Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-08-10

also INC proposed evacuation Oh sumter
and the other forts and public property
within the seeded States. Nor, sir, will
stop now to explore the several causes
which either led to change in the appa-
rent policy or an early development of the
original and real purposes of the Admins.
tration. But there are two which | cannot
pass by. And the first of these was PAR.
TY NECESSITY, or the clamor of politicians,
and especially Of certain wicked, reckless,
and unprincipled conductors of partisan
press. The peace policy was crushing out
the Republican party. Under that policy,
sir, it was melting away like snow before
the sun. The general elections in Rhode
Island and Connecticut, and municipal
elections in New York and in the western
States, gave abundent evidence that the
people were resolved upon the most ample
satisfactory constitutional guarantees to
the South as the price of q restoration of
Union. And then it was sir, that the
long and agonizing howl of defeated and
disappointed politicians came up before
the Administration. The newspaper press
teemed with appeals and threats to the
President. The mails groaned under the
weight of letters demanding change of
policy; while q secret conclave of the
Governors of Massachusetts,, New York,
Ohio, and other States, assembled here,
promised men and money to support the
President in the irrepressible conflict which
they now invoked. And thus it was, sir,
that the necessities of party in the pangs
of dissolution, in the very hour and article
of death, demanding vigorous measures,
which could result in nothing but civil war
renewed secession, and absolute and eter.
nal disunion, were preferred and harkened
to before the peace and harmony and
prosperity Of the whole country.
| But there was another and yet stronger
impelling cause without which this horrid
calamity of civil war might have beer
postponed, and, perhaps, finally averted
One of tho last and worst acts of Congress
which, born in bitternesf and nurtured il
convulsion, literally did those thing
which it ought not to have done, and lef
undone those things which it onght to hav
, done, was the passage of an obscure, ill
digcsted, and unstatesmanlike high pro
tectivc tariff act, commonly known a
"THE MORRILL, TARIFF" just abou
J the same time, too, the Confederate Con
/ gress at Montgomery adopted our old tart
of 1857, which we had rejected to max
: way for the Morrill, act, fixing their rat
| of duties at five, fifteen, and twenty pc
, cent lower than ours. The result was a
t inevitable as the laws of trade are inexor
t able. Trade and commercc-and especi
0 ally the trade and commerce of the Yves
, began to look to the South. Turned ou
of their natural course years ago, by til
canals and railroads of Pennsylvania an
New York, and diverted eastward at
heavy loss to the West, they threatene
now to resume their ancient and accustomo
channels-the water-courses- Ohio
the Mississippi. And political associatio
and union, it was we'll known, must 500
follow the direction of trade and interes
The city of New York, the great CONNER
cial emporium of the Union, and the North
west, the chief granary of the Union, be
, gan to clamor now loudly for repeal G
the pernicious and ruinous tariff. Threat
ened thus with the loss of both politica
| power and wealth, or the repeal or tn
tariff, and at last of both, New England
t and Pennsylvania, too, the land of Penn
Graded in peace-demanded now coercio
= and civil war, with all its horrors, as tn
r price of preserving either from destruction
| Ay, sir, Pennsylvania, the great kcyston
of the arch of the Union, was willing t
E lay the whole weight of her iron upon tn
! sacred arch, and crush it beneath the loat
t The subjugatiOn of the South-ay, sir, til
9 sugugation of the South l am not tall
ing to children or fools; for there is not
' man in this House fit to be Represent;
t tive here who does not know that the Sout
t cannot be forced to yield obedience to you
y laws and authority again until you hay
: conquered and subjngatGd hor-the subj,
4 cation of the South, and the closing up
=, her ports, first by force, in war, and afte
$ wards in tariff laws, in peace, was deli be
!, atcly resolved upon in the East. An,
: sir, when once this policy was begun, the
e self'samc motives of waning commerce al
= threatened loss of trade impelled the gre
# city of New York, and her merchants al