Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-28
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idering the source from which it springs.
We we're not prepared, however, to find
his Journal so early a stage ia the con-
est advocating the amalgamatiou theory,
liong with lis other budget of political
iogmas, aud aling upon the church of
It's adoption to unite with the radical re-
publicans 10 a crusade against Constitu-
tional law, for the sake OF engraftiug new
tangled isms upon our statute books. The
whole tenor OF the article Is as uachyiSttan
in IT'S tone as 10 is false sn its assumption.
This religious scribe, whose feelings
are SO deeply enlisted in behalf Of the
African, makes bold to declare that Me-
GRO VALOR CARRIED OFF THE
PALM in the late contest for national life.
We do not misrepreseht the writer, he
says in unmis TAX able language NEGRO
BLOOD ACHIEVED THE VICTORY
over Southern traitors. White men, whose
sons have fallen on the field of battle,
whose mapgled forms are before your eyes
can you read such declaration without
feeling the blood curde in your veins .
Can you, who served in the ranks, and
fought to bring peace to our distracted
country, listen to such words without feel
ing that deep and damning stain rests
upon the publishers Of such vile SANDER,
even if the Journal PROCESSES to be the
Christians AdUocate Wives and moth.
ers, can you refrain from denouncing the
author and publishers of such an article
as perjured Williams, base hypocrites. and
Wholesale liars I Sons and daughters,
whose fathers rest beneath the battle
ments Of Richmond, and Peter burg, of
Charleston and Vicksburg, whose lives
were laid down as sacrafce upon the
altar Of their country, can you keep silent!
No, never, The united voices Of these
representative classes will not cease day
or night until their services IN the national
conflict are vindicated, until their record
is truly inscribed upon the page of histo.
ry. The 'ohate soldier carried off, the palm,
bis valor and courage oompel'-a the proad
and stubborn foe to give way, it was no.
negro blood and daring, notwithstang the
declaration of Phillips and the Christians
Aofvocate. The writer in question desires
the negro admitted into to all the rights of
citizenship, made equal with all the rules
and regulations Of government. Then fol-
lows words of reproach against the Con-
necticut electors for not making the Gland
Of steady habits" ring before the vote as
taken with the eloquence of Sumner, vii.
con, Phill'ps, Douglass, and the lesser
lights. Tha pulpit is also censured for
not ignoring the cause Of Christ aud him
cruclfed-for not entering more heartily
into political contest in favor of negro.
suffrage. When we recnll the fact that
the ministers OF Christ in Now-Englaud,
with few exceptions, have for years made
religion a secondary matter /; her pulpit
ringing with thrilling eloquence in behalf
OF political interest bent upon dssolu.
tion or subjugation, thi, censure means
something. In solemn strains, these
white-washed diyines have looked heaven.
ward and called upon God 10 infase
spirit of disquietude among the people,
until the land would burn against all who
did not consider our /" Constitution
league with death and covenant with
hell"
This spirit Of the evil one, has so firm
ly taken hold Of the radical mind, that it
appears right in their sight to b" glory IN
being called not only Abolitionists, but
Amalgamationist.' Every New.Eng.
land Stale, says the writer Of the article
in question, is committed TO This doctrine,
and doctrine that will soon become the
scheme of the republican party throughout
the land. The Idea that this is white
mans government, is also secuted at as
infamous, as at was with the Hbsral sents-
msnts Of the age.
Friends of true Democracy, are you
going to sell your birth right 10 rclig-
ious tanstical element 7 Are you going
to give up without a struggle all the rights
guaranteed by your fathers $50, rest
at ease and suffer the wild rawlings of a
bigoted pulpit, backed by bigoted press,
to work out the bill already announced
upon the programme. II half its acts are
carried out, if half its schemes take with
the people, good bye to our republican
Institutions.
The whole tenor OF the article il impreg.
mated with the mos, obnoxious radical sen.
timents, breathing only one idea from be-
ginipg to end; lie. war upon all who
stands in the way Of heir darling object,
the elevation of the negro, to all the social