Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-09-12
sl0oMSDyRG, SEPT. 70.
The Pests of the Country.

We have, in the North, two classes of
pests, whose joint labors bid fair to involve
the country in anarch and civil war, which
must result in the dissolution of the Uni on,
or consolidated despotsm These pests
are the FANATICS and the DEMAaodUEs.
The first are crazy upon the subject of
negroes and slavery. They are mere lu-
natics, or rather monomaniacs, acting
without sense or reason. They have con-
ceived an immense affection for the dirty
and filthy negroes of the South; and have
fallen into the hallucination that those
negroes are as capable of civilization, and
of establishing and enjoying the institutions
of civilization, as white men. They shut
their eyes to all the facts of history con
cerning that abject and degraded race
They forget that, from the first dawn OF
historical light, the negro has been the
same, physically, morally, and intellectually
that 5000 years ago, he had a woolly
head fat nose, thick lip, crooked
shin, and long heel; that during that
long period he has been Save, either to
race more civilized than he, or to his
own sable compat'ots, which was a great
deal worse and that, be has never pro.
gressed in civilization, or christianity,
except when he has been in subjection to
u Superior and civilized race.
And these monomaniacs, too, forget the
facts surrounding the origin and birth Of
this Republic. They forget that, them
at the Declaration of Independence and
the formation of the Constitute every
State held the negroes in bondage; that
wfaen oar forefa hers proclaimed to the
world, The abstract truth that "all men
are torn free and equal" they did not set
the negroes free; that they did not appoint
them to oflice-did not make them generals
nor senators, nor recognize their right to
hold office of any kind that they did moi
admit negroes, nor Indians, to citizenship
thus making color the distinction of citi
zenship; distraction carried out in our
naturalization laws, which admit only white
men to citizenship and in our Post Office
laws, which pecmit no negro, or coored
man, to carry the mail of the Urited States
These monomaniacs forget all these facts
so significant of the true intention of oul
patriotic forefathers in founding the Re
+ public.
They 30 farther. Ihoy contend for th'
!. absurdity that the "nigger is as good Al
! the white man;"-in other words the,
!. contend for his political equality with th
white man 10 this Republic. lGs hallu
eination on the part Of the class Of men o
/ whom we are now writing, is, however
4 more theoretical than practical; for mos
d of those negrophilists, while they conten'
d so Justify lor thu rights oil the black mar
;. will not admit him to their parlors, thei
e dinner-tables, to associate with their chil
dren, to marry their daughters, to trai
$ side by side with him in military con
. pany, nor sit side by side with hsa in
d jury box-thus denying practically th
>, doctrine oil equ lity between the negro an
white man, which they are cODstanll
proaching.
And these monom MACS avow their wi
a lingness and determin tion to subvert th
y government and destroy the Union, if the
re cannot otherwise enforce the p pular IT
10 cogpition of their absurd and imprnctic b
dogmas. But, no danger to the countr
IS could result from the lilies and absurditlt
a. of this class of fanit cs ptr Sc. They al
I'd comparatively mere handful even OF til
"a "a people of tho North, and are conhne
maiuly to the followers of Garrison, Wei
dell Phillips, and Ably Folom.
But, the fanaticism OF these poor mon'
/ manias is seized hold al by class ol me
\ who are rational, and who know what the
=, are about. They are the politi al Dem.
., doGUEs, and include the Stewards, Chase
rs ns Hales, Wilson's, aud the rest of the wick,
d and tire sanatle crew whose IN climatic
threaten the overthrow Of the Republic
OK These men really ere nothing ahout 81
!" very ip iiself hey would not, if th'