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

respondent OF ulSlOyal anu peStllent,
but influential newspaper in the chief
city of Ohio, dared to send over the tel
egraphic wires, wires wholly under the
military control of the administration,
which permits nothing to be transmitted
not acceptable to its censors, dispatch
in these words:
"7he Jello,cs are frightened, evidently
not without cause"
"Well, gentlemen, know not how far
Democrats of Indiana may be frightened
| and a nobler and more fearless body of
men never lived-but | see thousands OF
| Democrats before me to whom fear and
reproach are alike unknown. Frightened
at what Frightened by whom -! We are
made of sterner stuff.
"The militia of the State" he adds,
"will probably be put upon war footing
very shortly.'
And who, pray, are the militia of the
State! They are not made up of the
leaders of the Republican party in lndi-
ana or Ohio, know. Inever knew that
sort of politicians to GO into any such
organization, in peace or in war. No
men have ever been more bitter and un-
relenting in their opposition to the ridi.
cule of the militia: and none knows it
better than |, as my friend before me by
| his smile, reminds me that one of my
own offences is that am militia briga.
dier in favor of the next foreign war.
But who are the militia They are the
free born, strong-armed, stout-heartcd
Democrats of Indiana as they are of Ohio.
Let them be put on a war footing. Good
! We have hosts of them in the army al
ready, and on war footing, but who are
as sound Democrats, and as much devo-
ted to the principles of the party as they
were the hour they enlisted. They have
been in the South, and have the author
ity of hundreds of officers and privates
in that gallant army, for saying that not
more devoted to the party to-day than
ever before, but that hundreds also who
went hence Republicans, have returned,
or will return, cured of the disease
ILaughter and applause. Sir, the army
is fortunately, most fortunately for the
country, turning out to be sort of pollt-
zeal hospital or sanitary institution, and
| only regret that there are not more Re.
publican patients in it. Laughter,
Well, put the militia upon war footing,
Put arms in their hands. They never
can be made the butchers or jailors OF
their fellow citizens, but the guardians OF
free speech and a free press, and of the
ball0trbox. Standing armies of the mer.
cenaries, not the militia of a country, are
the customary instruments Of tyranny
and usurpation.
But this correspondent proceeds:
If the synlpathizers wiM treason ant
trnif0rs"-
, We sympathize with treason and traitors
We, who have stood by the Constitution
? and The Union from the organization o
: the party, in cur fathers day and in oul
5 own day, in every hour of trial, in peace
, and in war, in victory and in defeat
! amid disaster and when prosperity beam
7 ed upon us--we to be branded as enemies
5 to our country, by those whose traitor
fathers burned blue lights as signals for ;
. foreign foe, or met in Hartford Conven
Q ton to plot treason and disunion fifty
| years ago We false to the Constitution
c and to our government, the bones o
whose fathers lie buried on every battle
Y field of the war of 1912, from the massa
a ere at the River Raisin to the splendiC
r victory at Now Orleans we who bor'
g aloft the proud banner of the Republic
. and planted it in triumph upon the palace
of the Montozumas We by whose wis
Y dom in council and courage in the tielC
4 for seventy years, the Constitution anC
. the Union and the country which has
{ grown great under them, have been pre-
!. served and defended we to be denounced
' as sympathizing with treason and traitors
G by the men who for twenty years have
f laborcd day and night for the success o
those prnci Piles and of that policy ant
, that party which are now destroying tn,
0 grandest Union, the noblest Constitution
e and the fairest Country on the globe. Talk
to me about sympathizing with disunion
, with treason aud with traitors | tell you
: men of Ohio, that inthree months, in si'
weeks it may be, these very men and theil
masters in Washington whose bidding tRej
/ do, will be the advocates of the eterna
! dissolution of this Union: and denouncC
all who oppose it as enemies TO the peace
. of the country. Foreign intervention anC
=, the repeated and most serious disasters
e which nave stely befsllen our arms, viii
= speedily force the issue of separation anc
{ southern Observation-Disclosures o
$ Unicn by negotiation and compromise
. Between these two | am-and l here pub
' licly proclaim ;t-for the Union, the whole
G Union and nothing less, if by any posi-
' biIity can bave it; if not, then for 81
4 much of it as yet can be rescued and pre-
a served and in any event and under al
: circumstances, for the Union which Coz
e ordained, of the Mississippi Valley and al
+ which may cling to it, under the oil
}, name, the old Constitution and the ole
!, flag. with all their precious memories, wit
e the battle fields Of the past and the song
= and the proud history Of the past-wit
h the birth place and tie burial place Q
= Washington the founder and jackson tn