The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-10-14

Years ago an English adventurer,
without money, without friends, desti.
tute Of moral principle, but intensely
anxious to find way Of relief from pc.
cuniary distress, found his way to New
England. He soon discovered that he
had landed among congenial spirits.
The New Euglauders having found
slave labor not profitable investment,
had, not many years before, disposed OF
their human stock to the Southern peo.
pie, and now, having got rid of this
troublesome commodity, found no diff
Guilty in getting up a split of intense
aud virtuou3 indignation against those
who were guilty Of owning men and
women for profit. So the seedy adven.
turer soon struck q bargain with the
brethren aud away he went to scatter
the firebrandsof civil war in our midst.
Disciples sprang up in all parts Of New
England, and the agitation grew from
year to year. AS the insects OF the night
f1utter around the bright but desdly
flame, so did many humane, but un-
thinking, people draw nearer and
nearer to this seething abyss of fanati-
cism and folly, until they perished in
the deadly whirlpool they had helped
tn form.
On the 4th of March, 1861, the gov
ernmeut was turned over to the Repub-
lican party. Now in less than ten years
what has this patty done? We make
no pretense OF enumerating one tenth
Of the crimes committed by this organ.
ization. This party which went into
power with such high sounding prom
ises, plunge the country into bloody
and protracted civil war; 1t violated
its solemn promise TO wage war solely
for the restoration of the Union 1t
trampled the Constitution under its un-
hallowed feet, rendering q, an excuse,
If it deemed any necessary, the tyrant's
plea-nece5sity it dragged peaceable
and unoffending citizens from the midst
of their families, consigning them to its
dreary bastiles for months and years,
and then dismissing them without a
word Of explanation; it suppressed
hundreds of Democratic printing press
es for daring to reflect on its war policy
and encouraged armed mobs to destroy
the material and maltreat the conduct
ors of those journals. 1t told drafted
men that they might stay at home pro.
vided they felt like paying three hun
dred dollars for the privilege, and after
receiving the money, turnd around and
drafted many Of these men again it
has given away millions Of acres Of the
public land for the benefit Of monopo.
lists it has revivified the old United
States Bank, and this time the monster
is hydra headed; it has decreed that
men who lent greenbacks to the govern
ment shall be paid in gold, principal
and interest, while they shall pay no
tax thereon; it has imposed the mosi
man, requiring him to pay all the debts
OF tho rich; it has driven our COM
merce from the seas, caused foreign ma
tions tn view us with scorn, and broush hit
the country to the verge Ofruin; it has
placed the ignorant bucks Of the south
on an equality with the whites of the
whole country, and opened the door for
the importation of millions Of Chinese,
who are expected to drive white labor.
ers away; it has fostered official treach-
cry and protected convicted scoundrels
from the punishment of the law it has
been guilty OF criminal and reckless ex
travagance, having spent much more
money than all the combined admin.
istrations which preceded Lincoln.
And more, this reckless organization,
claim ing to possess all the morality
and decency in the land, has violated
every solemn promise made to the peo.
pie, and while boasting that 1t and it
alone preserved the nation, has been
constantly striking with fell design at
the Union, as well as hereserved rights
of the States and people. Its whole ca.
reer has been marked by series of the
mos glaring frauds and innovations on
popul ar rights, perpeirated in the name
OF liberty and law, and it will die as it
has lived, shouting its own praise from
the filth which smothersits last expiring
breath. Such is the party and such the
m en- pitted against Democracy. Such,
in part is the damning record which
this would be monopolst Of political
virtue has made for itself in less than
ten years. Its presumption is only
equalled by IFS arrogance, and that bv
Its downright villainy. The people will
decide, after examining the past histo.
ry Of the two parties, which has done
most to promote national unity and
prosperity, and which is most deserv
ing their support in the future
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