Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-26


! What plans? Just such as to day have
been the business of this Convention the
plans of the old Union party, laying down
aplatform and nominating Democrats to
6ll the Offices and control the policy Of the
Government, to the end that the Constitu-
tion may be again maintained, and the
Union restored, and peace, prosperity and
happiness once more drop healing from
their wings.
"Plans' the fellow proceeds, Gin this
quarter they will doubtless find the work
quite as hot as they bargained for.' And
| tell the cowardly misereant who telc-
graphed the threat that ho and those be-
hind him, will find the work fifty fold hot
ter when they begin it than they had reck-
oned on, both here and in Indiana
"Ten thousand stand of arms" he adds,
"have been ordered for the State troops"
For what? TO put down the Demo
cratic party. Sir, that is a work which
cannot be done by ten, or twenty or fifty
thousand stand of arms in the hands of
any such dastards in Office or out oft If
so full of vplor and so thirsty for blood, let
them enlist under the call just issued for
troops in Ohio and Indiana. Let them 60
down and fight the armies of the "rebels''
in the South, and let Democrats fight tho
unarmed but more insidious and dangerous
Abolition rebels of the North and West,
through the ballot box. Forty thousand
additional troops, estimate it, are called
for in the proclamation of yesterday, from
the State of Ohio.
Where are the forty thousand Wide
Awakes of 1860, armed with their porta
Bile lamp posts and drilled to the music of
the Chicago platform Sir, l propose
that 35 900 Of them be conscripted forth
with. They will never enlist they never
do. They are "Home Guards" They
don't 6" but stay vigo .ously at home to
slander and abuse and threaten Democrats
whose fathers or brothers or sons are 10
the Union armies or have fallen in battle
speak gonerally-cortainly there are ex
ceptions. But l will engage that if the
records Of the old Wide Awake clubs in
the several cities and towns Of Ohio shall
bs procured and the Republicans will de.
tail or draft $4,000 from the list, l will
6pd 5000 strong.armcd, stout-hearted
brave and loyal Democrats to go down
and see that they don run away at the
first fire. Great Laughter.
Sympathysers with treason and traitors
Sccc.sionists Sir, it is about tine tina
we had heard the last of this. The De
mocracy of Ohio and of the United States
3 are resolved that an end shall be put t
: this sort of SANDER and abuse. But d.
> not propose to discuss this particular sub
ect just now. Go on, 60 on.
Well, then, from that which concern
!, the Democratic party to word, sing
word, about what relates to myself; ant
l beg ardon for the dgresson. am re
=, joiced that it has been permitted me to b
= here present to day in person before you
, Had you believed the reports of the Re
n publican press, you would no doubt hav
F expected to see the most extraordinar
= compound of leprous and unsightiy flesl
a and blood ever exhibited. Laughter l.
!, Well, my friends, you see that l am nc
~. quite "monstrous" at least, and bear n
: special resemblance to the beast of the Ap
p ocalypse, either in the heads or horns
, but am a man of like fashion with your
selves.
y 10 the Republican party alone, and it
n press and its orators, | am indebted, Il
# doubt, for a large part of the "curiosity
: which | am sorry to say, seem to hav
!. excited and which has brought out eve
d some of them as if to ''see the elephant.
c They have never meant to be friendly tc
C wards me, know, but as see some c
e them ow within my vision, let me whispe
!. in their ears, that | never had bette
4 friends, and no man ever had since tn
world began. They have advertised IN
S free Of cost, for the last fifteen months :
= yes, may say for some five years pas
4 all over the United States. Why, sir,
!, Republican editor without "the under
G signed" for a text, would be the most ur
f happy mortal in the world. Every littl
d "prnter's devil' in the Office would b
e following for copy, and no copy to be hat
u l know that they are friends, by the usut
( sign, "the remarks they make Gentle
men have had my share Of what Jetfcr
sou called the JUNCTION, the holy oil wit
x which the Democratic priesthood has a.
r ways been anointed-sander, detractio
and calumny without stunt, really L ai
/ not sure that with Inc it has not reache
G "oxtremo unction,' though am not read
e and do not mean, to depart yet. Well,
d will not complain. 1t has cost me not
S single nights loss of sleep from the begin
Il ming. My appetite, if you will pardon tn
d reference--if you will allow me, as Lncol
# would say, to "blab" upon SC delicate
= Subject-has been in no degree impaire
= by it. Others before me and with me, hav
Q endured the same. Here is my oxceller
: friend near me, [Mr. Medary] Oh ble'
o scd Martyr! [Great Laughter and aF
y. plause,] For one and sixty years, tn
i storms Of partizan persecution and malig
d nifty in every form have beaten upon HI
Il head but though time and toi! have lad
d it gray, the heart beneath beats still to- da
d as sound and true to its instincts of De
h mocracy and patriotism, and OF hpmanit