Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-01-26

the Atlantic States which will then re-
main in the Union. The white population
of those seven States is greater than the
whole population of the United States at
the date of the Revolution, and more
heroic set of men do not exist on the face
of the earth. The negroes, instead Of be-
ing drawback upon the strength Of
whites, as many persons at the North
seem to suppose, will be in some respects
more valuable than so many white men,
as they can be employed to do all the
drudgcry of tho campaign,-the building
of earth- works, bearing Of burdens, and in
short, almost every thing but the actual
fighting, for which latter service said
States could easily set on foot quarter
Of million Of oble-bociicd men, Injured to
the climate which would prove fatal to
Northern Wide Awakes who should at-
tempt to remain there through the hot
season. But enough of this. We will
!. only add, that resort to coercion, which
appears to be the determination of tho
Republicans when they come into power
few weeks hence, will bring nearly or
quite all the other slavoholding States to
the support of those which are attacked,
and thus the nation will be divided into
two parts, as nearly equal in respect to
population, territory and resources, as
will be necessary to ensure a protraeted
: and terribly bloody fratricidal war.
We have already intimated our belief
that much of the zeal which is manifested
among certain classes all over the North,
including many notorious breakers,
for the faithful execution of the laws in
South Carolina and other seeding States,
is only an out cropping Of that intense
hatred against tho South which thirty
years cultivation has produced. At first,
such malignity is mcasurably satisfied by
hard words and foul imputations. But
as it becomes more fcndish and diaboli.
cal, it Graves higher seasoned food. 1t
longs to get at its victim with butcher.
knife. 1t thirsts for blood. John Brown
ism affords temporary relief, but it is a
hazardous business, and too circumscribed.
Murder by Wholesale is what is wanted by
the class of fanatics to whom VIC allude
and WAR, which would make the slaugh.
ter legal, [rccollect their sacred regard
for law and not expose their own preci.
Gus lives to danger, would be just the thing.
A war, too, ostensibly to preserve the
Union and enforce the lawsl Could any
thing be more exactly in point!
! But this is not all. The view of these
fanatics is not confined to the butchcry
Of masters-it looks also to insurrection
among the slaves. 1t is John Brownism
on large scale. And what an opportu.
uity to inaugurate it, with the power and
purse of the government to support the
movement! Already the Legislatures of
several States, including, we are ashamed
to say, the State of New York, are pro-
ffering aid or have resolutions before them
for that end. Maj. Gen. Sandford has
rendered the services of his noble Division
fol this inglorious business of attempting
to compel by force of arms a number of
unwilling States to submit to Black Re-
publican rule-some specimens of which
have been seen and felt in this city within
the last few years. Doubtless that splen.
did Division would 60 to the death for the
country in case of a foreign invasion, but
we are not so sure that they will like the
fun of bayoneting their own brethern and
friends; tie good and true men of the
South, who first scaled the walls of the
citadel of Monterey, turned the tide of
I-'si~ -' n-~-- vis.~, ..a vLv L.vs al
ways and everywhere done their part
towards sustaining the honor of their eoun.
try against every foreign foe; nay who
have faithfully complied with the stipula.
tions of the Constitution, even when the
North was denying them equal rights in
the common territories, practically rcfu.
sing to surrender their fugitive slaves, and
by means of underground railroads and
John Brown raids, adding to the number
of such fugitives daily.
Let us not be misunderstood. We do
not charge that all who favor coercion, or
the enforcement of the laws as it is called. |
are OF the fac atical character above de-
scribed. But we do charge that all such
fanatics are in favor of coercion, l. e., war,
unless there may be few exceptions of
the Garrison Quaker order. We know
that many who call themselves Republi-
cans, are at heart conservative men, and
honestly desire the adjustment of our
difficulties with the South on just and fair !
terms, and in accordance with the spirit
OF the Constitution. TO such we have no
reference in the foregoing remarks. we
wish there were more of them.