Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-12-21


liberty of the human race"
And the Secretary of War says, "I
heartily approve every sentiment uttered
by your commander"
With the Secretary of War We have
nothing to do. He is an officer in the
Cabinet, and answerable to the President
alone, to whom he will explain his disa-
greement, if there is any, with the policy
of the Administration. But we have the
authority of the President, again and again
given to the public, to assure them that he
does not approve Mr.. Cachranes sentiments
and tlse aOar aeiN not be conducted on these
principles.
Mr.. Cochrane should understand better
the orders of his superior officers, and the
spirit which animates his soldiers. If the
sentiments he utters were adopted by the
Government, to burn, plunder and destroy,
to arm slaves for iusurrection, and fight
for the ''liberty of the human race" in
stead of for the Constitution which was
made for white Amerioaps,if such q course
were approved by the Administration, the
war might as we'll be abandoned at once
as hopeless. Every general, who has Ell
ther military character or the heart of
man would retire from the field. Hun
dreds of thousands of citizens, men who
have thought and talked and voted as Mr.
Coohrane once did ,and who still think and
talk and will, when they have opportunity
vote as they always have, but who for the
present are in arms for the Union and the
laws, would demand to be discharged from
a service they would abhor.
Beauty and Booty" is not the watch
word of the American soldier. 1t never
was, and God forbid it ever should be,
though hundred New York Colonels
with glib tongues, seek to disguise its hor-
rors in such sounding phrases that even
Cabinet officer who listens may fail to
the atrocity of their character.
1t is useless to repeat the arguments
against this madness of arming the slaves.
If you want, for the Union only the South.
ern Territory, the fields and forests, over.
run by hordes Of negroes made savage by
rapine and blood if you desire only the
blackened ruins of its homes, the unburied
remains of its sons, the desolatcd hearths
around which will forever linger the curses
OF its outraged and slaughtered matrons
and maids; if this is the desire Of your
hearts, follow the lead of this New York
Colonel, plunge this whole people, black
and white, into one indiscriminate sea OF
carnage and slaughter (his own words,)
and write, for the remotest generations of
mankind to read, the foulest and the blood
lest page in all til e human story.
Some men are born fools, and of them
there is hope. Some are born with reas.
enable souls, and become foolish, and of
such there is no hope, not the most distant.
We have confidence in the present ad-
ministration of affairs, and with that con-
fdence we have assured our readers that
the war is to be conducted on the princi-
Piles which have been announced. The
course of General Dix in Eastern Virgin
ia, of General Sherman in South Carolina,
alike confirm our confidence and give eyi.
dcncc of the sincerity and consistency of
the Administration. 1t is of the highest
Importance that the people be saved from
the evil effects of such speeches as Mr..
Cochrane'a. If New York city believed
that his sentiments were approved by the
President, we do not believe another mil
lion could be raised for the Government in
all the banks together. Up to the pres
ent moment, the conviction has been gen.
cral in this city that the Secretary of War
was either wrongfully reported, or that be
did not hear the speech of the New York
Colonel as it has been reported, in the pas
pers. No one believes that Mr.. Cameron
ihtcuuou W enuoioo tn0 Piuhuei auu w.
stroying part of the speech, and it is doubt
full whether, he heard anything of the ar
ming of the slaves This is certain, at all
events, that the conservative men of Amer.
lea, in the army and out of it, conservative
Republicans and conservative Democrats,
who are to-day nine,tenths of the inhabit-
ants of the North, may rest assured of the
firmness of the President and Cabinet to
carry on the war on the principles of the
Constitution, and the law, without refer
ence to New York Colonels gone mad, or
those abolitioniSts who are anxious only
for plunge into anarchy, N. Y. Jour-
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