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


rewarded with success.
In those days officials did not trample
upon the people The people of that Pc
riod were not subjects. The government
did not insult the people with a worthless
currency, nor seek to fetter the country
with monstrous debt increased through
that very worthlessness. These were then
means in the workingman's pocket to ed
ucate his children and support his family
respectfully. He not only had the com
/ forts Of life, but many Of the luxuries and
the road to competence was ever open to
him if be choose to make the effort to
walk therein That was Of the past. What
of the present A debt of 81 900 ,00O,-
600 for the laboring, the working por.
tion OF the people to produce the interest
for, and il the principal could ever be paid +,
the bone, and sinew, and muscle oi the
honest working man alone would have to
pay it. When this war is over the work.
! ing men of the country must raise S4U0,-
600, 900 per year to support the peace es.
Enlistment aud the interest on the great
debt.
If the miserable currency OF the hour is
all we are to have to work with, the cost of
living will fall heavily upon the working.
man, for his dollar will scarcely be worth
five cents. Shoddy cares nothing for the
worthlessness of the grcenbacks. His pile,
which he robbed and cheated to obtain b as
been invested in bonds of the government,
interest in gold. The poor working class,
the great toiling millions, the mighty mass
Of men, once freemen, who in times past
made this country what it was, have, by
the despotism of the hour and the power
of capital as represented by the big debt
been transformed into slaves whose task is
to toll early and late that shoody may be
paid that interest in specie. Government
has taken care of capital, by taxing labor
Every breath the workingman draws is
heavy with taxation. Workingmen, we
have it in our power to stop the debt where
it is, by stopping the war, which, if it is
prolonged another four years, will reduce
our children to beggars, through the taxa
ton that will be heaped upon them We
belong to class 5000 900 in number who
have been the capital creators of this
country. Already our ranks have been
depleted by the heartless Molochs at Wash
ington, and two millions oil our brethern
have fed the army, and half been crippled
for lite, slaughtered in battle, or diseased
and demoralizcd. But our trials are not
over, another halt million are now called
for, and the great debt of a 600 900, ,00(
will 60 still higher and taxes mount will
it. The poor man must go to the war. The
, rich man can pay substitute.
Workingmen our destiny is in ou1
own hands If We are true to ourselves
wo can avert that calamity which another
four years reign ef the present party il
power would bring upon US Will we dt
it at the ballot box ?
CONCLUSION.
The present campaign has pr owed wha
, every sensible man long since predicted
J the impossibilty Of conquering the South
Never had there been such extensive prep
t arations never more marked failures
We have an opportunity now, however, o
/ getting rid of war and all its horrible con
! commitants, and Of institutng policy
that shall heal up the wounds it has inAic
D ted, and once more cultivatng that frater
; nal aud friendly feeling which is, and car
r be the only basis of the Union. To d.
/ this, we must not only have a change o
. officials, but change of policy. w
: want platform and candidate at Chica'
0 60 that shall embody the principles Of I'll
| Union, not the present compound of fore
. and fraud We want the State Right
r platform of Jefferson and the Dred Scot
Decision. that is White Mans Govern
l ment and candidate upon it who shall
: not belle the sentiments they contain
: With these, we can and will hurl the pre-.
, ent party out Of power Fellow working
!, mon, VIC have the ability TO do it. 1t on
i remains for US to make our influence fell
r But be not deceived by the agents an
= tools Of the party in power, who are wolves
= going about seeking whom they may de
c YOUR The abolition capitalists have hir
$ ed agents, who are daily and hourly try
d ing to deceive the working classes. The
v pretend to be their friends, but they al
5 their deadly enemies. Under pretence {
: devotion to humanity, they claim to b
= the friends of labor, and that the war
= lOl tHC bCuGuL VI luO WClhlup Clusst
o against an oigarchy, There never was
J. more brazen falsehood Let US say t
G Chicago, Do your duty, and We will d
= ours, Give us Peace, not War, as tn
Il motto of the Democracy Give us a Whit
= Mans country, not Negro. Equality
b Despotism, and coming as the winds com
= when forests are rended,' we will plac
a candidate upon such platform, in III
G seat that Abraham Lincoln disgraces.
n Very cordially yours,
o McDONOUGH BUCKLIN Chairman.
a E.G STONE,
y PATRICK ]. HART,
n GEO. SrEDMAN,
g. BADGER
q DIVINE II. COLES, Committee
n J, A. BONSALL, on
" Il. F. BOURK, Address
e MOSES PLATT,
, GEO. W. GODBY,
u HENRY THOMPSON.
S EDWARD KENE,