Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-06-03
C0alMTNICATiONS.
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Desultorv Letter. No. /.

right minded person will now say anu 90
nothing 10 keep ur bittor feeling between
the citizens who are spared from the raw
age. Of bloodsaed and carnage, Gre and
sword in the North or South. Everything
,ha. possibly can, should now be done to
promote peace and harmony between the
People OF the two sections. But instead Of
this, theie appears to bo studied purpose
on tho part Of some men in tho North, 10
agitate certain subjects connected with
the late dreadful struggle 10 order to keep
up hatred and prejudice against the peo.
pie Of the South As for instance, | see
men travelling through the country Ero.
posing to "Lecture OF Pr son life in the
Land Of Chivalry BY on who was in
Libby Prison for a Dunll er Of months -
Now protest in the name Of every Chris
tian, Of every patriotic Lady aud Gentle
man in the North against this practice at
present, it will do no good but much harm
and keep up a state Of i'll feeling between
the people who should now be at peace as
formerly. No one is ju+tifiablc 10 stirring
up subjects that must arouse the anger md
hatred of those who hear him again,t those
Of whom he sroaks' This course will Ger.
tainly keep uF strife of which we have
had greatly too much already.
10 fact, We ought not to have had the
war. 1t was brought on by an uuucces-
sary, unjustiablc, illegal, fanaticaI ngita-
ton of the Slavery question. 1t was not
brought on b5 slavery itself, (as Aboli-
tionists say for in that case we should
have had war as long as we have bad sla.
very, near eighty years: repeat it, and
defy successful contradiction, the war was
brought on by the wicked agitation of the
su'j'ct Of slavery ia and out Of Congress
! Had abolitionists minded their own bus
Iness, and not denounced the Federal
Constitution as "Coyenant with death
and league with hell, had they MT in.
tcrfered with the rights Of the South by
resisting the enforcement Of The fugatve
slave law had they not Petiched Congr ess
for to devise some plan to dissolve the
American Union had they not dtnouuc.
cd our glorious Flag "as polluted rag,
and Haunting lie,' and urged them ,ha,
could, to ''tare i. down. we .houid n,,
have had the war. Let thi. burning truth
be understood and remembered by all,
that the grca, and fearful responsibiI,le.
ronn'ctcd with this awful calamity ma,
rest upon tho proper persons. For Ger,
tain it is !hn, some body is responsible for
all The sins, sorrows, sufrsrngs, death,
destruction Of property, debts, taxation
&C., connected with aud consequent upon
this war ! And cootend that no, 81 =
very, but aboli,ioui.m is the Father Of the
wAr with all its attendant honors. Yes
Sit, on that Political, Hcadles,, Thought.
less, Heartless, Soulcss Monster let this
crushing weigh, rest, Tor, there i, right.
fully belongs
10 such disunon abolitionists as "
Philips, who said 81 have labored nine
teen years to take nineteen States out OF
this Union, aud if | have spen, any nine
teen years to the satisfaction Of my puritan
conscience, it was those nineteen years.''
To such drunken de magogues as senator
Chandler OF Mich. who said in February
1861, "The Union is not worth curse
without bloodshcd," to such as ex speaker
'Coltax, who said, "as we cannot agree
with the South we must fght," to suoh as
Il. g. lngressol of Illinois, who said
"Damn the Constitution, we have no use
for it," to such as these, and their CO
work RS we trace all our peasonal and
National sorrows connected with this civil
STRIFE"
Yes, Sir, the war in it's commencement
in its being unnece,s ,rily protracted to
secure BY fraud the election of last Nov.
the war, with all its untold crimes, suffer.
ings and woes, is clearly naccable to the
Northern : hsunioa abolition Jan4tic,-
Verify they have their reward. lie. them
now be satisfied, and no longer c,ure
upon subjects, as they did before tho war,
to stir up anger and i'll will between The
people Of The Free aud Slave States. For
we oil know.tha. anti.slavery lecturers and
Preachers who forgot their proper business
and preached the "uigger" instead Of
Christ, did much to p:eoipita,e the war
upon the country. May they cease their
"lckedness, repent and follow peace with
all men, and holiness without which no
man shal see the Lord" More anon.
JEFFERSON.
The Chestnut Street American,
Without being chargeable with writing
a"HOtel PW," we deem i, proper 10 say
few words in relation to the AMERICAS
HOTEL" of Philadelpbia This old NO