Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-03-07

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Gratis in my Judgment, safely calculate that
they can take issue on any of hundred
necessary incidents of the war, and defeat
their opponents BY large majority.
THE PROCLAMATION A FAILURE
Many suppose that the effect Of the
proclamation Of emancipation will be to so
thoroughly, speedily aud completely ami.
hilate the extripate slavery, that the slave.
holders will have no longer a motive to
act together. This Is an egregious mis-.
take. The proclamation will have no sich
effect. It's co stilutouality is denied. 1t
is still unsXecated, and dts validity unde-
tormiued The whole subject is yet open
to debate and fin settlement. The
judiciary Department is to render its de-
clslon upon it; and, in the meastime, it is
to be the controlling issue in popua ar
election Tor President. This state OF things
will undoubtedly inspire the Shareholders
with more reso ute purpose than ever
Their fort will not as heretofore, he to
prevent the Aboiitioni>ts from freeing their
S ayes; as distant and speculative pro-
p sition, but to rescue him from the grasp
Of tue enemy already actra " laid upon
him. 1t will llrcdouble their will and bring
out every latent energy.
SUMNER IitS MAGNUS APOLLO.
The Senator from Massachusetts, Nr
SUuncr,) who has lately teen re elected
10 serve another term of six years IN the
body he has oug adorned, shoud. in this
crisis point as to the proper actioo. Iii
purely Northern character, his grert abjli
lies, his lofty aspirations, his sdcrif e. for
freedom, the entire confidence ot his
State 50 sp5ntancously bestowed u on
him and tuat State the uob,est in America
---al single him out as one authorized and
required to speak with a decisive voice on
this great occasion.
There aye also in this House gentlemen
whose words on this mem nt1us theme the
country viii listen TO with intense interest
The honorable omJer from Pennsylyauia
(Nr. Thadd3us Stcyons,) one of he truly
great men OF America full Of learning
aoi wisdom tried by long years ofardaous
service in this cause, who has never falter-
ed and is now re elected in his District
by oyerwhcIm n numbers, stands torero t
among those Of whom tho nation Til ex.
p2ct deiveranae from the dangers which
encompass it. Let those men and such as
these, speak aud tell the country Wdat to
d. in this hour Of traasccalonl peri.
Nevertheless, | cannot rcst.ain from
expressing nay indiyi ual opinion that the
true policy O., the North is to terminate tbs
war at once. The LONGER il continues. tic
worse our situation becomes. Let the two
Houses Of Congress adopt the following
resolutions:
& HReso'0e} by the Senate and House of
Representatives," &c, That the executive
he and he is hereby requested to Issue Il
general ord = to all commanders Of force,
in the several military departments Of the
United States to discontinue of,nsivo opc-
ratioas against the enemy, and to act loi
the future entirely on the defensive,
re, olged, That the Executive be, and he
is further requested to entor into ncqotia
tions with the authorities Of the Confeder
ate States with reference to a cessas9n o.
hostililias, based on the following proposi.
tjoas: |. Recognition OF the indepe peodenc,
Of the Confedor tie States. 2. 4 uniform
system Of duties upon imports. 3. Free
trade b tween tho two States. Free
navigation of the Mississippi river. S
N utual adoption o. the Monroe doctrine.
CAN LIVE TOGETHER.
entirely disagree with those who as
sert that it is impossible that the NortI
and South could live peaceably side b
side, because there are no natural bounda
ries between the two, scuh as me Rocky
Mountains or the Atlantic Ocean. I'h
is a bugbcar with which wo impose upol
ourselves, The people OF the North anc
South can never become jJreign H@iio1
to each other in the sense in which th
French and English or Russians are, go
They are sprung frcm the same origin
speak the same language, possess com
mon literature, inherit similar politics ant
religious views, and inhabt regions closel,
connected by natural and artificial ties sos
They will, therefore, beth be Away
American, The only great diiferenc
between them is OF social and politica
nature, that which arises from the exist
ence Of African slavery in one and its alb
seuce in the other.
This fact, however, offers no obst'ci
whatever to such a separation as is irvoly
ed in independent political jurisdiction; o
the contrary. it greatly facilitates it,
Before the Federal Uuion was establish
, ed all the States were indep ndcn', an
associated ugder Articles Of Confederate
: in the nature Of treaty, The argument
now adduced to show the impractlcabilit
, OF present separation between the Mort
| and South, go with equal force to prov
the impossibllity Of what then actually e.
lated and was accepted in the case OF Il
thirteen original States of the Union -
q The latter stood toward each ohcl pr
! cisely as the North aud South would stal
, should they stop the war and enter IN
treaty, 1t would simply be resolving tt
+ North and the south into Couiedera
States, resumieg, as to them, the old BIS
nF tka IoDF,A,rotiOn Vbi. \VOuld hp II