The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-03-14


liberties and property. And the rights per.
tanning to Pennsylvania as State, pertain
also in common to every State in the Union.
We apprehend that Congress has no legiti-
mate power TO Disseminate between the prop
erty of one State and another; but what was
sanctioned as property by any of the States
at the time of the adoption of the federal
constitution, must bo regarded by Congress
as sacred. Thus when citizen of Pennsyl-
vania enters upon the common territory of
the Union, ne has perfect right TO claim
and receive the protection or guardianship
of the United States over his person and pro-
perty, as the common guardian of the rights
OF the several States in that territory. And
this right is common TO the citizens of all
the States Observation-Disclosures Congress
has no delegated authority to discriminate
between the rights of the members of this
Union. On these principles was the Union
erected, and upon these principles it must be
maintained.
This Union is and mus. always be held
together by moral ties and sense of equal
justice. Force and tyranny can never con-
solidate and bind together free people, con-
scous of their rights and inspired with a
Just patriotism. All bonds or manacles of a
naked power, unconnected with the convic-
ton of justice, would fall asunder as fax at
the touch of fire, which applied 10 the sim
ewy limbs of American freemen. They
would spurn them as the lion spurns the
slender net of the hunter.
the signal of the direst calamnities to our
common country. The North as we'll as the
South-the East as we'll as the West--would
share the fatal consequences of so melan-
choly catastrophe. The chiefest source of
prosperity to the North consists in their polit.
ical connection with the South. BY the form
of our revenue laws :hey enjoy immunities
that are the elements of their present unri-
vailed prosperity. The rich productions of
their manufacturing energies, in virtue of
our tariff laws, enjoy a bounty of more
than thirty per cent over foreign competition,
which bounty, according to some very saga
cious political economists, amounts to the
enormous aggregate of fifty or sixty millions
of dollars annually-most OF which the North
would be deprived of by a disruption of the
Union.
Through the mildness of her climate and
the iEexhaustible richness of her soil, produ-
cing anabundance of the fs-s6aterials SO es.
sential to the comfort and happiness of civili-
lied man, the south would throw open its
ports and invite the commerce of the world
and hence the north would be driven into
the open market and compelled to compete
with the @pauper labor" of all the European
nations, for the sale of her manufactures
the sources of her prosperity would thus be
cut of, her energies crippled, and her pres
ent 1ourishing condition would sink into de.
cay. Besides, it would place the two great
fragments of the present Union in direct
hostility towards each other, both in policy
and prejudice While the Union remains,
these interests, rightly understood, and di-
rected by the spirit of comfy, are mutual.
But dissolved, these rival interests and an.
tagonistic passions must necessarily operate
to the destruction of both. Its disruption
would be the death knell of liberty. Adark
pail would overspread the future, and no
ray of hope would be left to guide and cheer
oppressed man in his struggles to regain his
crushed and down trodden rights. The flu
ture history of our continent would be writ
ten in blood. War, hideous war, with all its
horrors, would stalk ovel this once glorious
and Heaven-favored land, and the spirit of
kindness and hur' .ty would be quenched
in the wild frei of social discord. The
scenes of all that is noble, happy and lovely
that greet and delight the eye and exalt
the soul in this happy land, would be de-
formed by slaughter and desolation. True,
the contention might cease by the conques,
of tho weaker party. But would the con.
queror but with smothered hatred and burn.
ing revenge?
But more fearful and protentous cloud
hoHs5S o'oi uiO ouhny Ciituo VI tn6 D0utn.
The protection afforded them by their con-
nexion with the haIdy yeomanry of the
North being Withdrawn, they would be ex.
posed 10 attack and invasion from without,
but still more dreadful foe from within.
The negroes, aye, the negroes, acting from
their own savage impulses, or possibly goa.
ded on by fanatics of differert race, would
rise upon their white masters in all the fury
of their natural ferocity. A servile war
wonld ensue, more dreadful in its character
than any other human calamity; and the
mothers. the daughters of our Southern bre-
thren, and feeble age and helpless infancy
would become the prey of brutal and bar
barous race, whose tender mercies in war
are more cruel than the grave. We have
seen these things in the time of profound
peace, while no extraordinary cause awaked
them to vengeance. And what horrors might
we not anticipate in state of affairs which
should arouse into fearful action that fierce
vengeance which in its ruy ess fury spares
neither age, sex nor condition?
Why should one portion of this Union
cherish or entertain hostile feelings towards
anotherl The South and the North are all
OF one great political family--one flesh and
blood-one brotherhood, bound together by