COLUMBIA
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL
LEVI L. TATE, EDITOR.
"TO HOLD AND TRIM THU TORCH 01?. ."IUTH AND WAVE IT O'Elt TIIK DARKENED KAItTlt."
TEHMS: OOPEll ANNUM
VOL. 17.N0. 8.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENN'A., SATURDAY, APRtL 25, 18(53,
VOLUME 2?
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Columbia Jentorrnt
VuiHitSHKD EVERY SATURDAY, BY
Levi l. tate.
hi BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA,
OFFICE
In the 7icw Urirh liuildhig, opposite the
Exchange, hi the Court House. al)emo
ttuii'j Ilcutt Quartet s."
Select Poetry.
'VLtUX tiPlS'l'liIi. TO Ui-
I hnvs nmrMnfc, Uncle Abu,
Fur your awn private enr ;
A. I rtll'l go tu Witaliiiigtoii,
And at you won't cnn hors.
I'm forrnil to put ll lutntypp,
Will) rfrcmiiKpuctioii nu'fk :
An bashful mii'iiliiTf often print
A poi'cli ttiey ilntv not eponk.
if he ml is nittli bnrnlnR, Alio.
My vwry cyu'bitlli throb,
To ura wlmt pky work ynu innko v.
About Hint little Jul.,
Whiuli ynu. nnd Hill, nr.il Horace ().,
Agreed an nici' to ilo,
In loss thnn "sixty iln" from ditto
Homo twonty months nfol
Wu i:.ivn you hapt of snlillers, Abo,
'IV hi'lp you snillii tlm fut ;
A striint nf tvarrlori tlm'. would reach
r'rtuii hnrc to Mrxico.
Wo packed tlirm on" with spndui to dij?,
And trust)' Jims In cliout,
With lirtvtfrfirkfl to gruco thoir bucks,
Andfif' nml t'ruiiK to toot.
Vuu saw tins- mi;lity Ir-giniM, Aba,
And li.mt til r manly trend ;
You coiintrd linsW of tiring men,
Pray can you couul the tltad ?
l.ik o'er the brond l'otmnuc, Alio,
Virxini i'D hill alone,
Til tir oakrful fltol ntc bnikiinin? ou
Two hundred thousand MronS.
WV (tarn you iirvi!ral shUUn;;, Aba,
Topay your liltle duen ;
Hnough to buy a 1I07.1MI shirts,
Atid sundry pairs ot hois t
ffc fnvf jn"u caltlo, horsei, funics, .
And tWigon full a si'tiro ;
Aii'l nrrrnUMiuon w ith 11 voici! " "
Loud us a bull cin roar I
IS' v wlitt Tin al't'rU.iclu AV
In simply lu find out,
nh.it you li.ne douu with all thiii 'cro,
And what yoii'vn Utieil about 1
If unto O.'ir you have given,
All that is lii concern.
Thin ".Mr C.'nar want's" to know
Whit you havo done with lift 11 t
1 know you'ru young and h'.in limit ), Abe,
And funny as our l'ol,
A pnr oxhalti'd, gn-at and hijjh, " ' "
4 ruler fVHii fsrt tall ;
Yn"ru bit 'iwugh. if only iiuiart,
b4'n loan iii all III' Ran;
And lb a little green )Vll rie,
WIkii you hare got III'' h in: '
You told us that tb 'i l.orns. Ah',
Wt-l rr.lNtollie cnf,
ro'cauni! tti'ty nia.lu si trie n uso
Of ttncli) Sainu-I'ii lor .
Pull nitty million, in a year I
N'nn wiuu't it a dill
('.r Ileal irrJtn to a jtii lor th l,
Thu dnrliug peopbi'ii tin I
And Are you not denvrrimr, Abo,
lloth gratitudu and grub,
Korlmviiis utopped lliij wicked leak
In Uncle Samuel'ii tub
1'lif) tMRituhn did thi woni)roudcod,
U flt with iniut5 to tup ;
ll onlv cofl two liillioiiH moru
To plug the vcmcl up !
You fay the south had ruled us, Abe,
S01110 fifty years in pi-ace,
And that the time had fully cninu
When their Vila reisn should ccani ;
That you were to take th.' helm
Thi riinkin ship to save.
And put her un another tack
And-I reatly think yuu have!
You're out of luck, entirety, Abe,
ThH engine's oh" the track ,
The h'ilcr's burst, and there you uro,
A sprawling on your back;
Tlitj excise man is at the door.
Con ractors cry fur pelf;
You're blind and stupid, deaf and lame,
'ur very well yourself!
Your eahini't'is feelilc, Abe,
And dull as any dunce ;
And if you hive an ounce of brains,
You'll thip them otrut once 1
fteud Stanton to the Frjeu
(live Wells and Chase thu sack,
fiw op Ilullcck fur a Ilotteutnt,
And send for 1. title Mix !
v I know you tell us, Unrie Abe,
This is & mi ghly war :
And that the job is rathor more
Than what you bargained fori
That you have done the best you could
To make the rebels rue it.
And if ynu knew what next to do,
You'd go right oil' and do itt
Wow that's 1 1 10 very thing, Abe,
That makes tills din and clatter ;
Y.ou don't appear to "see," Abe,
And that is what's the matter I
The, nigger's in the wood pile, Abe,
As shy as any trout ;
Pa you think the Proclamation, Abe,
Will rmnke the weasel oull
You wtut to frcotho dirkli's, Abe,
At lout, I so construe it ;
Tb difficulty seems to lie
To rind out how to do it.
The way, dear Abe, is mighty dark,
And bothersome to see ;
I fear you'll have to fivo it up,
And let tho darkey be.
I tell you what it is, Ah,
The folks begin tothink
This colored sop is rather stale
Vot victuals nr for drink.
Our mother, lovo their absent sons,
Our wives llicir husbands true,
nut no one care, a mouldy fig
for Cuffy or for you.
Bay No man can tin anything against
iia will, said a metaphysician.
'Faith," said Pat, 'I had a brother
who wont to tho Stato Priaou against his
vijl fa;i'f,li zrA ho did."
IJOIiUMlilA DliMOORAT
UllliT.ll V LV.Vi U. TATH, ritOPItltlTOK I
-S'olomiuiljtirg:-
SATimiUV, A I'll Hi 25, I8GI!.
(itii. llalli ck Issues a I'rontiiiciaintiito.
Among tho letters addressed to tho
coniniittco of tho Sumter meeting, held on
Siturday in the r'ity of New York, wo
uotioc one from tioncral Ilallcck, of which
an extract is furnished in the N. Y. Ex-
iv. It runs thus :
lln.uiuuAiiTiins o' tiik Aumv,
WasiiimitoN, April 5, lbdil.
. A lOMVill, Mtc'i of the Leagues A', '.
f
Wc liavo already made immense pro
gro. in thii war u greater progress than
was over before made under similar eir
oumiitaiices. Our armies are still ad
vancing, and, if sustained by the votes of
the patriotic millions at home, they will
ere long eiusli the rebellion in the Siouth,
and then pine th'ir lice's upon the heads
of siicnliing Imitois in the JSorth. Very
icspcctively, your obcdietil servant.
II. N'.JIallijek, Ucnoral-iii-ehief.
Our (rciicrala have been famous for
proclamations addressed to the enemy ;
, but here ho have a proclamation of the
! (!oucntl-in chief, addressed to the asj'Cin
! blage in Union squire, assuring them
that i lie army, as soon as it shall have
j conquered tho South, will lie directed
, North, "to place its heels upon the heads
' of snuakiug traitors."
J We do nut know whether Gen. Ilttlleo
j refers to those "sneaking traitors in the
i Noith, ''who have fury-oars been utter
ing tiea nu agaitt the (Joiietitution ; de-
nouiicing our glorious Union as ''tin ac
cursed Union with slaveholder., un coin-
, pact will Hell," &c, and who have ogain
and again expressed, through their prtus
! e uml their pulilic speakers, a desire
that the Union might bo dissolved rather
' th.m that they should be contaminated by
: fuither political a-.oei.ttion with those
who, like CiKoittiu Wasiiinuto.v, held
jnero-s s slaves. Wo are uot quite
' niiro, whciber Mujor (joncral Ualleck
t'ttans llicsu 'traitors" and "diiunionists,"
j for such thny are, or whether he has clio
, sun to adopt the epithets of Hrpublican
' slang, ami rjfers in such choice terms as
we have quoted to the Uuion Democrats
j nnJ Conservatives, who alone are loyal to
I the Constitution and tho laws. In cither
cae, wc can tell Gen. Ualleck, that this
proclamation will hardly iucrra.o any
claim be may have had to tho respect of
, the nation, nor inspire any very great ad
miration for the qualities of his mind or
heart. It is an act of cowardice on the
part of a general to threaten unarmed
m-n, whoever they may bo, and an act
of folly to say what he will do, "Jlcr he
shall luivc conquered. I.ct him conquer
first, and thon issue his proclamation
agaimt "the sneaking traitors in tho
North " The A.
WlIV ATTtMI'T TO UKCKIYE OUIlsur.VES ?
While wc aro reading in almost every offi
cial dispatch, that starvation threatens
the whole Southern people j that tho so
called Confederate Government was with
out funds aud without credit ; that gold
was at a premium of four aud five huudrcd
pur cent in lUehmond ( ind that auarchy
and oonl'ii'i'ui reigns throughout tho rebel
States wc aro at the same time informed
that this same Confedcr&le Government
has just secured aloau in England of 15,
000,000 -or 75,000,000 which loan
ho next day commanded a premium of
from Us to 4 per cent, This loan, wo
believe, is secured by tho pledge of cotton,
to be delivered at Southern seaports at
about 1 1 cents per pound the British to
eomd.nl ttikt U'lhe Llrirficld Repub-
..
item.
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t8 When Mr. Cox or Vallandighain
makes a speech in the Housn favoring
pcaco they arc assailed by tho Republican
press-with all manncr of vilo epithets-
copperheads, triiitors,soccsh sympathizers,
etc; but when Judge Conway, of Kansas
a radical noes precisely tho same
thins? ho is oomnlimontcd for his boldness
and eloqiionce. Conway's specoh will bo
"
forth will bn
reccivu.t .ui uu.iiu jmuiiiuo.iu, u
-..j ...iii. .1 . i : 1. 1 i:i. i i.
admits the imposibilty of subjugating tho
bouth and pronouuees a reunion out ot
tho nucslion ; vet tho Time, Tribune and
Post sneak of this gloomy product on in
terms of praise, while on overy possiblo
occasion thoy denounce Vallandigham
with coarse epithets for an expression of
liia fcailcbs aud objectionable uculimnuts.
I
Moro No "Partyisin.
The following official "Ordor" is pub
lished in tho Concord (Now Hampshire)
Democrat an Abolition paper. It shows
the friendship of the AboMtionists for tho A J. Edgerly camo into tho Ward room,
soldiers, for whom they ptofess so much presented his voto and immediately retir
regard. What infamous proscription ! oil. Ho did not remain in tho room
. , r . . i over fivo minutes. I did n t seo him uis
hat an example of no-partyism ! I 1TO , . , . so
, WAH Ul-PAUTMENT, AT)J T. uU.VKKAI. S ( '
; Oitiok, WASiiiNaTOX, lAiarch 1J, 1 8u.i. ;
I special urcurj.o. ll u. iuxunci.) I
HI. lhi direction of the President, the
! following oRicers aro hereby dismissed tho
' service of the United States, Lieutenant
A. J Edgerly, 4th Now Hampshire Vol
untccrs,.' ci) diluting "Copperhead Tick
its" (nul doing 'ill in his poivtr to pro
mote the success of the rebel cause in his
State.
By order of the Secretary of War.
li. Thomas, Adjutant Genoarl.
To the Govornor of New Hampshire.
Apart from the disgrace to the nation
at:d the insult to tho Democratic party,
says tho Patriot and Union, there is still,
in this "Order" the great injustice in
flicted upon a gallant and patriotic officer.
Lieut. A. J. Kdgarly was "dismissed the
service." What for ? Tho official Or
der" says "for circulating "Copperhead
Tickets," and doitifr all in his power to
promote the vueaess of the rebel cause in
hia State." The "Ordor is a falsehood.
Tho President and all concerned were
guilty of falsehood when they issued it.
Ju t prior to thu New Hampshire election
a whole regiment of Abolition troops were
sent home from the Army of the Potomac
to vote tho Abolition ticktt, for the pur
pose of currying the State for the ad
ministration. They voted they cir-'u
lated tickets, ulcers and men they cx
urci cd their political lichts, and the ad-
mitiislration papers applauded them for I
it, and no doubt also did the administra
tion. That was all well enough. Put
now comes the case of Lieut. E IgcMy.
Alwajs a Democrat, ho exercised his
political right and voted thu Domocratic
ticket. I or this he was dismissed. The
offence was neither more nor lea1 than we
have stated, for in New Hampshire there
aro no "Coppei heads." neither is there a.
"rebel cause to promote," and if the ad
ministration wore possessed of any sense,
decency, houor or manhood, it would
blu?h at the infamous act it has commitud.
Put we euro not to argue the caio for
Liuut. JJdgerly let him speak for him
self, aud let truth aud honor damn the vi
olators oi truth and honor:
i'lom the Boston Post.
MANCiir.STi;u, N. II., March, 25, 1803.
dcsss Editors of the Poti ; I saw in your
issue o. to day the order dismissing Jjiout
A J. J3dgt.rly.of the 4th Now I .imnshiro
volunteers, irom tnc sui vicuui uiuuum-u
Stntns. I'nr "circulatine Coniicrlioad tick
ets." toeth"r with your comincutmthcrc-
on, in wineti you say you cannot, uuttuvu
... . .. ... i. ,: .
it true that the President of the buited
States would stoop so low as to dismiss
nn iifflimp fur vntinir tlm llcmnt'.rntifi ticket I
or even circulating3 tickets when it is a
notorious fact that the administration had
their officers ami men brought lrom all
parts of the country not only to
voto, but
to use all their influence to have others '
do the same, and tor the same party. ' 3
Why I write this is to show you that tho acred to join General liutlcr refused to do
order is gcuuiue, although 1 have not so. There have occasionally been cases
been officially notified of it, but have seen wl,erc an offieer who behaved himself in
the original copy in the State Department tIiU manncr WM ignominiou.ly j smiscCa
at Concord, and shall probably get a copy
when the printed o'.o is issued." the army. If tho Secretary of ar
I do not wonder that you aro loth to 'desites tj know Clay's addrcfs in order to
believe it true, for many of the leading scud him a discharge, he will find it in tho
Republicans here, thoso who believe thu papers, as this Major General having con
dismissal ineiited if the charge is true do .. hos nnd (lobatcs
not oenevc iney wouiu stoop to mo low
naite sland phrases at tho War Dop
and phrases at tho War Depart-
mcnt in their "Orders," but such aro tho
words used in tho order, word for word,
as published iu the Democrat, at Concord.
I shall send you a copy of a certificate
given mc by tho Moderator of the Ward
in which 1 voted, (Ward Six,) and ho is
one of the most influential men of the
Republican party, and one of tho Edi'ors
of tho American in this eitv. which goes
to show the first part of the chargo is false,
j and as lor the other I am at a toss to know
what is meant by "tho rebel cause in his
State." unless 'tis the Abolition cause, aud
i , ,., , ',.
I every man who ever kuew me or even
j board me express my political opinion,
, ;Uows I never did anyihiug to help that,
but havo voted tho Domocratic ticket
611,150 iaM wr'lttl u.10 p"f,ll" ?' la!l
1 eu, wucu i. w m riu..u mtu m,
piir ilium r
I , .
I simply went to
' .
' Uq 1)q11s aud deposited my ballot, as I
cons tiered I had a porteot right to do, not
thinking that when 1 took a commission
.. .W ...... . T r. .. 1 .
n the united Mates army i loneiieu i
the
dearest right of an Atuerieau freemen,
, ,..- nvnr.lg ,,, ..lnnti frimrl.-mn
aC0oi-ding to tho dictates of his own judg-
mcuts and cousoiouco, and I ilo not regret
tho act, and should do so again to-morrow
-i i.i .i.. . :il
buouiuihu oppuriu my uuuui. iuu ui
occur. You will
pardon mo for the frcodom 1 have taken
in writing this to you, i:otfor publication,
ouly to idiow that tho "order" is uot "bo
gus," Yours most truly, A, Jt. Ena.iu.Y,
Vale Vicut. "I' N. II, ols.
ooi'y
Mancih:stkr,N. II., March 28 1803.
This shows that I am Moderator in
Ward Six, in this city. That on tho'day
of our annual election, March 10th, l.tcut,
K:,n(o,1 tl,.. T r.nul.l Iinvo soon him had
ho b , cngaK; jn circulating them in tho
Ward room. JaMKS U. ADAMM.
Moderator ol Ward 0, Manchester, N II.
A Copporhcad Conductor.
" To the Editors of the Sunday Dis
patch. Riding up Pino street this day, I
lound thu conductor had on his coat a
Copperhead emblem. His car was No. 2.
Rather than ride on the same iino 1
walked fourteen squares. If this is the
character of all the conductors on the lino
it is Well the people should know it.
A HesiIhint on riu: Link.
"April 11,180:3."
t copy the above as an illustration of
Abolition bigotry and intolerance. Tho j
writer of this precious piece of prescriptive i
literature evidently desires to cuso tho dis- j
charge of tho conductor in question, sun
ply because ho is a Democrat. If this !
' J , . , , iir i i
conductor wore a medal, or dnv.ee, deno-
ting him in favor of a servile insurrection
in the South, and the butchering of the
women nnd children of that region 'tt
Gilbert the writer of the above would
doubtless be very willing to ride in any of
the cars ou a line ou which ho has reason
to believe a single Democrat is employed
as conductor !
This is the sort of men now claiming to
bo friends of liberty and of the Union. It
is men of this stamp who arc now govrrn-
ing thu country, or 'hat is left of it. A
beautiful chance of freedom we shall
have if they can establish thoir principles
as a permanent rule of government ! j
I venture to say tint the ''Resident on j
the Lino" of the railway mentioned, dare
not give his name to the public, lest he bo j
proscribed in a business way, as he wished
to proscribe the 11 Copperhead Conductor."
He is evidently a hueaking coward, who
while quite willing to profit by tho pat
ronagc of the people he calls "Copper- j
heads," skulks behiud a non dr plume to
:-tab a poor Conductor who differs from
him in political sentiment.
Pink Street.
Philadelphia Evening Journal.
B" Socretary Stanton has reoently ic
poitcd to Congress a li.-t of twenty-four
Major and lirig.tdiur Generals not in ac
tivc service. To this list now be added
the names of llutlcr Lurnuidc, Lrauklin,
I nnJ Sumuor
Looking over the list, we
find the names of McClellan, Fremont
Pucll and others, but are most
attracted
. . . . . ..... .. e n ...... ,
uy t10 conspicuous cognomen oi vjassiu?
M ninv. Onuosito Clav's name arc the
' , . . . uv. .
service sinco June 17, 1803, when appoin-
ted. Assigned to General liutlcr, but did
Assigned to General liutlcr, but did
not renort." That is to say, this Major
General, though tccelving his full nay.has
.i - .I--'- l it t.
. - .
wun ueorgo r-rancis i rain is nc
now deliv
ering lectures throughout tho country.
A Ni:v Remedy ron Smatj. Pox.
Tho Saracenia jmrpurea, or Indian cup,
a native plant of Nova Scotia, which was
mentioned some time ago as being the spe
cific used by tho Indians against tho
sman-pux, u.us xair to realize tue expee-
tations entertained by medical men of its
efficacy. Iu a letter addrcsjcd to the
American Medical Times, Frederic W.
,, . . , , , , .. .... ,r ,.
Morris, Resident Physician ot the Hali-
. , '
fax Visitiug Dispensary, states hat this
saraceuia, a papaveraceous plant, will
cure small pox in all its various forms
within twelvo hours after the patient has
taken the decoction. However alarming
i anl "u,uorou3 tu0 ptions," ho says, 'or
n....i ... i'..:..t..f..i it.. t- .i.
confluent or frightful they may be, tho pe
culiar action of tho medicine is such that
very seldom is a 'scar left to tell tho story
of tho disease. If cither vacciuo or vari
olous matter is washed with the infusion
oflh0 saraceuia, they aro deprived of their
contagious properties, tio mild is the
incdiciuo to tho tasto, that it may bo
I i : t ...:.!. t n- ,
i.iijuiy ui.iuu uu utm coneu mm gtv
i en to connoisseurs in theso beverages to
drink wilhout their being aware of tho ad
mixture, Tho medicine has been success
fully tried in tho hospitals of Nova Sco
tia, and its use .will bo continued,'
01'
MOM fiirn SANnWRSON
oi.n
OF LAMASTO. !
Iloi'ot'C the SN'iiiocratic Ceil-
tral Club oi'I'liilaiielphia. i
. c.i r' a '
IJcttrrnd on buutuhy Lvenvig. April
11, 180.1.
,, , ,. . .
Mr. Sanderson, after soWo proliuutlary
remarks, addressed thu Club in substance
as follows i
Put three brief years ago wc wcro a if
nited and happy people !lio Constitution
overywhero ov r our wide domain, aud by
every citizen, acknowledged and respected
as the supreme taw of the laud, and the
laws made in pursuance there of enforced
without difficulty, in uvcry Stato of the
Uuion save in one or two isolate cases in
New Eug'aud. And this had been the
li'iimv riinilitinii nf tliiivs lor till' snvnulv
''.. . n . -
years preceding tue acccsiou to power
ni tlm n,.PDi.iir . Miiiinniil A ilininUi rntioti. '
'Tis true, there was not an unbroken chain j
of Democratic rule during all that long pe
riod. There had been occasional changes
from the highest to tho lowest officers of
the Gov irniuont ; )iut no matter what
party, Whig or Democratic, obtained tho
a.ceiidanov, the country was considered
10 uul P"i;
their adherents were counted by the thou
. g , , . ,
but a solitary exception in tho administra
tion of our public affairs and to that I
shall presently advert, the great principles
of civil liberty wcro held sacred through
out the length and breadth of the Republic.
The freedom of speech aud of the pro's
the riyht of the people to be secure in thoir
persons and estates, from illegal and atbi
tary arrests and seizures tho right of
j trial vouchsafed to each aud every indi
vidual, high and low, rich aud poor bysa
jury of hii peers and last, but not least,
the inestimable privilege of ihc great writ
1 of h'tbeus corpus all these constituted tho
very oub-tratum of Ameiican liberty, and
! formed the fouudation for the whole struc
, ture of our free Governmen. We iuhcr
i iled these lights from ourPnti.-h ancestor.
! They arc part and parcel of the Great
' Chaiter which was extorted from an un
willing and despotic moiiiarch by the
barons of England, more thin six hundred
1 year3 ago, and any attempt now, on the
p.irt of the Qjcen or her ministers, to set
them at naught, or trample them under
foot, wouhl at ORce hurl them from power
I And shall, wc wIiq boast of our freedom
we, whose fathers, in youder Hall, but i
square distant, proclaimed, a tho funda
mental law of the nation, the "right of the
people to bo secure in their, person, liou-
ses, papers, and effects, again it unreason;:
ble searches and seizures" and that no
person shall be "deprived of life, liberty ,or
property, without due proees3 of law"
I shall we, I say, be lcs jealous of our rights
j than they .' Shall we proclaim to the world
, by our acts that we have so tar degoncr
j atod from the stern virtues and unyielding
, patrioti-m of the senil-civilizatiou of the
( thiilecnth century, as to unresistingly bow
our necks to the yoke of tyranny which is
I sought to be fastened upon us by men
! clothed in a little brief authority '( I cannot
i believe it, and I am very sure that I speak
the suntimcnts of the great mass of the
, American people, when I say th it they will j
1 not endure it. The spirit of 1770 still li ti -1
Igersinthe breast of every true hearted
. AmGr:c.in q-lc i,i0!)d s0 " f..P(,i,. i.
American. The blood so freely shed by
nr nntrint frm-lnthnrs tho toils and nri -
' yations the-; ensured iu a long and bloody
war tor Independence arc Mill remem
bered by our people ; and though our
dearly bought rights may bo trampled up
ou by the iron heel of despotism for a sea
son, tbcv will sooner or later assort their
manhood, aud a brighter day will again
dawn ou our bleeding and distracted
country.
It is not my tmrposo, fellow citizens,
to go into an elaborate detail of the un
constitutional acts ol the men now in pow
er at tho seat of Government, or ot the
Congress of the United States, which for- j
innately for the country, ended its inglo 1
rious career on the fourth day of March
hist. Thoso have all been t-o ably exam
incd and criticised uppu by the distinguish
ed and learned gentlemen who havo ad
dressed )iu in this Hall, from time to
time, that it would be a waste of time, if
uot a work of supererogation for mo now
to dwell upon them iu detiil or at auy
considerable length. 1 shall, therefore,
not attempt to claborap, but only advert
to them incidentally in the further prose
cution of my remarks, aud what 1 shall ,
havo to say will bo rather discursive than i
oth'.rwisu.
I intimated in the commencement of my
re narks that wcro was one other Admin
istration iu tho history of this Govern
ment which did uot hold sacred the prin
ciples of civil liberty. You will jcadily
understand, in advance, that the allu
sion is to tho Administration of tho
elder Adams whon it was considered trea
son to speak or publish anything dis
respectful of tho President of tlio Uuited
States, and when men were shot down iu
cold blood, or incarcerated iu tho glo itny
walls of a prison for daring to utter their
.cntitncnts, or assist iu raising liberty
poles, os the Democrats of that day wore
in tho habit of doing. A inurdor of this
kind was committed by Federal troops on
an iuoffuiaivo young man in my own na
tivc county ot uuiuucriaud. is ay, more
tho then Executive had tho power vested
iu him by a suhseivicut Congi;ess to, send
out of the euuutry every adopted citizen
who might in ary way, by his voto or
otherwise, give offence to the (iples and in
formers connected with tho system ot es-
piouagc adopted by tho Admiuistiaiioa,-'-
Th(( ;oJ (o wbchI nllu1() has hm
known ever sinco in the history f tho
cml"try ns l'10 "Koign df Tcrrdr" In
view of recent events in our nlidst, it may '
be dcsiguatetl as tho lirstreidn df tetror td
which the citizens of tile United States have 1
been subjected since the Government of '
the second reign of terror, whttih fdr el-!
e , ilcj,1011SIll,as an.i !ltrocitv tho first.1
aud from which wo pray kind Iloavou to
grant us a safe and speedy deliverance.
Put that Administration was driven
from power by the indomitable Democracy
of 18U0,and Thomas Jcffo-scn was elected
to tho Presidency, and with him a Demo
cratic Congress. The obuoxius and ty
mimical laws above alluded to were all
repealed tho rights of tho people under
the respected an the country entered up
on an unbr.'ken career of prosperity,
which continued, with stliht interruptions
r. t. i ..r .........
,ul 'u"ia ' ai ""
until the advent of tho present icctional
I'arty to power. 1 be glor
oriotis old flap of!
the Union was
rcsnectett at Homo ana i
abroad, and everywhere in all parts of the now levied upon them, miicli df which
oiyli.ized world, to be known as a citizen i finds its way into the pockets of a hugo
of the Orcat Republic, was as much oQi I army of asscsors, collectors, army contrac
passport to favor and consideration, as was I tors and shoddy speculators in tho employ
the to be a Roman citizen during the im- of the Government. "For depriving us,
pcrial sway of Augustus Ciosac.
The influence of our example of self
government was silently but surely work
ing its way iu'o the minds and hearts of
the down trodden masses ot" tho old world
aud tho monarch aud despots of Europe
stood aghast at the giant strides we were
making in the arts and sciences in com
merce and manufactures in agriculture
and the mechanic a,ts and in the vat
wealth aud power we were rapidly accu
mulating under tho bonificcnt rule of a
just and free Government. The princi
ples of civil and religious lioerty, so admi
rably and forcibly enunciated by Mr.
Jefferson in his first inaugural Address,
and so faithfully adhered to by all hit
Domocratic aud Whig successors in tho
Presidential chair, were the watch-words
for the down trodden millions of despotism
in Europe, and had impregnate public
and predicated iho minds of tho masses
there to suoh a degree, that kings antl po
tentates had been forced, at the risk of lo
sing their crowus aud their heads too, to
make largo aud important conco'siou to
the great principles of Magna Charta.
The American Kcpuhlic was becoming the
wonder and admiration of the whole world
civilized aud savage. Like a city set on
a hill, it could not be hid. It was the ob
served of all observers amdng the nations
and like the sun at noon day, it sheds its
light aud fructifying heat in turn over both
hemispheres, and its blessed influences
were everywhere felt and appreciated.
itic principles ot ;ur. Jcllersou, to winch
allusion has been made, wcret
"Equal and exict justice to all men, of
whatever sect or pursuasion, religious or
polltcal.
"The support of tho Hale Governments
in all their rights, as the moat competent
administration lor our domestic concerns.
and the surest bulwarks against anti-rc
publican tendencies.
''The supremacy of the civil over the
military authority.
'Economy in public expense, that la
bor may be lightly burdened.
'''uc'iim of riligion, ficcdom of the
press, and freedom of persons under the
protection of the habeus corpus
una trial
1 bit inn impurtiulhi selected.'
Dut how changed is the aspect of things
now I Dark and pottcutous clouds hangi
in sombre gloom over our once happy and
still beloved country. The bloody drama the Constitution as it is," and this trcason
of civil war and desolation has been able declaration was substantially repeat-
opened to our astonished vision in all its
long aud frightful catalogue of horrors,
For two long years the country has drank last, by Gen. Duller at a recent mcetiug
tho blood of its sous iu fratricidal war. 1 in New York, and has been sanctioned bv
Hundreds of thousands of the bravest of all the Abolition papers North of Mason
tho brave sleep the sleep that knows no t ;md Dixon's line.
waking. Hundreds of thousands more The party in power, therefore, hrtvo nci
havc been crippled aud maimed for life, ther the ability nor iueliuation, judging
or breath the sickening and pestilential from their speeches and actf to resto'ro
atmosphere of the hospitals. The nation ( the Union of our fathers, or preserve
reels load of debt; and taxation onerous American liberty. Its principles arc riot
aud almost insupportable taxation for those which lie at the base of tho Co'nsti
generatioiiB to come, is the picture looming ' tutiou not those which arc founded on
up in the future. Wc have real, terrible, 1 light and iustiee but arc onlv such dog-
saoguiLary, and unprecedented war a
war of such dimensions as finds scarcely
a parallel iu history, and at whose vast
proportions the civilhzed world stands
amazed and confounded. Prother is ar-'
rayed against brother iu this fearfuj stril'o
between men of tho same lineage, speaking
the same language, worshipping the same
God, and bound to tho same judgment
scat. And what is it all for ? Why all
thisj lavish expenditure of blood aud trea
sure! Could wo not havo continued to
live together in amity and friendship as
our I athers and grand lathers did bet.ire
us 1 Aro wo wisor than they I Are we ' uial siu, or public treason, as the holding
better citizens or better Cbristains ! Arc of a black man in boudago in South Car
tho men cow in power purer or abler , oliua or Virginia. It loudly asserts its
statesmen than Washington, Jefferson, ' own freedom to do what it pleases, but w'll
Madison, Mouroe, Jackeon and Polk ! not allow a dissentient the same privilege.
Is not tho government that was so sue- It would thrust its piiuciples dnwu fho
cossfully administered by them in pcaeo throats ofrcculcitaauts at the point of tho
aitu m war, iu prosperity ami nuver&uy,
good enough for us t or must wc, in tho
languago of the Press, of your city, "com
bine theois of a Republican Govern
ment with tho i'owchs of a Motiarchial
Government," or, in that of its twin-bis-tcr
in infamy, t" o North Amretcan, con
tend that "the power of tho Government
ought to bo and must bo unlimited."
I hese arniucstions of rrrc.it iiintiiriit u - liii -
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concern every American citizen, aud it
beconlcs cvb'ry tinc'o ldver df his country,
be he DcmdcrUt, Whig, or Itepubllcati, td
ponder them well and nusw r to his owd
bonicleurjc, as ho must answer to his final
Arbitoi-at tllo great d.ly, for tho manner
in which his aclidns shall bo influenced
by them in the terrible present, and in tho
gloomy and lorbodidg dspects of tho
future.
When our patriot fathers id ybtitldcr
Hrlll declared tho American podplo frcn
and iudbpcudottt Of tho Pritish ctown, and
tuVdn-,.,1 tlintf likn.s. tlinir friH.to, t.tt.l ilmiH
satired hdnor to make good their declara
tion, they spoke like treeman and patriots
who had counted the cost of the bdld post
tion they had taken L'efoto tho world.
Amongst other grievances which, they
truthfully charged agaidsi. the King df
J'ingl'iid-, the following may be enumerat
ed, viz: "Ho has afl'ectcd to render tho
military independent of, and superior to,
the civil power." And is uot a similar of'
fece committed against the rights of tho
people almost every day, in our midst, by
the men now id power at Washington !
'For imposino- taxes ou us without Our
consent. ''Havo the nusjes consented to
l ie pnnrmnti nnd unnrnrrmnnriMi invnes
in many cases, ol the benefit dl trial by
jury." And hero, too, tho parallel
holds good to the very letter. Aud so I
might go ou, ad infinitum in tracing tho
striking resemblance which the despotism
of the last Ceutury bears to that of the
present in both affecting the life, liberty
md happiness of the American citizen.
Put enough du this part of my subject.
' bo t;ir as conducting tho Uovornir.cnt
on constitutional principles, or carrying on
the war success! illy tor the suppression of
tho rebellion, is concerned, the Admin
istration has been a total failure, and such
it will continue to bo to the end of the
chapter. The Abolition party has no
administrative abilities. It knows noth
ing, aud can learn nothing. It is in tho
last throes of a violent dissolution. It
was born in fraud, baptized in blood, and
will die in infamy. All the conservative
feeling of the countty all the instinct of
the Anglo Saxon race all the interests of
agriculture, commerce and manufactures
all thc'glorious traditions of tlio past his
tory, of our country, arc. against that sec
tional political organization. In its favor
to be suro, aro corrupt and unprincipled
politicians, who would sell the liberties of
their country lor place, and power : soul
less contractors aud heartless swindlers,
who bow down at tho shrine of ths al
mighty greenback j the base and tnalignani
passion that can only be sallaled by the
shedding ol more blood in this carnival of
death; the insolent tyranny that would
assimilate conflicting opinions by tho
bloody agency of the swotd, and tho still
more odious tyranny of tlio pulpit, that
would crush out the last remnant jfcivil
liberty by the establishment Bf d eadguin
ary theocracy which would rather tho
white race should perish from the land
that liberty and equality, iu the uaino of
God, antl for tho ''advancement of His
glory," shou.d be denied tho "American
citizens of African descent."
Tnc Abolition party cannot restore tho
old Uuion if it would and would not if It
could. It is impotent for good, and only
powerful for evil. This is apparent from
its whole bjhtory and was fully exempli
fied by Thaddcus Stevens, the acknowl
edged Administration leader in the last
Congress, in boldly avowing himself as
being uua'terably opposed to any rcc n-
slruction of the "Union as it w:fs. with
cd by him at a Republican meeting In tho
eitv of Lancaster on SatUrdtiv uvcfiin-r
mas as are incompatible with the mild and
diffused governments of tic several States
which made the nation what it wis prior
to tho breaking out of this unnatural,
fratricidal war. Republicanism, says an
able writer, in the sense attache 1 to the
word by he Hep ib!i ans,'be d s iiiguishcd
from the Domocr.it', is incompatible with
liberty. It ignores tho right to disagree.
It will not tolcra'c adverse or ho-tile dis
cussion, li protts's against porsonal lib
city. It sets tho theory above tho fact.
, It would render the drinking of a class of
wine in the Stato of M-alim as .-n-.u :t sn.
bayonnt. With all its faults, it may suo
ceed in the effort to make a uattfoh of tho
effort to make a nation of tho Northern
people ; but if it does, it will he at tho
expense of every constitutional right which
Americans, up to the outuiiM of this
miserable war, were prou I to uplnld.
i.caving out oi view the n gro nuMiuu.
and all that relates to it, the piiuetpics of
li tlm lti.mil. ... tl.i:,:
...,'Hi,ivill Hi 41 UU 111 lu llll Ilfl
simply those of a de.-potuuia bald nu