Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-05-23
Communications.
Philadelphia, May 18th, 1868.


Co.. Tate-That distinguished Consti.
tutional Democrat, ex-senator Wall, Of
New Jersey, addressed a densely jam
med audience at the Democratic head.
quarters on Walnut Street, LIST Saturday
evening. High as were pitched the ex-
pectatons Of the public, in view of the
great reputation of Senatar Wall, for abil-
ity and sound stirring eloquenco, those ex-
peotatons were fully met by the dis;in.
guishcd orator, and his honest, scathing
illusions to the political mcndacity Of this
administration were greeted with thunders
Of tumultuous applause. lie opened with
an allusiou to the threatening import Of
the circumstances which now beset the
very life of the Republic, and in well-cho-
sen, and burning sentences, went OH 10 de-
scribe the mo tives, character and history
Of the Black Republican party, charging
home upon them, with all the power OF a
vigorous mind, wounded by sense Of the
guilt of that faction in producing the pres.
cnt unhappy stac Of National affairs, its
exclusive responsibility sowing in other
years the fatal seed which have now ri.
peued into harvest of blood and Nation.
a desolation.
From this point he proceeded to show,
by unauswerable quotations from the Con-
gressional history, the efforts of Mr.
Douglass, Mr.. Crittenden, Mr.. Pugh,
and other Copperhead lovers of the good
old Constitution aud Union in the Senate
to avert the direful agonies of toll won
efforts which were frustrated by the det r
mined, uncomprimising tenacity Of Black
Republican Senators to plunge, from
mere party considerations, this great ma
ton into the red gulf of civil war, The
Crttcndcn Peace Resolutions, he showed
were endorsed by the Legislators of Vir-
gina and kentucky; were afterwards
submitted to Congress, but were met in
the Sena. By tie hostile cote Of every Re-
pujiicun Sen 0ior--and were thus killed,
though they received the support of every
Democratic and Southern Senator Thus
the last chance of averting civil war was
lost, and the consequences, in the shape
Of a broken nation, the multiplication Of
grave yards, the walls of countless wild
ows, an! the tears of beroaved orphans are
upon us,---all to insure future Black Re-
publican asccudaucy! It was acknowlodg-
ed by Senator Chandler Of Michigan, at
the time, in letter to Gov. Blair of his
State, (Which [ have before me,) that it
was "ncceSSary TO Getem tie poSSo ge Of the
peace resolutions IN 0rdcr to S4Ue tth Re.
p~dIican purity from rupture" What
was confessed there, is true o-day,-the
ret urn oI peace IS the signal of death to
that wicked fanatjcal action, which hyena-
like, lives by gnawing the bones Of our
slaughtered volunteers-and quonches its
Unsuitable thirst by drinking the blood of
its victims.
Mr.. Wall, concluded by an appeal to
history to show that hot by the agonies
of war can national fraternity be secured.
Upon this and kindred points he spoke at
gth-always logical, frequently impas-
stoned, and constitutional to the core. In
other words, it was first class Copper
head speech. for he preferred the Constitu-
ton to the Chicago Pla.form-the resto.
ration OF the Union to its destruction OF
reolganzation.
/ A large crowd was assembled on the
outside of the building during the deliv.
ering of the speech but the presence ot
the police and formidable admiXturo ot
hard Gsted Democrats restrained the tur'
bulence Of the Black Republican element
and confined it on this occasion, as it i
bound to do after October, within the lin
/ its of law and order, Mr.. W all, was es
cOlteu 10 LuC blIdIu iLONSCi llOhi tiS hull
by strong party of his friends, followed
by a gang Of Lincoln monarchists, VIII osC
courage failed to bring them up to th'
striking point. Their forbearance on this
as on another recent occasion, when tho
Office of the Age was the OBJECT, but no
the subject, of Republican vengcuce rather
an Illustration OF per sonal prudence thar
an evidence of any real respect for the sa
cred cause of law and order, All is qui
it now.
The city has been profoundly agiiatet
within the last few days, by our reverse'
on the Rappahannock. am more grievet
than surprised over these untoward results
The hot, uncalculating dash of Hooker
is no oubt as gratifying to the rebels as tc