Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-08-01


the laws, nor evoked the demon of section.
alism, nor been in any respect unfaithful
to those VOWS of union which our fathers
pledged to the people of our sister States.
The words Of faith pronounced on behalf
of Pennsylvania by the Clymers, Nc
Keans and IDgersolls of former times, we
have kept, and we intend to keep them in
letter and spirit unto the end.
WHAT'S proposed is, that this State shall,
at the coming electing, takes front rank
in general movement of the Central
States for the redemption Of the country
from misrule, and wasting war, and i'm
pending bankruptcy, and from utter dis
grace, New York, New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and the border States
south of these, can stand up with us, and
agree with US in uttering the words which
will save the future from the grasp of
ruin. And let it be said
The sectional Republican party shall 60
down--shall be voted out of power.
All laws shall be kept, and kept as well
by President as by citizen.
No proclamation law,
No arbitrary arrests.
No Bastiles.
No suppression of the press or offree
speech.
No confscation of private property ex.
cept for crime judicially ascertained.
No emancipation by Federal power, OF
at the expense of the Federal Treasury.
The laws OF war shall be observed.
The Confederate Government must re.
tire from the scene, and its armies be dis.
banded or put down.
The Confederate debt to be the concern
Of the States which incurred it.
The Union shall be perpetual, and shall
be declared so.
The recent legislation of Congress shall
be reviewed and corrected.
The public debt of the United States
shall be honestly paid.
No duties or taxes except for revenue.
A Convention of all or three o-fourths o
the States shall be convened.
Tile Constitution shall expressly proUidt
in the very machinery Of gore'nment, &
po,cer Of defence against sectional parties
Reduced to their simplest expression
these declarations signify that we shall
stand to law and duty, and provide agains
future dangers. And if they, or the sub
stance of them were distinctly endorsed
and held up to public contemplation by The
States just mentioned, Can any one doub
that the effect produced would be immedi
ate and extensive and salutary! The enc
would then come into view, and its GER
tainty would accelerate events, and give
them proper direction. We would have
a question Of weeks or of months, instead
of years or c f an indefinite period in reach
ing the day of relief. And when reached
the adjustment Of our troubles would b'
complete and permanent, differing in boil
these respects from a result achieved by
force alone.
1t ought not to be our desire, and it il
not our interest, to make Hayti or I
Poland of the South.
But it is not here proposed to discuss
generally the question of the war or tht
question OF the reconstruction of the Union
but to present the positions of parties will
reference to the principle of lawful rule
Aad the point insisted upon is, that part.
faithful to law and duty must take possess
ion of public power before we can reason
ably expect just and honorable peace
firm reunion and enduring safety. lie
this thought sink deeply into the minds o
the people, and they will certainly restor
the Democratic party to power, and vii
put down the guilty and lawless faction
who have abused their confidence and be
trayed their hopes.