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

Grant satd before the election Act
IL have peaoe,u and we reiterated
the proposition. The. MuGLE has
always been Tor peace and union
among The people Of the United
statess We oaiecIed 10 abolition
ism, because we believed that It's
principals carried ont, woaisi lead to
war, and that its advocates were de-
terlninei TO accomplish tiseir object,
even y sssey sacrificed the pesee nc
the country. The BUoLE opposed
Know Nothlngisna, because Ii tend
ed 70 divide the people Of this eo<sa-
cry and destroy the peace OF the
community, and the temperance Is
sue tended to the same end. These
questions have been used by design
Ing men to divide the people. create
heart hurninss and strife, and to de-
stroy the peace and happiness of the
country. ! They were questions Of
morals and mt OF politics, and when
they were flung into the political
arena, instead of producing the effect
that their Advocates prete nded TO
disire, they had the opposite effect
and destroyed, rather than prnmoted
the peace aud prosperity of the peo-
pie They were used to gratify per-
sonaf ambition and to promote the
interests of q class, rather than the
whole people, and now every unpreI-
ndiced mind, when reviewing the
past history of these questions, and
Of the heart-burnings and discord
that they produced, viii admit that
they were detrimental to the public
peace. No good has come from the
agitation of these questions, and
making political issues upon them !:
but their fruits have been bitterness,
heart-barnings, dividing section
against section, setting individuals
against each other, and at last they
euinalnuted In Q fierce and bloody
war, which has cost almost a Warid
OF treasure and millions of lives, and
the whole, though we have What Ii
called peace, has left the people OF
every section Of the country, full OF
bitterness against each other, and in
truth and In fact there is no real
peace in the country.
We need not say that such q con-
ciItion Is not favorable 10 REFORM, or
the progress OF our country !; but Is
in direct opposition to both. There
is but one way 90 secure peace
peace that will be valuable to both
citizens and eountry-that will be
lasting, just and honorable. The
way In our opinion to obtain such
peace, Is for all TO try and forget the
past-to return to the support of the
constitution and laws-to leave In
dividual opinion free-no proscrip-
ton far opinion sake, and univer-
sal determination on the part OF
everybody to do right. If Gen.
Grant, tire newly elected President
does right, abides b. the constitution
and makes his friends abide by 1t,
thesi he should receive the support
of all true sricnds of their country.
If he does this aa3 Lis friends abide
by his doing, we .seiia have Peaee.
"I.et US have peace ~ pursuing
lawful, constitutional aud Goa
mon sense co3rsa-by diseariing
hard names and opprobrious epithnts
by ignoring all political hobbies
gotten up by designing nsea ssfAnn
which to ride into oftice-lct every
man pursue his own course SO that
he does not interfere with the rights
Of his neighhnr-let every man exer-
else his belief upan all subjects let
him eat what he pleases, drink what
he pleases. and do as he pleases 80
| that he does not trespass upon the
rights Of his neighbor, and let every
man mind his own business and we
will have peace. There Is no other
way under Heaven by which true
and unauthorized peace can be oh
tanned, and the sOoner people come
to the conclusion, both In naighbor-
hoods, communities and States, tn
mind their own business, and lei
others mind theirs aud regulate their
own affairs in their own way, the
sooner we win have true and genu-
inc peace. Then there will be nc
necessity for Gen. Grant, or any one
else to say s'let Us have peace" To-
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