems
ocratic speakers In this section
against the Radical leaders prior to
the November election, was that If
they should fail In carrying "negro
suffrage by the votes of the people
at the polls, In November, they w,'d
appeal to Congress, and insist that
that body should pass an act enfor-
cling this great moral idea practi .alIy
upon all the States, Notwithstanding
they had avowed in their National
platform, adopted at Chicago. that
they would leave the question in the
Northern States to the people there
aSIhe charges thus made were
hooted at by the leading Radicals az
mere assertions for political effect,
and those Of the rank and file of that
party, who were really opposed TO
NEGRO suffrage allowed them
selves TO be thus hoodwinked, aud
voted for the candidates for Congress
on the Radical ticket, and unfortu-
nately, not only for the entire PEG
pie, but for themselves individually,
as they will find. secured the election
of such men as Frank w. Palmer to
a position that will enable them, In
connection with others, by usurpa-
ton Of power, to enforce this mon
strous doctrine In all its practice
hideousness Rpon an unwilling peo-
pl e.
The pledges made In the Chicago
platform are as worthless to-day as
have 'een all the pledges they have
heretofore made to secure the votes
Of the people. No more regard will
be had for those pledges, by the
leaders of the Radical party, than Il
they never had been made. Al
ready a number of the leading NOM
bers of Congress have expressed
their approval ofsomc plan that win
enable them to force upon every
State recognition of the right If
the ncsro to vote and enjoy all t /
political privileges now enjoyed BY
the white man. And the devilish
device to which we have referred,
and to which We now call attention,
Is Swallowed forth by the .Nea9 Uos2.I
-sss-*s.s s+sas~.~rssss T'HsusruIS'rs
"It IL neccSsary THAT the Whole
Republic should stand upon one
Fundamental law, which is equal To
all. BY this alone can the unity OF
this Republic be secured, and rather
than appeal tn the inveterate praiu-
dices Of the mas es, who in some
States rejected universal suffrage, 1t
is better to follow the method pro-
videtl In the Constitution, by sab
hitting the amendment To the intel
iigence of the legislatures Of the va
rious States. The majority or those
legislatures being Republican, the
acceptance of the amendment will
not meet With very great difficult
ty.n
There Is no election pending now,
and it may not be said that what we
now say Is an electioneering bug
bear to brighten men into a support
of Democratic candidates. They
boast that Grant has declared him
self in favor Of universal suffrage
that he has said II have no policy
Of my own" but win act in accord
ance with the will OF the people, and
the leading Radicals claim that the
people have expressed their viii in
the late election, and therefore Con-
gress must net In accordance there
with-pass an net establishing "nni-
versai suffrage regardless OF race.
color, or previous condition, in every
State, so-called, North az well as
South; and Grant, "having no pol
icy of his own but governed by the
will of the people, as interpreted by
Radical leaders, will sign the bill,
and as the Executive officer Of the
new Nation and COMMANDMENT
Chief of the armies, viii enforce the
act, regardless of the rights and
wishes OF the people, Let the peo-
pie think oft.
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