Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-02-11
Raids on the Constitution,

L nc aIcntteCts OIL run having u1SSolveu 4
he Union and trsmpled on our liberties,
ire now planning system of raids upon
he Constitution. When their york of
destruction shall have been completed on
that fair charter of the Union, they will
have left it as different from the original
as Sheridan's torch has left the Valley OF
the Shenandoah.
One amendment 10 the Constitution con-
templates an express recognition in that
of the existence of deity
The devil may be satisfied with that ali
dition, but we see no reason why the rev.
erential spirit, by which it is proposed,
might not, with equal propriety, sesk TO
incorporate in the Constitution all the ar.
ticlos of the Christian religion.
Slavery constitutes another point Of
attack in the raids on the Constitution. -
The rclgionis,s and moralsts who urge
that proposition will we presume, push
out their views to the full extent by de-
mandipg an amendment abolishing for ev.
er, within the Jurisdiction of the United
States the system Of sanity villainy which
reigns in Utah.
Religion and morality are, however, mot
the only hobbies of the men engaged in
the Constitutional patch. work. They have
an excellent instinct for putting money ia
their constituents purses. Their amend.
ments ofphilauthropy and Christi an ethics
are excellent precursors to that end by
bearing down the barriers Of State sover :
eighty. The domestic institutions of q
State overridden by actual practice in a
clause of the Constitution the General Gov
ernment becomes thenceforih not the
agent, but the Sueerain.
The States practically disen,hroned, aa
such the Constitution ceases to be com.
promise between sovereignties. Tile par
amount and only only remaining sover.
eighty may then govern the whole as one
in fact and interest. New England con.
trolling the soasolidation, holding the
powers, will proceed to tnrn her. morals
and humanity into money The taxation
restrictions Of the instrument of the Union
will, therefore, be all swept away in order
to promote the interests of the evangelical
concoctors Of the new sovereignty of Pur-
itania. Already an amendment to the
Constitution has been prepared with the
view of taxing internal interchange by the
Congress Of the proposed ceDtralizatio
Another has just been offered in the Sen
ate. That amendment asks power for the
Legislature of the "ncw nation to lay tax
upon exports The raw material may be
thereby shut out by competition from for.
eign markets; but whether or not, the saints
OF New England are determined to have a
monopoly ofits manufacture.
Purltania is moving on rapidly toward
its full development. Harsh ethics and
severe godliness will constitute its mora
foundation. The domination Of New En-
gland will work its centralized power; and
as shown in the last proposed addition tc
the Constitutional putch, work, will d, SC
by experimenting its protective tariffs, by
heavy duties on certain exports. Woodcr
nutmegs will, under that happy regime
superside foreign nutmegs and warm the
toddies of the tariff victims who break th,
Maine Liquor Law on frosty morning il
the Far West
The West will buy from New England
because it will be prohibited by 'prote ct
i've" tariffs froa buying anywhere else AN,
the West will also sell to New England
inasmuch as it will be restricted in il
sales to other countries by duties and ex
ports. And the cant of what the Boston
ians call philosophy will those halcyo
ddps for the new Jerusalem of p. .ritania
declare America for Americans tha.
to say for those of them who live in tn
LaIpy land erst of the Connecticut.
Meadville Bank Thief Arrested
Mr.. DYER, the Teller of the Bank o
Crawford County, Pa, was arrested yes
terday, while getting on the ears at Meat
vile, on suspician of being the perpetratt
of the theft at the bank on Thursday e,
ening Upon being searched the sum
abodt s27 900 was found sewed up in tt
seat Of bis pantaleons. He is now confl
ed in the Crawford county jail to ava
o trial.