Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-04-25

uoSPot more ironahanded and intelligent
than 'himselS II the war be much longer
Pfdtracted, A strong war and a weak
government cannot co-exist on the same
SOIL 10 carry on great domestic war
thcre must be strong governments
strong government mu be centraliza.
hon and a Capitalization must be dcs-
Potism. The Abolitionists, true to their
despotic principles and instincts, arc will.
ingly engaged in doing their utmost so to
centraliSe the Government as 10 elminat
the question OF State rights from all future
controversy, and to convert the North in
to as homogeneous unity s the empire
Of France.
Dut the Democrats are accused Of being
disloyal, because they will not stultify
themselves by shouting hosannah TO Abra-
ham Liucoln; ard say, by their words
and actions, that, 'the king can do no
wrong The term loyalty is defined by
Webster and other photographers 60 mean
Fidelity to prince or SeUereign." and a.
foyalist, according TO the sa,nc high auth.
ority, is va person who trartic,Aa,Iy ad
heres TO sis sovereign or prince, and de-
iends fis cause in time of revolt and re.
volution." But President Lincoln is neither
prince nor sovereign, but public ser.
want, clothed with little brief authority
by the Constitution, who after having
strutted his hour upon the stage OF public
affairs, will return 10 his western home a
wiser, II not better man, for having been
elevated 10 position which he was tota ly
incompetent to fill with either credit to
himself or to the advantage of the country.
Democrats are loyal to the, Constitution
and laws, the only test Of loyalty known
in the United States. The sovereignty in
this country is in the people. An amer
iuap, therefore, may be disloyal to himself
but he cannot be to more creature Of his
own making, whether he be a President or
Constable. If faithless to law, constitu
tionally enacted by the proper authorities,
he becomes disloyal to himself as q sover.
eign, for citizen, he is presumed to have
made, or assisted in making, the law in
question YThis, therefore, fake it, is
the t-ae test of loyalty anon. us, and
every tr1e Democrat, who reveres the
Constitution and laws, is loyal man in
the only sense in which the term can be
properly uscdin this country. The terms
of reproach md obloquy, then, with
which our ears have been assaied for the
last two years, nre mot only harmless but
meaningless, and will in due time, react
upon tho party using them. In the reign
ot y ohm Adams they were called Jacobins;
daring the administration OF Andrew
jackson (God bless the old hcro's memo
ry y they were called Locofocos and
now, forsoo;h, they are called CoDDer-
heads Bet, as Jacobirs, they harlcd
',he'eldcr Adams from power; as Locofo.
focoes, they rallied around the patrio,
statesmen of the Hermitage, and molly
sustained him in his lreat controversy
with the money power Of the country
ond, as Copperheads, they will sting the
Abolition party of the present day to death !
and. at the first fitting opportunity, send
Abraham Lincoln adrift, and place the
helm of State IN the hands Of an expert
rncsd Democratic pitot. When that day
comes, as come it surely will in the roll
Of time, we shall again have peace and
unity in the land, and the star syaneled
bunner'of the Republic shall wave in tri
nnphfrom the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from, the Aroostock to the Rio Grande.
God speed the day when we shall again be
one people, with one Government. Que
Constitution, one destiny.
It would seem 10 be part of the re-
cognized policy of the present National
Administration and its supporters 10 con-
srol by hyseal or military force tie sem
timents ofthe people. This is precisely
what Tyranny and its minions have ut
tempted in all ages ci the world. Obe-
dience 10 the Constitution, and laws ell.
acted in conformity with the teachings Of
shat sacred instrument, is what every Ad-
has a nj ght to expect aud re.
quire from every vitNenj bnt conformity :
in opinion no Government but an unmiti-
gated despotism ever has, or ever will at. ;
tempt to enforce. 1t was this attempt t
which Lord Montague, Peer of England |
denounced as far b back IN history as in the
reign OF Queen Elizabeth. A statute was
''to force the subjects of the {
realm to receive and believe the religion |
Of the Prctestsats on pain of death.r-
''Tbis,' said he, "is ching mo,t unjust, !
for that it is repugnant to the rational lib {
ertv of mems understanding--fo under. f;
standing may be persuaded, not enforced"
Freedom of opinion is a right guaranteed |
to every man by God himself, and is ina
lienable. 1t is recognized by the Const- {
su,ion of the United States and in our t
State Constitutions, aud is embraced in a
the same CLAUSE which guarantees freedom t
Of speech and of the press--rights inesti- d
mable to the people and "lormidablo to t
tyrants only" The attempt to violate c
these rights may. for brief period OF +
time, meet with apparent success but 5
unless all historyis lie people who owe !
their nationality to a revelation fought in G
vindication of the natural ana iualeuehle .
rights Of man, viii not, after long career 7
Of prosperity and power, bascly yield their It
blood bought heritagc-the source of all b
their blessings under Proyidepce-With- a