Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-08-16
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quest or subjugation, or purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the rights or
established institutions of those States, but
to defend aud maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the Uni
on, with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpairod
and that as soon as these objects are ac-
comp(ished the war ought to cease"
Thus the faith of the President and
Congress was pledged to every loyal man
in the North that the war was to be car.
ried on for the Constitution as it is and the
Union as it was. Under the inspiration
of this high, patriotic, and holy purpose,
our gallant countrymen have marched to
the battlefield, keeping step to the music
OF the Union. enduring privation and suf
terings that would have utterly appalled,
less patriotic and devoted soldiers. The
enemy, although masscd in formidable
bodies, and supported by IN energy, skill,
and munitions of war that eviuced an in
creased concentration ofsentiment in be.
half ofthc rebellion, yet, before the mighty
shock of our arms-inaicted by the sol.
diers Of the Union-they for time were
vanquishcd their forts, towns, and other
strongholds were rapidly taken, and,
amid the shouts of the cxult-
ant and triumphant soldery who had en-
listed for the mere purpose of re-cstablish.
ing devotion to, and the protection of, our
proud national ensign, the star spanglcd
banner there again spread out its folds
At the beginning of these successes much
attachment for the Union was developed
among the people where such cases occur.
red. 1t was hoped and believed that, with
few more similar important blows in.
fictcd upon the rebellion that its force
would have been spent, and that the peo
pie of the rebellious States; being assured
that the pledges of the President and Con.
gress would be faithfully observed, would
have relaxed their efforts in behalf of their
usurping government, and, that the Union
men of the South, and the returning sense
Of the inestimable value of the Union to
all divisions of population there, would
complete the restoration of respect and
obedience to the Constitution and laws of
the Federal Government. These hopes
have not been realized, aud the explana-
tioa of this disappointment, in a great de
gree at least, is found in the evidence af
forded Of terrible fact that the Abolition
lists in the North arc determined that the
white population of the South shall be ex
terminated or held in subiugation, and that
our Government shall be overthrown, and
the Union Of these States finally and for
ever broken up. Yes Grfernimdte the
whites ofthe South, or govern them as a
subjugated people, and overthr0w the
Government and destroy the Union, is their
purpose, And we ask your candid con-
sideration for = moment, until we present
to you few points, from which you will
see that the inference is irresistible that
this is the design of this most disloyal
band
The Constitution and the Union were
early regarded by the Abolitionists as the
barriers that st ood in the way of negro
emancipation. Hence, such Constitution
was by them denounced as covenant with
death and an agreement with hell So
late as the 5th of June last portion of
the members of this band, at meeting in
Massachusetts,, passed formal resolution,
viz:
Reso1yed, That as Abolitonists, devoted
to the great work of overthrowing slavery,
we renew and repeat our old pledge, "No
Union with Shareholders" No support to
any Administration or Government that
permits slavery on any portion of its soil
and we value this war only as we believe it
must lead to emanci patton by order of the
Federal authorities, or to dissolution of
the Union, which must speedily produce
the same result.
1t is unnecessary to even specify the
prominent evidences that, from time to time
have been afforded that the Aboitonists
had firmly resolved upon the destruction
of this Government A few of them are
found in the unconstitutional SO called ,
"Personal Liberty Bills Of several States;
the repeated declarations of prominent
party leaders, even in the last Presidential
campaign, (see the speech delivered by
Frank p Blair, at Franklin Hall in the
City of Philadelphia, on the I'd of Octo.
Der, 1860, Que week before the election, J
in which he quoting still higher authority,
declared that the object of the Republican
party was "the ultimate extinction of sla
very" In the avowed determination to
resist the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States, in the Dred Scott case,
and in such declaration as made by Sena
tor Wade, ga Union where all men are
equal, or no Union at all.' Acting upon
this original purpose, and upon the convic.
ton that return to Congress of Senators
and Representatives from the Southern
States would result in their political over
throw, the Abolitionists in the late Con-
gress have pursued policy that has alarms
ed every loyal man in the North, and
forced the conviction that our gallant ar.
mics in the field, and the whole nation
were to be thwarted in their patriotic pur.
poses The resolution above quoted
adopted by Congress in July, 1861, i'm
mediately after the Bull Run disaster, il
was sought to re-affirm in the present Con
gress through a resolution offered by Mr.
Holman, Of Indiana, in tho following