Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-02-28
VOLUME 26

converting war for the maintenance Of
the Constitution aud the restoration of the
Union into ser,ile war.
And when you have armed these four
ana halt million men and sent them down
10 wage war of determination by the
Dlack upon the white race of those Sta.es.
packed by the powers and authority of the
Government, what do you propose to do
with them alter they have obtained the
victory !-because you do certainly expect
10 obtain victory, and 10 subiugate tbu
white race oil those States. This ia tl,s
| programme the white men of the eleven
State are to bo suhjugated ,disa-med, aud
made slaves; and the negroes, armed th
Dayonet and sword, are to beconie their
masters, SUSTAINED and paid and fed and
supported by the patronage and power of
'he General Government Is this tho
contamination which you desire to attain,
why, sir, in the six States of Alabama.
FLORIDA, Georgia, louisiana, Mississippi,
ana south CarollDa there are 2,l9S ESQ
white ropuIa ion and 2,l56.22I black
Pnpul alton; show ng an excess Of only AZ.
4o9 whites over blacks; and the war ha,
destroyed that difference IN favor of the
whites already, 80 that he two races in
,nese states are now about cq1eal in num-
Ders. DO You proro,e 10 establish the
negro as the dominant race in those
States DO you propose to chain the bold
anu tree spirit OF the Anglo Saxon and
makes the negro his master DO Won nro.
pose TO arouse all the brutal and animal
passions Of this rude end uucultiyat.d race
ahd set them upon the white race for its
ultimate extinction DO you me au TO in.
splre hlm with the dream OF liberty, and
with the vain hope that he is to become
the lord OF the soil and ass.rt his domin.
lou over the fair fields ofthis beautiful and
hlsIy favored region of our country! Sir,
Wheh the passions of a race like this arc
once falrIy aroused, they vii. broo, no
control, yield to no discipline, hut over.
ieaping every barrier aud disregardinp
ev>ry restraint, the war will, Le converted
into an indlrcrlminate slaughter, involving
decrepit old age, deienseless women. and
lhhoeeni children in one cannon massaoro:
tire and iagot will consume their dwellings,
Their towns aud cities, and nothing but ora
bIackened, charred and desolate waste Of
rum will remain in this fair portion of our
common country.
Is that the end you desire! Ifit is.
God and man would rise up in revolt
against it. After the black men have
fought your battles for you; after they
have subjugatcd and annihilated the white
race, aud pIaut d themselves upon h,s
estates, are they to succeed to his r.ght;
are They to be represented upon this floor
But the white race occupying those States
vast a. they are in extent, and susceptible
as they are OF m lta~y defense, cannot be
subjugated. Five millions OF our race and
s'ock OF people, upon their own soil, Fl .ht-
Ing Tor tucIr homts, their wives, and their
children, never have been and never can
be conquered or subjugated. The free
spirit OF the Anglo Saxon will meet every
opposing elome t which can be brought
aS INST them, as the firm AMI solid rock
won meet and dash back the waves Of
the ocean lashed against it by the storms
of heaven.
Is this, | ask, the programme which
you have laid down? When these colored
soldiers have fought your battles for YOU,
when they have won victories, what are
you going to do with them If they are
ut to be the associates of your soldiers upon
the stricken field of battle if their blood
is to be mingled what that of our own
soldiers in the bonds OF one common union
upon the battle ie ds of the country. shed
IL devotion to common caIse, in Gods
name, when they send up their represen-
tallves herewith you deny them seat up
on this floor. There is no half way ground
in this matter. The question is one of
political aud st cal equality with the negro
everywhere. II you make him the iustru.
ment by which your battles are fought the
means by which victories are won, you
must treat him as victor is entitled to bo
treated, with all dece and becoming re-
spect.
The genteman from New York TMr.
Sedgewick was right when he SAID thA.
arms once put into the hands OF the uu.
grocs against their masters, backed aud
supported by the FEDERAL Government,
they never can be made subjected lace
again.
Bat have no idea that thi. scheme VIII
ever be consumnated. 1t will end, asI
verify believe, III a war between the white
aud the black races, aud ultimately termr-
nate in the eXtcr 4najion of the black race
from the land, That will be the end of
the Whole thing. The arning OF the negro
Is his absolute and total destruction. /
am therefore opposed to it because think
it is opposed to the who'c scope of the
theory upon which our Government was
established, and upon which it can alono
he maintained. This is a Government of
white men, made by white men for white
men to be administered, protected, defen-
ded, and maintained by white men; and
no other kind of Government will ever
be satisfied with, aud the people of this
country will be satisfied with nothing else.
| am therefore opposed to all the Q
schemes, and have consistently from the
beginning vo'ei against them, b.