Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-05-16


ished and died from disease, exposure cold,
and hunger Thousands more all over the
country are now perishing, starving, and
dying. Even In Washington city, the voice
of suffering and hunger appeals to US from
al abolition pens, where hundreds of them
are huddled together in rags and filth, per-
ishing and starving. Onlya few days ago
Congress appropriated $25. 600 to save from
starvation, afew days, longer, the miserable
i'inmatesof these abolition pens in that city.
And you call these wretched victims of your
policy freedmen And the act by which
you placed them in this condition, you call,
{, Emancipation But 4'the iron pen of
history will record it as the most monsrous
act Of cruelty that ever darkened the an
mails of any of the, nations of the earth. -
Yes the country begins to see now that ;tb-
olitionism and not the Constitution isindeed
"a covenant, with death to the negro"
Not content with the ruin they have
wrought. these pestilent agitators sieze on
the fact that slavery is abolished, AMI make
that the basis of new conflict. They are
now everywhere striking for negro equality
warning against the laws of nature, seeking to
blot out al distinctions, and crush down the
white race 10 political and social equality
with the blacks; all for the purpose of gain
ing new recruit of negro voters. to aid
them in ruling and governing the white
people in the South and border States The
natural tendency of this movement viii be
to engender bitterness offeeling and burn
ing antagonism between the whites and
blacks that may break out in war If races,
resulting in the determination Of the whole
remnant of the negro race in this country.
But taking for their motto Better Feign In
he'll than serve in heaven" these mad rest
less spirits rush on to another conflict, reck-
less Of all consequences, determined to rule
or ruin. And che country will see after.
awhile, begin to see now, that abolitionism,
not slavery, was the sum Of all villainies;
and the poor deluded negro viii find too
late that his master was his best and kindest
friend. and Che aholitionist his worst and
most cruel enemy.
ran plead in extenuation much proyocation
long and patiently borne, but the northern
rebellion can urge no such plea. / Radical
ism in the North was the source and origin
of all the terrible commissions and bloody
horrors thiscountry has ever suffered The
South, with all its errors, made no agrees
ions ON the rights of the North 1t never
intermeddled with, nor sought to control,
the domestic institutions of the States In
the North. The South claimed only to ex-
cercise that control over It's own domestic
affairs it freely conceded TO the North, and
which was secured, to both by common
Constitution. But the Radicals Of the
North withoutthe hope of beneftings that
section, and with no Temptation save the
qualification Of fallen, depraved, and NAL
ignant spirit denounced the Constitution as
"a league with death and covenant with
he'll and made lawless and unproyoked
aggressions from year to year on the oonsti-
tutional rights of the South. Thisled % the
formation of two bitter sectional parties, one
in the North andone IN the South. And as
foretold by the Father of his Country, these
sectional parties soon brought on horrid
conflict that redeemed the land with kindred
blood, and blasted the country with desola-
ton, as il sInitten by the lghtningsofheav-
.en. 8ae las
''By their fruits you shall know them
Radicalism in the North sowed and cultiva-
ted the seed, and the fruit was a harvest of
blood. To conceal its horrid visage, radi-
calism put on the robe Of philanthropy, and
four millions of the black race. are robbed of
home and protection, and doomed to exter-
mination, while the whole race of free white
laborers throughout the whole country are
sold into the calling slavery of taxation, cut
off even from the hope that their children
after them will be emancipated. Thus has
the sun-dial of prosperity and happiness OF
this great country been set back half a cen
tury, And now, the same party, under.
another name, and with the cry of liberty
on its tongue, is earnestly striving to subvert
the foundation of republican government,
labo.ing to centraiizc, consolidate, and build
up a frightful Federal dyspotism, under
whose dark and deadly shadow self-govern-
ment andall State Rights would utterly sink
and perish.
+. The people have been TOO long deceived
by the hypocritical professions and fairn&rnes
assumed by the erndisunionists. They
shouldremember thatundert the mask of the
best nasues the worst crimes have been COM
mitted. In the name of s.liberty and equal
ity' France was deluged 10 blood, while all
law and all liberty lay PROSTATE beneath the
iron tread of tyranny. And in other days
in the outraged name of religion, martyr
dres were kindled. and men''of whom the
world was. not worthy consumed at the