Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-23

Oi " all governments aio unsteady, lapor
population stationary, property
insecure, pcculation rampant and poverty
general. There is no established literature;
aud there are no roads Even the Inca
highway, y,extending from Quito hundreds of
leagues southwark into upper Peru, in
fact as we'll as name tho Canine Real
the royal road---has become dilapidated,
sud'is supplanted by mud paths. And to
what cause or causes shall this result be
attributed 1t cannot be the Catholic
form Of religion which prevails, for France
is Catholic, and yet among the first Of ma.
tions. Nor can it be the misgovcrnment
Of Spain. The errors of Spanish colonial
policy were much mitigated before indie.
pepdence and thirty or forty years have
elapsed since. Nor can it be republican
institutions, for we have them also. Nor
can it be an inferiority OF the Spanish
race 10 others. Spain has produced
heroes and poets. She was once domi'
nant in Europe, and more recently she
broke the power OF Napoleon even when
her own sovereign was treacherous TO her
cause and her honor
No one of these alleged causes then
produced the result before US, and we
must look further for an adequate expla-
nation. Some Of them may have con-
lributed to the result, but they did
not cause it. In my opinion, the main
cause has been, the mixing of distinct ra-
cos. The Spanard has not had selfre-
spect enough to keep himself uncontami-
mated from the native and the negro, and
be has, therefore, Inflicted upon his con.
quests or colonies in the New World, all
the curses of ny bridism, But he has been
still moro in flult. In all the new repub-
lies OF the South his theory has been as
false as his practice has been vicious. He
has proclaimed political and social equali-
ty amopg all stocks and mixtures of hu-
man beings, in contempt of notorious facts
and of past experience. This theory, and
practices conformed to it, have produced
monsirous evils which centuries caunot
undo. In point Of fact in Spanish Amer
lea, there is neither purity Of blood nor
organization of labor, without which no
people can be energetic, virtuous aud pros
porous.
II is for US to take the instruction OF
this example and profit by it; to reject.
the appeals Of false philanthropy, and to
maintain those principles of political and
social conduct which we have followed,
heretofore, with signal advantage and sue
cess. am, &c. &C.,
G. r. BUCKALEw.
Hon. John Cresswell, Jr.
Now, fellow citizens, let US try no rash
experiments with the people of the South.
Let us not exasperate but conciliate.-
Let US not adopt such a course as will jus
tfy rebellion. in their eyes or that Of their
descendants. Furthermore, let us insist
that no preference hereafter be shown to
the negro. If he is as good as the white
man let him take the same chances. How
is it now! A Freedsmans Bureau is
erected especially for the care Of negroes,
and homes, farms, schools and the like
furnished them o. our expense. Nay,
New England in her love for them sends
school teachers, money &c, while she sells
the poor crippled soldier who happens to
become \ township charge to the lowest
bidder. Why do these men adopt these
negroes as their brethern They a0ant
their uotes. Horace Greeley says eman-
cipation will add 500, 900 votes to the
Republican patty, aud II. Winter Davis
of Maryland, another high authority,
says: cit is votes, numbers, not intelli.
gence we want" There can be no doubt
that this party is pledged to negro equali-
ity. They have adopted it wherever they
have had power. Their conventions en-.
dorse it, Leading men in their party and
their principal papers openly proclaim it, &
unless we at once crush that party they
will fasteu it not only upon the South but
upon u.s. Chici Justice Chase quotes Tao.
titus, and breaches equality to these freed
men, while Covode Sumner and the lesser
lights make it an eternal text.
In view, then, fellow. citizens, Of the
pernicious tendencies of the doctrines OF
the opposition, so subversive Of govern
ment and of the objects for which this war
was begun, what i, our duty! 10 the first
place we must be true o the grand prin-
oiple of liberty, must never forget what
we are, what we have been, and wha, is
before US, By our example 10 1776 we
revived liberty Throughout. the earth. Ii
assembled the Andes, awakened France,
and taught Italy and Greece the lessons
of their better days. 1t inspired Koscius.
ko, Lafayette, Emmet, Kossuth, and
Bolivar. May their example not be lost
upon US. But what, you ask if our liber,
ties be threatened point to history
When King John attempted to destroy
British liberty, the grim barons on June
Is, 1915, assembled at Runnymede and
extorted Magma Charta, and compelled
their King to give them the Tower & City
Of London as security and as often as lhei
liberties were invaded would they re. ac
their great charter-had it read twice Q
year to the people, and Illuminated ex
communications against all such as disc
beyed it. Sec' 46 said, "N4Ri vendemus
null nega6imuS ait d!6syemuS, rectun
yeijustuiam. "We will sell to no man
We will not deny or delay to any man
right or justice" Again, when the
Stuarts SO pressed prerogative as to claim
the righ: of trying citizens by Courts ol
High Commission and tho Star Chamber
our sturdy ancestors in their vengeance