Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-09-27

their institutions from what they bad been
under the Stuarts, to what they now are,
without resort to such violence after
wards, when Stuart invaded the country,
throwing them into the last degtee Of ter
ror and confusion, at the head of an army
which cut its way to within four days
march Of London, he was repelled at no
such cost to freedom or violation of the
law. AT a later date, the same people in
the war of the French Revolution passed
through period Of 20 years probation,
during no small part Of which their ma.
tional existence was thought to be at stake,
sometimes from instruction at home,
sometimes by invasion from abroad, and
always threatened by the most formidable
military power the modern world has
seen, they had all that time both in and
out Of parliament, an opposition of un-
measured ferceness; but nobody ever
hear,l of an arrest, unless by warrant of a
judicial magistrate, for the "disloyal prac.
tices" and Incorporate speeches which
were daily INDUCED in, to the most ex.
tremc and furious lengths, and in Ian.
guage of the highest invective, by the
whole anti-war party from Mr.. Fox
down. In troubled times, there will hap
pen, in any country, much that is extreme
and unjustifable; and our past history
may furnish instances of it. We have
had mobs that committed summary vio-
lence, and abused persons and property !;
we have had over stringent legislation,
dealing in injustice, and furnishing, per.
haps the innocent with the guilty. Blu.
that is not usurpation; that is not the
unlawful, unconstitutional assumption of
a power not delegated to those who use
it; that is not seizing authority that is
not mixing and confoundng the carefully
| separated duties of the different depart.
ments government, as do those who serve
Mr.. Lincoln and betray the State.
Let me say in conclusion. things have
come to a pass at which the republicans
themselves, more unsparingly y than we do,
accuse and denounce (without being ar
rested) the administration which they
brought into power They wonder al
the functionaries whom it employs; al
!
the measures of their Congress; at the
reign of corruption; at the downfall of the
Constitution and laws. Let them wonder
at nothing but themselves when for
I President Of the United States, who is
not monarch that reigns without gov.
erning, directed by ministry, but a ruler
that rules, and who himself must possess
the nerve and ability for Command
the republicans chose a man wholly in
competent, they inoculated, deliberately
inoculated the state with all the mischie
that has followed, why should they won
der! why complain Of Mr.. Lincoln why
curse their own work Let them b(
'pleased with ruin'' But they can b,
useful if they will. Should the dem
ocratc party be found next month in ;
large majority let the republicans per
suade their chief to dismiss his cabinet
Danish his unofficial counselors, cleal
his skirts ofthose who pluck him by them
hither to day and thither TO morrow ant
then let him send, as an hereditary SOW
erign would, for men who represent tn,
views and policy ofthe majority and plac,
himself in their hands, they 10 rule thu
country he to draw his salary and anus
himself, but not with the reins of govern
ment.
That better days may be vouchsafet
us, must be the earnesnt prayer of al
who love their country, whatever thei
party redlections-that Of those VIII
love their country the vast majority vii
rally to our ticket, the only one that i
available to check the headlong course @
those who rule to ruin us, is the convic
ton of all democrats in this part fth
state, and of none more than
Dear Sir Your fellow citizen
and very humble servant.
G. INGERSOLI.
Reading, Sept. 6, 1869.
My DEAR SIR,