Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1866-02-24
VALEDICToRY.

lhSW huO pNplOdtioh VI tuO COLb MBlA 1
'EMocRAT, as its Editor and proprietor,
nd now, with the issue OF this uumber,
10 resign our position and retire to pri-
ate life and domestic endearments, in or
er to recuperate our wearied limbs and
feet an early settlement of our out-stand
ng accounts. During all this long period
# time, to which sixteen years Of our for
ner life had been zealously devoted, of
'ctive and ever-varying political contests
we have exerted our best energies to
subservo and support the great principles
Of the UNION, the LAWS and the CoNsrl-
rUrIoN,-!he undying heritage Of Our
lhe fundamental prime pies of
the time-honored Democratic Party. If
our labors have been of any advantage 10
our common country, in what we believe
to have been for the dissemination Of cor
rect principles and the amelioralion of the
condition of our fellow-citizens, we shall
feel that we have been amply com pensa-
ted for our services and retire, for time,
from long career of public journalism
we'll satisfied.
ELIJAH Il. IKELER, Esq, of Blooms
burg, has purchased the entire establish.
ment of the old Col2tmbiG Democrat.--
Mr.. IKgLER, is young gentleman of high
character, known integrity and fine abili-
ty--a sound Democrat, a chaste literary
Writer and fluent public Speaker. We
commend him as such to our friends and
the publio-the noble lion-hearted Democ-
racy of Coumbis, Ito whose liberal pat
ropage and generous confidence we are
mainly indebted for whatever of success
has attended our poor labors and placed
this establishment upon a permanent basis
and career of unexampled prosperity.
Mr.. Ikeler announces elsewhere in our
columns his intentions in relation to the
future conduct of this journal,
Subscribers and advertisers who have
overpaid their accounts, will have credit
for the same on the Books of our suces
sor, and all uuexpired contracts will be
fu filed by him. We shall use our efforts
to have all the business minutia Of the Of
flee satisfactorily arranged. More cannot
be promised or expected.
And here we might close this brief Vale
dictory, and drop the Pen, ,were it not that
the present untoward condition OF affairs
would seem to require at least a passing
notice on the state Of the country.
My Fellow-Countrymen, we are now
in the midst of another, and what promi- |
ses to be a fearful, if not a bloody Re0o-
luton. The spirit of fanaticism, treason
and disunion, has unfortunately, for the
honor of the nation, and the happiness of
the country, placed lot Of traitors to the
Constitution in high positions under the
Government. Stevens, Sumner, Wilson,
& Co., have determined to rule or ruin the
country. And for this purpose they have
thrust upon the people the odious measure
of Negro Suffrage. These traitorous con-
spirators have made the issue with the
people and the President, and seem deter
mined that these States shall NOT be re-
united-that Peace shall NOT be restored
that the Government Of our Patriotic
Fathers SHALL be broken up, and that
death, devastation and anarchy shall again
pervade our common country. President
JOHNSON has sworn to support the Con-
sti.ution and see the Laws faithfully ad-
ministered. We only ask him to main
tain his Constitutional Oath inviolate-
not to commit perjury-and he will be sus-
tanned and the honor of the country pre-
served. The Southern States must either
bo brought back into the Union, or they
will be kept ou:, and in the latter event,
Negro EquaLHy will bo forced upon the
People against their will and remon-
STRANGE.
Upon this great matter of the franchise
privilege, depend consequences, for veal
or woe, to the present aud future genera
tons consequences to satisfactorily put
an end to our troubles, or to increase and
prolopg them indefinitely Consequences
which are to consummate our late unhap'
py civil war in wholesome and perfec!
peace, aud lead US again into the path Of
prosperity, or to involve US in agitation
and pickering, if not, (Which Heaven
avert, into renewed bIood-shed, sooner or
later-consequences which are to strength
Ell and secure the permanency Of demo-
cratic institutions aud the stability of con-
stitutlonal government, or to unmoor this
people on the wild sea Of anarchy, or pass
them beneath the yoke of despotism-
consequences which may jeopardze the
existence Of the Union
A word more in view Of the situation
of the country since the war, and the par
amount duty of couciIiation incumbent
upon the people and all the States. The
war was unexampled for its magnitude
the ground-swell of the energies of the
greatest people known to history. But tht
tempering down Of the heart Of the people
the yielding of passion and resistance Il
law and authority was grander sight
| Another triumph is to be acbieyed-tt