Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-02

violates IL, OF counsels violation by others
is public enemy and dishonest man -
(Applause,) -
Resoiped, That among the rights guar.
antied to us by the plainest words OF the
Constitution, are these Free press, free
dom from arbitrary arrest aud illegal inn
prisonment, trial by jury, the writ of ha.
beas corpus, the perfect immunity OF oil
persons not in the army or navy from any
species Of punishment for crime or pre-.
tended crime which is not the legal con-
sequence of legal conviction by an i'm
partial jury, the absolute subj rCination Of
all military power to the civil authority,
and the privilege of white citizens to vote
at the State elections, according to the laws
Of the State.
Resolved, That we fully concur with
presideut johnson in the conviction ex-
pressed by him in 1860. and repeated
several times since, that the Federal G ov.
ernment is sovereign within its proper
sphere th at it acts not through or upon
the States, but directly upon individuals; !;
that the States could not absolve the pco.
pie from their federal obligations; that
the state ordinances OF Secession were
nulitcs, and therefore, when the attempted
revolution came to an end by the submis-
sion of the insurgents, the States were as
much part of the Union as they had
been before. Their people were bound to
the same duties and clothed with the same
rights, excepting, OF course, such rights
as individuals among them had legally
forfeited by their own acts in the mean
time, and we hereby declare that so far
as we can prevent il, the resumption of
their proper places iu the Union by those
States, some Of whose citizens were lately
in Rebellion, shall not be impeded OF tie,
laved by the unlawful interference of that
faction 10 the North which was always
hostle to the Union, which now prooouu.
ccs it legally Dissolved, and which is still
Indignantly laboring to prevent its restor
alton
ReSRved, That The effort now making
by certain persons to u5o The power Of tho
General Government with q view to force
negro suffrage on the States against the
will Of the people and contrary to exist
ing laws, is not only high crime again {
the Constitution, but deliberate aud
wicked attempt to put the States of this
Union Gall of them more or less and some
of them entiroly) under the domination
Of negroes, to Aircanize a large portion
Of the country and degrade the white race
morally aud socially as well a, politically
to the low level of the black We will
not acknowledge the incapaoty of our own
race, to govern itself, nor surrender the
destluies Of the country into the hands of
negroes, nor put ourselves under their
guardianship, nor give up to them the
political privileges which we inherited
from our fathers, and we exhort our breta
attitude aud maintain it firmly. (Cheers
ReSolved, That we will support Presi-
dent johnson in every just effort he M y
mako to place all .he States in their prop
er positions, to give to them a fair repre-.
rentetion in Congre $, 10 save them from
the curse OF negro equality; he shall
have our hearty approval when he inhicts
legal punishment by means oil legal tribd
nails upon ff9uders against the United
States, and we wi! be with him in every
measure which looks to the maintenance
OF the public credit. But our full appro
val Of his administration can be founded
only in the belief that be will execute the
law, the whole law, and nptliug but the
law in all parts OF The cou try that he will
not allow the military TO Interfere with
State elections; that ne will punish kid
mapping and robbery through the legal
authorities, whether committed by Fed =
eral officers or private cit zens, aud that be
will suffer no person to be murdered by
Military Commission, and upon these
measures there can be no compromise he
that is not for US is against US,
AcSNUet, That in view Of our cnor
nous national debt, the gleat weight Of
our State taxes, and the local burdens
imposed upon us in divers ways, economy
and retrenchment become an important
duty of all our prescntatves, and 10 this
end the vast standing army now on foo'
ought to be disbanded, the navy should be
reduced, and the corrupt and extravagaut
practices lately iEtr cd ucod into the Gov
ernment should be totally abolished.
Re,Olvod, That our reveuue laws need
to be carefully revised in such manner
that while the public credit will be main
tained aud the national honor preserved
taxation will be equal aud just.
| ReSolOed, That the gallant soldiers OF
the Republic, who so nobIy risked their
lives iD defense of the Union and the Coz.
Sttution, merit aud will receive the undy,
ing gratitude of the Anne lean people
Living, they shall live in our warmcst ai.
ecions, aud, dying their memories will bc
cherished for all time to come. To sly,
as our political opponents DO, that they
fought aud bled, aud died, manly for the
freedom Of the negro, is gross insult on
their patriotism and an outrage which will
be indignantly resented by their survlyin!
comrades through the ballot box
Res0lsed, That the noble manner in
which the Democr attic press ol this com
monwealty have contended iu the defcnse
of the liberties of the nation and trials aud
difficulties almost unparalleled, ls desOrv,
ing Of our greatful recognition, and should