Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-06-13
Philadelphia Correspondence.
PHILADELPHIA, June /, 1858.

for pastmo in the columns of the CoLUM
DTA DEMOCRAT.
This is the night which is 10 witness, nc
doubt one of the greatest, most earnest
GATHERINGS of the people ever assembled in
the city Of Philadelphia. 1t is drawn to.
gethor i'll defence Of the grand old Demo
cratic elementary principles of free speech
free press, and the involablity of loyal
citizenship. 1t meets to oppose, in a con-
stitutional way, the alarming aggressions
which this dusky administration is making
upon the dearest rights of the people
ghts which were S,Dp9Sea 10 have been
vindicated on the sacred battle-felds Of
the kevolution-consecrated by the best
| blood ever shed in the cause Of human
| freedom-meets in defence of the great
| principles of the Constituton-meetS to
promote, so far as it can legitimately so
do, the healing of those wanton wounds
inflicted by the dirk-knives Of Black Re.
publican demagogues in years gone by,
upon the body of the Republic, which
Democrats ever loved, but which Black
Republican Chandler, Senator from Mich
! igan, in u letter to the Governor Of his
State, written whilst patriots were strug-
Cling to avert this war in the winter of
i660-6l, that "it would not be UOWh q
curse without a little blood letting" to
defend the Union and the Constitution.
At the moment of this present writing,
g o'clock, p NO. rumors are floating
through our streets Of intended mischief
at the hands of Mr.. Lincoln S emissaries.
do not share in those apprehensions, but
[ am bound to confess that my confidence
rests more upon Democratic constitutional
ability and determination to defend itself,
than upon any respect which monarchial
Republicanism is taught to entertain for
the rights OF those untroublcd by the great
administration malady of "nigger on the
BRAIN"
For the proceedings Of this great meet
ing, shall refer you to the columns of
the Democratic press Of Philadelphia
particularly the "AGE'-which has, Gal.
low me to say,) during its brief existence,
succeeded in winning the confidence of the
Democracy, and what is far more to lis
credit, the deepest hatred Of the supporters
Of domestic imperialism-of Black Repub
lican autocracy. Probably no man of
mere varied literary accomplishments
stands at the head of the American press
to-day, than Mr.. Grund, while the sterling,
uncompromising Democracy of Mr. Gloss
brenner, coupled with his great business
and financial qualities, stamps him as pre-
cisoly the "right man in the right place. \"
OF Mr.. Welch, the third partner, can
only say that he occupies distinguished
legal position here, and is universally
esteemed, not only for his intellectual
ability, but for the possession of those
genial qualities which stamp upon our
race the seal OF brotherhood.
Well, Col. Tate, the news from Vicks-
burg to-day, is that things before that
fiercc!y contested city remain pretty much
in 8tat~ quo. BY the accounts already
received from those encrimsoued plains,
our glorious battallions have not failed in
their duty The swelling hillocks behind
that now historic city sufficiently attest to
that-cach one proves but only to the
presence of the cold, lifeess presence of
hercIsm. but, perhaps those cold walls,
imprson too, the heart agonies C.. some
devoted wife, some ugonized mother, some
slaughtered, unhappily, in the cause, not
of the Constitution and the Union, but in
that of misel able negro emancipai5oR -
Let the unworthy agencies which have
consigned the labor and the yalor Of the
great hearts of our soldicry to duty SO
ignoblo look to it, that in some future
moment of heavy agony, they do not turn
upon those who today use them in The
empIoyments of selfshness, and rend them.
The fable of Action and his horses may
be re enacted in this 10Th century.
We have now enjoyed two years OF
civil war and more, one of the most costly
and gigantic that the world ever saw. 1t
will be question to be sternly investiga-
ted hereafter. from VIII 9se hand came the
red seeds which have resulted in this in
fernal harvest-to what guilty agency is
10 be ascribed the first Of this horrible
desolation-to whose minds, phlethoric
with thoughts of civil war, have, in the
service of base personal ambition arrayed
this people against each other, and bro,
ken the unity and harmony of the best
and most perfect Government that God
Almighty's sun ever sbone qpon' These