Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-03-04
Annual Circular.

bors in Bloomsbury, terminated last week,
and to-day we enter upon the publication
Of the Nineteenth Vol,tne Of the COLUMBIA
DEMOCRAT. We are glad to be able to
say, that the establishment was never in
higher state of thrift, and that it is not on.
ly prospering, but is going on to greater
prosperity. The labors Of an editor and
publisher are arduous and unceasing, but
the years have passed pleasantly, and we
have the Consciousness of retaining, in an
unusual degree, the favor and confidence
of the friends Of the establishment, while
our subscription list and patronage stead
lily increased, and are now, as they always
have been, the largest of any paper in the
country, A thousand kindly thoughts TO
wards our many friends claim utterance,
and we beg them to be assured that incli-
nation concurs with interestin the indeavor
to retain their good opinion.
Many years after the establishment
passed into our hands, under the wise and
benefcent dispensatons Of Democratic
statesmen, the country was peaceful,pros-
porous and happy. Now, under the des-
picable and imbecile rule of Black Repub.
licanism, it is clad in the habiliments of
woe and mourning. BY thousands the
best and bravest Of our country's sons
have been slaughtered, and those who
mourn them ego about the Streets" while
the demon of radicaism still cries for
more. God only knows what is in futare
tor ou' beloved country,i if the present par
y Is continued in rower another four
years and unless the poaple rise in their
-nIght,-h they yet have might in The bal
iot-box'-and huI' from power the VIOLA
tors Of the Constitution sbake off the
,omorants that are sucking the n.- blood
IF The nation-the proud old American
Eage may spread her pinions for another
:lime where liberty may again bless free
people. We are not without hope that the
people are not yet prepared to lay down at
me feet of despotio power the liberties they
have SO long erj Dyed, and that they will
get hurl the usurpers from the throne
at Washington, and place at the head Of
Government men who will bring peace and
Union to our distracted country.
In the future as in the past we shall do
our duty to the Democratic party-yea,
to the Union itself, and it behooyes the
PARTY to be a unit in sentiment and ac-
ion. We shall fearleGsly continue to ex.
pose the corruptions ,peculations and pr Off
gacies of men in official position, and to
urge upon the people-the masses who
pay the taxes and fight the battles of the
country, the necessities Of change of
Administration and the adoption of ano-
ther and wiser policy than the one pur-
sued at present, if the re-cstablishment of
the authority of the organic law and the
reconstruction of the Union upon dora-
bic lasis be desirable. Entirely destitute
OF Government patronage, the continuance
and usefulness of our paper depends wholly
spon the amount of encouragement the
public extend to US. Upon Il EN- we solely
rely. We are battling for their rights and
interests against tho encgoachments of ar.
bitrary power-we are striving fearlessly
with such ability as we possess, for the
restoration Of the old constitutional Gov
ernment and Union and for the success o
Democratic principles and men-and il
tiris holy warfare, from which no threa
or oppression of power an ioduce US 4
shrink or ewerve, we have right to ash
the Democrats people Of the county, who
love liberty and'.heir country above par
ty, to lend US their eounsenanoe and sup
port. We not say to thoss who have ta
ken our popcr during the past eighteer
years, that our course in defense of tn,
Constitution, and the rights Of American
citizens under il, viii be bold-that powe
cannot terrfy US from the faithful per
formauce of duty in this crisis, big with tn
fato of our country and rational huma
freedom. That they know already-an
upon this knowledge OF theirs we (ouu
our appeal. We desire to make the "CoI
UMBIA DEMOCRAT" a Peoples paper W
desire to place ourselves upon a founda
ton high enough and solid enough to dc
- y malice and persecution and power,wher
we may speak the truth in security an
safely frOwn upon corruption and dishor
ssty. That foundation is the peoples cor