Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-09-26

But You Don't Abuse the South.


This is the silly cry of the abolition
clans when speaking of the Democrats
You don't abuse the South !" Why |
don't we abuse the Southi Do we not
hourly, and daily, and weekly dencunce
all sectionalism Have we not denounced
it for years ; for hall century, All our
troubles lie in that one great act of treason
against government and law, sectionalism.
In denouncing that great political crime,
we strike at the root Of the disease-wo
strike at the branches-we strike at the
orgin-we strike at the trunk, and
were our strokes powerful enough to strike
into the hearts Of the guilty culprits who
have brought ruin and death into the land,
we would soon cure the patient and re-
store health and cheerfuness to the fam.
lily circle.
If the abolisionists, or now Union men"
par excellence, are not guilty, then our
blows do not light on them If they are
guilty, then we but do our duty in strik
ing them down with all others, wherever
found, guilty Of the same nigh treason
against States rights, constitutional gov
ernment and the peace of society. If
these abolition sgitatois, now ruling the
government in its evil and military cap.
acity, are alone the guilty ones, as they
would make it appear by such complaints
as the above, then our attacks are con-
fined to them and our strokes hit no one
else. Of this they can be the judges as
well as We. They have the same means
of information that we have, and it is their
fault not ours, if they are too ignorant or
too stubborn too understand.
We have for twenty years denounced all
that sort Of politics which had tendency
to array one portion Of the States against
other portions. We have for twenty
years denounced Massachusetts and South
Carolina in turn, and together. If we
ever or always believed Massachusetts,
more to blame than South Carolina, it was
a conclusion arrived at from the facts as
they transpired and were understood by us.
Living our whole life, or nearly so, here
right in the midst of the Northern divisi on
of this sectional contention, We may have
been little better acquainted with it than
those at the South-in its personal offen-
siveness. So far it is possible our fee :
ings may have been to some extent war
ped as would be natural in most such
cases but in dealing with the question as
one affecting the peace and stability of the
government--o ooking at the consequences
in the light of the sacrifice of great na-
ton and people to the Moloeh of sectional
disorder, we have neither personal nor
party feeling, other than those produced
| by reflection on the sad and horrible con.
sequences to all of US, innocent and guilty
alike. We have ever denounced-we
shall ever denounce, until our voice i:
stopped by death or the despotic force Of
Abraham Lincoln, all men, Of whatever
east o. section who continue to breed i'll
blood on geographical lines, and thus per.
petuate wars which a century will moi
heal, and for which three generations will
not escape mourning and sorrow. Why
men among us are wicked enough to en-
courage condition of things which is jus,
as certain ruin to them and their children
as to anybody else, is what we canno,
comprehend.
If they were ignorant two years age
when they got it up as, ga mere thre,
months job," they certainly ought now tC
be manly enough to acknowledge theil
error and their want of sense, and not at
tempt to impose upoa the people by o nev
sci of predictions and hopes just as ridicu
lous and futile as the first. No men, NJ
people no government can prosper on
basis of error-error in the eyes of al
nations and proven SO by all past histor!
errors in e'tmate in practice, in prin
ciple. False to truth--ialse to the en-
iightcnment of ages, and to the philosoph.
OF nature aud God.
Now, if our denunciation of error, igno
rance, wrong and outrage upon the insttu
tions under which we live, are more appli
cable to our political opponents here a
home than to anybody else, it is not an
business Of ours, but against those whor
we cast our anthemas. We shall certanl
not cease because the guilty complain, le
those guilty be found where they may
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Government is ours and we owe allegianc