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

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Nor was our own State beEind her sise
States in asserting this right; for by the thife
article of the declaration of rights, made il
July. 1776, it was declared ''lhat the people
of this State have the sole, erelusiue and anhe
rent right of governing and regulating the m.
ternal po licy OF the same;" and when the
Deputies of the people of Pennsylvania as.
sembled in full Provincial Conference to
suppress all authority OF the King of Greal
Britain and for establishing q government
upon the authority of The people only, they
declared their willingness 10 concur in a vote
declaring the United Colonies free and indie.
pendent States, Provided, the forming the
government and the regulating The inter.
nal policy of this Colony be.al,uays reserved
10 the people ofthe Colony
And yet, against this self.evident and inn
mutable principles of American liberty and
of all free governments, men have the auda-
city 10 array themselves under tie name OF
Republicans maintaining, too, that their fel-
must act Otherwise than of their own free
choice, and that Congress should compel
them 10 select between dictated submission
aud threatened punishment
But, fellow citizens, even while induging
in these expressions, this party is sscarcely at
tempting 10 conceal the fearful uhimatum of
disunion which it is now seeking to parlici-
pate by means of an exclusive sectional Nor
,hem orsanizaion-the first organization Of
the kind ever known in this republic, and the
success of which is certain 10 end in the
perpetual alienation of The South from the
North.
And by political agitation, what good can
they even pretend 10 accomplish? What
man, in the free States of this Union, would
be benefited by The success OF The Aboli-
tidnsts? Not one; nor could they give free
dom 10 single slave they would but more
firmly riyel The fetters. AS early as 1928, the
late Rev. William L. Claiming, of Boston,
sad: "My fear in regard 10 our efforts
against slavery is, that we shall make the
case worse by rousiag sectional pride and pas
sion for its support, and that zoe shall only
break The country INTO two great parties, which
mag shake the foundation Of gouernmeat.
So late as 1850, Mr.. Webster said in the
| Senate:
"Then, Sir, there are the Abolition Socie-
ties, of nhich am unwilling 10 speak, but
in regard 10 which have very clear notions
and opinions. | do not thilk them useful.
think their operations for the last twenty
years have produced nothing good or vaua-
BILE.
81 do not mean 10 impule gross motives
even TO the leaders of these Societies, bat |
am moi blind 10 the consequence of their pro-
ceedings. cannot but see what mischief
their interference with The South has produ
ced. And is it not plain 10 every man
y They attempted 10 arouse,
and did arouse, very strong feeling; in 9TH
er words, they created great agitation in the
North against Southern slavery Well, what
was The result? The bonds OF the slaves
were bound more firmly than before; their
rivets were more strongly fastened,
"Public opinion, which IN Virginia had
begun TO be exhibited against slavery, and
was opening out for the discussion Of the
question, drew back and shut itself up in its
castle. y Il We all know The
fact, and we all know the cause; and every
thing that these asltating people have done,
has been, not 10 enlarge, but TO restrain no,
to set free, bu! 10 bind faster The slave popu-
lation of the South"
The whole effort OF these agitators seems
TO be TO make sectional issue in every Con-
gressional district of the ,hiry-one States OF
the Union, and turn TO the halls of Congress
into an arena in which the delegates from
the North may denounce the domestic insti-
tutions of The South
Not only does all reason forbid US to dis
counenance sectional parties, but we have
the solemnly recorded opinion of Jefferson,
who on ibis very question said;
" But this momentous question, like fire.
bell in the night, awakened and filled me
with terror. considered il al once as the
knell of the Union. II is hushed, indeed, fol
the moment. But this is reprieve only, mol
final sentence. A geographical line coin
Gliding with marked principle, moral and
political, once conceived and held up TO the
angry passions of men, will never be obliIer'
ated, and every new irritation will mark i
deeper and deeper"
Let the true Wings who have not ceased
to treasure up the counsels oftheir great states
men, now apply TO the memorable warning
of HENRY CLAY;
"The Abolitonlsis, let me suppose, sue
ceed in the present aim of uniting the IN
habilarts OF the free States as one man a
gainst tho inhabitants of the slave States, uni
on on the one side will beget union on the
Other And this process Of reciprocal con
soldation will. be atended with all the vic
lieut. prejudces, embittered passions and I'm
plaeable animosiiies which ever DEGRADED
or deformed human nature. One sectior
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