Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-04-30

DHrins the war we kspe me
above question stsnding - shehssd
pf our colamns, and gsss the re-
sponse which Douglas gave % it,
The salns question q nov being
asked BY the leaders of the Radical
party, and the same answer might
be giren which vas than given,
and with not only the belief that il
Ii true. bat with the proof acuufaa-
listed upon whas was then subject
Of conjecture and belief
We have been led to thess re-
marks from aesing the following,
which wahaai IN aEadiesl exchange |:
sWhe.. then, d responsible for
the continuance ofa condition OF af-
fairs that makes it necessary for
Congress 70 take care of the poor OF
both races, and to make provision
for The education Of children whom
the States should educate Not
the Republican party nor the Re
publican Congress, but The party
that ID exertiBg itself TO prevent the
restoration of the South, and 20
prolong the psFiOd Of Federal rule
over it. =
We in reply ask who compose
the Republican partyr We answer
Ben Wade, Charles Summer, and
the same class Of disunionigts who
composed the party prior to the re-
tbeiiion, and who were willing TO
alet the Unioa slide" if their mar
row and fansticA views could not
hc carried out. Hen. Wade--the
chosen aad prospective President,
in caae he Radicals can get john
gon out Of the Hay-is an original
sccessionist, and like Greeley, be-
licved that the people Of the South
had right 70 withdraw from the
Union, If their rights were trenehed
upon, and that the Declaration Of
Independence which he claimed
was the basis upon which the Re
pablioan party stood justified them
| in Withdrawing. Ben Wade, who
| ad dyoeated the doctrine of secession
and by his speeches justified the
people Of the south in resorting 10
IL and encouraged them to secede,
is now in league with other radi-
calls to prevent the restoration Of the
Union, and responsible for the con
dition in which we fipd the country
at the prereut tisae. Ben Wade,
whom tie Radicals now propose to
make President in the place of Mr.
johnson, whom they intend TO ogst
IRON Office, in 1856 gave atterance
to the most ultra secession doc
trines, and placed his views upon
The high ground that If the people
of The South thought the admins
traliop ofthe government under the
Constitution and Union trenehed
upon their rights, or endangered
their Institutions 70 such so extent
that they did not feel secure under
it, that they had the ''righs to reeur
to fundamental principles, and, if
need be, destroy the government
under which they i've"
We do not ask our readers 10
take our word, but here is whatI
Wade said:
aBut the Southern gentlemen
stand here, and in almost all their
speeches speak of a dissolution Of
the Union as an element of every
argument, as though it were pc
euliar condescansion an their part
that they permitted The Union to
stsad at all. If they do not feel in.
terested in uplsolding this Union
If itreally trenches on their rights
--if it endangers their sights
snd iRstitqtiaas 10 such an extent
thaa they do act feel secure under
it--if their interests are violently
assailed by means of this Union, ]
am not one Of those who expect
that they viii long continue undes
it. ] am not oRs Of those who
would ask them 70 continue in such
q Union. 1t would be doing vlor
lence 70 the platform of The party
TO which / belong.
sMs hays sdopssd the old Dec
lasasioa sf Independence as the ba-
sis of eur ltiealmoye1nenss. which
declares that any people. when
their government ceases to protect
their rights, when il il 20 perverted
frcn the true purposes of gaEaFn-
snent as 10 opprsss thssEa hare the
right 70 reeuF 20 fundamental pFln-
ciples, and, 4need be, destroy shej
government andsx which they live,
and 10 erect on In rniDs another
more conducive 10 their welfare. /
viii not blame any people 1os sxsT.
clsiag il MheneysF thsy think the
ssAergeaey ias su9se. / cerssiuIy
slsali be Ne aAsoonse 81 thas sssss
doctrine whensysr fad ghe pgius
|tiples Of this aosernHsnt have be
come 30 oppressive TO the secsjan %
which ! halong thai o frsa people
Ioaghs not = andpze ii. Yes viii
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