Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-30

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llove was SO, the Union prisoners were
treated at Andersonvilo. This 1 will
prove ere long, by giving fair statement
Of the facts d. FLANAGAN.
Thoughts for Pennsylvanians.
Practical Republication means negro
equality, and negro equality means op-
position to pacifcation and reorganization
Ito peace, union aud prosperity. Those
who are opposed to the Presidents plan
for settling the difficulties which have
disturbed the country, ARC sure to be found
advocating negro suffrage and equality.
The reason is plain. Chief justice Chase,
and Senator Sumner, and Thaddeus Ste>
vens understand perfectly the game they
are playing, and the Instruments they
need to effect their reasonable purpose.
The stories of cruelty to negroes, the tales
OF secret plots in the Southern States
against the Union and the Government
the constant agitation of the old res ad-
J~dtcat@ by the Republican journals, are
all intended to keep open the bleeding
wounds of the nation, and, if possible,
prevent the sections from once more unit
ing OIL the Consttut on. Blt mischevous as
these agencies are, they are barren and
innocent when copparedwith negro equal
| ity. That is the thorn which raukles and
testers and is intended to rankle and fes-
ter in the minds of the Southern people
and hence it is turned and twisted inces-
sanity by Republicans. They continue
this deVilish operation in order, if posi-
BILE, to disturb the relations which now ex-
ist between the South aud tho General
Government, and thus afford pretext for
the use Of the military power in holding
the States as provinces, and the people
as vassals
This being the evident use which the
Republican party means to make of the
doctrine of negro suffrage and equality,
are the people Of this State prepared to
endorse it at the polls by voting the Re-
publican ticket No State in the Union
has more reasons to desire speedy set.
tlement Of the pending issues between the
the North and South than Pennsylvania.
All her interests arc identified with per-
feet Union. Her vast resources need
wide market This can only be obtained
by union Of all the people north and
south Of her, on basis that will hide the
past, and restore practically the equality
Of the States nnder the Constitution The
attempted degradation Of any portion of
The white people of this country, whose
government rests upon the popular will, is
a war against the purity and perpetuity Of
a representative system; and if the at
tempt be successful, the result must be the
disturbance and destruction OF the whole
fabric of society, political, social and in.
industrial Uuder our present system the
interests of the whole people, North South,
East and West, are linked together by
common hopes, fears and interests. What
affects injurously one section, reduces It's
products, uproots its industrial system,
prostrates its trade, destroys its business,
must aud will affect The whole
These thoughts are pertinent to the oc-
casion and the duties they are pressing up.
on the people of this State. The people
Of the South are honestly ana faithfully
laboring 10 trsuquilize that section, They
are succeeding admirably uuder the
plan proposed by the President. DELI
cations, composed of leading men from
that seccion, have called upon the presl.
, dent aud given assurances that the whole
people OF the South are willing TO accept
the plan proposed aud labor to put it into
y e7rly and efficient operation. But they
need the co operation Of me true Union
men of the North, in order to prcycut tho
Radicals from arrestlng the progress of the
patriotic work-.3gc.
! EzE" Mrs. Parrngton makes Shake.
sphere say Sweet are the uses of ad-
vertisements." It's so, if Shakespeare
: didn't say il,