Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-28
Connecticut Bull Run.


her legislature sought to deliver her BY
a large majority she refused, week ago
last Monday, to adopt an amendment to
her Constitution making Intelligence, not
color, the basis Of the franchise. She
has summoned her fellow citizens Of this
hue to the field, She has arrayed them
in her uniform and her arms. She has
made them fight for the salvation of our
common country; and now, when their
blood has achieved the victory, she inso-
lently refuses them the first sign and seal
Of manhood-the ballot. And this is done
by men who have bitterly opposed the war
who have sought by open and covert
means the di,memberment and enslave.
ment Of tho whole land, who are false
to our religion and our principles. With
them have been leagued the master spirits
Of evil that have done much to make their
state byword in the nation But Meth.
er Of these could su ecded had tn, Church
and the party of the Union been faithful.
Connecticut ought to have been fame
oil Ere for the last sixty days. The best
speakers in the land ought to have lifted
the people by their fcrver and their breadth
of soul. Sumner aud Wilson, Wade and
Kelly, Beecher and l'ilton, Hatfield and
Andrew, Dougos and Philips, with hun.
dreds o' lesser lights, should have blazed
throAgh al the state. The ministers
should have made their pulpits ring with
the great duty Of giving the Declaration
its desired completion in their state, and
starting the nation on the new road which
God calls it 10 walk 10. Such zeal
would have abashed the enemies OF this
true democracy. They could not have
brought their forces in equal strength in.
to the copgct They could not have de.
bated, hardly have declared their oppo.i.
ton, for, as Frederic Douglass says, when
one attempts to give reason for predju
dice is tiey conquered because they per-
suadcd the friends Of impartial suffrage to
adopt their tactics. Silence in this case
was far from golden; it was the basest
count,ifeii, Discussion is always tho
great alley of the truth. Discussion will
always help The cau'e of God, 1t makes its
friends hold; it wins them supporters. The
Christians and patriots Of Connecticut
would have been emboldt ned again their
own misereble prejudiccs had they bravely
opened their m ouths for this great princi.
pie. They set seal upon their lips
They shrunk from the taunt Of "amalga.
mationst,' they would not boldly take
their negro brother by the hand, and to
day they are defeated and imminent peril
OF dissolution. Their enemy has Learned
their weak side. lie is flushed with sue
cess. lie will press his victory, if posi-
bic, to the complete uhjuga,ion OF tn,
state to his policy aud his policy aud hi
representatives.
But the iujury she has done her owl
people and the principles of national ex
istencc within her own limits is the disas
ters of this defeat. She has made ever
rebel heart leap for joy. They can say
and with truth, "Our cause is after al
radically that Of the North. They dis
, franchise the negro we dehumanize hin
They refuse 10 recognize him as man
we recognize him as beast. We logi
cally carry out their principle. For tn
Bible declares man 10 be free, and tina
all other creatures are subject to him =
They say the negro is not one with them
selves. We say he is therefore our infer
; or, our chaltcl, over whom we cxerci:
, righlful dominion"
:, Nol speculatious alone, but rebellion
exaltations does this crime cause. but
;, imperIls the whole work OF reconstruction
= With what face can Connecticut refu
South Carolina admission 10 the Union
= She has a Constitution like her own. HI
DCdui 10 llhc N'ouhVSt'OuO uObC' VI "
= very same timber, and Of the very san
, size, This is white mans government
she infamously says aud Couneclic
, more infamously (for she sins against (
. greater light responds Amen The m
ority of the citizens of Mississippi a,
South Carolina are disfranchised by Il
- sin Of Puritan com monwealth. 1t su
u ports the West in their iuiquitons pre-
I" dice aud casts the party Of Union a
liberty into peril, If not into dostructi
=" This goddess prejudice deserves such
:. vine punishment. We may be thank
''A if it does not bring yet heavier walls
We His wrath upon us. 1t may breed ano
''' er war and yet great onarchy so jeal
and angry is the God Of heaven with th
,aa who falslfy their professions and treat
children With der!son