Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-02-14
Tho Recognition Of the South
ern COntederacV.

1t must be clear to every impartial read.
or of the public press that there is strong
feeling among the aboliionists both in and
out OF Congress in favor Of a recognition
of the Southern Coufederacy. From time
to time, certain members Of that party
have boldly announced the suppression of
the rebellion an impossibility, aud that
sooner or later, we would be compelled
to acknowledge the independence of the
South. dissolution of the Union exis-
ting bets the slave and non slave hold
ing States, has always been favorite
measure with the aboitionis:, who have
declared their willingness "to let the
Union slide" This view Of our diilicul
ties was taken by the New York Tribune,
November 9th, 1850, in which the editor
OF that paper SAID
"lf the cotton States shall become spt-
ioied that they can do better out of the
Union than in it, jOe insist or iGt,Rg them
go a~peoce. The right to secede may be
u revolutionary one but it exists novcrthe-
less. We must ever resist the right of
any state to remain in the Union and mil
lify or defy tie laws thereof. To with.
draw from the Union is quite another mot.
ter ; aud whenever a considerable section
t our Union shall deliberately resolve to
go ont, '0e staHrssi@ aH cOerciDe aaasguycs
u keep them az. We hope never to live
IN Republic whereof one section is pinn.
ed 10 another by bayonets.'
Again, in the New York Yribuoe Of
February 23l 1861, VIC End he follow.
ing:
owe have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist. that the great principles en-
bodied by JEFF 'rson in the Declaration of
American Independence, that governments
derive their just powers from the con ent
oi the governed, Is sound and just and
that, If the slave States, the cotton States,
OF the Gulf States only, choose 10 form
an Independent nation, ttey Aa0e cleDr
mor0i ,igM 10 do So"
On the 18Th OF December, 1862, Judge
Conway, the notorious aboli,ionist of Kap
sas, introduced the following among o.ier
resolutions in thc House OF CorgrpS;
tRejolcea, That it is mattpr.or serious
reflection, whether another election Tor I
President must not super'eno before the
rightlul authority ur tle nalon can be
established and wlether in the mean
time, it is not a figrant waste OF our en-
erries 60 copt;.ue the war.
Reso1rea hat unless the army Of the
West slall have swept through the valley
of tb. Mississippi to its mouth, and the
ar.nv of the Potomac annihiIa'ed the lc.
gions of Lee and Jackson, thus subvert-
ing The military power Of the rebellion
within a reasonable time, the best inter
,sts Of the country and huma nifty will re-
quire cessation Of hosli.itics.
The declarations OF Horace Greeley,
tao resolutions of Jud sc Conway, and the
statement of Simon Cameron to Dr. Boyer
of the State Legislature, clearly estab-
lishes the fact that there Is a movement
On the part Of the abolition party, hav-
ing for its object the recognition of the
Southern Confodcracy. The question is
being brought before the public quietly
and cautiously for the purpose Of prepar- .
ing the public mind for such movement
on the part Of the present administration
The passage Of the negro army bill looks
to US very much as il the declaration OF
Cameron that ".NOtiins IS mare ce,tuin {
fhnl that Mc Sonh aOH gan her inac.-
was very likely to be realized
We have felt it our duty to call the attcn-
lion of our readers to the reasonable eff
forts OF leading aboltonists to dissolve the
Union, and to destroy the government
Their professions OF Patriotism are as
idle as the wind. No men or set of men
who violate the Constitution of the United ,
States are either loyal or patriotic. An i
abolitionist is Il disunionist. and deserves I
to be treated as traitor. u aen this i'm
beetle administratio shall have given !
place to a Democratic Administration,
which it will do in two years from this I
time, the aboltionst will be dealt with ac-
cording to their sins.