Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-02-13

against you.
We have taken this position at the be-
ginning-we intend to maintain it until
the ond-and no transparent attempt OF
Senators to distort and falsify our posi-
ton can move us into departure from the
right. For this purpose we have seen
Senators upon the opposite side offer reSo-
lutions commendable and proper, and com.
ing from them both novel and startling
Believing the Senate not duly organized at
this time, we have been compelled to vote
against them, and all other attempts at
legislation which will recognize this usurp-
ing organization. They have offered res.
outons of compliment to Gen. Meade,
who, upon our own soil, hurled back the
rebel hordcs, They have offered COM
pimentary resolutions in favor Of General
Grant, OF Meade and Grant-those two
great commanders and their veteran SOL
diers, who on the 4th of July, 1868, re-
baptized that Immortal day i'll glory trans
cendent and impcrishable l say unto
these Senators that when we are duly or
ganized in obcdieace to law, we will 60
further than they have offered to 60 in
compliment to these distinguished men -
No cheap lip service shall measure our
need Of praise; but we will give them our
thanks, earnest and heartful we will
crown them with the garlands of victory,
and adorn them with medals of refined
gold, as tribute of our gratitude for deeds
Of eminent service.
We have heard resolutions offered that
we voted against because of the want Of or
ganizaiion, giving bounty and increased
pay to the soldiers ofthe army. l tell you,
sir, and | tell those Senators, that if they
will but accept our offer Of compromise, if
they will but remove, as they can, the
blocks from the wheels Of legislation, and
permit our organization, we will 60 further
than they dare 60 ir behalf of the brave
soldiers scared and weather beaten stand
ing as living battlement between the
rebels and their homes. We will not
alone ask for them increased bounty and
increased pay, but we will demand that
pay in the solid gold that under Demo
cratic rule was the legal currency Of the
country, in the gold that you pay your
ministers basking in the sunshine of the
court batteries of St. James, or living amid
the festivities, splcndors and allurments OF
the Tuilleries This was the contract, to
this they are justly entitled. If you vote
with US, you must diragree with your
friends in Congress, who have denied this
great boon 10 those war Scared veterans.
Organize this house, and we too will do
honor to the immortal Jackson. l am
astonished to hear resolutions commenea-
tory Of the hero of New Orleans coming
from gentlemen on the opposite side.
Though young in years, can remember
in my boyhood days the odium that was
heaped upon that great man by the oppo-
sition to the Democracy. When Andrew
jackson was welding the executives pow
ers of this government, when he was in
that war of 1itans, when giants grappled
with giants,when he had his iron hand up
on the throat Of the United States bank,
the great moneyed power of the country,
we remember how your representatives
denounced him in the halls Of Congress a,
despot, as a tyraut, and compared him
to the usurping Bourbon who proclaimed
81 am the State"
We remember that when his name went
before the people, your party placardod
the walls with coffin hand bills. We re,
member that you did more. You bursted
the doors Of his own household with saw.
age brutality you Invaded the privacy, the
sanctity of his home, and by his very
hoarthstone you struck the poisoned dag
gers of mendacious SANDER into the repu
tation of her who stood nearest and dear
est to him in the holiest relation of life
We remember, sir, all this and the Sen
ator from Philadelphia (Mr. ConnelD has
exclaimed in wonderment that the De
mocracy have refused to join them in do
ing honor to General jackson, on the an
niversary OF the battle of New Orleans.-
Sir, when that hero patriot was in the
death struggle with your money power
and his name went before the people 0
Pennsy lvania, the Democracy Of our grant
old Commonwealth threw their protectio!
and sustaining arms around him and gav'
him fifty thousand majority. o, we ar,
not disposed to forget Andrew Jackson
We sustained him when living, we honol
and revere him when dead, Aud when W
look around upon our bleeding and dis
membered country, every signing wine
waiting "the death smell from hundret
battle fields balmy with brothers blood !
when we sec treason in arms assalin!
constitutional government, those entrusted
with its care betraying it; men in higl
places false TO their oath those in subor
dinate positions giving aid and comfort t.
rebels corruption in official circles stalk
ing abroad at MONDAY, and the liberties O
the people being rolled together as a scroll
o, .sir, we sigh for but one holr's rule O
the old man ofthe Hermitage to save wha
we have left of our country and its liberty
and, by his stern determination, to redeem
the lost. You praise Andrew Jackson
You do honor to the old man of the Her
mitage If he could but hear your fulsomt
hypocrtical words Of praise If your volcG
could descend to the tomb, and he coul
, but know that the party that DETAINED th
, wife Of his bosom while living, was a