Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-03-05
'OLj MBIA DEMOCRAT.
.urday Morning, Mar. S, 1864.
a. Plea for Peace.

III very one knows that the Spring field
AIass } R,pujican is one of the ablest
nd most influential supporters Of the Ad-
,nistration 10 New England. As sig
licant symptom Of returning reason on
9 ao part Of some Of the Republicans, the
Blowing article is, we conceive, of saffi-
ient Importance to justify its publication
full. II or readers will make il a
oint oil showing it to their friends who
are, from mistaken but patriotic motives
sustaining lhe Administration, it may do
much good, Says the Republican:
Since winter suspends operations, Wig
can not hiS time be employed 10 mGhe
peace! Virtually tits an armlsticc; though
not having been so declared, the Govern.
ment and the people made no use OF It.
On our side we should at once dmmence
the disot seion OF reconstruction and on
the rebt side the pent' up feeying agansI
the Richmond dynasty that hag been grow
ing stronger il consequence OF their de-
feat in 1868, would find vent; and they
TOO, would talk about their fsllure condi'
ton. Reconstructionists kike those oi
North Caro- ina ard Georgia fiuv' - .,I
and filler announcement u loyal sentl-
ments would be made in three months than
we have had in three yoass OF war itl
would be the death Of robeldom aud It
would produce revolution Of public SEN
.iment here. When Chafles IL, returned
TO oEugand to be received wi h gladness,
he SAID he would have cbme back years
before. had he understood the sentiment of
The nation. As long as men stand with
arms il their hands, or iu hostile attitude,
.hey felr and hate each other but when
they spak and look inf each others eyes, =,
II reason is not overcome by madness they
NAV he friends All that is needed for the
restoration of she Union-since the peo-
nle on'both slider are tired Of war-is that
the parties should speak to each other
There would have been no rebellion if we
had Known each her better-and the war
could not continue, if we could come to
that Knowledge.
Th South acted on its fears, which
were rrouudless. If they could have seen
tbo fcts az they were, that three in four at
lsastof all the people designed them no
harm but would have shed their blood to
defep the right, of South Carolina, Geor-
gia a!d Mississippi, as quick as of Massa-
chusits, New York and Michigan, they
woul! never have lifted an arm in rebell-
ion. They we're deluded and cheated
The, coniurel up phantasm--a devil,
and lave ths snsslves to its direction; and
MkoF ;inbad carrying the Old Man of the
kSea,they vii be slaves to that deception
till tey ria themselves OF the burden and
lift tcmss'vos to the light.
live lrve not been much deceived, it il
very evidnt hat many Of our people are
MJ1iag iunller erroneous mlPreSSa0nS.-
Hide Comes the universal denunciatlon ;
th8asumption that every man in the
S$tI is an enemy TO the North the
a mation of the Wendell Phillpses that
n ire is no loyal man in the South who
III not black skin; and the resolutions
ard propositions of the hall-insane radl'
GALS in Congress that the war should be
conquest, subversion of all former institu'
,ions, the subjugation of the white race
The raising to an equality with ourselves
The African population the abolition OF the
hates, and the forcing upon a million
guarc miles of territory and six millions
ii people the ideas, opinions and modes o.
ifu that belong to New England and which
,an be done just as easy, and no more so
as England can implant has civilization
lsaa ~ OF on Ireland. We give it al