Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-02-11
The Coming Draft.

The coming draft is beginning 10 awak-
en- anxiety in the households of the poor
throughout the land. The wealthy are
meeting everywhere to ascertain how best
they can raise the sums necessary to shield
their precious bodie, from the darger Of
rebel shot and shell. They are the horned
cattle who still cry out ; IF you want any
meat, kill the sheep and lambs; don't med.
die with US, there is no beef to spare. -
They say this however, to tn e lion, and
the cunning animal alter he had gained all
the information necessary for the destruc-
,ion of the mutLons and exhausted them,f
nally turned round and infor med the cat
tie who to ok him for their best and ten
derest friend, "that be means to eat them
up Also" That it must come to this, if
this destructive war goes on much longer,
is as clear as sunlight. There is limit
to financial endurance, aud the high rate
of taxes occasioned by the immense boun
ties, which are the premams that coward.
ice and wealth offer to save their own from
being driven to the slaughter pens, must
soon make legislation pause, and adopt a
system Of draft where no substitutes will
be permitted, and where all will be placed
upon an equality. The next draft must
necessarily be made upon this system, and
then howl will 60 up louder than that
which'starlled the fearful night in Egypt,
when the prince and the peasant awoke to
find, equally, that the Destroyer's foot
had been on their thresholds. By the
laws of the Directory all Frenchmen were
pronounced soldiers, and when the coun
try was declared in danger were summon
ed to its defense. It was the mad cry Of
"lberty, fraternity and equality" that
introduced the relentless inhexibility of a
Wholesale conscription into Revolutonar y
Franee--and it is the Same cry here of in. .
sane fanatcism that will intr oducs it here
in all its horrors. The conscription there
was the maximum of human suffering and
the most vexatious of all injustice, and it
will soon be SO here. Among the anomal-
les of human character that coDfound all
general reasoning, there is none more in
comprehensive than that which the Abo-
lition dynasty which rules us to our ruin
exercises over this nation. A people OF
all others the boldest, and, at the same
time, the keenest alive to their own i'm
mediate interests, under the influence OF
his power lose the Distinguishing features
OF their chara cter, aud, OF subjects con-
nected with the public affairs, display the
most crouching, abject fear, and perfect
reskessuess in the accumulation of the
most frightful debts. They know and OBJ
serve, as it were, instinctisely, the precise
limits assigned to the range of language
and, oonoious that mysterious ubibalty
is one of the attributes of the mercenary
spies of Government, discipline according.
>ly the tongue and the countenence even in
their domestic seclusion. Our rulers are
striving to make US military naton--at
the French express it, "une generations
propre ia gue've, ct a Ia gtoirie;" and
for this purpose our public schools are
being formed into military academies
where military exercises form large par
of the studies. Now, let US remember, i
we are to become nation of soldiers ,hov
aasi0n of soldiers must be occupied
Plunder is their food, and will be sough
wherever it may be found ga people a
war;" says Montesquieu, "must pecessa
riy triumph or be ruined. They will la.
Dor in their vocad OH. and never max
peace bat as eonauerers. Such a natl
onal temp erament is essentially at wa
with all the moral virtues and generou
principles of our natsfe, with the gentl
charities, ,as we'll as with the boarded treas
uraa of naace