The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-01-30
A SIGNIFICANT VOTE.

Last week OIL CAME up III tHe TeUflSyl
vania Senate repeating the Objectionable part
of the slave act of lSi7. The vote upon
this act to repeal was almost strictly party
one. Only one Whig tMr. Tricky voted in
the affirmative and one Democrat (Mr. GU
emsey) in thc negative. The law of lS47
lis that one making it misdemeanor in any
state magistrate to act under the law of Con-
gress for restoring fugitive slavss, and pun
fishing him severely by fine and imprison
enent 1t also provides that the jails OF Penn
sylvania shall not be used for the detention
OF fugitive slaves, under a penalty Of fine
and imprisonment to the sheriff or jailor.
The vote of last week IN the Senate shows
the abolition sympathies of Federalism, and
the hollow hearted hypocrisy of its cant a.
bout "Naiionalism."
After the fever oflhe last presidential elec-
tion, ard when statesmen like Lewis Cass,
!. and Judge Douglass appealed from fanata-
cism and clamor to the thoughtful iudgmen:
sof dispassioned nation, the Democratic
doctrine of nen Intervention was conceded
'to be right, Clay and Webster had no OBJ
ljsctiens 10 admit its correctness after the cleo
sion, aad when the truth was vindicating it.
self And after General Foote had fought
through the appointment Of a Compromise
committe in Congress, Mr.. Clay had no OBJ
jections 10 be chairman of the committee
and 10 take the honors of the measures
which it proposed. The shining lights of
Federalism found out that the Democratic
doctrine was right after all, and grea, credit
did they claim for this sagacity. OF course
they subscribed to the Compromise meas
ures of Gen. Foote when almost every dis
eliminating mind in the land had decided for
them, and when these Solons found that the
,peopac were upon that side.
In Pennsylvania, before the election Governor
Johnson peddled his Freesolism throug the
state as dilapidated gentleman would ped
die out autiquated oysters through the public
streets ard he cried of his aboli,ionism up
on the highway and in the public places to
the highest bidder. Scarcely township
constable could be elected without being
asked whether he was proviso man. But
after the election it was discovered that there
was much truth in the non.intervention idea
of Democracy and that it was growing ex-
coedingly popular. Federalism grew won.
drous uspatriotic and constitulional-i:s high
priests put on broad pyIac;eries with NOTES of
"compromise" and inalonalism," and the
followers worshiped devoutly and obedi-
emily.
But now another election is approaching,
and it seems profitable thing 10 bid high
for the abolition vote of the state. And with
reference 10 that the Wings of the Senate
last week voted And now ct that vote go
TO Webster and Clay-nay, let it go to the
American people and show what manner OF
two faced janus this thing of Federalism
has proved ITSELF Let its abolition sympa.
tthies be understood, and its pharisacal cant
about nationalism and the constitution be
cas-. 10 the teeth to give its demagogues the
lie.
And now let us hear no mole reproach
upon the Democrats of Massachusetts be-
cause some Freesoil Democratic members
voted for Democratic governor. If in that
state Mahommed has come TO the mountain,
the mountain has not yet gone to Mahom-
med. And least Of all should that reproach
ecome from Pennsylvania Wing, whose
co.laborers have truckled to Antimasonry-
have cringed and fawned like hungry sup
plants around Native Americanism-and
are now licking their parched jaws for
morsel of votes and plumber from Abolition
ism.