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

ceratcd them in government basties, de-
nounced them as traitors, banshed them
trampled down the great bulwarks of civil
liberty, the freedom of speech and the
press; abolished tho writ of haJeaS corpus,
a right which no other enlightened gov
ernment under heaven would seek 10
sbridge; set aside our system Of trial by
jury substituted arbitrary power for the
laws of the land declared military con-
troll where the civil tribunals were in the
faithful discharges of their Legitimate du
ties; created unnecessary departments
in the general go7ernment; organized new
States from mere fragments of the original
admistcd members from these so-called
States to seats, as members of Congress
appointed military governors in peaceabe
districts; sent its spies and nformers
through the principal cities and towns to
listen end rorort the murmurings of the
people touching the manner in which the
Administration is conducting affairs the
country; regarded opposition to the ad-
ministratiou as opposition to the Consti-
tuition and government, than which there
can be nothing more false inaugurated a
system by which one.tenth of the citizens
OF a State, instead Of majority, may form
State Government aud therefore be re.
garded State of the Union prohibited
the circulation of newspapers in the Uni
ted States mail because they critized and
oppoaed the acts Of the Administration
actually suspended their publication ,placed
a censorship over the press and telegraph,
circulated falsehoods instead of truth ,mul-
tipled 10 an indefinite extent, the number
of subordinate officials, simply to appease
the repeated appeals of mere political
demagogues and re-pullers, disregarded
) the reserved rights of the States, invoked
a spirit of mobocracy which has developed
itself in the principal cities in the destruc-
} ton of life and property, diverted capital
from its legitimate channel, blghted tho
hopes of the industrial masses, DESTROYED
. immense amounts of public and private
. proerty, Injured our agricultural interest,
, embarrassed the mechanic arts, retarded
! the progress of science and civilization, i'm
, posed on industry burdens too grevous to
4 be borne, enriched the few at the expense
r of tue many, made the rich richer and the
] poor poorer, compelled the latter to resort
t to SO calleA ''strkes," from time to time,
/ TO oenable them to properly provide for
4 themselves and families the common com
, 'ortS of life practically disregardeG the
rights Of the working population ; filled
= our poor houses with pauperS; overlooked
our pospitals with disabled and diseased
h soldier, drowed our streets with life long
4 crippIes nhamed all the baser passions
0 OF the human heart ; established "Nation.
al Banks in every nook and corner OF
= the land, a system of finance universally
repudiatcd by the people ofhcered them
l. with men, many of whom are well known
n iuveterate demagogues, ,tricksters and shod-
dyites invited foreign nations to interfere
in the domestic affairs of this continent
J. allowed military officials 10 interrupt our
n system of election by ballot; intermedded
h with the religious institutions of the coun
h try; attempted to disgrace really honor
= able members of Congress for daring tc
= expi ess their honest sentiments in regard
i to the war and its results scoffed at eve
d ry proposition submitted to Congress fol
d an honorable settlement ; declined TO re-
- store the Union unless the Southern
- States will abandon slavery thus making
the will OF the one man, and not the Con
s. s;itution, the law of he land. In word
le having murdered half million of men
and filled the country with widows and
orphans, it now refuses to make peace OF
v restore the Union until white men and ne.
% groes are reduced to a common level
C. until our heretofore proud white Republic
j.. shall become disgusting mass of mongrel
20 and hybrids; until, indeed, we adopt ant
. practice amalganation Such, fellow
v workingmen,s the present attitude Of th
u monstrous Party-enemy OF liberty, De
l. mocracy and republican government "
v We do not want the freed negroes over
"a running the North as paupers Tor US tt
.. support or as low priced laborers, crowd
~ ing white men out of work, Besides, w
IN want the negro in the South raising cot
le ton, sugar, rice, coffee, and Of her tropica
p productions. These articles are now be
70 coming so high as to be within the reacl
:, only Of the riOh. If the negro is every
! where freed the laboring men Of the Nortt
= is reduced to the vassalage of the middle
N ages. We become the serfs Of northern
le capitalists, and instead of being able tt
4 reduce the number Of hours of labor, as w
~ y now hope to do, we shall be doomed to al
or increase of toll Already men have beef
ii arrested for engaging in "strikes," and
ID law was proposed at the last Legislature
a, of this state to punish men for securing al
70 increase OF wages. Let these remorseles
Abolition capitalist get full power, and wo