Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-08-16

fore the invasive progress of such titles as
! Northerner and Southerner
| Years ago men in the North, then
very Insignificant combination, began to
assail our Constitution and our Union
This faction basing its opposition upon a
misguided scntimentality in regard to the
servltude of the negro race in the South"
ern States, and allowing that sentimentali
ty to swallow up all true feelings of patri'
otism; and all duties as citizens, boldly
proclaimed their hostility to the Constitu
ton and the Union, which they rightly
claimed recognized and was pledged not to
invade the control Of the States respective.
ly over the institutions of domestic slavery.
Disloyal declarations such as "better no
Union at all than Union with slave-
holdcrs," became the automatic dicta Of
this faction, then and now lin its iormida.
BILE proportions) best known as Abolition.
lists. Without dwelling upon the progress
and growth of this faction, it is too lament
ably true and well known that procaiming
through its leaders their chief object to be
"the ultimate extinction of slavery it at
tanned to such consequence that the people
of the slaveholding States became al alarmed
and began to form counter combinations to
resist the threatened overthrow of what
/ they claimed to be rights that were intend
ed to be sacredly guarded by the Constitu
ton of the United States. At the same
time there had existed an Insignificant,
and of themselves powerless, band of disu-
nionsts in one or two of the slavehoding
States who siczed upon the opportunity
thus afforded by the aggressive action of
the Aboltionists to stimulate these counter
movements These efforts were too sue
cessful and materials too, for such efforts
were being continually supplied by the
success of the Abolitionists. Abuse and
obloquy against the stakeholder streamed
out from some pulpits in the North, where
the virus of Aboltionism had been infused.
Retalatory epithets were endulgcd in by
pulpits in the South against the Abolition
lists. Church organizations in the Union
were split into organizations North and
South. Nominations for the Presidency
were made upon issues, in fainter or
bolder terms, involving the question of the
existence of Limitation of the area of do
nestle slavery. The decision of the SUI
preme Court of the United States were
resisted, its integrity assailed, and its re-
modciing ayowed. These were followed
10y outbreaks, as illustrated by the raid of
John Brown into Virginia. Meantime the
retaliatory and disunon movements in the
South, crystalized and proclaimed the
monstrous leresy that the Union was but
an allicnce of sovereign States, and that
any one Of its members might in the exer-
else of an unlimited sovereignty, which
was claimed for it, withdraw from such
union. This hcresy was designated, and
as we all know, is tamiliarly called Sc
cessionism, and, under its banner, great
and formidable party in the slave States
was rallied.
Thus were confronted two great section.
! al parties-thc Abolitonists North, and
the Sccessionists South-the very anti
podes of each other in their sentiments; /;
they met on the common platform of dis
union Each alike, tended to overthrow
the Constitution and the Union. Each
alike, are the enemies Of the Rerubiic.-
The Secessicnists, claiming to act from the
apprehension that the threat "for the uti-
mate extinction of Slavery would be put
in execution, succeeded by bare majoritics
in some cases, and by the more efficient
organization Of probable minorities in 9th.
crs, in procuring the adoption OF ordinan-
ces of Secession, or for the withdraw of
such States from the American Union as
are now banded under the designation of
the Confederate States. Obtaining thus.
the formal organization of government,
they set at defiance the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, and under
took to resist their execution within the
pretended jurisdiction Of this revolutionary
Government. The Government of the
United States, in strict accordance with its
powers, undertook to enforce these laws
and to demand obedience to them armed
resistance was at ouce inaugurated on the
part of the Seccssionsts, aud thus began u
rebellion and civil war that has become
one of gigantic proportions, and for many
of its characteristics one of the most forml-
dabc that ever existed among a civilized
people. At its outset, the appeal was made
to the loyal men Of the North to fly to
arms, in order to uphold the Constitution
and laws, and to maintain the Union.-
With the rapidity of magic this appeal was
responded to with unbounded enthusiasm
and an armed force of 100000 men stood
ready to obey the summons to meet the
foes of the Union. President Lincoln, in
his inaugural address he said
81 have no purpose, directly or indi.
rccty, to interfere with the institution of
slavery in the States where it EXISTS. l
believe l have no lawful right to do so,
and have no inclination to do So"
The Congress ofthe United States, i'm
mediately after the battle of Bull Kun, in
July, l86l- =,
ReSoived, that the present deplorablc
civil war has been forced upon the country
by the Disunionists of the Southern States,
now in arms against the Constitutional
Government, and in arms around the Cap
itol A; that in this national emer gency
Congress, banishing all feeling of mere
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