Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-05-16
Communications.
For the Columbia Democrat
Philadelphia, May 8, 1868.

Philadelphia, May 8, 1868.
Col. TATE If agreeable to you l
will, during the summer, as I may have
leisure, occasionally trouble you with
letter from Philadelphia, in which | will
ondoavor to keep the readers oltho "Dcm.
ocrat" posted with regard to matters and
things here.
Our ward organizations are complete
our friends have already assumed the har
ness of battle, and mean to do their part
in the advancement of the great Consttu-
tional victory which surely awaits them
in October. Let me warn our interior
| friends to look well to their wel-won lau-
rels, lest they bleach in the presence of
our efforts and SUCCESSES next autumn.
Beside the organizations already men.
toned, addresses are delivered on each
Saturday evening, by our utlcst Demo.
cratic orators, with an occasional speech,
by Others frcm distance. Three Of the
ablcst and most patliotic addresses to
which ever had the pleasure oflistening,
were from Charles Ingersoll, Esq, Hon
George W. B.ddle, and Geo. NJ. Wharton
Esq.,-distinguished Democratic leaders
here, which hope to see published in one
pamphlet, in form suitable for popular
circulation. Cool, fearless, able, and pa.
triotic-calculated to assuase, rather than
infamc the public mind---gravely and in
trepidly defiant Of administration mena-
ees, and sternly eloquent in defense of the
Constitution and the Union, these three
great speeches deserve the very widest cir
culation it is possible to give them
On Saturday evening next, ex-senator
Wall, of New Jersey, is to address the
club. Mr.. Wall, your readers will rec
collect, has had some experience as vic
tim Of administration tyrany-having en-
dured q protracted incarceration for pre-
!, fering the sacred principles of the Const
tuition, to the wild and ianciul theories Of
the Chicago platform. shall not fail, if
you please, in my next, to give you as full
a synopsis of his speech as Jour limits
will justify. Much is expected from him,
} and Mr. Wall never disappoints the pub
lie expectation.
As write, our streets are filled with
cries OF "yere's the hextra Ledger-great
victory on the Rappahannock r'-pro-
cceding from the well-worn throats of our
news boys. It's understood that our for
ccs have won import ant advantages over
the rebel army. While l hope these re-
ports may, in tho end, prove to be true,
} cannot a, Constitutional "Copperhead'
thank this reckless, woolly headed Admin
istration for divcrting the efforts of our he
roic regiments from their legitimate pur.
pose and desire to battle for the Union s.
the Constitution to the baser purpose Of
giving vitality 10 decaying abolitonism,
} and sharpening the teeth Of New England
fanaticlsm. The experience of the past,
| admonis!es us not to place too implicit
reliance in first telegraphic reports, issued
ia the advance Of progressing battle
However, before this reaches you, you
= will be in possession of all the particulars.
| have nothing, my dear Colonel. of a
local nature worth communicating, exc pit
to say that your Democratic friend, G Col
Ottenkirk, ofthe Exchange Hotel, II Dock
Street, desires to be remembered 10 you,
and wishes to see at his incom parable Ho-
tel as many Of the good people Of your
county as desire the most comfortable
gu arters at reasonable rates, as may have
occasion to visit Philadelphia.
: I hope you will pardon the rather dis
coursive nature of this letter. My next
shall be better. In the meantime, allow
me to close this by congratulating Yourself
and the readers of the democrat" on the
brilliant prospect now before them of soon
taking from the incompetent hands of this
: Administration the reins fpower.
2 Truly
! VIZ