Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-04-04
VOLUME 27

ling 10 submit to its benign, its healthful
and its peaceful sway, we will hold out
the olive branch Of peace. And here i
will say to YOU, sir, land in saying it I
feel that | express The opinion of the great
Democratic party Of this State,) that VIC
believe, and will ever believe, that the
laws which have been passed by the Con-
gress just ended--the con6scation and
other acts which have steeled the heart OF
the people of the South-there is no such
thing as a Union man left in those States
now engaged in rebellion, and we tell you
that we intond to melt the heart of that
people by repeating your unjust, your uu-
coustt .tonal laws; and, when tits melt
ed, we expect out of that heart TO bring
peace and happiness to the people North
and South. We say to you, Mr.. Speaker
that We do not believe it is in the power
/ of twenty millions Of men to subdue and
bring back that people, unless you have
among them allies who are attached 10
! toy your cause, devoted to the principles Of
the Constitution and its guarantees, and
desiring, its protection that you can
! never, never exterminatc or subiugate
| them.
But we tell you, sir, that if you will do
only what the Con,titution and the prin~
cples springing from it demand, on every
hi'l and in every valley there will be rails.
ed up allies Tor our assistance, The lead
ers who desire place and power may be
against us, but when the people of the
South, recollec.ing the gories of the past,
and looking to those of the future, feel
that every right is to be guaranteed, every
! privll cge restored to them then, as I be.
lieve in my God, believe that they will
| come back TO the Constitution of the old
Government and to the Union. tell you
now, Mr.. Speaker, that all the blood, all
! the treasure you have spent or may spend,
will be in vain, unless you repeal the un-
! constitutional, oppressive, tyranncal laws
which were enacted by the last Congress-
and | will say in passing that | believe
Ithe Supreme Arbiter being my judgc)
that if that Con. ress had never met, or if,
having met they had simply voted appro-
priatlons and dissolved leaving the whole
question to be settled under the resolution
adopted in July, 1861, shis contest would
ere now have been settled, and at this day
we would be enjoying unity, peace and
amity. Upon the heads OF those who
prevented such action-upon the heads of
the wen who enacted those unconstitution-
al and damnabIe laws, and did everything
in their power to combine the southern
heart against us, io' ever be the curse of the
blood and mourning that fill this land If
the demon of destruction and hate--if the
father of evil himself could have been there
debating their counsels, actuating them
10 deeds which must result in the utter dis
memberment OF this Union, he could not
more thoroughly have effected his hellish
purpose than it has been effected by the
dominant majority in the Senate and in
the House during the last Congress And
when the history of these times comes to
be written, (and | pray to God that the
historian Of this era may not be obliged
to write Of the decline and fall of the
American Republic, but that he may only
write Of its trials past and present and of
its tutnrc greatness,) he will record the
hour when the nation came so near to des-
oiaton and DEATH and he will ascrbe the
disasters of that hour to the unremitted,
persistent, dabolical Vaccinations of Alb
olitonists in and out OF the last Congress.
Such historian if he has the philosophy
OF Hume--if he has his far-secing penetra-
ton, and can trace effects from causes, can.
not tail in the contemplative hour Of the
future to say what l say at this moment,
that to them solely and sheerly belongs
the terrible calamity that still darkens
and enshrouds this land. In concIu-
sion, sir, what do we propose to de-
; clare by voting against this resolution
We propose to say that no one who has
been the instrument, the partaker, the sup.
!; porter of these tyranical these unconsttu-
tional, these arbitrary measures which have
fused the Southern heart and divided our
5 Own, shall be heard from the capital of this
, State. We propose to say that We will
not listen to him as body representing
the pcop'e Of this State we propose to
say that the verdict Of the people of the
State at the last election was against all
such dannabe heresies We mean to tell
you, gentlemen, that although We have not
majority here, we have it on the other
side Of this hall, and we have it among the
people. We mean to tell you that that
majority counted by three thousand last
year will be ten times three thousand at the
next election We mean to tell you
that we are going to bring you back 10 the
cause Of the Constitution and the Union.
We mean to tell you that we are going to
use the sword and the olive branch in
settling this dfieulty-that whether north
or south, we viii use the sword upon those
who are opposed to the Constituton-that
we will not allow any person, whether in
the south or in the north to destroy, to
disregard, to ignore or to set at defiance
the Con stitution of the United States.
We mean to tell you that the same law
which is to be obcyed at the South is to
be obeyed at the North The people are
with US, and by the grace of God and tho
voice ofthc people, before niue months roll
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