Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-02-22
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"A RESPONSE.

the jeff. Davis rebellion who does not hate
and improve every opportunity to villify
John c. Fremont We do not,'-New
York Tribuae.
Do you happen to know any half-soulod
or whole way anti Union alder Of the jeff.
Davis rebellion, who does not love and
improve every opportunity to cmbarrass y
the sconstitutionolly conservative move-
ments of President Lincola We do not
Our word for it, the time is near at
hand when the abolition constitution hat,
crs and roviors of Washington will be as
mute as they were when they feared the
rebels might be enabled to get at their
throats. How long, oh how long must
the country tolerate these impudont, cow
ardly charges made, too, by men, who,
if the abolition of slavery depended on
their prowess, we would have the peculiar
institution" before the next fourth Of July
ovcrrun the whole North
There is one condition which would 60
far to reconcile us to the idea of abolish
ing slavery, and that is, if Congress would
authorize the President of the United
States to do it, in his own way, and that
way would be to CO mpel the Aboitionists
to try their hand at it in Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and
Tennessee.
As long as those States contain certain
loyal Shareholders, it would be pretty
sight to see these stay.at-home vnporing
scribblors and spouterS, in rcgimontal gran
deur measuring swords with Unionists
who own slaves, and who in the very mid
st Of the most imminent danger, are risk.
ing their lives and property in defense of
the Uuion, h aving the utmost confidence
in Abrham Lincoln, and that he will per-
sist in maintaining the guarantees of the
' Constitution,
1t is by such mean, sncaking, pusillani-
3 nous sentiments as those in the quotation
at the head of this article, that the loyal
slave holders have the already almost
crushing weight the rcbol slave holders
p have imposed on them, rendered almost
uncomfortable by the intormoddling Of dcmi
. insane fanatics.
We heartily wish, then, that these paper
belligerent abolitionists could be pitted a.
= gainst the loyal slave holders, for it i
4 quite certain that the ant-&b9ltionist Tn
on troops will attend to the business o
y the rebel Shareholders.
Il The utmost that the Republican part
r started to accomplish, was to prevent tn
extension Of slavery, and the most intclli
. gent of that party see plainly enough tha
e the "peculiar institution" SO far as it
political power is concerned, is doomed
and that is all they care for. Politica
power was their aim--that they have oh
Ii tanned Their present object is to retail
it. That is another question. The indi
u, " cations arc that they will enjoy but shoI
= lived triumph, However pure some Of thcr
10 may be, it is manifest to the whole countr
N chat their administration has been besc
III and degraded by as unscrupulous a set {
- marauders as ever took advantage Of
bt country il distress.
is The astounding frauds which have bee
H. committod-thc necessity Of invostigatil
committees in the very presence almost
to the rebels, the loss of public confidence
u. many of the parties who undertook to scr,
al the soldiers, but who ended in scryr
Ell themselves--the remarkable intcrGeren
,in ,, of newly made Generals with the VIC
IN IN matured plans, views and determination
IN, President Lincoln, thereby rendering
no necessary for him, to make changes wh(
ct, stability was commanded by the crisis al
~ an exhibition of confidence in the leade
nd of our armies, seemed to be essential
As. success--all these things have caused Il
IL people to determinine that the Republics
party has performed its mission, and tn
loi will take care that the abolitionists do L
~ come in at the ttail end Of the hunt" al
ms endcayor to take advantage Of the upr
ler ing of loyal people to save their Uni
yer in strict accordance with the terms Of t
rnv 1nn Constitution and the proper construction
the statutory law.
The people ofthc United States will
to it that neither Southern secessioni
nor Northern disunionists shall becom
Ct power in the land. 1t will be in vain Il
re- the branches of the Upas tree arc clipI
oof if the trunk and the roots are permitted
,oie remain,
,ms A cancer cannot be removed by bio
aral lettine. As long as abolitiopism lasts