Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-23
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CAE'N'. G. Ee, EgGaGaEdggAY,
At the Great Mob Mountain
Meeting, Columbia County,
on Wednesday, August
30th, 1865.
REPORTED by D. T.. MURPHY. G-Q.

FRIENDS AND FELLow SoLDIEUs: 1t
may be according TO tactics to pnl raw re-
cIuIs 10 front while these Cd voIrcanS arc
kept ia rcsergr, bat the position is pain
iu one. Inl,mnch, howcvrr, as | have
been assigned position in this assault
on the rnemv, il is my duty to advance to
the charge, aud il repul ed | shall fail
b OK ugon the reserves. We have Assem-
b!,d here, as We have perfect right to
do, alike to l,bratc the establishment Of
our party, and 10 renew among our pco-
pie their political faith.
J'or four lorg years We have engaged
in body civil war the garbs Of mourn
ins bcI9re m", the maimcd soldiers who
hay> m.t here pr ~ -" - '4sncraIion of
the stru. gl9, w,rc other evidence waiting
The q2esiion8 are portient, what have We
fought for! Why is this fair land filled
with cripp!cs, with mourLiug-a why
arc we as a nation overwhelmed with debt!
These apo the questions which have been
a>siga Il me, and | will eudeavor to state
what we ought for, what we dad not fight
! for, aud what we should now insist upon.
/ When we consider the conflicting opinions
of leading men, of different communities,
the importance of proper solution OF the
question will be apparent. The subject
Is an old one; you have heard it day alter
day for the past four years and L shall
not prctrud to give you any original
thoughts on the subject, bu. to revive old
ones to your minds.
The object Of the South, [ take it, was
to cstabl-h separate government among
States alike Interested in the preservation
o the institution OF slavery, which they
claimed had been Illegally interIcred with.
Doubt e,s other causes mpell, d them tc
this course, but this was the main one
The ut ct OF TIE West. bcsde- the g2ner
al cue 10 malntan the Union Of our faith
ers, was to open and keep open the uavi-
CATION of the Mississippi river, that they
might through it. send their produce tC
market. The masses Of the Middle States
were ac'uated by truly patriotic impulses
though they knew that upon their border
would the contest be decided The objec
oI the Fast, however, | hold, WAS not th'
general one to preserve the Union, thougf
some men within its border, may have =
stated. 1t WAS the desire OF vengeanc
upon the South, aud upon Sonth Caroline
in particular. They were not opposed t.
secession, because thgy had been advo
= Gates Of that doctrine from the Iounda'io
+. of our government. Many oi my hearer
may be old enough to remember the rs
. sex Junto and the Hartford Convention
y They may remember the humorous petl
q tions coming from that portion Of the Uni
e ted States to Congress, praying Tor dl'
e solution OF the Union. For over thrt
T. wear, they have declared that 1.-The
h would have no union with shareholders.
+. You have not forgotten that Gen Bank
il who has hrld high civil aud military pt
10 silious under our governments, ma
!, whose name is Synonymous with diSunlo
n n aud delea', d clarGd that "he was wlllin
Ne iu certain contingencies to let the Unic
Y. Slide You have not forgotten that
- certain representative in Congress iro
.e that godly city of Boston, aud who no
: hoI&s high diplomatic position under Il
Of government, declared that "tho time ha
Of arrived when we must have 80 snti-sla'
r. r, cry Constitution, an anti-slavery BibI
aud an anti slavery God, Garrison
Librator prominent New England papc
- and one extensively circulated in the al
nd my by the Sanitary Commission, lo'
RS had at its head as a motto "The Consh'
lis ton is a covenant with death-an agrc
rg; meut with bell" These meG are typ
- Of New England sentiment, and hat
tGGf alike the Union and the Constitution.
md Nor were they actuated by desire
ii' imi support the laws, because they have be
Ter. the first to break them they have refus
re, to carry out the provisions of the Fugiti
slave law, though founded upon dir