Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-11-08
Miscellaneous.
Eom tie LycOming Go2ene.
The Republican Press and the
late Election.

THE REPUBLICANS ALL GONE TO WAR AND
THE DEMOCRATS ALL AT HOME.
at is chiefly from the Republican ranks
that the army has been created. The
Democrats stay at home to vote and get
Offices while the Republicans 60 to fight
the battles Of the country "-PhHadeLphia
Event"g B'|ef'n Of Sat~:lay lust.
The foregoing is a fair specimen of the
leading editorialsin the Republican papers
of this State, since the crushing defeat Of
the fourteenth of October Especially
have the Ereniag HuiIeftn and Forncys
P|e's teemcd with such publications. II
the facts stated were true, that the great
Democratic party Of the free States were
Eot iu favor Of carrying on the war and
suppres,ing the rebelliou-that they were
unwi ling voluntarily to join the army and
to Gght-tLen, iadecd, might the South
eXult in the prospect cf ulimat and spec
dy success, UW|.om tie aMof Dem3GYa,s
ho~ lO"g do thfse AepudIican editors sup
p05e President LmcohPs administration
cOuld continue the war against the South?
Let the South understand, as Republican
editors inform them, that this is Repub.
hcan wag, that the Republicans go to fight,
while the Democrats remain at home, and ia
it to be wondered at that the South should
BE- jubilant and confident CT success .
What more could they desire than a divi-
ded North to ass ure them of victory? In our
opinion, the editor who gives publicity to
such statement does more to injure the
cause of the Union, and to aid and abct
the epcmy, than jeff Davis is able 10 do
with ali the cannon at his disposal.
But, are the facts stated true? Have
Democrats rem aimed at home while Be
publicans went to fight? We might ap-
peal to the personal knowledge of every
man who reads this papcr-to the Demo-
cratic fathers and brothers-and to the
fresides made desolate, in every township
in the North, for full, an ample, and an
overwhelming contradiction of the vile
SANDER. Democrats, while they believe
that this war could and should have been
avoided, are as one man in favor of sus-
tanning tie constitution aud the laws
While they were opposed to sectional
party, having but sipgle fauatical object
in view, and warned their countrymen
against the dangers of such an experlmen Mt
they nevertheless recognize Abraham Lin
eo.n as President of the United States,
chosen, according TO the forms ofth con-
stituton, and to that constitution and the
laws they are loyal Let Vi test their
loyalty by the touehstone appealed to by
the Republican editors themselves. They
say that they lost the late election because
''the Republicans had gone to fight the
battles OF the country" Let US sec low
the matter stands. OF course the coun-
ties giving the largest Republican MAORI
ties heretofore, will be those which have
furnished most men and will be most atEoc-
ted. How stands the result then in
Bradford, Tioga, Potter Chester, Lancas-
ter Lawrence, Indiana, Crawford, ALE
ghony, Erie, Somerset and Susquohanna
counties All know that those counties
form the back bone ofthe Republican party
in Pennsylvania, and if the Republicans
were in the war, of course they were car
ried by the democrats. Let us examine
for moment. Tho same BuIctW from