The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-09-27


choose ye between them! Even if you would,
vel YOU cannot now but choose between these
two. While the Wing party existed, what
ever may have been It's folles or It's faults,
yet neither Clay nor Webster, nor its other
great leaders, nor the true men OF lis rank
and Gle, would have tolerated sentiment
/ hostile TO the Constitution or the Union. But
| these great men and true patriots have pass
| ed away, and The old Wing party no longer
exists. The weak, the venal and the selfish
in its ranks have gone into secret and Sec
tartan organization, or have gone over and
srayed themselves with Abolitioniss, inf
dels and fanatics. against their brethren of
| the South. One party alone remains firm
and defiant. Over every foot of the soil of
| this Union, and wherever IT'S Constitution ex-
tends, there TOO extends the all protecting arm
of the Democracy: bearing alofl the broad
flag of Civil and Religious Liberty the Con.
sti'uion and the Union.
| Fellow Citizens, our duty IN the premises
| is plain. However much party leaders may
| hesitate or hang back, fearful of losing their
own position, or of yielding 10 an old polti-
cal opponent, there is but one course left,
and that is general rally of all patriotic citi-
zens upon the platform of the Democratic par
| ty. There is no mistaking the tone of the
Democracy in this crisis. 1t unhesitatingly
accepts the issue rendered 10 it by the adver.
saries OF the Federal Constitution, aud pro-
claims its high purpose 10 sink or swim, sur.
vive or perish, with The American Union.-
Refusing 10 make terms with traitors of any
shade, il has not only without regret but with
undissembed Joy, seen then them desert its
ranks for those OF an unprincipled coalition.
Purified aud relieved from their baeful iuhu-
ences, and enabled to act unfeliered in lis
high duty, it invites 10 its standard every pa
triolic Pennsylvania. 1t has no conceal
cealment of its principles, or secrecy in its
organization, but shielded, helmed and weap-
oned with the truth, it advances against the
combined anaticisms. 1t accepts the whole
responsibility of opposing those who oppose
the Constitution. 1t fully'enters into the con-
test against the Abolitonists and their allies.
In such a cause, even defeat would be hon.
orabls, but victory is certain TO crown ounef-
forts j onty those who are conscious that soe are
right, sciH act up TO their honest convictions.
We are no alarmists. 1t is not our purpose
10 exaggerae the dangerous tendencies OF
the political action OF our opponents. You
can see for yourselves not alone the obliter-
lion Of great party, but the bold and fragrant
declarations oflhose who have taken its place.
There is indeed no alternative left us but op-
position, as there is manilesily no party left
to make that opposition but tie Democratic
party.
The inconcevable evils of dissolution of
our beloved Union, do not deter The arrogant
factions which now make headway against
! the rights of the States. The guilt is not
greater on The part oil such fanatics as Carl
son and Phillips, than on that of the dema.
gogues here and elsewhere, who support
Them They are all working TO the same
end, some oil them with The consciousness
| and others lhoughtless OF reckless-of the
misery their success would entail upon the
counlry.
| But how is ii with you, people of Pennsyl-
vania? Are you willing to yield in the man.
dates Of these menl Has the Union lost lis
sacred and ineslimable value in POUR eyes 2
Are you ready 10 regard your counlrymen OF
the South as so many alien enemies? We
disdain appealing to your Interests, We in-
woke your patriotism; we appeal 10 the glo.
rious memories of the past and to the unpar-
allied blessings ever present; and we point
| tu.e, not merely 10 the overthrown Wing or
ganization, uor TO the fanaticisms sprinsine
from lis ruins aud coalescing in our midst,
but to the alarm and dismay that have spread
over the South like funeral pail, in view OF
the aggressive purposes of Northern Aboli-
tionisis.
And mark the miserable delusions with
which Abolilionism tries to abuse the patri-
o,ic sentiment of the North. Ii affects indg-
nation because the Missouri restriction, uev-
er approved, and for thirly-6ve years disre-
garded by the Abolilionsls, and sptupon and
reviled by them with every epithel of scorn
aud indignation. has been repealed II de-
uounces the Nebraska act which declares
alt being the true intent aud meaning oil this
40, NOT 10 egisa'e slavery into any State of
Territory, nor 10 exclude ii thereirom, but to
leave the people thereof perfectly Tree 10
form and regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only 10 The Consll'
tuition of The Uniled States" These fanatics
refuse, therefore, 10 allow the people TO regu-
late their domestic institutions yet as early
as October 1774, these United Colonies as
sembled in Congress, solemnly, Resolved,
"Tbat the foundation of English liberty, and
of ALL free government is a right in the people
10 participate in their legislative Council,
n that the colonisls are entitled TO
the free and exclusive power of Legislation in
their several provincial Legislatures, where
their right ofrepresentation can alone be pre-
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