Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-19
A MANLY Senator.

all Republicans of the same stamp as
Edgar Cowan, one of our Pennsylvania
Senators. We cannot forbear rcpubliohiug,
in this connection, his admirable and in-
dependent letter to the Chairman of the
Committee, who had in charge the man.
agemcnt Of the late meeting at Concert
Hall. 1t will be seen that the Republican
Senator has raised The warning voice.
Will it be needed This letter should be
circulated. Its m,eltunt in pavo.
WASHINGTON, July, Z 1862.
Dear Sir-I received yours of the 9Th
inst. duly, and would be much pleased if
l could avail myself of your kind invita-
ton, but SO many OF our body have already
gone away, that it is difficult to get a quo.
rum.
trust you may,as the "Peopie's Party
be enabled to serve the country in this the
hour of her greatest need, because unless
the wise and moderat1 men of the country
now unite with locked shields to stand
round the President, himself wise and mod
crate, the Union will be lost, with all its
blessings to US and cur postcrity. The
republic is in danger.
Yours, truly, EDGAR CowAN.
Il. 3. DARLING, Esq.
In the first place, we are informed that,
net withstandiug the Republicans seem
determined that there shall be no adjourn
ment as long as they can avoid it, that it
is difficult to get quorum" That speaks
for itself.
Senator Cowan says, II trust you may,
as the Peoples Party, be enabled to do
thus and SO. What could be more express
sive The Senator is not only states.
man, but he has proven himself to be very
shrewd politician. He is too much of a
gentleman to fatter the wire .pullers, and
too honest man to let the occasion pass
without expressing folio of doubt as to rhe
ability of stereotyped clique to be Of any
service to their country& IN as feaS hour Of
greatest necd,
Now comes the language of fearful i'm.
port. We almost shudder as we read it.
We have never yet permitted ourselves to
indulge even the thought, that so terrible
catastrophe is within the range of the
possibilities. "The Union will be lost l''-
Wherefore! Is there no hope! Aye
The outsp oxen Republican Senator informs
his party, whence may be derived that
hope. "Wise and moderate men, must
unite to "stand around the President
What killing rebukc to the foolish men
and radicals, who have been impudently
annoying the President and his Union
Generals with their Internal sophisms and
crude notions on great National questions.
We hope the vipers willcease their hissings
at the only reliable Uuion men in the
country, now that they have been sisnally
rebuked by one Of their own friends, who
is an honor to his State, and the beuefac-
tor of his country.
I The fanatics, the radicals, the Office
lovers, the gormandizers of public pap, the
! fellows who love their country because it
is so easily plundered, may now read the
JoURNAG with profit, instead of falsifying
it, since its course has been so fully sus,
tanned by Republican Senator, whose
lead is safe one, because he folio the
path marked out by Washington, trav-
eIled by jefferson, Monroe, Jackson,
Clay, Webster, and put in repair by a
Douglas.
MIR. Cowan conc luded his letter with an
announcement which should cause the radi.
Gals to leave Washington in hot haste
He says "The Republic is in DANGER
Aye, and the whole country will hold the
fanatical radicals responsible for that
danger. We do not "dcspair of the Re-
public" But, the Union cause would be
speedily triumphant if radicalism could be
crushed, and conservatism govern the
councils of the nation.
! PhladeiDhio Eteninp ,yougnaf.