The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-10-11

CAMBRIA, Pa
August 10, 1872.

August 10, 1872.
EDITOR COLUMBIAN This Is per- |
ilous and tremendous time. 1t is no |
time for education. 1t is now necessary
TO instruct the people in the language
of truth. Every patriot and lover of |
justice should remember that it is his
duty to dispel the darkness and delu- [!
sion that envelope our nation and dis |
play in its full and genuine color the
deplorablo situStion in which we, as |
people are placed.
The time has been when our nation
could have stood against the world,
when the fame of our prosperity was
waited to tho remotest parts of the
earth and caused even our motherland
to assume penitential attitude and
impiOre IL 10 stay our majestic power.
Now none 50 poor to do u5 reverence.
Spain hes insulted us, by sGiling our
vessels upon the high sea. Mexico has
caught the signal OF our indisposition
and assumes the power to make our
border hazardous to life and property,
and even Cuba, sought to battle us by
anchoring her war vessel off our coast.
Is it possible for nation to Withstand
a more humiliating disgrace ? And yet
dare we resent their transgressions, or
assuming that we have the power to
sustain our national honor, have we
men at the helm who cherish the love
of our country and whose hearts yearn
for the preservation of our national in
tegrity and glorious liberty, achieved
by the blood of our illustrious fore faith
erS. Plainly can we discern tyranny in
their INSCRIPTIONS deeds, and yet we
are called upon to acknowledge their
evil workings as being in conformity
with our ideas of purely honest and
patriotic men. Oh, cruel times when
men are traitors and do not know
themselves, when civilizeda and Christian
nations are led by sinister arts of avar-
icious men, and become SO deluded as
| to rush. unconscious, into a fearful
abyss. 'Tis fearful contemplation,
yet no one dare deny its truthfulness,
| that strenuous efforts are being made
to plunge us into national calam.
| ity, by corrupt, vile, and thieving
ring with U. S. Grant as marshal in
chief. Theirsign of battle is hung out,
and their mode of warfare indicative of
the corrupt cause which they are advo-
eating, has started the people from
their lethargy and thrills the nation
with fantastic terror. They dare not
bare their breast and fight the battle
on the plain of truth, but don delusion
as their shield, and endeavor to open
the tongueless caverns of the earth that
the blood of our murdered friends, like
sacrificing Abels, may cry aloud to
bruise the hearts of the people anew,
and fill our homes with mourning.
But their evil deedsstop not here, They
knowingly indulge in base misro-
presentations, and venomous lies,
by which they would fain incense their
deluded followers to imperil the lives
of those who dare demonstrate and
"sluice out hearts of innocent men,
through streams of blood" Notwith-
standing they cry 'let us have peace,'
their blood-hounds are upon the war.
path, uttering the war-song and dane
ing the ar,dance with merrment.
What can be more reasonable than tC
incite the passions OF men against theil
fellow countrymen, and this the Re
i. publican party are doing to-day. They
are thrusting brands to fire the nation
by telling the ignorant blacks that un
throne, they will be reinstatad as slaves
They endeavor to renew the fire of 1866
( by asserting that Horace Greeley ha
pledged himself to remove all preSen
disabilities from the South, when he j
elected. Now upon what authority de
@ these "Judases" make these assertions
a Have not the Democracy pledged them
selves to enfranchisement, allowing tn
blacks all privileges which freedmen
: enjoy? The platform so declares. Wha
Il power has the President TO declare seri
y aoms unless concurred in by the Con
gress, States and Supreme COurtE Sur
. posing there is a shadow of pOssibil
n ty that all these things could be accom-
l. plished how would their bondage b
I, effected? Will they all return TO thei
a masters house by the sound of th
!, " bugle? Beside, sir, Horace Greeley hf
Il openly, fearlessly and publicly denie
n that he has made promises of Office
any man, neither pledged himself
n influence the payment of the Souther
!. debt, but he has pledged his life an
I, sacred honor, to give all men full rig
rr and liberty. Surely Horace is an no
orable man. The Republican parI
n hope to achieve victory by such ia
:, ;, relations. and not to dislodge them
~ TO leave our country prey to the mo
hateful tyranny of History, especial
y it is to render the nation to violen
g. and bloodshed. Alas, for peace al
reconciliation where thieves and traito
y govern. They tell us that Democrat
i has abandoned the noble struggle
which they have been so long conten
q ing, without achieving their object, b
sn the same pure star that we have lov
:. to watch, is marshaling us on to v
81 tory. Every freeman in the land h
caught the sign, and twill be answer
by thousand tones from every h
a top Of our Republic.
or Yours truly,