Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-11-07
'lrrcvocabIe Separation the Paramount
Political Good"
tFrom tho Richmond Examiner, Oct. 24l

the side oil war and the administration
have been elected by large majorities.-
vallandigham i, crushed out and his pol
10y of "peace democracy" along with him.
1t goes as we expected.
Repeatedly, in the Enquirer, we have
demonstrated that among our Yankee en-.
emies there was no difference to us that
the democrats were equally our eneh?ie:
with the republicans, that the "copper-
head movement, with all its Knights OF
the Golden Circle, was merely contri-
vance for bringing back the democratic
party into power, and that Immediately on
that happy event the peace democrats
would all be war democrats. The busi-
ness of that country is war /; by war they
live and move. The credit of their cur.
rent money, and its power to purchase the
necessaries of life, depend entirely upon
war the income and daily bread of each
family is derived from the war; therefore
all principles and policies yield to the
grand principle and policy of war. Ar.
IDENTIFY as democrats and copperheads de-
sire to have for themselves the manage.
ment of the national business, and the
handling of the national money, yet they
all know that they cannot do without the
war at all. Therefore It was by skifully
representing that the vigorous prosecution
of the war would be impaired by any con.
demnation of the Presidents present poll
cy that the populations of those two dem
ocratic States have been induced even to
forego their party interests and predlcc-
tions, even to renounce the hope of Office
and spoils, and to swallow black republi-
canism whole-subjugation, abolition and
all-rather than weaken the hands of the
war administration.
This result, be it matter of regret or
otherwise, was inevitable at the present
stage of the affair. The war fever, like
any other malady, had to go through al!
its range of symptoms and reach its crisis
in the regular way. 1t was not to be
hoped that while the patient was yet pleth-
oric and full of bloc the fever would sud-
denly abatc of itself. The Yankee nation
is still in the wild, unrestrained enjoyment
of an artificial prosperity. New York
city, as we learn from its press, was never
so luxurious and extravagant, never so
abandoned to pleasure and license. On a
certain fine day last week, says the Her.
aid, over six thousand carriages were
counted in the Central Park on the same
day all the hotels of the city were full to
overaowing, and the streets were almost
impossible from the throng of conveyan
ces and pedestrians railroad and canal
stock have advanced far beyond all former
experience; tho mighty hosts of contrac-
tors, naval and military, have thet hands
full, and manufacturers are paying fabulous
wages. The whole land has it, veins in
jected, swelling and throbbing with un-
natural life and in full career of its war;
like passion, all goes merry as marriage
bell. Was it in human nature that this
delirious fever patient should subside all
at once, before the ninth day, into cool
refreshing sleep, and awake whole and
sound.
Neither is the continuance of the par
oxysm thing to be regretted, because the
longer and more vehement the excitement
the more utter and prostra.ing will be the
collapse. All that high wrought life is
false, morbid and hectic; it is not health
but mortal disease, and the patient must
Gather die of it, or else, after hard strug-
gle and absolute exhaustion, slowly recov-
er, a sadder and wiser man.
The whole of that imposing structure,
standing so fair and sumptuous in the en-
emy's country, is house built on sand,
or rather on paper. The longer they
can prop and shore it up-building addi.
tional stories on it all the whie-the great
er will be the fall thereof. When it shall
have fallen down hideous wreck, when
national bankruptcy shall have come, and
further disruption of States, and civil war
and anarchy (the consequences of bank
rupcy) then, and not till then, we will see
an end of the war.
And it is better SO. To make sure that
our separation, as to distinct political COM
munitIes, be complete and eternal, it is,
perhaps, needful that the war be fought to
the very end that is to say, to the entire
destruction of the Yankee nation. The
longer they carry en- the war, and the
more atrocous they make it, the more i'm
possible it will be that there should ever
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