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

the very author Of all human woe and
suffering wounds. too, rangling and fes-
tering for the want of surgical aid--if
those places, l say, had first been seized,
and then it had become necessary for the
comfort or life of the thousands of other
sick aud wounded who are borne into the
city every day, to occupy the churches of
Washington, know Of no better or holicr
purpose to which they could have been de-
voted And now, sir, not far from the
stately capitol, within whose marble walls
abolition treason now runs, riot, is build.
ing, Green's Row. by name, in which
100 fugitive slavcs-"contrabands" in
the precious slang Of Master Butler
daily receive the rations of the soldiers,
which are paid for out of the taxes levied
upon the people. One hundred thousand
dollars day are taken from the public
treasures for the support of these fugitive
slaves. while the army of Shields, and
other Union armies in the field even so
lately as six weeks ago, marched bare foot
ed, bare headed, and in their drawers, for
many weary miles without SO much as a
cracker or crust of bread with which to
allay their hunger. Aye, sir, while many
gallant young soldier of Ohio, just
blooming into manhood, who heard the cry
that went up fifteen months ago. ''rally to
defend the flag and for the rescue of the
capitol" and went forth to battle, with
honesty in his heart, his life in his hand,
with courage in every fiber, and patriot ism
in every vain, lies wan and sad on his pail
ct in the hospital your surgeons are forced
to divide their time and care between the
wounded soldiers and these vagabond fugi.
tive slaves, who have been reduced or forced
from the service of their masters These
things and much more--I have told you
not tithe of all-are done in Washintop.
We know it there, though it is withheld
from the people and while every false
hood that the ingenuity of man can invent
to dolude aud deceive, is transmitted or
allowed by the telegraphic censor of the
Administration-them usurpers un-
known to the Constitution and laws-these
facts are not permitted to reach the people
of the United States. Your newspapers,
the natural watch dogs of liberty, are
threatened with suppression if but the half
or the hundredth part of the truth be told.
And now, too, when but one other means
remained for the redress of this and the
hundred other political grievances, under
which the lands groans-party organiza-
ton and public asscmblages of the people
even these, too, are now thr hreatened with
suppression by armed force. Aye, sir,
that very party, which not many years
ago, bore upon every banner, the motto
"Free Speech and Free Press now day
by day forbids the transmission through
, your mails of the papers from which you
derive your knowledg ge ofpublic events, and
, which advocate the principles you cherish.
And Democratic editors, too, are seized,
"kidnapped in the midnight hour-torn
from their neutrality-suspicious. wives
+, with officers over them menaoing violence
, if they but ask one farewell grasp of tho
hand, one parting kiss-thrust into close
: carriage in the felon's hour Of midnight,
t and with violence dragged to this Capitol
. and here forced upon an express train and
: hurried off to military fortress of the
G United States. Yes, men of Ohio, to
), fortress that bears the honored name of
. that first martyr to American lberty--ths
! Warren of Bunker Hill or it may be to
n that other bastile desorating that other
q name sacred in American history, and hon.
a ored throughout the earth--the name Of
0 that man who forsook homo and gave up
4 rank and title, and in the first flush Of
5 youth and manhood came to our shores
d and linked his fortunes with the American
cause.-The prisoners Of Olmutz, the brave
q and gallant Lafayette. Aye, freemen Of
y the West, fortresses, bearing these honored
!. names, aud meant for the defense of the
= country against foreign foes, and out of
= whose casemates bristle cannon planted to
r hurl death and destruction at armed iu-
: vaders, echo now with the groans and are
e watered by the tears-not of mon only from
i States seeded and in rebellion, or captured
c in war, but from the loyal States of the
It North and the West, and from that party
C of the soldiers in the field to day. Are
G these things to be borne Never; no,
i never) If you have the spirit of freemeR
e in you, bear them not (Great appuse,
r and cries of that's it, that's the talk y
'. What is life worth! What are property
If and personal liberty and political liberty
" worth Of what value are all these thing,
d if we, born Of an ancestry Of freemel,
e boasting, in the very first hours of ouI
). boyhood of more extended liberty than
!, was ever vouchsafcd to any other people
y are to fail now in this the hour of sore trial
r to demand and to defend them at every
o hazard Freedom of the Press Is the
n man who sits in the White House at Wash
d ington, and who owes all bis power to
10 the press and the ballot, is he now to play
% the tyrant over US (Nol never, never,
s, Shall the man who sits at one endof tele-
10 graphic wire in the War Department or the
Department of State, mere clerk it ma y
be, servant Of servants; sit down and by
l. one single click of the instrument, order
y some miuion of his thousand miles off, to
u arrest Samuel Medsry Judge Ranney, Of