Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-08-22

ment-leaders who openly inculcated con-
tempt for the Constitution, contempt for
the Supreme Court, and professed to fol-
low "higher law" Thus the fame of
revolution at the South was kindled and
fed with fuel furnished by the Abolition
lists. 1t might seem superfuous to advert
now to what is past and irrevocable, were
it not that it is against the same men and
the same influences, still dominant in the
councils Of the Administration, that an ap-
peal 10 now to be made to the intelligence
Of the people. The Abolitionists depre-
cate these illusions to the past, To cover
up their own tracks, they invite us to
spend all our Indignation upon "South
ern traitors !" but truth compels US to add,
that in the race oil treason, the Northern |
traitors to the Constitution had the start |
They tell us that slavery was the cause of
the war therefore, the Union is to be re-
stored by waging war upon Slavery
: This is not true or only true in the sense
that any institution, civil or religious, may
be cause of war, if war is made upon it
Nor is it a just conclusion that if you take
from your neighbor his "man-servant or
; his maid, or anything that is his" you
will thus establish harmony between you.
No danger to the Union arose from slav
, cry whilst the people of each State dealt
calmly and intelligently with the question
within their own State limits. Where
. little Importance attached to it, it soon
y yielded to moral and economical consid
0 erations, leaving the negro in position OF
social and political subordination n where
more clearly marked than in the Consti-
tuition and laws of Pennsylvania. The
y strife began when people in States where
. it was an immaterial question undertook
n to prescribe the course of duty upen it to
l. States in which it was question oil great
importance and difficulty. This inter.
it ference became more dangerous when at
y tempts were made to use the power of the
e General Government, instituted for the
Q, benefit of all the States, TO the injury and
# prescription of the interests of some of the
l. States. 1t was not merely danger to
l. the institution Of slavery, but to our whole
political system, in which separate and
10 distinct colonies became, by the Declara-
pt ton of Independence, Stree and indcpend
ot ent States," and afterwards established q
n Federal Union under the Constitution o
"a the United States. That instrument, ,witl
y scrupulous care, discriminates the powers
n delegated 10 the General Governmen
b. from those reserved "to the States re-
le spectively, or to the people, And let i
u be noted, that in speaking of the power
w. so delegated and reserved, we refer to n
vague doctrines or pretensions, but to thc
II, clear provisions OF the written instrumen
be which it is the duty of every citizen, anc
nd especially of every public functionary, t.
no respect and maintain. The protection o
ne American liberty against the encroach
m ments of Capitalization was left 10 tn
ID States by the trainers of the Constitution
ID. Hamilton, the most indulgent oil them t
th Federal power, says :-"lt may be safel
he received as an axiom in our political sys
no TEN, that the State Governments will, i
lb- all possible contingencies, afford complet
lily security against invasions of public libert
Nn by the national authority" Who can
p. blind to the consequences that have 70
IN, lowed the departure from the true pril
ciples OF our Government "Abolition
cts vies with "seecession' in sapping the vel
"a foundations oil the structure reared by oil
forefathers. In Pennsylvania, the part
70. on whose acts you will pass at the balo
ith box has trampled upon the great rights
lg- personal liberty and the freedom Of ii
ng, press, which every man who can rea
ou' NAV fipd asserted in the Constitution
inS the State and the Constitution of the Un
ted States. The dignity of our Common
.a.- wealth has been nsulted in the outrag
of perpetratod upon her citizens. At Phil
% delphia and at Harrisburg, proprietors
90 newspapers have been seized at nidnig
uos and hurried off to military prisons beyol
90 the limits of the State. Against acts Ill
ox. these, perpetrated before the eyes of Il
the municipal and State authorities, there
,en neither protection nor redress. II
on, seizure of journal at West Chester W
inc afterwards the subject of a suit for dar
on ages in the Supreme court of Pennsylvani
lri- 1t came 10 trial before Chief Justice Lo'
cry rie. Rehearsing the ancient principles
we English and American justice, he co
ist, demned the acts of the Federal ficers
,pi- violations of the law that binds alike {
ern private citizen and the public function'
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