Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-03-14
Letter from a Judge Of The United
states supreme Court.


Court Of the United States. We remem-
Der distinctly that, when the appointment
was announced, the question was asked by
almost everybody. who is Daniel IS.
Miller 2 He was man unknown to
fame, and the general impression was that
'lonest Abe had elevated to the high
est legal tribunal ol the nation an old crony
Of his with whom he had been accustomed
to crack jokes during the court term in
the western districts. at length we learn
something Of the man from himself. Ii
we cannot ascertain ache lie is, we are at
least informed Uhat he is sand the infor
nation is satisfactory to u.s. If Judge
Miller is as sound lawyer as he is
politician, we must give the President cred
it for having made one good appointment
The Judge, in letter dated "keokuk,
Iowa Nov. IL, 1862" declining on ac-
count of his professional engagements to
attend 'grand jubilee Of the friends OF
Constitutional liberty and Of the Union"
thus declares his sentiments
The recent elections have gladdened
my heart more then can find language
to express for feel that by the success Of
the Democr acy we shall have speedy re-
storation Of the Union and Constitutional
! liberty.
am an old Clay Wing, as you all know
ard when that party went down, | united
with the Republicans, in the hope and be-
! lice that succeed to all the loyal and ma
tional virtues of the Whig party, and that
we would have Whig principles and policy
prevail under another name. But 1 got
more than I bareained for. 1t was not
in the covenant that we should have civil
war as a consequence Of Republican sue.
cess that the public treasury was to be
plundered by Wholesale: that "fr ee soil
in loyal States should be covered with
martial law that "free speech" should
be chained in the dungeons of the bastile /;
that free homes should be sacked 70 desc
laton, and the free men should be confn
ed in its practical application to the ne
grocs of the South, and the Abolition wing
Of the Republican party at the NORTH
No! We old Whigs, in uniting with the
Republican party, did not consent to be
party to any such violations Of Const ttu
tional liberty.
Had the counsels of Gen. Scott, MIlard
Fillmore, John j. Crittenden, Stephen
A. Douglas and indeed of all the wise and
good men Of our nation been needed, we
would not now be afflicted with the civil
war that is upon US. They could not have
prevented South Carolina from her at
tempt at revolution, but the Crittenden
proposition would have saved all the rest
of the Southern States, and long before
this, at triaing expense of money, and at
small loss Of life, the rcbellious States
would have been humbled before the flag
of the Union.
! But how did the phrcnzy of the Aboli'
ton leaders meet that proposition! They
said away with it, away with it, and
cruelty all who administer it. They turth-
er said, leave the slave States 60! We
can do without them, and we will speedily
reap the advantages of scparation.-
When the conservative element of the
nation proclaimed itself for the Union,
then the Aboliionists assumed that they
were the war party, and denounced all
others as rebel sympathizers.
That the Aboltionists are in favor of
prosecuting the war for their love oftheUn
ion l am sure it snot the case. Their object
is to abolish slavery 0nly, and if that
should fail they will again speedily raise
their old cry of "1et the Union sllde."
Gcntlemcn,it is is the mission of the
Democratic party to save tho Union.
1t has always been loyal and national
party it has ever upheld Constitutional
law as the only safeguard of freedom. II
was the party that hurled from power the
authors of the alien and sedition laws, six
ty years ago, and for all that period they
guided our ship of State successfully and
gloriously through the waves of civil com
motion and the dangers of foreign wars
Iregard the Clay Wing party, and the
Douglas Democracy as genuine branches
of the old Democratic party OF 1888
When l see Gen. Scott and Millar(
Fillmore, and Crittenden, and Ketchum
and Hunt, and all the old prominen
Wings of twenty five years ago, now un
tied at the polls with the Democracy,
, can have no doubt thatsif the immorts
g sage Of Ashland, that purest of patriots
a most eloquent of orators, and wisest
statesmen, Henry Clay, we're still alive an