Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-10-15

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that was ever before Congress | believe
in my heart to-day that it would carry
an overwhelming majority of the people
oil my State, aye, sir, of nearly every
State in the Union. Before the Senators
from the State Of Mississippi left THE
chamber, | heard one Of them, who as.
sumos at least to be President OF the
southern Confcderacy, propose to accept
It, and maintain the Union, If that pro-
position could receive the vote it ought to
receive from the other side Of the chamber,
Therefore, all Of your propositions, all Of
your amendments, knowing as [ do and
knowing that the historian will write it
down-sny time before the first Of jan
uAry, a two.tbjrds vote for the Crit.enden
resolutions in this chamber would have
saved every State in tho Union, except
south Carolina. Georgia would be here
by her representatives., and Louisiaua--
those two great States s--wbich st least
would have broken the whole column Of
Secession. Globe, page 1900.
Upon the same point, on the same day,
the clarion voice of the patriot Douglass
bore testimony as follows;
"The Senator Mr. Pughl has said that
if the Crltteuden proposition could hays
been passed early in the session it would
have saved all The States except south
Carolina, firmly believe it would -
While the Crittenden proposition Wa not
in accordance with my cherished views.
| ayowed my readiness and Gag erness TO
accept il in order to save the Union, ii
we could unite upon il. can confirm the
Senator'S declaration chat Senator Davis
himself. when on the Committee of Thir-
teen was ready at all times TO comprO-
mise on the CriLtenden proposition, l will
60 further, and say that Mr.. ToomSs was
also Glo5s, page 1891"
How prcposlerous at this day then, this
attempt of one OF the leading actors in that
evsntfu drama thus TO stihe conscience,
and so seek 10 rescue bis co.conspiraIors
from the recorded verdict Of history, aud
the deserved and inevitable condemnation
of betrayed people The controlling
aprts of the Republican party never
meant poace-nescr sought peace rom
first to last, auy time or in any form, save
upon the one drearer and do!ilish con.
dition Of turning loose upon our land three
and o half millions of black semi -barGar-
ians under the specous pretense Of free
dom while in reality, it wa. only to tear
go many of these poor creatures away from
their homes Of comparative happiness and
peace, to find starvation, misery and
death in an inhospitabe cline
President Lincoln has but recently de.
oared, in very definite terms, he will lis
ten to no proposition for peace which does
not iucadc this African millennium, not
withstaudiug those plain constitutional
prohibitions Of all right on the part of the
q eneral Government thus to intervene,
which he himself, with ths oath of Office
fresh upon his lips, declared he "&aa no
IegW risM and no 'nfen,jo@' to GiSre
gard
II we were 20 credit the ra7ings Of ths
chief advisers OF the President, or, at
least, those who seem to indusucc him
mos, iuily-Sumner, Bnecher and Phillips
-humau reason has been making such
rapid progress in these latter days, that
the haven of human perfection mpst be
near at hand, But alas when vo look
hoy efullv Tor the blessed gale which is TO
bear u. onward in its course, 80 hos.
nothing but the loud breath Of the tenn,
peat see uothiug all around us tut The
angry snd the troubled see, ereyy-
where sparkling with foam aud sgrgjog III
its madness; snd we are temptcd to ak
can this Indeed be
"The wind anu the storm fulfilling his words !"
These men are mistaken and mal, or
are traitors Of the deepest dye, deserving
traitors darkest doom This equality
Of the black and white races which they
are seeking to establish in this country is
an absurd aud idle dream, which u brlei
contrast of their progress aud peculisrtios
must dlspel from every thoughtful mind,
\ little moro than two centuries since,
when our fathers first planted ie ~ germs
Of our race st scattered points along the
North American coast, tho whole number
oil that race N the old worid'did not *
ceed six millions. Eaglaud, Scotland aud
Wales Ihen numbered lever Iubsb,taut7
thsn New Yors, PeDnsyyanla aud Ohio
do DOW. Mark the progress ia ~orth
America at this time liUU,Ui,ng a whole
SOL Celtic iniusiOu,} there ara st least
thirty miIious, aud 10 the whole world
(contessiug there also the same Infusion, }
from eighty to ninety millions Of people
substantially Anglo Saxon in their origin.
, We ale everywhere thus dispIscing tue
more sluggish races, or hemmlng them in
on every side; and at tins current rate OF
increase, in one hundred and fly years
from this time, will run up to eight hun
dred millions OF human beings--all speak
ing the same language, rejoicing IN the
same high intellectual culture, and exhi
biting the same Inherent aud inallenablf
characteristics
On the other hand, the Airicsn race
has never, anywhere, given any proof o
its capacity for n scll-suotaneI ciyliiza
ton. Since the sua first shone on tha
continent it has remained Ia the ssmt
d