Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-03-18

loaves and fishes Of Office to dispense
Then it seemed as il new political Pen
tecost came on The land. Converts came
faster than we could discipline them.-
The doors Of the party were wide open
like the sanctuary of God 10 all offenders,
and the thief and the bypocrite did not
stumble on its threshold, but in they came :
and the proaigato in life, the venal in pol.
itcs, the maglghaut at heart,and the bru.
tai in manner, all and the honest and the
disiLterested and tho Patriotic But. sir.
when the apostles went fishing and threw
out their nets and made a great haul they
caught fish Of every kind. So all these
people came in and we we're a great party.
Ii happened to US just as it has happened
to great many before, and will happen
great mauy times again; the converts that
we're the most recent aud from tho most
bitter Of or opponents we're the most moi.
sy in profession Of zeal for their newfound
faith. confess, Mr.. President, that | was
astoaish0d beyond measure when l found
out after we actually came into power that
all the officers at the other end of the
avenue, in the Treasury, the Post Office,
the War, and all the other Departments,
had always been Republicans, and the
great trial of their life had been 10 smoth.
cr their deep convictions upon the subject
Of anti slavery, and their great Joy was
that in the providence Of God time had
como when there was no obligation on them
to be hypocrites any longer but when the y
could act With the party with which they
had always sympaihised. Laughter
That has been our experience Well,
sir, these new men got in, and they began
to say to the older, though certainly not
the batter soldiers "You have perform.
ed your mission, the Opposition was a
good place for you; you were capital for
denouncing the Democrats, and you put
them down but we do not think upoti the
whole that yoa are quite so good to rue
this machine as We Very good, sir, We
accedcd to the propriety Of The proposition
and the history Of The country is demon
st'ating the truth that hittory has demon
strated thousand times belore--it is the
history Of politics, it is the history of hu
manity, it is the history ofthc world.
Mr.. CONNESS. A law Of nature.
Mr.. HALE. Yes, it is with some ma
lures. That is fact, it is law of ma
iure. do not mention these things to fin,
fault with the N am perfectly content tina
things shall be as they are, | believe tina
we are not governed entirely by accident
but that there is Providence in these
matters, that Providence shapes our end
and guides the means by which they arc ''
be brought about.
Mr.. SALISBURY. Mr.. President,
do not know how .he speech Of the hon
orablo Sepa.or from New Hampshire Mr.
ual.J has impressed others, but one thins
iknow, that have been very much de
lighted at it. Sir, rccolect that whel
this party came into power, aud when
was smuggling for power, the good ole
glorious Democratic party aud its repre-
scntatives tod the people Of the countr
not to listen to its siren song. We tol,
the people then that the Republican par
ty was trying 20 get possession Of the q ov
Grnment OF this country by falses preten
ses. The Rrpubl, cat politicians wer
telling the people that the Administrator
of Mr.. Buchanan had cost 500, 900 900 il
single year that there were great cor
rnptions in the Democratic party and the,
therefore appealed TO the people in thei
indignation 10 rise up and turn the cor
rupt Democratic party oGt of power. w
told them that if they listened to these po
HtlCdl duVCutuiSl loiuuu 'uVy gu OObtOi Y
the Government OF this country, fraud an
corruption would be their stock in trade
And now, sir, we have been delighted to
day in hearing one of the earliest champi
ons Of that party arise on the floor of tn
Senate of the United States, and in Meth
odistie love. feast make confession Of tn
sins of himself and his whole party,
Mr.! President, the honorable Senate
from New Hampshire said that he wps
the position of the Methodist who had rt
lieved his mind. Let me tell him th;
his speech reminds me oI scene that
have been informed once occurred in
Methodist love.feast and we all kuo
who the Methodists are. | think they al
among the best people ia the world, W
know th at they have habit of havir
class meetings and lovc-feasts and in n
State on one OCCASION they met in litt
school house and held their class. III
leader came along and asked brother