Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1866-02-17
The President and the Repub-
licans.

render to the cause Of the State. A CON-
mittee composed Of members from both
Houses and from different parts of the
State, presented these resolutions on Sat.
urday to the president. We will not re-
capilulate here the honest assurances of
the Virginia Legislature neither shall
we pTs,e to examine The sincerity Of the
honorable gentlemen who assured thePres-
ideut that the resistance 10 the Federal au-
thority by the men of that State, had not
been more heroic than their submission to
il is frank and faithful. With all their
powers Of struggling against The Usion ut-
terly exhausted, With no possible purposes
to accomplish by treachery to it, to en-
force by argument the evident fact OF their
honesty 10 d. claripg themselves trus to
! the Constitution the Union and the laws,
we're not only to impcach their manliness
but to outrage their common sense.
The President made lengthy reply to
the assurances Of the committee Of the
Virginia Legislature. The word, which
he used on the occasion are SO full of i'm
port that we 90 directly to them in order
to hold them up to the patriot throughout
the land as words of high hope, Speak
log of the admis sion OF the Southern del
egalions into Congress, the President said
that "when the people send such men in
good faith they are entitled to representa-
ton through them lie stated further:
"Ths being done feel that the day is
not distant--I speak confidently in regard
to the great mass Of the American people
when they will determine tsat this
Union shall be made whole and the great
right Of representation in the councils Of
the nation shall be acknowledged"
Here he not only insists on bis policy
10 defiance Of the Black Repubicans, but
lie intimates to them very broadly that he
win appeal from them to "the great body
of the American people, lie reiteratcs
ha determination to grapplc with the revo-
lutienisls, in these words
"Geutcmon, that is the fundamental
principle. "No taxation without represen-
ta!ion" was one Of the principles carried
by Us through the revolution. This great
principle will bold good yet and if we
but perform our duty, if we but con ply
with the spirit of The resolutions presen-
ted to me to-day, the American people
will maintain and sustain the great doc
trine upon which the Government was in
augurated, 1t can be done, and it will be
done, and l thick that if the effort be fair
ly aud fully made with torbearance and
with prudence, and with discretion and
wisdom, the end is not very far"
And be tells the people who yearn, in
both sections, for political repose and re-
storation Of the Union that "tho end is
mot very Ear - Here are tho words OF
hope, and chear, spoken, too, with cour-
age, patriotism that in themselves are
calculated to dispel the gloom with which
the fanatcism Of Congress has filed the
hearts Of the millions
Nor doe. the President speak dreamily.
lie has evidently looked .at the position
practically and boldly. Tcmporisings he
evidently holds himself done with. He
may now be expected to enter on his work
With straightforward vigor. lie shows
himself prepared to graPple in death
struggle with the party oil revolution
GAS now" he says, "tAat the attempt ,c
destroy the Government has iailad at ont
end Of the line. L trust VIC shall 60 on de.
.ermined to preserve the Union in its or,
igiual purity against q Il opposers !" Tht
pretended "Union Party must learn tha
they caunot trae with a man Of Mr.. John
on's energetic devotion to the Union. -
And, again, he says 81 cannot take
the position that State which attem pied
to secede is out Of the Union, when / con
tended ell tie time that it could not 90 ou
and that it never had been out, Icanno
be forced INTO that position !" Hare, then
is the gauntlet thrown down to Copgres,
in a patriotic aud gallant defiance
But the speech leaves 90 doubt what
ever Of the determination of the President
10 resist the reyolutionists 10 the last
II do not" said he to .se Virginia del
egatior, "intend to say anything perso
nal, but you know as we'll as do that a
the beginning of'tho recent gigantic strug-
gle between the different sections of thC
country there were extreme men Soutt
aud there were extreme men North.
might make use Of homely figure, whicl
is sometimes aa good as any other, ever
10 the illustration of great and importan
questions, and say that there has been
e hammer at ono end of the line and an an
vii at the other, and this great Govern
ment--Ihc best the world ever ssw-wa
4 kept upon the anvil and hammered dur
. ing the rebellion, and it has been ham
mered since the rebellion, and there seen.
) TO be a disposition to continue the ham