Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-05

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patronage at their command, even at this
eventual crisis, when every American brain
shooId be at work TO bring about fair and
honorable peace. and they have no thought
no hope, no duty but 10 propagate their
creed, extending its influence into every
nook and corner OF the land, poisoning the
atmosphere of these sacred Halls with in.
termlnable discussion. Openly and in Sc
crei, by the agency of the press, the pulpit,
and the political rostrum, in the camp, in
the city and in the open field, they are
! spreading The conasion; they are innocula.
ting the country with this moral pesiIence
which has already brought US where we
are, 10 The very brink Of the grave of our
nationality.
Sir, 10 these apostles OF abolilonism will
be traced hereafter whatever of evil has be 4.
iallen or may befall our country. They are
building its sepulchre with the bones OF
their slaughtered countrymen. do believe
there are gentlemen within my vision now,
whose sworn purpose, whose first desire,
paramount even 10 10 the preservation of
Republicanism, is emancipation. They
and their decipes frs, threw the apple of
dlscord, They first applied the torch, and
are now more busy than ever with throw
ing fresh fuel 10 the flames. Should his,o,
ry ever trace which God forbid-the rec
ord oil this counIry's ruin, that page will
seem the s'rangest 10 those that read which
shall tell OF the madness and wickedness
OF the arch fanatics OF abolitionism. la the
dark recesses OF the temple Of infamy, the
eoomiest inches will bear the inscription
Of their names.
Sir, counsel none but a moral n,erler-
ence with the work OF these msche!
makers. would not have even fana,icism
deprived OF the right of free speech nor
would in any emergency, advocate the
slightest Infringement, by the Government
upon the liberty of the press. Let them
sow the seed Of their Infamous doctrine
broadcast over the land. Whatever NAV
be the danger, | will not counlenance the
greater danger OF establishing dictatorship
over the thoughts of my fellows country.
men.
But if the abominabe theme must be
brou ght in the Council Chambers of the
nation, for The sake of decency, if not of Jus.
tice, e: it be at a more suitable time. II there
remains one Union man al the South let us
remember shat he is unrepresented here
that the subject particularly concerns him,
aud that i, is unjust and ungenerous If not
cowardly, TO take advantage of his absence
to push forward measures in regard 10 the
local institutions of his section, measures
against which, were he present, he would
give his earnest opposition. 1t will ouench
Whatever remains OF Union feeling in the
South, if il has not already done so. II will
prove that the first idea of The dominant
party in the Nor!h is an active and unwa.
vering anagouism 10 slavery, and fixed
purpose TO legislale it out of the country at
all hazards. Is il thus that we are TO con-
quer peacel Sir, we are f1inging away
the last chances Of reconciliation as reck.
less as madmen cast their treasures into the
sea The agitation of the subject has been
the country's bane at every period OF its
history; It's discussion at this crisis is des.
perate self destruction. Is il while the mag,
azine is beneath US and about us, bursting
with the agencies OF ruin that we must
choose 10 sport with the flaming torch of
the incendlary? Sir, until our beloved coun-
Try shall be saved the word Emancipation
should by common consent, be banished
from the language of debate in this assem-
blage 1t is a spell which has wrought
enough already OF desolaton. II is hell
ish formula oiincaniation which has con.
jured up the fends of discord and civil
war, and il was never so potent in its evil
tendency as now, when ii is being passed, !
like the breath of the plague from mouth 10
mouth, in the Council Chambers of the
country which it has ruined 1t should be
spoken in whisper and with a prayer
linked TO it, as Thing that brings a curse
and spreads a pestience, ! despair
't my country; | despair of ever living
once more in blessed Union of iraler-
1al States, when hear all around me the
lteTance of tha, runbreedng word "eman-
,ipaion," minglng with the shouts of bat.
lie, the fierce huzzas OF triumph over fallen
'rohers, and The groans o. our dying coun-
rymen.
Sir, if in place of making the negro ques.
ION subject matter of debate, this Con-
ITess would take into earnest, solemn con-
liberation some expedient for securing
'eace, do believe that success would
rown our efforts. II they would enter up.
N that task, not with hearts embilered aud
nIellects swayed by sectional antipalhies
md mock philanthropy, but with all their
onls devoted 10 that one sacred purpose
he reconstruction of the Union and our re-
lemption from civil war; if they would do
his in The spirit of conciation, of forgive
iess, OF tolerance, of brotherhood, and kind
ceiling; il is my conviction that before the
'lose OF this evenlful session, the prelim-
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