Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-12-23


Benton, Calhoun, McDufie ,Cass, Choate,
And the lower House, too - what an as.
semblage there me! the gaze. Lived there
a man in those halcyon days of The repub-
lie who would have presumed to lobby a
bill through in either or both Houses by
the use ol money There are sitting be-
fore me now grey headed men who know
that the man who would have ventured
such an attempt upon the integrity Of Que
of the then representatives Of the nation,
would have beeu roughly and properly
dealt with. l sadly fear the sun Of those
days has set to rise no moro, unless we
have an entire moral and political reform
alton.
Another alarming sign of the times is
the growing spirit Of insubordnatiou, com.
menclng in tho family and running trough
society in all its ramifcations. Behold
tho veriest boys and girls who throug our
thoroughtares. What boisterousness what
profanity, wha, obscenity And yet these
are the germs of our future as a na;icn -
Then, again, look az the frghtfully grow
ing disregard of law, both constitutional
and statute. But, perhaps the most dan
gerous sign Of the times which we are call.
ed on to observe, is the assumption of all
the military over the civil power. The
knell of all former republics toled out up
on the morning Of that sad, sad day, when
the military triumphed. over the civil au-
thority. You have but to refresh your
memories with the history of the past to
understand this thoroughly. Aud there is
nothing more true than that "history re-
peats ITSELF When that great privle re
OF which England and America boast as
he brightest evidence Of their civilization
and christianity, the writ OF ha5sas corpUS ,
was asSaied, and you were left at the
mercy of anybody an1 everybody, it re.
quITed but another cast Of the die.to fix
upon you a military despotism. Then
your light wolld have gone out at monday
Nicodemus asked with startling cmpha :
sis, when the chief Priests were olamorous
for the blood of Jesus: "Doth our law
judge any man before it hear him and
know what he dooth.' So asks the h0beas
corpus, why arrest this man-why ruth
lcssly tear him from his wife and children
Doth our law judge any man before it hear
him and kuow what he doeth ? And in
thunder tones it rolls out no no ! and
thus the great chart Of the American ci.i
zen liberty stands by his side as tho mil
tiary despot drags him away under the
cover of midnight, and "pleads like au-
giles; trumpet tougued, against the deep
damnatiou of his taking Off" Let us be
iearlessly jealous of cur rights. We are
the sovereigns. We make the laws. L
is age, the people of these United States
who make Presidents and Governors
They are our servants appointed to serv,
US, and if they do not pleas6 US, we pu
them out and put others in their places
What other nation can, ike ourselves
make use Of the plural pronouu, ,We-W
the American people We the sovereign
! people. Thank God for this proud dis
, Iinclion
Let Us never lose sight OF the fact tha
as the Union is made up Of seperate an,
: independent States so also are the State
made up of individual sovereigns, and jus
SO long as each citizen maintains his in.
, diyiduaIity amenable only tothe laws ant
Constitution, so long we are safe. Th
most alarming thought to the right think
ing man 10 this matter is the fact thai W,
/ are departing from our old landmarks
; Woald that l were able to impress upol
all my countrymeu the danger of such {
! course and especially the necessity 0
guarding against all fanatical and uncon-
stitutlonal innovations, What can b.
r more unnatural amalg amste discordan
elements which Got never intended shoulC
be united We are nation O
white men. Our national compact wa
q formed By aud for white men The con-
vention which assembled to form ou
y | CJHHllNu'iOu woe 'p'i' VI "li'sS 4NS'
and the chairman of that body was d
, less per,on than George Washington tn
pure umeompromisipg patriot. Think yo
}, that he or any other OF the wise and goo
$ men Composing their assemblagc; eve
=. co ntempated the idea that goyernmeu
y they were using their best efforts to es tab
ish was to be any thing but a goyernmen
= of white menH Thank God | have neVe
e seen the time when could say "et tn
c Union slide'-when l could pronounc
the great chart OF our nationality "a GOV
~. euaut with death and an agreement wit
hell or declare the Aog OF our country t
y be Haunting lie. Lst as keep our gov
IS ernment as it was originally intended by
g founders. The moment you admit the ne
gro to en- equality of citizenship you max
4 him eligible to any Office within the gift
" of the people from the Presidency dow
= otherwise he is not your political equal
. All | ask is that the man who is SO clam
IA orous for negro equality should thro'