Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
BLOOMSBURY:
Which is in the Union, the North
or the south?

We h"ar a great deal about "pres crv.
ing the Unlon,' about never giving up un-
ul 1.-THE South comes back into the Union,
etc., etc., until we know not which to pity
most, the asses who bray this folly or the
people who submit to the inhictlon of the
stupidity. Every reader of American his.
tory, knows that the unloB OF colonies was
first brought about BY the external danger
that threatened thrm. 1t required the
united cxcrliuns OF all If hem 10 beat back
The haughry rctrn-ions OF George Ill,
aud his ministers, aud after ir inde-
pendcucc was obtained, it was believed by
many OF the most devoted friends of free
dom, that it would require their earnest
aud united cxertious TO maintain it against
the foes Of republican institutions. This
consideration, together with impn.tant rea-
sons connected with the internal welfare of
the States, induce each Que to give its
cOHSraf 10 SHE ter 5 OF the new UiuOE as
embraced in our present Constitution.
! Now, wha. werc the terms ofthe Union
! Why, it is too clear for doubt that, upon
the Toints now in dispute, they were as
follows The negro race was nor admit
I'd to the @at"$ OF citizenship, autl its con-
dition in each State Was left to be deter
IL iued a. the people of each State should
zee fit The Federal Government had no
tight to Interfere with it in any way what
ever, except to see that fugitive negroes
were returucd to their honlcS. This was
the Union-the Constitution, the Govern
ment formed by our lorcfa'hers The Fed
eral Government had no occasion to use
its Influence or power either for or against
the relation that the States prescribed for
the negro. Il was its duty to treat it just
as it did every other act oil the States which
they had the right to do, aud to respect ii
as such
But it is notorious thit the Abolition
party were never in favor ol preserving
that Union. They hated it with perfec
hatred. They declared they would over
throw it, if they could, that it was "a GOV
enant with death aud league with hell.
There was no objurgrton too severe Will
which to condemn it, no curses deel
enough to conSign it to eternal perdition
- But no so ,ner do they get power thai
they change the Union by construction
and declare thas it includes all men, ant
the President elected by portion of tn
States to rule all oil them, with sweep o
a his pen, and under the false and fraduIen
rlan of ga war measure" assumes Il
change the laws of the States upon mat
i ters with which the Federal Government
e has no more right to interfere that it ha
: with the internal affairs OF France o
England. 1t is evident, therefore, that
It there are any States in the Union, it is no
those over which Mr.. Lincoln has beel
elected 10 preside. Tc talk about tn
southern States ''coming back to the I'm
: ion" by submitting to Mr.. Lincoln,
therefore an absurdity which in any san
community ought to Consign man to th
N Luuatic Asylum.
So for a. tho southern States are con
corned, they have placed themselves upo
as he the principles which Mr.. Lincoln has dis
Il, carded, and therefore, in reality are IL
defenders Of that Union or goVernmel