Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-11-12
THE ELECTION.

Of the North fDished on Tuesday as the
sun went down on the Pacific seas. An
almost hopeless fight from the beginning, it |
has been inch by inch con ested stubbornly !
to the bitter eud. A party which surviv.
cd the detection Of its adherence in nearly
half OF the states which for four ycnrs has
resisted he assault, and the seductions of
power such as has not been welded by
any single government since Rome ruled
the world which has retained its organ
izaton compact, its spirit intrepid, its pa.
/ triotism unlt6led, ard in contos!
against all administration disbursinE mil
lions daily, employing one third of The
active II Gustries of the whole population,
aud directing the interested energies Of
whole army Of ssipendiaries scattered
through every city, town, aud village in
the land, in the struggle to perpetuate It's
hold on power-a party which has yet put
/ the administrator 10 such extreme peril
and soicitude for the tenure Of its power
that it has created state to got three
more votes, and has prepared the way for
the reception of votes from the rebel states
such party is inpcrishable. Four
years hence ii will be ipvincible. May
COP, in his infinite goodness, grant that it
shall not then have survived the republic
which to-day it cannot save, and guard 4,
and guide to Unity and Peace.
Every prudent and sagacious business
man in the management OF his affairs will
to day take new point of departure The
Dem ,cratic party will be constrained to a
similar necessity, and when the smoke and
r dust of the conflict have passed away it
will be time enough to consider what its
line Of action shall be, how its constitu-
tional opposition to the admnstra
shall be shaped.
But there needs be no delay in saying
that for the next four years, as during
the past four years, it will vindicate it's
honor and its patriotism alike. 1t will
never degenerate from constitutional op-
position to faction; twill uphold and ad-
vocate in opposition what it would enact
in administration, with an impartialy un-
shaken by interest, passion, injustice, OBJ
loquy, failure; it will fan the embcrs Of
civil liberty it will hold fast TO ''tbe I'm.
ion at all hazards" in the new and most
terrible dangers which that union now has
to encounter from the incompetency of the
rulers reelected to be the instruments of
the national salvation.
History has no record of such gener-
GUS and'prod'cal support of an admins,
traIion as has been extened by the masses
of the Democratic party to Mr.. LINCOLN,
while dissenting at all points from his pol
icy, forewarniug at every stage the ruin
be has wrought, and bearing at all times
their fail share of the general calamity
by him wrought, by him prolonged
We speak for the Democratic party
when we say that neither defeat nor the
yet Unforeseen calamites Of another four
years OIL Republican misrule will shake the
settled purpose Of its loyal, devoted, and
patriotic members to keep its meaures di-
rccted to the attainment OF the utmost pos
sible good for the country at every varying
stage of public affairs.
1t is our most serious conviction that the
greatest danger which now threatens the
country is, that before Mr. LINcoLN's next
term shall expire he will have made
peace recognizing the Independence ofthe
South, disunion peace. Now,as ever tho
Democratic party will, in Il 6 language of
its noble STANDARD bearer, who has well de-
served the highest honors Of the nation,
stand steadfast, firm immovcable, and .
faith ful to "the Union at all hazards" 1t
will be i;s duty to resist disuuion peac
by all the moral power of great party,
which, though no! in possession of the gov.
ernment, can yet exert weighty influence
upon the public opinion of the country.
There can be 10 doubt that vast aud
prepondering majority Of the people of the
North are against .be acknowledgment of
the Southern ronfedracy in any possible
event. The Democratic party, though out
of Office, is potential to prevent popular
acquiescence in a disunion peace, and it
Will be its chief mission TO keep the peo.
pie arrayed against that disgracelul cat
astrophe.
We are fully persuaded, too, that the
Democratic party cain alone restore the |
P Union. 1t is this conviction which has leut
vigor to lis arm, which has fred its loyal
heart. But appalling as is the thoug ght
of new lease OF Republican admin.
istraiion, even thi. terrible alternative
isPreferable to the abandonment Of the
Union, Il is the duty of this generation to