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

editor-for forty years devoted to the
Constitution and the Union of these States,
man who, through evil and through good
report, has adhered with the faith Of
devotee and the frmness of martyr, to
the principles and policy of that grand old
party Of the Union; and now that the
frosts of three score years have descended
and whitened his head-he, | say, has
lived to see the paper to which he gives
the labor and the wisdom Of bis declining
years, prohibited from circulation through
a part of the mails, as "disloyal" to tho
Government!
(Cries of no, no, shame) Samuel Me-
dary disloyall and Wendell Phillips a
patriot Sir, it is not many months since.
that in the city of Washington, in that
magnificent building erected by the ohari-
ty Of an Englishman who loved America,
| wish there were moro like him, that the
art and science might the more widely
flourish in this countryside Smithsonian
Institute Wendell Phillips addressed an
assemblage eff men as false to the Union
and the Constitution as himself. Upon
the platform was the Speaker ofthe House
of Representatives, the third officer in the
Government by his side the Vice Presi-
dent Of the United States, and between
these two, in proportions long drawn out,
the form of "Honest Old Abraham Lin
coln." Am / mistaken. and was it at an
other and earlier abolition lecture by that
other dsunionist, Horace Greely in the
same place there have been many of
them-that Lincoln attended! The Spea-
ker and Vice President l know were there;
and with these two or three witnesses be-
fore him, and in presence of the priesthood
OF ofAbolilionism, the Summers md Wilson's
the Lovejoys and the Wades of the House
and Senate, (grcat laughter and cheers
surrounded by these, the very architects
of disunion, he proclaimed that "for nine.
teen years he had labored to take nine
teen States out of the Union" And yet
this most spotted traitor was pleading for
disunion in the city of Washington, where
women are arrested for wearing of red,
white and red, upon their bonnets, and
| babies of eighteen months are taken out of
the willow wagons drawn by their nurses,
because certain colors called seditious are
found upon their swading clothes The
next day, or soon after, this same Wendell
Phillips did dine with or was othe rwise en-
tertained by his Excellenoy the President
of the United States, who related to him
one of his choicest anecdotes. Yet Demo.
cratic editors, Democratic Senators and
Representatives, and those holding other
official positions by the grace of the States
or of the people, are "traitors" forsooth
because they would adhere to their princi
pies and organization of their noble and
patriotic old party Such are some of the
exhibitions which Washington has wit
messed during the past winter. Congress
too, has been in session. Sir, saw il
announced in one Of the disloyal papers oi
this city yesterday, that jeff. Davis and
!, Toombs, and Yancy, and Rhett, and 9th
er secessionists of the South, would deriv,
much comfort from this days meeting.
Well, sir, have just come from body
! of men which l would not for momeu
, pretend to compare for craftsmanship, re
spectability or patriotism with this Con
vention. That body has devoted its tim
and attention to doing more in six months
for the cause of secessionism, than Beau
) regard, and Ice, and Johnston, and al
, the Southern Generals combined have bee>
able to accomplish in one year. Said
, Senator from tho South the other day,
/ Union man :" Jeff Davis is running tw'
Congresses now and is making d-'
: sight more out of the Washington Con- res
than the one at Richmond" Laughter, an
: many remarks Of approval.
r The legislation of that body has beer
. almost wholly for the" Almighty African.
= From the prayer in the morning for, gen
tlemen, we are pious body, We are
making long faces. and sometimee wry ia
. ces, too Qaughter,) we open with praye
: but there is not much of the Almighty Ma
ker of heaven and earth in it, from tn
, prayer, to the motion to adjourn, it is ne
Q gro in every shape and form in which b
can by any possibility be served up Blu
| it is not only the negro inside of tn
= House aud Senate, but outside also. Th
city of Washington has been, within til
past three weeks, converted into one Uni
versal hospital every church, except on
for each denomination, has been seized 70
hospital purposes; and while the sanctua
ries of the ever living God-the God G
, Abraham, Isaac and Jaeob-not the ne,
God ol the Burlingames and Summers an
| other Abolitionists, not that God who's
gospel is written ia the new Bible of Ab
, oition-but tho Everything Jehovah God
l have been confscatcd for hospitals, ever
! theatre, every concert saloon, every othe
/ place of amusement, from the highest t
, the lowest-from the spacious theatre i
{ which Forest exhibits to an enrapture
audience his graphic renderings Of tn
: immortal creations of Shakspears' down
, the basest den Of revelry and drunkenes
. are open still; as in the Iuferon of th
j great Italian poet
Q The gates ofhell stapd open night aud day"
Y Sir, if these places of amusement-ir
, nocent some Of them but not holy ,certainl
Y had first been seized as hospitals, f