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

oppression or for any purpose Of conquest
or subjugation, or purpose of overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or cs,ab-
lishcd institutions of those States, but to
defend ard maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution and TO prese, the Union
with all the dignity, equality and rights
of the several States unimpaired." Dem
ocrats took the resolution in good faith -
Under the new calls for volunteers, hun
dreds Of thousands more ffered their SER
vices to the country, and their graves are
to be found on every battle field from Bull
Run and Fort Donelson to Fredericksburg
and Murfreesboro. The regular session
of the Thirty.seventh Congress met, and
then began the darkest days of the war.
1t took but short time to prove that rad
icaism had control of the national legis-
lation. ractcable, visionary, uncon-
stitutional and injurious measures were
'i'Su tHlouSu' WILL al tuc DliluHeSS oI
the widest fanaticism. Democrats and
Conservatives OF all parties pleaded and
to their entrcaties. Then Democrats and
Conservatives openly opposed and de-
| nounccd these measures, as subversive of
liberty North and South, as sources of
weakness rather than strength, and as
tending directly and inevitably to the very
end all so much dreaded-an ultimate
dissolution of the Union. But radicalism
regarded neither tears nor threats, and
these measures were put upon our statute
books. Then Democrats declared their
policy, boldly ana firmly. "Lat it be ev.
crywhcre asserted" said Senator Bucka-
lew, THAT The Democratic party has never
agreed, does not now agree, and has no
intention Of agreeing in future to disso
luton OF the American Union" ave
propose said Senator Clymer, in a late
speech III the State Senate, to accomplish
the preservation of the Government and
the Constitution By the union Of the sword
and the olive branch. For those who will
resist the power of the Govcrnmeut-not
the power Of the Admini,traton-not its
unconstiutional acts-but the power Of
this Government righlfu.ly administered
under the Constitution, ue huup Ike sword.
! TO those who are wi ling to submit to its
benign, its healthful its peaceful sway,
ne ~tN hott ont Ike oiive branch Of peacp."
And, said tue same Senator tc his Repub.
Ican hearers, eve mean to tell you that
We are going to bring y0n back to the
We mean to tell You that we are going
TO use the sword and the olive branch in
settling this culty-that whether North
or South, we will use the sword en- those
who are opposed to the Constitution -
that we will not allow any person, wheth-
er in the South or n the North, to diso-
hey, to Disregard, to ignore, or to Sc: at
defiance the Constitution Of the United
States We mean to tell you that the
same law which is to be obeyed at the
South is to be obcycd at the North. -
Here 10 our platform in brief but expires.
sive words, Let it be boldly proclaimed
before all the people. Let every scnti-
gent, every sentence, every word it con-
tains, be weighed in the scales of public
opinion. Let it be held up in the clear
light of broad day, and let its comprehen
i've length and breadth and highth and
depth be measured by Union-loving, on
stitution-rcvcring, law-abiding, conscrva.
tive men, everywhere. And, if public
virtue be not yet dead in the hearts of the
pc pie, if there yet burns cat the nmost
altar" the patriotic fame first kindled by
the fathers of the Republic, it is not too
much to expect that the citizens will rise
in their might, as they have done in days
gone by, and peaccably, quietly, by their
votes, at the approaching elections, will
sweep sectional fanatcism' forever from
the face Of the land
sD'' Millions for the Constitution, but
not ono cont for emancinatIonr was the