Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-06-26
A New Radical and Progressive
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harse tyrant power, in the beautiful Cres-
cent City, the commercial metropolis of tho
South, New Orleans, is printed a nwspapcr
organ for the niggcrs and low-down whites
dwelling within that city, and Of course call
ed the Republican. At the head Of its col.
umns appears this motto:--
"Let our laws and our institutions speak
not OF white men, not of red men, not Of
black men, not Of men of any complexion
but like the laws of God-thc Ten Com
mandmcnts and the Lord Praycr--let them
speak of the people.
We do not know but that it is healthy
symptom to SEQ the corrupt and unprincpal-
cd men Of tho party in power seeking pre-
cedents for their future cnactments and laws
in tho Ten Commandments and the Lord
Prayer-laws speaking of the people. But
testing the loyal party Of the country by
Gods laws, whit lamentablc failure it has
proved.
We read in the Holy Book that Good
spakc these words, and said Il am the
Lord thy God Thou shalt have none 9th
CT Gods but me-" Republicanism has ell
throncd the nigger as its God above all
gods, and in blind alteration bow down in
worship r~
The Eternal God has dcclai,el that his
followers shall not worship the likeness Of
anything in heaven above, or the earth
beneath, yet many of His ministers have
dciilcd His altars and pronounced from
them new religion and new God for the
worship of the loyal millions.
The people arc commanded not to take
the name Of the Lord their God in vain -
His name has been blasphemed and His
holy attributes profancd by loyal inGdcls
and m6ralists Of the Massachusetts school.
God has warned the people Of earth
Remember that thou keep holy the Sab
bath-day!" Tens of thousands Of His min
listers have for years converted the temples
Of the living God into political hustings,
nuliied tho sacrcdness Of the sabbath day,
and hundreds of thousands of loyal worship
crs have aided and allotted them in their
violation of Gods commands.
We arc warned to honor our father
Puritanism mocks and dcspscs the counsels
and wisdom of the aged, the tried and the
true, and dcspoils and overthrows the great
and glorious works wrought by patriot To-
thcrs in untold suffering and tribulation,
and privations innumcrab!c.
''Thou shalt do no murderI'
Rcpublcanism has sent to CORY graves
half million free born Americans, slain
causclcssly, necdlessly, for the qualification
of a hcll-bcgotten and ficndish policy Of
aggression and wrong. A once happy and
prosperous republic has been transformed
by Radical diabolism into Golgotha Or
place of skulls and bones, the last sad rem
nants Of the murdered victims of Abolition
ambition and cruelty! ....
"Thou shalt not commit adultcry'
We wonder if Thad. Stevens the great
leader and chief of the Republican party, or
Kaloch its Chaplain, or the Massachusetts
Howe aud Downs, and the Vermont Fowler,
and the Frcedmcn's Bureau agents, and
Yankcc--niggcr school--marms scattered
! through the South, are bright and shining
examples Of obedience to this Divine injunc-
ton?
'Thou shalt not steal u
Did any ono ever hear of Spoons Butler
Or Neal Dow, or of all the big and little Fed
eral thieves, who, during the course of 4
four years war, plunderel the South Of
everything from bales of cotton to chldrens
unlcrclcthing, from silver plate to old iron,
from pianos to washtubs--or of the con-
tractors and Office holders who plunderel and
robbed the Government by wholesale.
Stealing lit is impossible for man to be
iirst-cass "loyalist' without being a t!aat'
of whom Fagin could learn the rudimcnts
of rascality. ...... ...-..--...
'"Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy ncighbor!" .... ......
For thirty years Abolitionism di@beycd
this command and slandered, malisned, and
lied about the Southern people. To-
day lis devotecs are keeping up the vile
work of lalsehood and wrong, pervcrting
each act and word in order that strife may
be perpetuated and hatred intensified.
e.fhou shalt not coyetl" .......
Covctousncss is and has been the besct
ting sin Of the Republican party Of the
North-a desire for the power, the goods,
the property enjoyed by and belonging to
the Southern peoplc-a rapacious greed
which by aid Of the strong hand of might
and lawlcssncss has beggard and impovcr-
isi,ed an unoffcading pcoplc!. - ..
Turning to that wenderous prayer of our
Lord and Saviour, what loyalsts of the
modern school could repeat its satisfying
and blessed words without having them
rise in accusation against him before the
throne of God? We therein pray for for
givencss, a word unknown in the lexicon of
ReppbEcanism-with them there is no for
giyencss, no mercy Its armed instruments
lhavcdesolated fertile and happy country
with the sword and the torch-thcy have
1 co rriod Sorrov a nj WOO In every hon RI stone