Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1867-02-13

The time was when individuak only claim.
ing some pretensions to common decency
and generous impulses were elected to seats
IN Congress. That custom was reversed bv
the admission to the Halls of the National
Legislature of such material as Sumner.
ilson, Stevens, Ashley, Loan, and their
n RaticdI Radical co-laborers in the dis
TN Ton cause-whose only aim and object
has Sver been the destruction of the organic
law OF the country-and the dis-member
meut # the Union of these States 1t is
the taching of such creatures, who were
never designed by nature or qualified by
fb>proper endowments Of manly honor' 10
rhn the position of Legislators, that have
converted the Congressional arena INTO po-
litical bear-garden and brought lasting dis
grace upon the nation
We are led to these remarks, by peru
sal of the proceedings of the so-called Con-
gross and the innumerable instances of OUT
race and indecency with which they are al
most daily characterized. Liar, scoun-
drel, traitor and similar phrases, are not
at all unusual Parliamentary epithets, en-
ploved by these loyalists of great moral
IDEAS, in debate, upon the floor of Congress,
and that too without even reproof or punish
ment. Cowardly baseness always tends to
lower degradation. Such is the status of
the present so-called Congress. How can
the friends Of law, order, and the Constitu-
tion,-the only Union men of the country
expect much, if any, improvement in the
character of that body in the next so-called
Congress, after the admission to its pale of
such specimen of immaculate purity and
proverbial honesty as Butler and Cameron
A loyal paper before US, in discussing
upon this subject whose sentiments
we fully endorse says: by the ruling of
the party in power at the Capitol, it is in
order to utter SANDERS but it is not in or
dea to brand the slanderer as such person
most richly deserves. 1t is not easy to i'm
agine more debased condition of Congress
sional morals than this fact presents, and it
will not be denied that such men as Thad.
Stevens, Charles Sumner, and some others
now regarded as party leaders, could not
have talked of men superior to themselves
in every manly quality forty years ago as
they now do.
The true principle of gentlemanly cour-
tesy and honor is to avoid any inputation
or insult which is not well deserved, and to
feel bound to give proper redress to every
one assailed.
Christian meekness may induce pious
men to endure insults, but true feeling of
christianity will prevent its possessor from
uttering any slanderous or malicious asser-
ton; and consequently, the utterer of false
hood cannot screen himself from the rebuke
Of an antagonist by assumed humility
That which in moan ren we entitle patience
IL pale. cold cowardicc in noble breasts"
There can be no surer indication of the
degradation of political party than may be
seen in the attempt to justify those who
utter cowardly SANDERS against their politi-
cal opponents, and have not the courage to
resent the brand of falsehood when it is
fixed upon the offenders brow
SANDER is the chief weapon of the leaders
of the Radical party and their cowardice is
as gross as that weapon is base.
''Their hearts are galI-their tongues free;
Their souls too base for generous ire;
Their blades too keen for noble use;
Their shield and buekier ABUSE"