Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-08-01


Republican party were the real disunionists,
that the salvation of our country and the
welfare of its people were never the objects
Of the war on the part of the Abolitionists
you who have proved yourselves eminent
ly wise in your prophecies, that the late war
was waged for the purpose Of stibjugating
the South, degrading the white race on a
level with. the blaek-that it was instigated
by outlawry and Abolitionism-you who all
along, have borne up through insult and in
jury, and faithfully contended through fire
and sword for Union, Constitutional liberty,
law and order. 1t is you thatwe ask to read
the following, from the New York Times,
the paper that, in imagination, wields the
influence that will control the Philadelphia
Convention In speaking of the Southern
people, of Democrats and the Democratic
party, it says:
eve are as anxious as anybody to have
the bitter recollections engendered by the
war obliterated with all possible speed. But
in the meantime these recollections must be
respected these "prejudices' must be rec
ognized, and their lessons needed And GER
tain it is that. pending the completion of the
healing and obliterating power, copper
heads and politicians who participated
heart and hand in herebellion, have no al
tentative but to stand aside. Their public
advocacy of cause will be equivalent to its
damnation.@ They cannot touch a political
movement without weakening 1t, nor parade
their adhesion to it without subjecting it to
suspicion. There is, indeed, work for both,
each In his sphere. Both are required lin their
retirement to bring forth fruits meet for re-
pentance. And thus, and only thus, as pri-
vate citizens, may they really aid the Union
cause.
'These facts arc not lost sight of in the
South. elittle affairat Appomattix Court
House left many beside Fitzhugh Lee moth
ing tosay, and the betterclass of Southerners.
with him, are not unmindful of the circum-
stance. They acknowledge the necessity for
submitting decorously to the consequences of
the war, amongst which is the withdrawal of
the rebel leadersfro the public view. Time,
which obscures most things, may give them
another chance. But the period is not vet,
and unlil it arrive, those who participated
heart and hand In the rebellion" will find it
to their interest to remain in the political
background. They will help the movement
for the restoration of the Union more by their
silence than their speech.
w Ill not our 'tcOpperhead' neighbors
learn the same lesson? If. as they saw. thev
are solicltous for the success of the Conser-
vatIve cause, let them restrain their tongues
and their pens, and serve their probation as
privates In the Union ranks A National
Union party cannotsubmit to the domination
OF those who exerted themselves to make the
struggle tor dIsunion a success
If this is the spirit and feeling that is to
predominant at the Philadelphia Convention
itwilldo more hurt than good. IF the great
Democratic party of this country, or its
Representatives to that Convention, will sub
NIT to such added insults, in the face of vic
tory, then, sirs, We know of one who will
not be sunk in the intended Abolition mo-
rass. Let the Representatives of the DEM
ocratic party be very careful, for we believe
that each party imagines that it is cunningly
absorbing the other. Let no Democrat be-
come tender to the Abolition engine. If
the proposition is to make stuff of the De-,
moeracy to feed the fires of money-mongers
and ofice-hunters, we askto be counted out
We await further developements.
CURIOUS But TRUE.-Suppose that
Democrat had, four years ago, at any public
place in this town, declared that the South
ern States should never be permitted to come
into the Union. What would have been the
result Why. all the loyal loafers in the
place would have Immediately set up howl
similar to the following He's traitor
Hes copperhead, Arrest him, ''Kill
him, y Bring rope &C., &C. This asser-
ton can and is made nowadays by such
men as old Thad. Stevens with the greatest
impunity. When the war first broke out
men in this place insisted on as to stick out
q flag even took hold of us and attempted |
to make US hollow for the Union men, too,
they were, who, to-day hang their faces to
hide their guilty countenances in shame
They now discover where they stand where
Stevens & Co. have led them. They see
through the same glasses they used to wear
that they are the real disunionists, and that
the Democratic party is now as it ever has
been the true and only Union party. There
are but two parties, the Democratic and the |
Abolition party The Abolition party are the
disunion party, by their Own teachings. They
are doing all in their power to prevent a
Union of States. They have succeeded thus
far in keeping the South out the Union, the |
very thing they brought on the war for, in
common with afew disunionists in the South. |
This Abolition, nigger-loving party have
numbered their days. When party stoops
70 low as to compare themselves with ne
gro, declare the black equal to the white man,
md thus belittle themselves SO much as to
place the negro on a social and political equal
tywith the white man it is high time the
people of white skin take the matter in hand
ind hurl the Abolition fanatics from mower