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


African-(we forbear, in the spirit of SO.
briefly ,sny ph ysical contemplation or con-
trast)--does not give a dominant race the
right to convey him from bis own benight
cd ilud to foreign bondage, even under
the forms OF purchase from bis African
master. But TINS natural inlerloriIy must
be considered 10y The statesmen in framing
laws and adopting Constitutions for human
government Ia Pennsylvania we have
always affirmed tnis inieriorisy in our fun
damental laws and the same has been
done in almost all the free States of tie
Union generally excluding the African
from the right suffrage. This necessity of
duty regarding the law OF races, is thus
q forcbly commented upon by Lamartino "a
scholar and statesman,a always in favor OF
mau $ largest liberty in recent work
"Tho moro | have travelled, the more
I am convinced that races of men form the
Great secret OF men and manners. Man
is not 30 capable OF education as philoso.
piers imagine. The inauesco of Govern
ment and laws has less power, radically,
than is supposed, over tue manners and
instincts OF any people. While the prIIni-
tive constitution aud blood of the race
have always ths,r influence, and manifest
themselves thousand 6f years afterwards
IN she physical formation and HABITS oil a
peculiar family OF tribe. Human nature
flows in rivers and streams III the vast
ocean of humanity but its waters mlnge
but olowy--sometimes they never mngIe,
: and It cnerges agaiu, Ike Rhoue from the
Lake of Geneva, with its own taste and
color. Here is Indeed ,sn ahyss oI thought
and meditation, and at the same time a
grand secret for legislators. AS long as
thoy keep the spirit of tho race in view
they succeed but they foil when they
strive against this natural predispoatiOn
uature is stronger than they are"
But why thus enlarge upon topic which
has undergone so much, aud such frequent
) discussion Nhy--because this idea OF
working out negro c7uahty on the part OF
our opponents is the cery bo&5s ot oHr
present poilicai struggle Let no man DO
mistaken. This is really the leading issue
OF the present mouent between the two
partles 10 carrY out tbs 1lc@ haS come
u lust to be The ruing, Y not the S9ls PR
p1Se oftbE sCar icaich is "otC deLHgt"g
LAe lujla WlaS jratsrna5 bio2H =! For tnls,
the Constitution and She reserved ,Ights cl
the state, and the people have been mock
lugy t,ampled under tootj tor this, both
lmpcluouo aud imperIat edicts, such as
would send to the block any monarch in
England, have been issued by the Presl
dent and sought to be enforced for this,
Secretary Seward boast to Lord Lyons
"l can touch my office bell. any moment
and order to be arrested any citizen OF this
= country has teon oil TOO frequently
realized
} The extent to which the party support
iuy the President are willing to go IN uo
} gco afhuatton, 6nds a memorable llir.tra.
} ton iu the proposition made by Secretary
Cameron, the first oil the ses9rsI occupants
Of the ,daco of Secretary of War uudor
President Lincoln. lie cody pr0po scd =,
in his frs: aud cast annual communication,
to free, and tacn 20 arm th whole black
population Of the South, spd turn them
against their white masters in a work Of
indi or m,uats bllch4ry!lh> truly iut.cnal
suggestion MS not adopted hy the Presl
dent when fire proposed, but 1t has since
) been acted oppn lii more Instances that
yAe.
We hay. charged The party 1T present
, ia power, ici.oH clu2aus w't4 tyranny sud
. usurpat;9u. We now 90 lurgher, aud
solemuly ASSERT our h-!lst, thal there is q
Deliberate design 10 chang the character,
if no. tho term oi>our government. The
leading papers in the support Of the Ad-
ministralion openly sdvogato molifca-
ton which vii! place greater powers ia the
hands OF jho President; and !t!I9ir I'd .
vice should 90 adopted by tho people, il
: short time the chains viii be firmly rive.
8 ted, and our liberties completely subver,
ted. The PhIiadelphia Press not long
since remarked:
"Anotler principle must certainly be
; embodied in our rco9ganized form Of gov
ernmcn'. The men who shape the legis-
Iotion Of this country when the war is past
must remember that what W want is pow
/, er aud strength. Th- problem viii be 10
CO ubinc ;De forms OF Reyu ljcan Govern
, ment with the powers OF Monarcnial
Government
About taa the sa'ae time, a il by con
p cert, We fad IN tue N0rtA AUcr'cu0:
"i his war has already shown the Qb.
, surdity OF = Government with limited pow
ers it has shown that the power Of every
Governmen. ought to be and must be UN.
, LIMITED
Such doctrines as these would have met
+ with rebuka even at the hands of The elder
= Adams but they wcro the natural pre-
cursors OF the "wor power" which has been
made to over lid9 the rnoaO explicit doc.
trlnes Of the Constitution. The very
wrongs, in fac, complained Of By our faith.
ers, aud enumerated in their declaration
against the English monarch, have been
revived upon their sons, This Admins,
e tralion has wil(uily violated its own oath
i bound pledges, and sought "pretoxts of
innovation upon the established principles
t Of tbs Governmont;" it has f,stered a
esprit of encroacbmont which touds to