Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-05-30
Trimmers.

There is nothing the conservative RepuD-
icans hate and fear so much as to measure
swords with the Radicals, and they are in
fnitely disgusted that the Democrats are
determined that they shall.
Mr. Raymond, NJ c., would like "to run
with the hounds and hold with the hare,
and, as he is a representative man of a timid
and vacillating class, he is naturally enough
disguised at Stevens for lashing him into
doing what he both knows and says is wrong,
and at certain Democrats for placing him in
a position in which he must either stand
straight or stoop.
As Sir Archy McSycophant said that he
never could stand straight in the presence of
a great man, your conservative Republi-
can can never say his soul is his own in the
presence of determined one OF course,
if the conservatives in the House had said
to the Democrats ''This joint resolution is
mischievous, and we will vote against it, y
the Democrats would have voted with them !;
but they would do nothing of the sort
What they want is to be on both sides of
the fence at the same time, which they
should not be permitted to be. Let us have
some policy distinct and defined upon which
an issue can be made and argued. Either
take the theory of Mr.. Stevens and carry it
vigorously out to its EXTREMIST consequences,
or take the Presidents theory and carry it
out to It's EXTREMIST consequences.
There is only one honest course for poll
ticians, and there is only one safe course for
the United States. Such is the power and
such are the resources of the United States
that they can endure four or five years more
of such fanaticism, folly, and scoundrelism
as they have endured for the last six land it
is great deal better to have them and get
over them, as mothers say of the usual range
of infantile diseases. Sumner, Stevens and
Wilson are no more wrong-headed to day
than ten years ago; no more revolutionary,
and no more anti-constitutional. Every
thing that has happened was just as clearly
the natural consequence of their reasoning
and measures as the demonstration of a
problem in Euclid. The conservative Re-
publicans affiliated with them for the sake
VI DOhSl anu pluiittC1; dlltl. bClhS HAOSNS
well gorged want to stop short; but the
Radicals will no more let them stop short
than the Reds in Paris would allow revolu-
ton to stop short of socialism. IF Mr.. Ray
mond and his fellow-thinkers want what
they term the Union, they must segregate
themselves from the Radicals, introduce
their own measures, annouce their own line
of action, and then they may count on aid
from the Democracy. If we are to be treat
ed as traitors and disloyal. we prefer an enc
my who fights us and seeks only to fight US.
We do not intend to be used as well as
abused. We like to fight Sumner and Ste
vens and Wilson. They may beat us, but
they cannot COW us; and if we are in mea-
gre minority in Congress, we are not at any
rate hung up by the thumbs by our officers,
like the conservative Republicans.
Ever since the Republican party has exist
ed it has had but one principle Of action; to
whip the devil round the stump j to
cheat, if men would submit to be cheated !;
to rob, if they would not but to get any
how. The popular superstition among the
highwaymen of England was that seven
years of success were permitted to the knight
of the road The seven years of the Repub-
lican highwaymen are nearly up; there is
but little more than year left it. While
the gang still fourishes, we own to more ad-
mirat ton for such bold "cracksmen" as Ste
vens than for the little 'fogle' stealers who
sometimes dispute his authority only to be
lashed into submission.
We are going to fight our political fight,
come veal or come woe, come defeat or
come success, as the Democratic party hold
ing the Republican party chiefly guilty of all
the blood, all the misery, and all the debt.
We are not going to any man or to any Or
ganization. We welcome converts; we accept
recruits; but if the great principles OF that
party which gave the United States so much
prosperity and so much glory are not as sui
fcient for the future as they have been for
the past, we do not know where to find 9th
ers. Our creed is so broad and catholic and
simple that men cannot mistake it. A fun
damental law above the temporary passions
of men, supreme throughout the land, and
no ''higher law than it; an examination
into its spirit and intent, as Submitted and
accepted; our only sovereign, the law; oul
only allegiance, obedience to it.-M Y
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