Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-22
BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA MARCH

against the Govern ment in which have
part the sympathy of race. 1t is the
great tie by which God knits into fam ilie:
those several portions into which it has
| pleased him to divide mankind.
Do you remember when the East Indi-
an rose upon his English ruler? Do you
remember how it froze our blood to read
of men who clasped their wives and
, daughters to their hearts for the last time
and then Sle1O them to Save them from the
black demons, athirst with lust and rage
! who swarmed around them? Do you re-
member how the American minister, an
honored Pennsylvania, stood up then in
London and said to the British nation,
"Men of kindred breeds, our hearts are
with you in this struggle?"
Never did minister better represent bis
people. Our wrongs from England were
forgotten then. Yes, we for OF thatit YVES
England that warned in her bosom the
viper of abolition, till its fangs were grown.
Now that they arc fastened upon the vi.
tails of our unhappy country she rejects the
reptile that she fostered.
Sir, know not what notion that man
has of the military character who thinks
that the slave Of yesterday may be the
soldier of to-day. Of the slave you can
not make a soldier; you may make an
assassin. But the shEieks of white house
holds murdered, and worse than murdered, =,
by the negro, would appall the hearts and
palsy the arms Of mere Of the supporters
of this war than all the race of Ham
could take tie place of. 10 Mr.. SUM
NER's question, then, answer, we can
afford to reject this black alliance. 1t Of
fers to northern white men fellowship
that most of them abhor; it profters to
the southern white man no terms that he
prefers to extermination--it proifers negro
equality or negro dominat on; it drives
the Union men cf the South into the ranks
of the enemy; it opens 10 US a dreary
prospect of a protractcd, devastating, ru-
inous guerilla warfare it shocks the SEN
timent Of the white race throughout the
world.
In the present aspect of the war, then,
my trust is not in the negro. / truss in
the mercy of Almighty God 20 bring this
distracted nation back to peace and union;
and, under his divine Providence, l trust
to our soldiers valor and their leaders
skill; to firm and moderate counsels in the
administration OF this government; the
allies whom [ would welcome are the
Union men Of the South. We all know
how long and gallantly tie Unioa men Of
North Carolina and Alabama and Tenns
cssee strove till they were suppressed and
overwhelmed. 1t is we'll known how the
Union sentiment retarded the progress Of
secession in all the southern States. 1t "is
not doa but sic, path !hat niou senti-
mcnt whic mcu Of the outh have cherish.
ed, under porils that we have not been
called on to encounter. Every dispatch
that comes to us from Kentucky and Ten
nessoe tell us of men rally,ng to the old
flag. I would have the old banner expec.
tant eyes, not as the emblem OF military
despotism, but as the free flag of a con-
stituiional government. would SEQ our
armies strengthened and restrained by
discipline, moving southwark with resist.
less force; carrying everywhere peace to
the peaceful; the Constitution and the
laws to the aw.abiding; defeat and rout
to the southern armies, which could never
be rallied nor recruited where the people
have their rights. War 50 conducted will
knit our conquests to US, will double cur
strength and ap the enemy's,
To those victories let'us contribute cur
part. Let us not, by revolutionary meas.
ures, cXtinguish the rising hopes of those
,Tho love the Union. Let US not foster and .
and pander topublic impatienoe.
1t was discussed here on this floor lately
what was meant by the great captain of
the age when he said he was forced to give
battle prematurely at Bull Run. Sir, |
understood always that he meant that pop,
llar impatience of delay precipitatod his
movements. Perhaps he remembered how
1t the beginning of the war with Mexico a
congressional intrigue had nearly elevated
over him an incompetent politician--ho
elt that he must move, or perhaps again
experience ga fire in his rear" from polit-
cal batteries Let us not repeat our er-
'ors, lest we expatiate tn EN- by defeat or
ndecsive victory. Give time to our white
Army, and you will not need black one.