Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-16

"oI""' uuo W eHelI political lnotliIcJsj
took no notice Of the contradiction the
lie once started could go on its way thus
endorsed, and effect the desired results
| will rerd parts of the letter aud com.
ment as proceed. 1t opens as follows:
Correspondence Of the Inquirerl
'CAMP CADwALADER, Col. Co., PAP
September 6, 1864.
We of the army of the "Fishing Creek"
feel surprised and exceedingly disappoint-
ed that your valuable paper has not pur-
sued your usual course of enterprise, and
had a reliable correspondent with this ar
my. Our deeds Of vaor and hardships
have been allowed to pass unchronicled,
and our praises may 20 unsung."
You will fud, Gentlemen, before have
finished, that there was very relteable
correspondent somewhere. But he goes
on -
"It is not generally known that certain
drafted men from this and other counties
Of this State, and some of the lower ones
of New York, have beer in the mountains
in the northern part of Columbia County
on the headwaters of Fishing Creek where
they have openly defed both the civil and
military authorities Of our country"
Now Gentlemen, say hero that thero
is not one single syllable of truth in that
sentence. There never was in the north
ern part of Columbia county, among the
mountains, or any where else in this sec
ton Of country, band Of men, either cit
| izens of the county, of other counties in
the State or of portions of the State of
New York, associated together for any
such purpose, for any illegal purpose, or
indeed for any purpose at all-that nei-
thcr the civil nor military authorities OF
our country were de6ed, openly or Sc
cre,l and that in fact there never was
any such body Of drafted men in the To-
cality specified By this correspondence
The assertion is absolutely and unquali,
iiedly falso.
MATTERS had reached such point that
few weeks ago a party of drafted men
fred upon and severely wounded Lieut.
Robson upon lis attempting to arrest
thom.'
Now a word on that point. 1t has new
cr been shown anywhere, by any sworn
testimony, by any evidence whatever, that
the man who is here called Lieut.. Rob-
ison had authority from any person oil
power, military or civil to make special OIL
general arrests. The facts arc that thi
Robson, Luzerne county man ,aud thre,
or four othor persons raidiDg around tht
County Of Columbia after midnight came
across several citizens of the county travel
ing upon their own business, not drattct
mon, so far as is known, nor men liable t.
arrest for any known cause, who upon DO
ing challenged by Robison's party ant
ordered to stop or else they would be fire.
upon seem to have fred themsclvcs,i i'm repl
to the chaIleuge. The act is neither to b
defended nor excused; but it was a nigh
afiray between those persons and citizen
Of Luzerne who had neither right nor au
thorty here, no lawful power over ou
people and no legal right to arrest them
The meeting was accidental, the partiC
unknown, the numbers insignificant; ant
it is sheer nonsense to talk about an arm
of 1000 men or any other number bein
required 10 arrest them. And yet, that
given as ole Of tho causes for this Inva
sion.
"Tho force Of the insurgents proving t
be much larger than supposed, we wer
reinforced by battalion of infantry un
der command Of Lieut. Col, Steward. W
remained in camp at Bloomsbury for sew
eral days, when all things being in readi
ness, we advanced to Bonton,a distance c
eighteen miles. There we again encamI
ed, and were further reinforced by bat
tallion OF the Veteran Reserve Corps
making command of about one thousan
= men,'
Yes, my Fellow Citizens, this valjar
"army Of the Fishing Creek rested i
Bloomsburg from the 18th to the 2l0t {
August; and on Sunday morning bFok
up its camp and took up its line of marct
Without any necessity, against all pre-
prety and all deconcy, the holy hours {
the christian Sabbath wero desecratcd b
t the sounds Of martial music and the meas
ured tramp of soldiers Who, themselve
mostly innocent, were made the instru
ments of designing men, and sent on
political mission sgain't peaceful citizens
whose only crime was devotion to II
9 principles of the constitution, and an Ut
| fortunate propensity to voto the Demo
4 cratic ticket. (Applauso) For mark 20
: Fellow Citizens, the facts make it perfect
I cloar that it was not against deserters tht
this immense force was sent. The be-
information / can procure makes ii prol