Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-08


to see this restored to its old and magical
potency--intmidating the weak, overper-
suading the peaceful, seducing the honest
and the honorable, making mere heathen
ish the tumble Of our Christianity, and
mere temporary subterfugo of our laws !
Who wants Union to be maintained only
at the capricious will Of South Carolina
aristocracy-a Union which we are bound
to respect, but which Shareholders are
chartered to disregard at sovereign plea.
sure i--Union, that the man-owning Oil
garchy may crawl comfortably along in
the fat slime of its Incidence and injustice
while we keep watch and ward, with obse-
quious fidelity, over its lazy interests, and
snbmit without murmur to Its whimsi
ealities of selishness or passion!
Snch is the exultant tone in which the
N. Y. Tribune chronicles its belief in the
utter destruction of the Union-a complete
breaking up of the institutions which the
honest men in this country who have Ia
bored to establish and maintain, and which
honest men now labor to restore and re-
establish. That sheet has sought to break
up the Union, has denounced the Constitu-
tion, and derided the flag of our country,
until it and its fellows, North and South,
have produced civil war, and now it re-
joices in the belief that its work has been
successful. Who are traitors, if such wri-
ters are not, and who deserve the halter,
if the "moral traitors" of the Tribune do
mott And yet, in the face of this unblush-
ing jubilation over what it believes (erron-
eopsly we hope) the downfall of the Uni
on, the Tribune men are allowed to 60 on
with their treason, while honest patriots
are sent to military prison for daring to
differ from Republican administration.
Now the Tribune has long afforded tho
true index to the feelings and purposes of
the controlling element of the Republican
party. That party, in every Northern
State, has followed its lead with unerring
fidelity-sometimes closely and at others
at distance, but always with an eye to
the ultimate accomp ishment Of the objects
and purposes avowed. 1t has been SO in
this State, as every intelligent man knows.
And it is SO now. the men who control
the party machinery here are working it
with view to carrying out the plans of
the Tribune faction. Take their course
and ayowals year ago, when they de-
clared by word and act that they would
"yield nos an inch" to save the Union
from destruction-to avert the horrible
calamities now visited upon us. Take
their ayowals in regard to the then i'm
pending casastrop he. Here is one of them
from the Independent Democrat of Janu-
ary, 1861 -
None are more sensible of the terrible
evils of war than ourselves. But war is
not the worst of evils. IN fact, though
itself an evil, it is often the precursor OF
great blessings. In the history of the
world it has so happened that almost all
great events from which have dated the
progress Of the race, have been baptized
in blood. The gigantic crime of human
slavery in America may, in the providence
of a righteous God, be waiting for bloody
baptism that shall wash it out forover.-
The cry of millions of men and Womer
) going up, for long years, to the throne O.
Eternal Justice, may be about to be an
swered in judgment and retribution. Ant
to this end may madness be sent int9 ths
coupsels of the oppressor.
Here is clearly manifested de sire for civil q
"wash out forever the Gigantic crime of human sla
very" And it is but simple truth to assert that th
was the spirit which controlled the Rep ubcan part
then. Its membsrs of Congress nd its delegates
the Peace Conference voted against every proposition
designed to settle the difficulties then existing an
which all intelligent persons would inevitably re
suit in the terrible aamities since witnessed unles
they we then settled They refused TO support an
measure Of adustment-they declared by word and az
that they regarded the salvation Of their party
consequences than the salvation Of the Union, III;
they regarded the Chicago Platform as more bindn
upon them than the Constitution, and that they woul
rycld not inch" of either party platform to
the Union from destruction, and the coantry from IL
untold horrors Of civil war. And whyl Is not tt
answer found IN me above atr9cnoqs avowa OF the
y come the bloody baptism" which was to wash OF
forever the gigantic crime Of human slavery" Di
they not participate in the daboca wish there e;
pressed, that madness might be sent into the coui
sells of the South-that rebellion and civil war ugl
be brought in order atthrough these slavery mgi
be aboishedi If not why did they SO act as TO nSi
q the terrible woes now covering tLe land
And now, when the calamities fOretold, and whiC
were plainly impending have come upon us, what ha
been and is the course ofthe leading minds of the r.
4 publican party here in New liapshrel Look to the
Y. Tribune and you find there sentiments and purpos,
It plainly portrayed in years past. They vie
not an inch" They still refuse to repudiate the rad
l. cal men and radical doctrines which they have SUI
> ported and avowed in times past They nominate tf
1t men for oifce the men direct their part
movements; they still advocate emancipation, eve
2. through the "boody baptism so impiously prayed f
year agol
IS Aud to what is all this tsndngl What does it mea
II MEANS dsuniOH! 1t means that the controlling mC
Of the Republican party prefer destruction OF the I'm
Oh TO Union with slavery or, in the words Of an u
g fuential Republican paper in New York. that the
publican leaders and the Republican masses would pr
fer peaceful separation to the bringing back to u
seeded States as slave States !" but in preference
either they would desire to "wash out" from the sla
States themselves the institution Of slavery, eve
Cs through "abloody baptisml"
- Do the people OF New Hampshire approve Of this
10 cidal and infamous policy DO they desire aud seek
H. A. ..I Iii. ia.