Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-08-22
COMMUNICATIONS.
Hints to the Public.

MESsRs EDITORS DEMOCRAT AND STAR
Some timo ago sent you piece for pub
Tcation on personality which did not APP
pear. In this shall be brief, and hope you
viii not throw all / send under the table
First, the history of the rise and fall of
parties in this country IS theme full of sug
gestive lessons to the statesman and the cltl-
zen, and were the space allowed me would
gladly decant upon the topic. My present
purpose, however, is with the living and not
with the dead but there Is one great fact,
standing out in bold relief upon the pages
of American history, which, connected as it
is, with the present, [ cannot pass over. 1t
Is this that the Democratic party, dating
It's birth from the birth of the Republic, and
before whose conquering legions every other
partv that has ever risen and struggled tor
mastery In this Government, has been swept
down ike grass before the mowers sythe,
and it stands to-day in all the majesty Of It's
pristine power, bearing the flag and keeping
step to the music of the Union. What a
glorious and brilliant history it presents
Darkness and gloom have gathered around
It defections and treason have thlnned Its
ranks; disaster and defeat have perched upon
its banner, yet, with a courage that never
quailed, zeal that never tagged, and an un-
faltering reliance upon the business OF Its
cause, which no disaster has ever shaken, 1t
still presses on its glorious mission of pre-
serving inviolate the Constitution and the
Union. Summoned again othe field OF con-
test, it responds with alacrity to the demand
of patriotism, and stands forth TO combat the
most dangerous of all the parties that ever
had an existence In this Government The
present enemy of the Democracy Is compos-
ed of the drift-wOod and refuse Of all parties,
among which Is the Union League faction
which surpasses them ali in audacity, impu-
dence, corruption and venality. With every
pocket and every hand filled with brlbes
these AbolitiOnists have dared to protest
their innocence and seek to eiude detection
charging their own venality upon others
That party, tried and convicted of corrup-
ton in its very infancy, with the brand upon
its brow, yet has the affrontery to set itself
up as the very model of honesty and judges
of public morals.
After having pIundered the public Treas
ury wherever and whenever it had the op-
portunity, it yet effects to roll up Its eyes In
holy horror at the indispensable and dlmlnu-
tive increase Of our national expenditures
an increase rendered necessary. By and only
keeping pace with the groth OF our country
and Judging others by the course OF action
which has guided its footsteps and marked
It's career. it has not faltered to charge this
necessary and indispensable increase to cor
ruption. With its g Smelling Committee
Il has compassed sea and land, in its efforts
to fasten corruption upon the Democratic
marty but It's secret assaults have been par
ried its peuured witnesses confronted and
disproved, and its stale SANDERS have re-
ceived full refutation and yet it has the au-
dacity to persist In Its infamous course of
charqine that corruption upon others, which
has alone stained and defIed its own robes
The course Of public justice and truth de-
mand that we should drag this criminal be-
fore the bar Of the country and have 1t tried
for its crimes
Now. IN conclusion, win say TO my Dem
o<ratic friends, that patriotism is the spirit
by which our political fabric Is held together /;