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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22
Then and Now,

THE campaign preceding the cleo
Kentucky giving a democratic ma.
jority. Yet pluck and determination
to fight for The right induced the Dem.
ocracy to go into the fight as Democrats
aud the campaign of '6l closol with
three States, Kentucky, New Jersey
and Delaware, ranged in the Democrat
ic column.
AT the opening of the camp tign of
1865, the Democrats could count but
three States certain. Delaware, New
Jersey aud Kentucky all the rest hav-
ing gone radical at the elections of the
previous year. Here again the pluck OF
the Democracy was shown, by making
straight-Out platform and placing
upon it determined Democrats, and the
result of the fight that year added to
the democratic column New York,
Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana and Ore
gOn, giving them in the electoral college
eighty.one votes against tWenty-three
inlSGi.
So much for courage to make the
flight.
In 1872 we will enter tho campaign
under entirely different circumstances.
With eighteen States, casting III votes
in the electoral college, certain 70 +
the Democracy, none but the veriest
coward would advise "A policy that
must demoralize, disorganize and in all
probability destroy the Democracy.
Lit us have fair open fight-lor
Democratic principles and Democrat
ic candidate, and we will win.
New York added to the Democratic
side will secure US the President;
Or, giving New York to the radicals
and carrying Pennsylvania and Cali
fornia, will defeat GRANT.
Roll up your sleeves, Democrats, for
grand tight-go into it in earnest-go
in determined to win, and win we will.
Cowards, skunkers and "passiveites
will be found in the raar-that is their
place. - BellJ0nt Wdtchnaaa.
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Yankee TYRANNY.

In lecture delivered by Wendell
Phillips, In Philadelphia, a few nights
since, he said he could take any one of
the audience into a counting room,
whose name and location he could give,
where the partners of the concern sat
down the day after election, and, TAX.
ing list of four hundred employees,
siftod out the name OF every man who
had not voted the ticket they wanted.
Every man who had not shown q will.
ingncss to hold his political opinions in
subservience TO his employers was un-
tremendously throw out of work at
the beginning OF winter. "And this,n
exclaimed Mr.. Phillips, ais christian
civilization ~ This is Massachusetts (!
Yankee monopolists aud udmanufacturers
make the harshest task masters. They
are ready to grind their workmen down
to the lowest cent of wages, and insist
upon making them their slaves in more
senses Of the word than one. While
Radical Congressman from New Eng.
land are passing laws, making it a grave
crime for a Southern planter to attempt
to influence the votes of negroes in his
employ, the capitalists OF Yankee land
make the bread Of their employees de
pend upon the ticket they vote. Thus
is the Radical majority in Congress
kept up, and by such means has tariff,
which robs every consumer, been per-
petuated. d.-Lancaster Rteliigencer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

Now the International Society has
held its funeral procession in honor OF
the deceased Communist leaders, it is
hoped they will also bury all purely
European issues, and see in the working
of American Democratic Institutions,
the best means of advancing popular
rights, and the surest defense of liberty.
To maintain these institutions from the
encroachment of military despotism is
the most urgent necessity of our day.
For this letal native born and adopted
citizens unite, under the Democratic
banner.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

PROF. WICKERsHAM, State Superin'
tendent of Common Schools, in an adj
dress to the students on Wednesday
morning last, warmly endorsed the se'
lection of Mr.. CHARLs G. BARKLEY as
Principal of the Bloomsbury Normal
School, promising him and it his hearty
support; and reiterating his determine
tion that the School must and should
succeed. The opening on the Sth OF
January, 1872, will be under new and
more favorable auspices than hereto
fore, and we trust be the beginning OF
long and brilliant career.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22
Afraid OF InyeStigatiOn


A proposition was recently made in
U. s. Senate, By Mr.. TRUMBULL, of
Illinois, the ablest Republican member
of that body, to appoint committee to
investigate and. expose defalcations,
frauds, exorbitapt salaries, useless Off
GERS, &C., &c. The proposition was also
supported by several other leading Re-
publican Senators, but Was opposed By
all those IN The confidence Of the admin
istration! To keep up appearances and
stifie investigation, a committee on re.
trenchment was appointed, but not one
of the Republican Senators favorable
to investigation was placed upon it, and
only one Of the seven members is a
Democrat!
This action is a paip1b'e confession Of
guilt! If the Radical Senator'S had had
confidence in the integrity of the nd
minis.ra'ipa they would have courted
investigation, but knowing the exist
ence Of general corruption and robbery
they dave not allow the matter to be
looked into! The action is proof that
the charges made by the Democratic
papers arc TRUE, and the administra.
ton does not dare to put them to the
test!
Will the people forever sustain these
thieves in Office? Will they go to fu-
ture elections and deliberately vote to
continue an administration in power
that refuses investigation into open
charges of fraud and peculation II
they do they will deliberately vote to
sustain men in stealing the hard earned
taxes that are wrung from them They
will affirm the proposition that it is
better to keep rogues than honest men
in office!
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

On the trial Of three ku-kluXers, now
in progress at Columbia, South Carolina,
the jury is composed Of two white men
and ten negroes. II this Jury was fairly
drawn the colored element must be
very strong in the region Of Columbia.
1t would seem very probable, under the
circumstances, that SO many colored
Jurors might turn the scales of justice
the wrong way. The negroes, of course,
are very bitter toward the ku.klux
gentry, and may be inclined to condemn
on mere accusation, without due regard
to the testimony. At all events, n half
and halfjury would have looked better
than one consisting of two white men
and ten black ones. The picture has
far too much shade in it.-Philddelphia
Day, Rep.
One of the defendants has been con-
victedby tbisjury-he having challeng-
ed negroes vote
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

THE Sunbury Democrat mistakes the
drift of the Ceilings suggestion TO abol-
ish Legislature. The commission of
five were only to have power TO frame
laws-not to make or pass them-and
the whole people were TO vote on the
question of their adoption. How that
could result in Tom Scott ring we fail
to see, unless he could make a ring that
would embrace majority Of the people.
The appendage to the proposition,
making it misdemeanor for incompe
tent men to accept Office aud subject
them to trial by jury for the offence,
was. an important part OF the PROPOSE
tion, and would applyas well to wrong
action in Office as to wantof mental and
other qualification. We did not advo-
cate the adoption Of the Ceilings propo-
sition but only stated it and remarked
that 1t would be a most effectual mode
Of breaking up rings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

OUR Mr. MERCUR is extensively
named in the Radical papers for Gov
ernor. 1t would perhaps surprise our
readers to tell them that the brilliancy
of Mr.. MERcUR's speeches in Congress
attract Radical attention to him, as
thesI have been most expressive in
their character, terse, comprehensive,
exhausting, and always plain, to the
point and eminently perspicuous-in
fact, made up wholly of the words
''yea" and "nay." He must be dolt,
indeed, who does not appreciate the
full meaning of such speeches
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

THE Grand Duke Alexis has given
five thousand dollars for distribution
among the poor of New York, "wishing
them to feel that visit which has af-
forded so much pleasure to him has
been the occasion of some slight relief
to Them" Mr.. Aspinwall has appro-
priated one thousand dollars Of the
money to the Society for the Relief OF
the Destitute Children Of Seamen. The
remaining four thousand dollars he has
placed at the disposal of the Society for
the Improvement Of the Condition of
the poor in New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

JOHN l.. Spell, most worthy citi'
zen of Harrisburg and Treasurer elect
of Dauphin county, died on the 10Th
inst. We note that the Commissioners
of Dauphin county, who fill the vacan
cy, have the manhood to declare that
they will appoint no one who does not
agree to share the profits of the Office
with Mr.. Spells family. The Blooms
burg Radical ring might study this ac-
tion with profit to their manhood if
not TO their pockets.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

AMONG the latest jokes from Wash
ington Is that one of the regulations
which will be recommended by the Civil
Service Commission, Is one providing
that appointments shall be made with.
out regard to the politics of the ap-
pointees, and that no political assess.
ments shall be levied directly or indl-
rectly on any officials in the civil SER
vice. With such regulation adopted
and enforced, the Radical party could
not survive a single campaign,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

A REPORT set aaoat by the New
York EceRiA9 Post TO the effect that
Governor Hoffman had abar 'oned the
Democratic party, and wa, ready to
unite with Greeley and other dlsaffect-
ed Republicans, is authorila vely de-
MED. Governor Hoffman is rDw, as he
always has been, an uncompro missing
Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

A NEWSPAPER correspondent inter-
viewed Gen. Lewis ID. Campbell, of
Ohio, at Washington, the other day.
To the question, What effect will the
late defeats have on the interests of the
Democracy" Gen. Campbell replied:
"Good. They win secure Grants re-
nomination beyond doubt. He can
be beaten more easily than any fresh
man the Republicans might otherwise
have united upon" And this position
is correct
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

GOVERNOR PALMER, of Illinois, has
sent an agent to Washington to remon-
strate with the President upon the con
tinued usurpations, under color of mil
itary authority, in that State. Even
advanced Radicals are getting alarmed
at the open way in which the Admins
tration is claiming military Jurisdic.
tion, upon every pretext that arises.
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THE New Hampshire Patriot does
not agree with Hon. j. O. Adams in re.
gard to the power of the Democratic
party. 1t may be, says the Patriot,
that the Democratic party is powerless
alone "to carry the election, and so is
any defeated party; and if that were q
valid excuse for the disbandment of q
party, there would be no hope for a
minority in any case. But we see no
good reason why in the present exigen-
cy, as happens constantly, the minority
may not become the majorlty-why a
party which numbered almost half of
the voters of the land, in the last Presi.
dental election, should not receive ac-
cessions sufficient to enable it to control
the country. No one questions that a
large majority of the voters of the Uuion
are at heart opposed to the reelection
OF Grant, and it will be discreditabe to
this large majority if they do not unite
to affect his defeat. To secure this union
we do not believe it to be necessary to
disband the Democratic party--for that
would be the effect of the passive poll
cy.' To secure this union, concessions
must be made; but they need not be all
on one side; the attempt to succeed on
that basis would prove dead failure"
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Rebellion Against Grant in PENNSYLVANIA

hcpclilOH Against Grliit III pennsylvania.
Colonel A. X, Mcclure, candidate for
the State Senate in the u District, In a
letter to the editor Of the Germantown
1etegrdph, defGes his position at much
length, end thus speaks Of Grant and
the condition Of national affairs:
If Republican criticism Of Republican
administration is an offence, why is the
cry for reform moi. .silenced ? 1t comes
from our own long g-forbearing people,
and not from the enemy, and itarraigns
Republican, not Democratic, misrule.
1t comes up to Congress from every sec.
ton Of the country for relief from op.
pressive taxes, from wasteful expendi.
lures, from peculations and defalcations,
and from swarms of arrogant and use.
less officials, whose chief employment
seems to be to instruct the party whom
1t must accept for places of trust and
profit, from President down to alder.
man. 1t comes up to our, Legislature
from all parties of the State, and de.
mandS fundamental limit as the
only source of public safety. 1t comes
up from the press aud people of this
city, as with. one voice, to save private
property and.public credit.
These are not the complaints of dis.
appointed ambition but the faithful
criticism of sincere men, seeking to
protect and preserve their own inherit
ance. They do not propose political
revolution, although that must come
soon if they are unheeded. They aim
to employ the Republican organization
as the proper instrumentality to correct
the patent and Oppressive evils it has
tolerated. With system of barter and
sale of Federal appointments that pros.
titutes the civil service to the avance-
ment of unworthy men, with a system
Of State legislation that is a running
sore and standing reproach, and with
our crushing city. taxes and debt, both
rapidly increasing without visible ben
efits TO the people, men who would
maintain Republican ascendency must
remember that "faithfulare the wounds
Of n friapl -
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The pOssum Policy,

Hon. Montgomery Blair has written
quite lengthy letter to the N. Y.
World in which he strongly urges the
passive or as IL is called in Ohio "the
possum" policy for the Democratic
party in the next campaign. lie attrib.
utes the defeat of the Democracy in
1868 to their failure to nominate Chief
Justice Chase and last fall to their "new
departure" platform.
He thinks the Democratic party is
not numerically strong enough to carry
the next Presidential election alone !;
that to insure success it must receive
large accessions from the ranks of the
Radicals and in order to encourage
them to join us we must concede to
them the candidate.
We have before expressed our views
at length upon this proposed "possum"
policy and do not now intend to repeat
them: we wish however to disabuse
Mr.. Blair and all others of the idea
that the Democratic party is numeri-
cally too weak to succeed next year by
reference to few figures:
The popular vote in 1868 was,
For Grant, 1885 ,O3O
For Seymour, 2,6S992S
Grants maj. on pop'r vote, 295, ,1O2
AT that time there were not less than
100000 Democrats disfran chised who
have since had their disabilities remov-
ed and are now entitled to vote, and
who will increase the Democratic vote
in 1872 to 2,9S9,92S, which without any
recruits from the ranks of the Republi-
cans will give the Democrats majority
on the popular vote of 4,S9S. But no
one will pretend to deny that all the
converts that are now being made and
which have been made since 1868 are
from Radicalism TO Democracy. Ger
tninly the Radicals have made no con-
verts; the nepotism, corruption and
profigacy of the Grant administration
has attracted no Democrat, but on the
contrary has disgusted many pub.
licans. This was demonstrated the
last Congressional election when 40
Total Dem. vote for Cong, was, 2,7il $3.50
Total Republican 2,GS5, ,374
Dem. popular majority, 66 1856
Surely this does not look like dead
party that should surrender principles
and candidates to crafty few Office
seeking Republicans.
Besides Mr.. Blair Is hardly the man
to proifer advice to the Democracy, for
he was one of those who helped to bring
about the present deplorable state OF
affairs. 1t was he, who whilst in Lin
coins Cabinet as Post Master General,
prohibited many Democratic papers
from passing through the mails, and he
approved and countenanced many
other arbitrary acts of that administra.
tlon. Now if he really regrets his past
course let him first show "works meet
for repentance" before he aspires to sit
in the Council Chambers of the Democ,
racy. The Democratic party is always
ready to receive with open arms all re-
pentant sinners, but like green mulo
they must pull at the tongue for awhile
before they can expect to be put in the
lead.-JeGerSoaian.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

SENATOR WILSON, Radical, declares
that the composition of the C)mnittee
on "Investigation and Retrenchment"
"wlll be accepted by tho country as an
admission that the administration can.
not afford TO ALLOW ia I all free iIyes-
legations.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

TIE Press declares speaker Rlaine's
organization of the Committee OF
Ways aud Means in the interests of
the 50 called revenue reform, has had a
disastrous effect upon the tariff" This
Is Radical protection of Pennsylvania
interests
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-22

PENNsYLVANIANs eau boast that
there is not Democratic paper of any
influence, in the entire State that sup.
ports the cowardly "passlve policy. -
BeNefom Wdtchman,
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WHAT Shall We 10,

what shall the Democratic Party
dos" This is the question that is now
being asked by numerous Democratic
journals, as though there could be more
than one right course to pursue. What
shall it do, fOrsooth? what can it do
what oughtit do, but what it has al,cays
done-stand by its principles and fight
on until the victory is won or nothing
be left worth fighting for.
We are surprised that there is sin
gle newspaper in the whole country
that can advocate any other course Of
action. Yet there are numbers of them
that would be willing to sink all honor.
able chances ofsuccess in the next Pres.
idential contest, on principle, for the
sake of achieving doubtful triumph
over GRANT, under the lead of some
person put into the field by dissatisfied
Radicals. In other words, they advo.
cate the policy of no nomination by the
Democracy, leaving the sore heads of
the other side to make ticket for us to
support.
10 all this, we are unalterably oppos.
ed. The only honorable thing the Dem
ocracy can do, or ought to think of do.
ing, is to hold our National Convention
aud make our own nominations. Let
the Republicans who atn dis~ati-flrd
with GRANT, come ~ Us. if they want
him defeated. 1t would be a most hu.
initiating spectacle to see the great
Democratic Party-a united whole
going TO them-a mere fragment. What
can Democrats be thinking about, who
advocate such surrender as this? Are
our principles worth nothing, that we
can thus easily give them up for expe.
diency's sake? Or have we, all through
our political life, as party, been adyo.
eating them merely because they were
popular and for the sake of success?
Out upon such hypocrisy! If our creed
was dear to us in prosperity, it should
be equally dear to us in adversity, and
that man is either fool or knave who
would now advise us to abandon it for
any purpose.
The Democratic Party must do right
And to do right, is to stick TO its prin.
ciple5. Let Us have good men nominal.
ed for President and Vice President,
and let US stand or fall with them. More
anon--Bellefonte Watchnan.
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STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY OF CoLUM
BIA, S. ....,.-,
/, j, =. Tustn, Cashier of the First National
Bank of Bloomsburg,do solemnly affirm that the
above statement Is true to the best OF my knowl-
edge andbelief .,,..
j. y. TUSrlN, Cashier
Subscribed and affirmed before me this 2lst
day OF December, ls7l.
WM PEACOCK, Notary Pablo.
Correct Attest
c. H. PAXTON, !
WM. MCkELNG, SDIrcctorS,
JoHN X. GRoTH,
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In addition to this, the State Treas
urer has redeemed, during the year, of
the overdue loans, sls.36s.54, making
the aggregate reduction of$2, 1871 ,59O.17,
during the last fiscal year.
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erty. pay charges and take her away, or she VIII
be disposed OF ace Jriiug to law.
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Five per cent loan redeemed. ...".."s ,30l, ,Oi8.6
SlN per cent loan redee med ,...".,. 7l9 $50 00
Relief notes cancelled'''''". ...-,uuo-,,". $500
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PAYMENT OF THE STATE DEBr.-
Governor Geary has issued proclama-
ton with regard to the payment of the
State Debt, the Sinking Fund, &C., in
which he states that the amount of the
debt redeemed and held by the Com.
missioners of the Sinking Fund. from
the 1st of December, 1870, to 3Oth No.
vember, 1871, was $2.1lO, ,22s, SO made
up as follows: