Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-01-11
The Republican Party a Failure.

holds the reigns in power at Washington.
We are willing to admit tho existence of
good and wise and patriotic men in the
Republican ranks, but these are SO few in
number occupying public positions, that
their counsels are drowned amid the clam
or of the fanatca multitude. The few
wise men among them, the President we
believe being one, have already cut loose
from the majority and are now dependent
for advice upon the champions and expo
nents of Democratic conservative teach
ings.
The leading Republicans who rushed to
Springfield from the day it was ascertained
that Mr. Lincoln was elected, up until the
day he took his departure for Washington,
labored to convince him that the Southern
rebellion was tri6ing undertaking, and
persuaded him that there was no trouble
of any consequence to be apprehended
and that there was up to that period, "no-
body hurt" A few months residence at
the Capital convinced him to the contrary,
and since then he has needed neither their
expostulations, threatnings, nor advice -
From the fatal day that they succeeded in
forcing the President to fight the battle of
Bull Run, he has discarded their advice
and suspected their patriotism. The mag
nitude and resources of the rebellion these
fanatics had no concept on of, and like
fanatics they seem totally incapable Of
learning,even by the most acknowledgement.
ence Not one of. their predictions has
been verified, but on the contrary their
finest theories have turned out utter failures
Their notions of the efficacy of emancipa-
ton proclamations, by whichthey hoped to
arouse the slave population to assert their
freedom, turns out to be but the dream Of
q m aniac. Like the poets lunatic and
lover, these fanatics Care of imagination
all compact" They see "IIelen's beauty
in brow Of Egypt" and in the institu-
tions of the South, "more devils than vast
hell can hold" and, to complete the fig
ure, they in frenzy and Imagination
"Body forth the forms of things unknown,
And give to airy nothing local habitation and name
The practical suggestions of practical
men they scout as conservatism, and ap-
plaud to the very echo the rawlings Of
Wendell Philips or the buncomb spouting
of John Cochrane. No matter whom the
demagogue or trickster may be who talks
the greatest absudities, so he spices his
nonsense with extrtme opinions about sla
very, these lunatics at once take him to
their embrace and wish him God speed.
In the conception Of our foreign affairs
the majority of the party in power seem
to be as deficient as they are in compre'
heuding our domestic concerns. Look at
their recent performances in relation tc
the capture Of the rebel ambassadors, Ma.
son and Slidell. AS soon as Capt. Wilkes
exploit was tclcgraphed, three fourths Of
the Abolition press of the country became
frantic with cxultation. His conduct was
commended by them and complimented
by a vote Of thanks in Congress; he was
dined and treated and toasted by the Alb
olitionists of Boston, and from the first o.
the Abolition press down to shifting con-
Germs like the Pittsburg Gazette, the gal
liant Wilkes was the theme of their daily
eulogium. In reply to the conservative
men of the country who ventured to pre-
dict that the result might show that Capt
Wilkes had not done so smart thing af
ter all, and that England might object t.
his exploit, these fanatics cried, "whc
cares for England, or France.oither? thes
rebel rascals never shall be given upW-
Only last week the extreme Abolition pres
of the country was groaning with this sor
of yaporing, but now the same class ar
lodging about to reconcile them selves t
the necessity which compelled the gov,
: ernment to accede to England's demand
: Now the "giving up" of the rebels is, wit
thes sagacious papers, piece of admi
rable diplomacy. 1t is very good, bu
there never should have existed necessit
for it.
e Mr. Seward, whom they say "look
j.. farther into n milestone than the man VIII
makes it," ought to have set the rebels fire
e Immediately after their capture; this pl a
r was suggested by less sagacious men tha
), he is represented to be. But perhaps |
# retained them in order to make his mar
!, as great diplomats if so, he has n
It succeeded. His admirable correspol
If denco' as it is styled, amounts to nothing
e it settles nothing he has acceded to Il
demands of Great Britain, and all his fiji
y writing cannot disguise the fact. Had |
4 given the rebels up at first, as suggeStc