Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-04-18
State Committee,
Other Triumphs to be Achieved

and that nothing more remains to be done,
to secure succession of triumphs for years
to come. We are not of that number
For more than half q century we have met
powerful and relentless enemy at every
party conflict, year after year, ready and
willing to battle against the success of cur
principles, and under ony name and in the
lead of any man who promised victory
and spoils to their deludcd followers
When dcmagogueism is no more and the
love Of money has ceased to have n place
in mans affections, this opposition may
cease, ut not before. Why then should
we faiter ourselves that we are to have a
political millennium even for single year.
We think it out Of the question, and say
to our friends every where, be not deceived
by any such fancied security. 1t is true
cur party have done a great work, a noble
work, in the recent contest. An issue
with which the country has been threat.
cned /; fearlully threatened for years, was
boldly made, and as boldly met. We
mean the question of Southern Slavery
It is true il was clothed in the more pal
atable garb of " bleeding Kansas and by
that meaas dccoyed thousands into the
ranks of the opposition who would scorn to
be found there if they had honestly hoisted
the Abolition flag, the true emblem of tho
parry.
When VIC next meet the enemy Kansas
win have ceased to bleed, and what will be
the issue then. There will be no more ter
ritory to dispute about, or raise false issues
upon. Will our enemies skulk behind
some clark lantern scheme" some "oath
bound" association or combination, or will
they rally under the open and undisguiscd
banner of the Northern Abolitionists =
Time must answer this question, At pres.
ent there would seem to be no other alter
native for them. We trust it may be SO
and that We may meet the enemy fairly
upon that question, and if possible forever
settle it. They bave been vanquished upon
every resi- question raised before the peo-
pie since the days Of Andrew Jackson; and
when they have chosen to depart from
principle, aad under cover of false issues,
fght us from secret dens and caverns, our
artillery has reached them in their lurking
places and drove them to defeat and dis
grace. When they boldly assailed the
Constitution and threatened the pcrpetuity
of the Union in 1856, 'bey found the De.
mocra ie party asinvincible as ever That
question was fairly, bu. we apprchend, not
fully decided. We count another fight
upon it. he democratic party has def
ned its position upon the question ci
Southern Slavery, and we hope to compel
oGr opponents to DO the same. GUS j;
the broad Constitutional ground of non
Intervention in or out of Congress, snd VIC
shall stand or fall upon it. It is fou
slander upon us to say that our party is OIL
ever has been in favor of Slavery. NJ
such thing-Northern Democrats, ar,
generally, opposed to meddling with th(
afairs of our Southern brethren when We
have no right constitutionally to interfere
In Pennsylvania the question of SLAYER,
was disposed Of as suited the inclination 0
her cit zens The South neither interferet
or dictated course; then why not let TIL
Southern States have the privilege Of d.
ing the same. II they choose to retaii
the institution, be it SO If they abolis
Slavery and still keep the negroes anon
them and provide for them we shall rejoic
over it. But if they sh'uld set them a
liberty and send them North to get thei
living IS best they can among us, why tn,
would raise more serious question.
If the opposition, driven as it has bee
into the embrace of Abolitionism, are wi
ling to take the ground that Congress h.
the right to interfere with the domestic il
stitutions Of the North, let ihem avow
II they are willing to array themselves,
many Of their leaders have done, in opC
hostility to the Constitution, let them
so If they desire to consummate the
wishes by disso utiun Of the Union thu
should have the honesty &c say so. "
look forward to this question as the on
upon which the next political battle
Bennsylvania, as well ss in the eendre Mort
isto be fought; and We say let the strugg
come. If it has to come, the sooner Il
letter. Our P rty will not shrink from
ard the good scRco Of the people will 'tt
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