Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-10-03


a man by cutting the heart out of his body
or we would have worked out our destruc-
tive purposes by nominating some mighty
contractor-one Of those rge-handed
robbers who are weakening the Govern
ment by depicting its Treasury and stuff
ing its money into their own big pockets
With such a man, welding all the power
and influence of this great Stare, the Gov
eminent surely could not last long. In
short, if we had any evil intent against
the Union, we would have taken any can.
ddate we could lay our hands on rather
than George w, Woodward, the Union
saver--the man Of upright character and
downright speech-whose hands are clean
of all crime, and whose pockets are empty
of all gains except what came there as the
just reward Of his honest labor.
Much as we honor and love him person
ally, it is not for his sake that we desire
10 make him Governor. Setting aside his
fidelity and ours 10 the National Govern
ment and Union, we could do something a
great deal more for his profit than that
Let him avow his apostacy from the faith
Of his fathers let him prostitute his con
science and his intellect to the purposes OF
Abolitionsm let him forget that he be-
longs to the Caucasian variety Of the hu
man species and enter the service of the
negro; let him make a few speeches to
show the superiority of the African over
the Saxon race let him contrive the ways
and means Of promoting negro insurrec-
tions, and always stand ready to take the
part of the negro right or wrong; above
all, let him denounce the Constitution as
it is, and curse the Union as it was let
him abandon the principles Of liberty i'll
which he was bred, and degrade himself
low enough to call every freeman traitor
who is not willing 10 be a slave. If he
will do this he may get contract on which
he can cheat the United States at the rate
of hundred thousand dollars MONTH
If his inexperience should make him awk
ward, and he should be detected and ex
posed SO that even his confed crates in
knavory are compelled to admit his guilt
there would stii be resource for him.
When the worst comes to the worst, we cal
get him a foreign mission-send him tc
cool his bushes in she SHOWS of Russia, OF
harden the bronze upon his check under
the hot sun of Spain.
But stealing the public money or tramp.
ling on the Constitution is not his idea o!
loyalty or yours either. He would re-
store the Union by dclcnding the Consti
tuion, by giving to the laws their JUS
supremacy by guarding the rights of the
people, and by driving off those obscene
birds Of prey that are now gorging them
selves on the PROSTATE carcass Of the ma
zion.
| knew there are those who think tha
, the Union can never he restored whC
, believe that the great gulf of blood ant
fire which now rolls between the North anC
the South has been made by this Admin
istration SO wide and so deep that it vii
| remain forever impassabe am not on
, of those who regard restoration as for
| lorn hope Every man who has sens
enough to know his right hand from hi
, left must believe that, if the Democrat
| party had been successful in 1860, thi
country would now have been united, pros
, porous, happy and Tranquil. The Amer
, lean flag would have waved over ever.
5 inch of our territory, "not one star ex
! tinguiShed nor one stripe erasod,' and n
, concession to the South would have bee
f made or needed beyond what was require
. by the Constitution or demanded by tina
. magnanimity which the stronger part.
r ought always show in its treatment of tn
weaker. AS our troubles began with tn
, advent of the Abolitionists to power, s.
I they will end when the people scourg
Q back that band of malignants to the OBJ
t scurity fron which they ought never t
. have emerged. The Democratic part
built up this Government, kept the Unio
, together for seventy five years, and wa
t always ready "to shield it and save it O
, perish there too." The same party vii
bring back the better days of the Repub
lie, and remove, if not Immediately, a
, least in process of time, that huge noun
, tain of sorrow which is now crushing tn
, life out of the country.
One thing is perfectly certain that
!, the Union is ever restored, it must be ol
the basis of the Constitution and laws
, ntbo, hama &c solyotion fo us thare is ION