Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-06-24
A Fearful Price.


The War Department, that three hundred !,
and twenty. Eve thousand Federal soldiers h
have lost their lives, from sickness and i
battle, during the present war. The L
wounded, and those permanently disabled |,
by disease, are estimated at three to one
Of the dead, or nine hundred and seventy. |
ave thousand, making total OF one mil |
lion three hundred thousand men ,
The lumber ofwidows and orphans is
not mentioned. Neither is there any es-
innate given of the losses OF the rebels,
which will probably swell the grand total
Of American soldiers slain or crippled by
each other, within the last four years, to
ttco millions Of men.
The national debt is n ow over SO, 20O,'
600 900 the interest upon which is Sl2a,
900 900, or about twice the amount Of the
whole national debt in 1860. Beside this,
there is the loss of property destroyed
during the war, amounting to many mil
lions more.
Truly, this is a fearful price to pay for
carrying out an experiment-the emanci
patton OF the negro race. There was
time when wise and patriotic men advo.
Gated the purchase of oil the slaves in the
United States, and their transportation to
a country Of their own. But this humane
, policy was cried down by the so.callod
"Republican' members Of Congress, under
the pretext that il would be too much Of
an expense to the nation. They argued,
also, that it would not be right to trans.
port the blacks to country Of their own,
because the race would relapse into a say.
. age state. They were determined to have
A.. war.
The war is over, and our country,
bleeding and exhausted, burdened with
debt, fuds herself still in possession of
this everlasting bone Of contention, tho
;. negro race. At last the policy of the alb
4 oition party is made msuifest--the policy
q which has caused them to drench our
land in blood, aud fill the hearts Of thou
sands with deepest misery. It's to give to
the negroes, The very blacks who would
8 become barbarous if left to themselves,
A the right Of suffrage, and through their
3. votes to obtain tho balance Of power The
- blindest of their fanatical followers must
rs soon perceive this. The leaders do mol
10 now deny it.
10 Ifthe blacks are unfit to govern coun
Of try Of their own, they are most certainly
IS unfit to hold the balance Of power in a ma
ID tion like this. Already they have proved
st themselves unfit to be citizens under tn
m mild laws of this country. All over th
ID southern country they swarm in filthy
lazy, sickly crowds, devouripg everythiut
and producing nothing except whom forcec
to work by the military xuthori,ies. Al
u old negro in the south lately told hi
at "cullud bruddern," you had better sta.
re and work for your massa, and he vii
ic feed and clothe you, but as to liberty. it il
'e like confederate money, dc more you ha
ID Oh it, de wuss off you is"
Is All over the southern land rings th
cry OF want from thousands Of starviu,
IL "fresdmen." In Alabamy alone twent.
thousand negroes are subsisting upo'
charity. All over tho North are rushing
about niger. .worshipiug preachers, an
gaunt, ill-favored, petticoated philanthro
pists, begging for money, for old clothes
for anything at all for the Suffering 'freed
men," Teachers are paid from the U.
Treasury, to teach the black piccaninnie
" to read and write while thousands OF whit
=. . children grow up in want, idleness, ignOr
auce and crime, in our northern cities
- and soldier widows toll health aud lii
=. away, to support their needed childre
~ until the time shall come when they ar
~ =. able to disentangle the pension papers G
" their husbands from tho manifold twists {
$ red tape at Washington.
But what do the leading abolitionisl
" care' They have gained one object, th
40 emancipation Of the nogro, by the Slaugl
ter of thousands of better and braver me
BY than themselves, and they are ready t
nd slaughtes as many more to acoomplis
,at their darling project, Of plsOiug the negr
e. apon political and social equality wit
ad the whi.e race.
cir [! depends upon the Democratic part
le. and upon all true men of all parties,t to nj
We in the bud the Infamous project Of ANA
10 gama.iop, for that, and nothing short Of
st. is the end and aim Of the leaders of Il
- abolition party. They will deny it no,
,h. but the time will come whea they will &C
he knowledge it, as they now acknowledl
what they denied four years ago, via =
that the war was for the emancip alton
the negro. Many of their dupss will b