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

uampden, the first gentleman OF England,
aEc5ted upon an illegale xecution warrant,
went camly and heroically to the coils of
prison rather than pay twenty shillings Of
an illegally assessed tax, laid in defiance
of the consultation and laws of England,
and the rights and privileges of Engish>
men. And all history is full of like ex-
amples. William Tell brooked the tyrant's
frown in his day and generation, in defence
of these same rights, 10 the noblo republic
OF the Swiss and that gallant little peo-
pic, hemmed in among the Alps, though
yurrounded on every side by despots whose
iegions numbered more than the wholep pop.
alation of Switzerland, have by that same
indomitablo spirit of liberty. maintained
their rights, their liberties and their indie.
pendence to this hour. And are Americans
now to offer themselves up a scrvilc sac.
ri6ce upon that alter of arbitrary power?-
Sir, l have misread the signs Of the times
and the temper of the people. if there is
not already spirit in the land which is
about to speak in thunder tones TO those
who stretch forth still the strong arm Of
dcspotic power, "Thus far shalt thou
come, and no father We made you; you
are our servants" That, sir, was the Ian.
guage which l was taught to apply to men
in office, when was a youth, or in first
manhood and private citizen, and after
wards when holding Office as the gift of
the people, to hear applied to me, and l
bore the title proudly And l asked then,
as ask now, no other or better reward
than, "Well done, good and faithful SER
want" [Crie' of, "You shall have it; you
deserve it.'] But to day, they who are
our servant, creatures made out Of nothing
by the power of the people, whose little
brief authority was breathed into their
ncstrils by the people, would now, ,forsooth,
become the masters OF the people; while
the organs and instruments of the people
the press and pnblic assemblages-arc
to be suppressed, and the Constitution, with
its right Of petition, and of due process of
law and trial by jury, and the laws and
all else which makes life worth possessing
are to be sacrificed now upon thetyrant's
plea that it is necessary to save the Gov
ernment, the Union. Sir, we did save the
Union for years-yes, we did. We were
the "Union savers not eighteen months
ago, I hen there was not an epithet in
The whole vocabulary of political billings
gate so opprobrous in the eyes of Re.
publican when applied to the Democratic
party s"Union shriekcrs, ''or the "Union-
savers"
remember in my own city, on the day
of the Presidential election, in 1901
remember it we'll, for had travelled sew
eral hundred miles to vote for Stephen A.
Douglas for the Presidencv--that in ward
where the judges Of election were all Dem
ocrats, your patriotic Wide -Awake5 struts
ting in unctious uniform, came up hour
after hour thrusting their Lincoln tickets
&wixt thumb ands finger at the judges,
with the taunt and sneer," SaUe the Lnion;
SaUe the Union ~ And yet now forsooth,
we are s'traitors" and "secessioni5ts p
Aud old grey bearded and grey headed
men who lived and voted in the times of
Jefferson and Madison, and Monroe, and
Jacksen-men who have fought and bled
upon the battle field, and who fondly in
dulged the delusion for forty years that
they were patriots wake up suddenly to day
to find themselves "traitors = sneered at,
revled and insulted by striplings "whose
fathers they would have disdsincd to have
set with TIE dogs of their focks." OF all
these things an inquisition searching and
terrible, will yet be made, as sure, as sud
den, too, it may be, as as the day ofjudge-
ment. We of the loyal states--we of the
loyal party of the country, the Democratic
party-we the loyal citizens Of the United
States, the editors Of loyal newspapers
We who gather together in loyal assemble
ges, like this, and arc addressed by truly
loyal and Union men as l know you are
to-day and at this moment CHATS SO that's
the truth) we forsooth ,are to be now denied
our privileges and our rights as Americans
and as freemen, We arc to be threatened
with bayonets at the ballot.box, and bayo-
nets to disperse Democratic meetings -
Again | ask, why do they not take up their
muskets and march to the South, and like
brave men, meet the embattled hosts of the
Cenfederates in open arms, instead of
thre atening, craven like, to fight unarmed
Democrats at home-posibly unarmed land
possibly not. Laughter and applause, and
a remark" That was well putin. u Ifso
belligierent, SO eager to shed that last
drop OF blood, let them volunteer to rem
force the broken and shattered columns of
Mcclellan in front of Richmond, sacrificed
as he has been by the devi;sh Vaccinations
of Abolitionism, and there mingIe their
blood with the blood of the thousands who
have already perishod on these fatal battle
fields But no, the whistle of the bullet and
the song of the shell are not the sort of
music to fall pleasantly upon the ears of
this Home Guard Republican soldiery.
With reason, therefore, fellow citizens i
congratulate you to day upon victory which
you have achieved, A great poet said,
"Peace hath her victories well as War"
To day the cause Of a free Government
has triumphed; a victory of the Ccnstitu-
ton, victory Of the Union, has been won,
but is yet to be made complete by the men
who 60 forth from this the first political
battlefield of the campaingn, bearing upon
their banners that noble legend that grand