Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-04-25
VOLUME 27

ponder them well and answ 10 his owl
conscience, as lie must answer to his final
Arbtet at tie great day, for tho manner
in which his actions shall be Influenced
by thcm in the terrible present, and in tho
gloomy and iorbodihg aspects of the
future.
When our patriot fathers id yHunder
Hall declared the American people free
and independent Of the British crown, and
pledged thclt lives, their lor,ues and theft
satrcd honor to make good their declara-
ticn, they spoke like freeman and pattiots
who had counted the cost of the bold post;
ton they had taken Before the world;
Amongst other grievances which they
truthfully charged against tie King Of
England, the following may be enumerat>
cd, viz: ale has affected to render tho
military independent Of, and superior to,
the civil power And is not similar Of.
iece committed against the rights Of the
people almost every dag, in otr midst, by
the men now in power at Washington =
'For imposing taxes on us without OUR
consent. Have the masses consented to
the enormous and unprecedented taxes
now levied upon them, much Of which
finds its way into the pockets of a huge
army of assessors, collectors, army contrac-
tors and shoddy spectators in the employ
of the Government "For dcpriving us,
in many cases, Of the benefit Of trial by
jury And here, too, the parallel
holds good to the very letter. And sol
might 60 on, m iufinifum, in tracing the
striking resemblance which the despotism
of the last century bears to that Of the
present-in both affecting the life, liberty
and happiness of the American citizen
Rut enough On this part Of my subject.
So far as conducting the Government
on constitutional principles, or carrying on
the war successfully tor the suppression Of
the rebellion, is concerned, the Admin
istration has been total failure, and such
it will continue to be to the end of the
chapter. The Abolition party has no
administrative abilities. 1t knows moth
ing, and can learn nothing. 1t is in the
last throes Of violent dissolution. 1t
was born in fraud, baptized in blood, and
will die in infamy. All the conservative
feeling of the country-all the instinct of
the Anglo Saxon racial the interests OF
| agriculture, commerce and manufactures
all the glorious traditions ofthe past his
tory, Of our country, are. against that Sec
tional political organization. In its favor
to be sure, are corrupt and unprincipled
politicians, who would sell the liberties of
their country lor place and power: sou.-
less contractors and heartless swindlers,
who bow down at the shrine of tho al
mighty grecnback the base and malignant
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shedding OF more blood in this carnival of
death; the insolent tyranny that would
assimilate conflicting opinions by the
bloody agency of the sword, and the still
more odious tyranny of the pulpit, that
would crush out the last remnant of civil
liberty by the establishment 5f d sanguin-
ary thcocracy which would rather the
white race should perish from the land
that liberty and equality, in the rartle of
God, and for the "adyancement of His
glory" shou be denied the "American
citizens of African descent"
The Abolition party cannot restore the
old Union if it would and would not ifit
could, 1t is impolcnt for good, and only
powerful for evil. This is apparent from
its whole history and was fully exempli-
fed by Thaddcus Stevens, the acknowl-
edged Administration leader in the last
Congress, in boldly avowing himself as
being upa'tcrably opposed to any rec n
struction Of the "Union as it was, with
the Constitution as it is," and this treason
able declaration was substantially repeat
! ed by him at u Republican meeting in the
city of Lancaster on Saturday evening
, Ia, l. u R,,,l.
in New York, and has been sanctioned by
all the Abolition papers North of Mason
} and DiXon's line.
. The party in power, therefore, have nci-
, thcr the ability nor INCLINATION, Judging
from their speeches and ac,s3 to restore
4 the Union of our fathers, or preserve
S American liberty. Its principles arc not
I those which lie at the base Of the Consti-
: tuton-not those which are founded on
y, right and iustico-but are only such dog
a mas as are incompatible with the mild and
y diffused governments Of the several States
t which made the nation what it wGs prior
5 10 the breaking out of this unnatural,
' lratricidal war. Rcpublicanism, says an
c able writer, in the sense attachel to the
9 word BY he Replb!i ans, be DIS inguishcd
C from the Democrats, is Incompatible with
t liberty. 1t ignores the rigAt TO disagree.
Il 1t will not tolerate adverse or ho, tile dis
/ cusSon. Ii profess against personal lib
o erty, 1t sets the theory above the fact
5 1t would render the drinking Of a glass ol
e wine in the State of Maine as great So
e eial sin, or public treason, as the holding
c of black man in bondage in South Car,
r olina or Virginia. 1t loudly asserts its
D, own freedom to do what it plcases,' but W I
- not allow dSsentient the same privilege
c. 1t would thrust its principles down the
&c throats ofrcculcitaants at the point of the
y bayonnt. With all its faults, it may sue
ie ceed in the effort to make nation of tht
n effort 10 make nation of the Northern
n people but if it does, it will be at the
al expense OF every constitutional right whicl
$ Americans, up to the outJui,t of lhi,
H. miserable war, were prou to uphold
Mt Leaving out Of view the negro question
- and all that relates to it, the prncip.es o