Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-08


is not so badly ruined as you would sup
pose. Try again Mr.. Bound, but cover
your tracks more shrowdly.
Opposition Misrule and Dis
honesty.
If any Democrat feels like giving way
under the clamor of the opposition about
the "corruptions of the Democratic party"
let him contract the practices of the oppo-
sition when in power with their profession
at the present time. 1t is habit they
have Of making great outcry against the
Democracy when they want to get into Of
ficc They have now been out of office
under the General Government for nearly
two terms, and their hunger is so great
! that they may well be excused for howling
like a pack of half famished wolves.
The Opposition have always been in the
habit Of preaching economy when out of Of
flee and practicing extravaganza when in.
They need not fatter themselves that the
people have forgotten their numerous trans
gressions. SO long as a vestigo of the
Pennsylvania Canal remains-so long as
two stones of culvert of the Gettysburg
Tapeworm hold togcther-so long will the
people of Pennsylvania remember and oz-
ecrato the corrupt and infamous admins.
tration of our public affairs BY Thaddcus
Stevens and Joseph Ritner.
Nor is this the only opposition State ad
ministration that has left behind it an un-
enviablc reputation. So low had Mr.. Pol
lock fallen before his term was out, that
the Convention which nominated candi-
date to succeed him purposely avoided the
adoption of resolution endorsing him.
Mr.. Pollock himself was not bad man,
but he fell among thieves who sold him out
to the highest bidder every day of his life
Among those who were connected with
him in the mismanagement of public aft
airs was Andrew g. Curtin, his Secretary
of State, now tho opposition candidate for
Governor, 1t is rather poor recommen .
dation of Mr.. Curtin, that he was the chief
adviser of an Executive whose administra.
ton was condemned by the party which
elevated him to power.
But Pennsylvania is not the only Estate
where the opposition have proved them
selves unfit to be entrusted with the con,
duct of public affairs. In nearly every
State where they have been permitted to
rule they have exhibited only a capacity
to ruin. Look at Maine which following
the lead of the renegade Hamlin, deserted
the Democratic party on account of its
'corruptions" and its ''subserviency to the
South" She had not thrown off her alle-
glance to Democracy and embraced Black
Republicanism two years, before her treas
ury was plundered of about hundred
thousand dollars by her pious State Treas
ure, Elder Peck. The plunder was shar.
ed by that other shining light of the op-
position, Neal Dow, one of the Treasurers
bail and the author of the famous "Maine
Liquor Law" which the opposition in this
State showed strong disposition to incor.
poratc in their platform at one time.
! Massachusetts, is the pink of Black Re.
publican States. The opposition, have
been in power there long enough to have
learned how to do right, if it were posi-.
BILE for them to learn. To promote the
public morals, they enacted law that H.
quors should be vended only for medical
and mechanical purposes, and to promote
the public health, they appointed State
Liquor Agent, whose duty it was to sell
only articles of undoubted purity. 1t turn
ed out that the general health of tho right
eous colony was rather low, and great
deal of "medicine" was required to bring it
up. The demand for the pure article ex-
ceeded the supply, But Burnham the State
Agent, was equal to the emergency. lie
had gone through the "Shanghai fever"
unscathed, and he was resolved that the
Black Republican crop of Massachusetts,
should not be destroyed by drouth. He
quadrupled the quantity of pure Brandy
on hand, by mixing it with white spirits
Of this mixture he sold about half mill
ion dollars worth to the people Of Massa-
chusetts before they discovcrd the cheat.
How many sick people he killed has never
been ascortained. How many leading
Black Republicans shared the pluudor is