Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-31

learned u from Onatnomi MY loTds,
you canact conquer America" And you
have not conquered the South. You new
er will. II is not in the nature of things
possible much less under your auspices.
But money yuo haveexpended without limit,
and blood poured out like water, Defeat,
debt, taxation, sepulchres, these are your
trophies. In vain the people gave you
treasure aud the soldier yielded up
his life. eight, tax, emancipatc, let
these" said the gentleman from Maine,
Mr. Pike,l at the last session, "be the
.Tinity of our salvation" Sir, they have
become the trinity of your deep damaton.
The war for the Union is, in your hands,
most bloody aud costly failure The
President confessed it on the 22d Of Sep.
tember, solemnly, and under broad seal
of the United States. And he has now
repeated the confession. The priests and
rabbis Of abolition taught him that God
would not prosper such cause. War
for the Onion was abandoned war tor the
negro openly begun, and with stronger
battalions than before. With what sue
cessY Let the dead at Fredericksburg
and Vi,ksburg answer.
And pow, sir, can this war continue
Whence she money to carry it on 3
Where the men ! Can you borrow !!
From waom Can you tax more Will
the people bear it! Wait till you have
collected vhat is already levied How
many millions more of "legal tender"--
to-day forty y-seven per cent. below the
par of gold--can you Aoat! Will men
enlist now at any price Ah, sir, it is
easier to die at home. l beg pardon
'but trust ana not "discouraging enlist.
'ments," If am, then first arrest Lincoln,
Stanton, and Halleck, and some of your
other generals; and will retract; yes,
/ will recant. But can you draft again :?
Ask new England-New York. Ask
Massach husetts. Where are the nine
hundred thousand Ask not Ohio-the
North vast, She thought you were in
earnest, and gave you all, all-more than
you demanded.
"The wife whose babe first smiled that day,
The fair, fond bride of yester eve,
And aged sire and natr gray,
Saw the loved warriors haste kway,
And deemed it sin 10 greve-"
Sir, in blood she has atoned for her
s-reduity and now there is morning in
every house, and distress and sadness in
every heart. Shall she give you any
more2
But oughtsthis war to continue? [ answer,
mo-not day, not an hour. What then
Shall we separate? And answer, no,
mo, no! What then! And now, sir,
come to the grandest and most solemn
problem of statemanship from the begin
ming of time; and to the God of Heaven
'Siiuuiner of hearts and minds, l wonld
humbly appeal f,r some measure, at last,
of light and wisdom and strength to ex-
piope and reveal the. dark but possible
4uturetof this land
sCAN THE UNION OF THESE STAIRS BE RE-
STOCKED? ? HOW SHALL 1T DE DONE!
And why not! 1t is historically i'm
possible! ! Sir, the frequent civil wars and
conflicts between the States of Greece did
mot prevent their cordial union to resist
the Persian invasion; nor did even the
thirty years Peloponnesian war spring.
ing, in part, from the abduction Of slaves,
aud embittered and disastrous, as it was
let Thucidides speak-wholly destroy
the fellowship of those States. The wise
Romans ended the three years social war
a&er many bloody battles, and much at
troelty, by admitting the States Of Italy
sts allthe rights and privileges Of Roman
ciIizenshp-the very object to secure
which these States had taken up arms.
| he border wars between Scotland and
England running through centuries, did
mot prevent the final union, in peace and
by adjustments, of the two kingdoms un.
der one monarch. Compromise did OF
last what ages of coercion and attempted
conquest had failed to effect England
kept the crown, while Scotland gave the
king to wear it; and the memories OF
Wallace and.the Bruce of Bannockburn,
became part Of the glories of British his
tory. dass by the union OF Ireland
with England-a union of force, which
God and just men sbhor; and yet pre-
,cisely "the Union as il should be, OF
the ubohtionists of America. Sir, the
rivalfies OF the houses of York and Ian
caster filed all England with cruelty and
slaughter; yet compromise and lHtermar-
Iiage ended the strife at last, and the white
rose and the red were blended in one
Who dreamed month before the death
of Cromwell that in ewo years the people
of England, after twenty years OF civil
war aud usurpalion, would, with great
aranmity, restore the house Of Steward
in the person OF IT'S most worthless prince,
whose father but eleven years before they
had beheaded And who could have
foretold in the beginning of 1912, that
within some three years, Napoleon would
be ia exile upon desert island, and the
Bourbcns restored ! Armed foreign inter-
vention did it; but it is a strange history.
Or who then expected to see nephew of
Napoleon, thirty five years later, with the
consent of the people, supplant the BOur-
bon and reign Emperor of France! Sir,
many States and people, once separate,
have become united in the course of ages
through naturaleauses and without con-
quest; but | remember single instance