Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-08-29
TA8LE-RooK HOUSE, !
NIAGARA FALLS, G. w., July 81. I

init me to address you by letter briefly.
Waste 10 part of your time in personal
defence of the candidates and speakers of
the Anti Administration party. l leave
undisturbed the brave and chivalrous work
of assailing an oppOnant absent because
the tyrannic power of the master, execut-
ed by military force, compels it. The
great issue of the day ought not to be sub
ordnated to things merely personal, and |
| recommend to my friends generally that
they initiate the wise Roman, and carry
the war into Africa.
The Democracy of Lucas, postponing
all other issues, and ignoring all diferen.
ces of opinion in regard to them, assemble,
of course, to consider what General Ere
mont the candidate Of the free speech and
free press Republican party Of 1856, very
apty styles the uppermost question oil the
day-the question of their own constitu
tional rights and liberties. This is the
practical issue in the Ohio campaign, fore
ed by the President and lis party upon
the people, and boldly met by the Democ-
racy, in their nominations, and also in
their admirable platform, which, as can.
didate, | accept as their solemn and delib-
crate confession Of political faith, and their
pledge to the country that they mean to
defend the rights asserted in it with their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred hon
ors. Until these shall have been made
secure, it can be neither useful nor posi-.
bic to discuss any other question, and di
! rectly connected with it.
} Here is, indeed, just such question,
one second only in Importance to that OF
public liberty. The Union of the States
/ is worth the whole world to the American
Q people, but liberty is the soul Of q people
s and what shall it profit US to gain the
whole world and lose our own soul
t The Constitution made the Uuion, and
g when the war began, it was proclaimed to
= be for the Constitution and laws, and what.
: ever difference OF opinion there may have
= been even then as to the mode of securing
o it, every patriotic citizen of the United
It States knew what the laws and the Const
IT tuition were.
e But what do wo see to-day! The opin
1t ion and will from hour 10 hour of th'
n President-and such a President !--at
c solemnly and officially proclaimed supcrio
l. to the Constitution and laws, even in tn
Or States, wholly loyal so that, upon tn
G. present policy of the Administration an
If its party, declared Interchangeable, the Sout
c. is to be forced to the will and opinion c
le Abraham Lincoln, instead of the write
Sc Fundamental statute and common law
le And, if we ourselves scorn to yield ep ou
tn constitutional rights and liberties to tn
of monstrous demand, does any hosorabl
W man, any sane man, ask or expect th
States and the people Of the South to sui
render SO long as a man survives to stril
q blow, or woman to strengthen his hea
or neave his arm?
Upon such q policy this war must an
of will be interminable. So many squal
in miles may be overrun, SO much soil ma
be conquered, but the hearts of the peop
lc. never. How, then. stand the chances
the Union, measured by the two iiffere
ad policies of the Abolition and Democrat
parties
lc- The party of the Administration declar
that the States and the people of the Sou
/? shall be forced to lay down their arms al
submit. What then? Confscation of q
cts property, emancipation of all slaves, al
the execution of all who, directly or inc
rectly, have taken part in the rebello
not namely; nine-tenths of the whole popul
tion, for general amnesty hiss never,
m yet, been SO much as suggested by eth
to Congress or the Executive, and uncons
tutional submission is now the least viii
is demanded, though it would do more, L
~ only for constitutional liberty, but for t
~ Union, than such men could accomplish
-. a hundred years.
" Nc need not repeat my often declared co
y, viction, which time has always vindicate
- that the South cannot be conquered
WV force of arms; but granting for argumen
oA sake, the effectual check are waning pl
'''' " portions Of the rebelIions, as proclaim
l0'' now again for the hundredth time, by
organs of tho Administration, and that
the second Monday in January next