Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-10-10

amendment Mr. Lincoln conceives that !
he can make no peace with the South ex-
cept one OF dsunion--ihat he must go on
with the war-and we know it can 60 on,
in his hands only as one OF emancipation
and irreguIarty, unless there he change
oil the influences which bear upon him.
Were he to srurn from him radical control
and with it radical support, he would break
his party in pieces. He says so himself in
acknowledging the "pressure" brought TO
bear upon him by extreme men There
are in his party both radical and conserva-
tive elements, but the former must domi-
nate therein, because they are most ear.
nest determined, active aud violent, Con.
seryatism allied 10 such an interest,
must yield to it and be ruled by ii The
Cowaas must give way to the Wilmots.
This fact renders it necessary to turn the
Republican party out OF power in order TO
a successful and satisfactory administration
Of the government, and until that can be
done, that here be brought TO bear upon it
the wholesome influence OF public opinion
through the State elections. A regeneration
OF its policy as a party, from the action OF
causes within itself, cannot be expec ed.
AS to no-partyism, to believe in it is ut
ter madness. There is no such thing and
there can be no such thing in this county,
so long as public affairs are considered and
pissed upon by the people in their sover-
eign capacity as electors. AT this moment,
there is not only party of opposition out
Of administration also; party for the oX'
isting policy, made up Of apologists and
upholders of all that is, and all that is to
be, in governmeut-of men whose dcvo.
ton to authority is comp lete and unques
tioning--t to whom Executive Proclamations
are the very Gospel oftruth and the Consti-
tuition of our fathers more obsolete th AN a
Mosaic dispensation. These are men whom
worshiping power are startled by no abuse,
offended by no outrage, appalled, by no
public calamity, who almost think great
debt great blessing, ard with true cour.
tier sycophancy proclaim loyalty to rulers
as the supreme virtue of the citizen. BY
their philosophy there can be only patriots
and traitors, no independents, no ncutrals,
all are destined for heaven or doomed to
hell. When to this clean-sweeping dogma
which exhausts the field Of debate-which
leaves nothing 10 be said upon classifca-
tion-it be added, that these philosophers
are themselves the patriots, it follows that
the character of all others dstinguishable
from them in position, is fixed as reprobate
and guilty No diversity Of thought is to
BIO permitted-no difference of opinion
no disscnt-no question-no hesitation or
doubt--silcnce even is guilt and to do
nothing is to commit crime These things
are not dreamed - they arc not recited
out of some book of horrors-they
are the current speech, the impassioncd
utterances of men in our midst-thc
discourses with which social lite and
social intercourse are regalcd,-' Join
US (this is the cry,) be with US,
think as we think, DO as we do, forget that
YOU loretold these horrible evils as results
of our policy and we secuted the warning;
forget that we had platforms which we
have falsifed, and made promises which
we have broken forget that YOU were
freemen before we mounted your backs,
and ruled you by DEGREES, and put you in
prison by telegraph, and sent you tax
gatherers to take you earnings and Pro-
vost Marshals to seize your sons for the
war Forget all this, and do our bidding,
and hold up our hands, and bid US G od-
speed--or--you are sece ssionists-trailors
-coppcrheads-worse than the enemy in
arms--and saved OF grace and not by merit
from most condign and pitiless punish
ment!
All this false and frantic declamaton on
clearly indicates a consciousness of wrong
! III tuG ucCiaIuleI5i SCuSC vi IcSpOuoiUll
ity, of error or guilt, in bringing upon
the country the enormous evils which
scourgo it. The man who feels himself
wrong in discussion which reviews his
conduct, is apt to lose his temper, and
bluster, and PROFOUND extravagant propo
sltions, and pour out abuse upon his an
tagonst, happy il he can thus hide hi;
own weakness and escape censure.
But whatever the inducing cause, thes'
are the uterance of the party in power
and they fix upon it character for vim
dictiveness which will cling to it forever
No other party of this country, has ever
shown such intoerance-such passion
malice, hatred and fury-as the Repub
lican; and its character in this respect i
as fixed and notorious as its practice o