Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-12-12
The True Objects of the War.

Ane lrue ObJeCts of the War.
1t is a subject of great astonishmen. 10
us thot the so-calIed Conservatives of the
North do not see, at a glance, the real
object OF this most unnatural war. They
surely had warnings enough of the coming
storm before it burst upon them; and il
certainly requires no miraculous vision
now to see amid the fierce rage of the
tempest that is upon us, the demon shapes
that are directing it. 1t was foreshadowed
in the speeches Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
and his premier, Mr.. VIM. H. SEWARD,
before the last Presidential election, when
they declared "that this country could not
remain much longer half slave and half
free" The very time when the irrepress-
ible conflict should secure it all for free.
dom was definitely fixed by the last men,
toned individual in the following sign;6-
cant sentence from one of his oampaion
speeches:
"7he nert Administration w;R deter.
mine the question as TO aohether fl eedom or
slavery Is 10 preUaI, and that in a ,cav
to settle The question Jorever."
The Republican press and orators now
do not hesitate to proclaim that the over.
throw of slavery is the object Of the war.
They do not hesitate to declare eyery-
where that it is high time our statesmen
began to understand that this. result of
emancipation is inevitable, and prepare to
meet the emergency. "Tell me the CON-
pany man keeps, and l will tell you what
manner of man he is, is truthful pro.
verb. The Administration from the first
has taken into its councils such leading
Abolitionists as Mr.. HORACE GREELEY.
Senator SUMNER, Governor ANDREWS
Governors DENNIsoN and BANKS, the Rev.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER, and Francis
z. BLAIR. These men are continually to
be found at Washington, and have ever
been honored with seat at the Cabinet
Board during the sessions of that body
On all matters of pressing moment, both
before and since the commencement of the
war, they have been consulted and have
projected movements of the War Depart
ment have been submitted to them for
their approval or disapproval. The official
favors of the Administration have been
levished, too, upon the extremists of this
class with no sparing hand. TO mention
but one instance That arch Abolitionist
Mr.. GIDDINds, to-day holds the place
Of Consul. General in Canada, the very
outlet of the former underground railway
he hbored SO hard to construct, and of
which he was the superintendent for many
years.
Some writer has very eloquently said
"The Roman republic was overthrown not
by CESAR and PoMpEY, but by the con-
dition of things that made CESAR and
PoMpEY possible And so some future
historian may have 10 say as he mourns
over the ruins of this republic, that it was
destroyed by the condition of affairs that
permitted such insane fanatics..as we have
named to become power in the State. -
The abolition power now in the ascendancy
at Washington, and that has precipitated
the country into all the fearful evils of
civil war cannot be despised as it was
few years ago. The cloud, so small when
it rose, now hangs like pail over the
very dome of the Capitol itself. Out of
that cloud proceed from time to time forked
lightnings, that are striking down one by
one all the monuments Of our former great
ness, and threatening to involve the whole
republic in one terrible and destructive
conAagration. The little band, whose
name was bye-word and reproach, has
now grown to be the party in power, +,
mastering its hundreds of thousands, and
enlisting all the remorseless energies of
New England fanaticism. 1t was this
power that like the deaf adder stopped its
cars to the voice of the charmer pleading
for peace in the last Congress. 1t is this
power to-day, that under the pretense Of
saviDg the Union, is enforcing its fanatical
designs in the abolition of slavery, and
promises to involve both North and South
in a common ruin.