Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-08-20

negroes-of placing them upon an equality
with white soldiers in pay and pens ions
and of its reception of a negro embassa ador
from the burlesque government Of Hayti,
aud of its constant efforts to force the ne
gro upon the laboring classes in their work,
as their social equal. 1t is thus evident
that, under the present party the equality
oil whites aud negroes as citizens, in the
same government, will be carried out
Was this the government that our fathers
formed' Did they intend to equalize
whites with negroes I If they did, then
the Abolition-Republican party is true to
the Constitution. If they did not, then
they arc traitors to it, This is plain talk,
but there is no other horn to the dilemma
BY this party, and upon platform
which contained the fundamental idea of
Aboltionism, the equality of all men,
meaning negroes as we'll as whites, Abra>
ham Lincoln was elected The South, of
course, objected to q President elected as
their enemy, the enemy of the domestic
and social existence as people. They
had no objection to the Uuion-for the
Union had been mainly formed by
Southern men--but they did object TO its
pcrversion--to its overthrow-to it's being
undermined by Abolitionism, and hence
they demand that this party, coming into
power with all the curses towards the
Union on record against them, would give
some guarantee that they would preserve
the Union
, Quotations from speeches and pens of
the most prominent men OF the South 90
ing to show that they were most ardently
attached to the Union, might be indenf.
nitely multiplied. Upon the refusal oi
Mr.. Lincoln and his party to stand by the
Union, the Southern States coDfederated
together for mutual protection, and there.
upon the very men who had refused to
give guarantees 10 preserve the Union,
raised the cry of "war for the Union.'
A more deusive and wicked one has new.
or heretofore stained country with blood
Alas ! thousands of true and noble spirits
in the first flush Of generous patriotism did
not see through the cunning of politicians
and now fill unimely graves. Our own
class, fellow. orkmen, have been food for
the renorseess ilnatcs to feed to the god
of their insatiuate idolary. Had it moi
been for the Abolitionists, there woulL
have been no war. They first disturbc
our happy country. They would not have
the Union of l776 that our fathers formed
They mean it shall be ovcrhrown, and the
working classes reduced to a level with
negroes, upon which they hope to rebulc
: the despotisms Of the Old World. VIII
is the war to benefit? What has it accom-
pl,hed?
We answer 1t has consigned to un
timely death FIVE hundred thousand human
beings, the great majority of whom were
working men, arrayed brother agans bro
thcr pittcd the father against the son il
mortal combat, deuged the land witt
5 blood, whiened the fields of the Sout
with the bones Of the slain brou yht gric
and sadness to nearly every freside open
ed up broad avenues of speculation an
! plumber Of the public finances; derange
. the currency Of the country created a
unnecessary pablo debt taxes upon gen
erations taken from the industrial elias
= ses over two millions Of men shield tn
rich from the clutches of repeated drafts
by the payment Of petty sums TO the Gov
e ernment compelled the toiling classes t
, enlist. for the plain reason that their az
a tual necessities required it for the mmedi
ate support of their families given U
shinplasters, green paper, and petty pos
7 age stamps, for the common currency {
sho country; created an uncertain stand
e ard OF value used the peoples none
p without legal authority,in useless attempt
= at be'tering the condition of the negro, {
y the expense of the white race taken hir
e from his acknowledged status in the seal
: of being, which is that of servitude, inaug
s urated schemes to thwart the plans of tn
n Almighty TO co minging the races; a.
e lowed deiaulting and defrauding contract
q ors, paymasters, public officers and eve
;, private individuals, 10 swindle the peopl
out of millions of dollars, dared to sen
d them on foreign missions as reward fc
d their rascalily ignored long and we
: established laws of Congress disregarde
= the Constitution under the plea of "milia
r tary necessity !" taken the edicts of tn
Il President rs the laws of the land linden