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

ute and the decision.
In our just indignation against the pres
ent vast rebellion, let us not entirely forget
that in too many of the northern States a
chronic rebellion against distasteful con
stitutional obligations has existed for
many years.
In Pennsylvania, our distinctive school
OF abolition has been marked by the mild
benevolence of our venerable Society of
Friends, whose Christian charity embraced
both the master and the slave let it not
for one moment be confounded with the
cut throat philanthropy, whose emblems
are the torch and the pike, which has cans
onized John Brown as a saint of the church
in which the negro is worshipcd You will
rarely find in full membership in it man
born and upon the soil of Pennsylvania.
From that church 1 am an open dssen.
ter; differ wholly from those who look
upon the present as "goden hour; y who
regard it with exhultation as the dawn of
black millennium. In me, their hopes
and schemes inspire disgust and horror.
An eminent member of the dominat par
ty has promulgated his scheme for carry.
ing on this war. He has promulgated it
in many essays and speeches, to one of
which parliamentary usage permits me to
refer, since it was not made in his place in
the Senate, He would not, it seems, trust
to the valor eff our armies and the skill of
our generals. We are, like the ancient
Britons, to call in an ally to fight our bat
ties for us; our ally isto be-the negro.
Southern men, it is said, fight and let
the negro till the ground we are to re.
verse this order The negroes are to do
our fighting for US; million of them are
to constitute our army In this pamphlet
of Mr.. Sumner the black muster.roll is
given. He says in his speech to the Re-
publican convention at Worcester
"Careful calculations demonstrate that
of this number there are upwards of one
million OF an age fer military service; that
in Virginia alone there are l2l ,564 male
slaves Of an age for military service"
If the distinguished gentlemen from
Missouri and Kentucky wish to know the
number of these black champions of the
civil liberties of white men in their re.
Spective States, they will find it set down
here. In conclusion, Mr. Sumner asks
this question:
"Caaa ICE a9ord to reject this natval
alliance, anSpired by q common Interest
@~d c0'Secrated By A"m@njY|
A noble lord once urged in the British
Parliament the employment of the Indians
against the British colonists in America.
lie said, this noble lord, that cit was per-
fectly justifable to use all the means which
God and nature had put into our hands"
Then, sir, the great Chatham rose and
blasted him with an eloquence that has
become immortal.
"That God and nature put into our
hands ! | know not what ideas Of God
and nature that noble lcrd may entertain
but l know that such deteslable principles |
are equally abhorrent to religion and hu,
manity. Such notions shock every pre-.
cept OF morality, every feeling of human.
ity, every sentiment of honor.
"Thcse abominable principles, and this
more abominable avowal of them, demand
the most decisive Indignation. l call upon
that reverend and this most learned bench
to vindicate the religion of their God, to
support the justice Qf their country" *
81 invoke the genius of the constitution.
"To send forth the merciess cannibal,
thirsting for blood, against whom Your
Protestant brethren? TO ley waste their
country, to desolate their dwellings, and
extripate their race and name by the aid
and instrumentality of these hell-hounds
OF war. | solemnly call upon your lord
ship and upon every order of men in the
State, to stamp upon this infamous proce.
dure the indelibio stigma of the public abb
horrence."
Sir, you will remember, too, that it is
the standing reproach of American history
against George III, that he called in the
Hessian against his British subjects. Yet
we are to call in the negro! Mr.. SUMNER
ask US, "can we afford to reject this natu.
raj alEaRce?' Why, if, indeed, with our
twenty millions we cannot cope with six; if
it is we who are in danger of extermina-
ton, then, perhaps, we cannot afford to
reject the allegiance with the negro. A
French marshal once smothered his enc
mies--men, women, and children-in
caves and when he was arraignod before
the public opinion of the world, he pleaded
necessity"
Now, sir, no man can set limits to ne
cessity, and no human intelligence can