The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-12-10

citizens. throughout the country, who do not
participate with Them in their assaults upon
the Constitution, framed and adopted by our
fathers, and claiming, for the privileges II
has secured, and the blessings il bas con-
fered, The steady support and grateful rever-
ence oftheir children. They seek an object
which they we'll know 10 be q revolutionary
one.
They are perfectly aware that the change
in the relative condition Of the white and
black races in The slaveholding States,
which they would promote, is beyond
their lawful authority; thss 10 them it is a
foreign object; that il cannot be effected by
any peaceful ins,ru mentality Of theirs, iha,
for them, and the Sts,es Of which they are
citizens, the only path to lie accomplishment
ls through burning cities, and ravaged fields,
and slaughtered populations, and all there is
most terrible in foreign, complicated with
civil and servils war; and that the first step
in the attempt is the forcible disruption of
country embracing in It's broad bosom de-
gree Of liberty, and an amour, of individual
and public prosperity, 10 which there is no
psrallsl in history, and substituting in its
place hostile governments, driven OF once
aud inevitably into mutual devastation and
fra,rlcidsl carnage, lransforming the now
peaceful and selcilous brotherhood into a
vast permanent camp of armed men like the
rival monsrchies Of Europe and Asia. Well
knowing tha, such, and such only, are the
means and the con sequences Of their plans
and purposes, they endeavor TO prepare the
people of the United States for civil war BY
doing everything in their power TO deprive
tho Constitution and the laws Of moral au
thoriiy, and 10 undermine the fabric of the
Union BY sppesls 10 passions and sectional
prejudice, by indoctr:ns,ing lis people with
reciprocal hatred, and by educating them 10
stand face 10 face a. enemies, rather than
shoulder TO shoulder az friends.
I, is by the agency Of such unwauantable
interference, foreign and domestic, that the
minds Of many, Otherwise good citizens,
have been SO inhamed into The passionate
condemnation Of the domestic institutions of
ihs Southern Sta,es, as ct length to pass in-
seusibly TO almost equally passionate hostil.
ity towards their fellow ciiiEens Of those
States aud titus 6nslIy 10 fell into Temporary
fellowship with The avowed and active enc.
mice Of The Constitution. ArdensIy attached
10 libeny in the abstract, they do not siop TO
consider prsc,icsIiy how the objects they
would attain can be accomplished nor to
reflect that, even if the evil wers ~ great rs
they deem it, they have no remedy 10 spply,
and that il csn be only asgtnvated by their
violence and unconstitutional action. A
question, which is one Of the most difficult
Of oil other problems Of social institution, po.
lticsI economy and s,sissun anship, they treat
with unreasoniug intempersnce OF thought
! aud language. Extremes beget extremes.
Violent attack from the North finds its inevi-
table consequence in the growth Of q spirit
OF angry defiance al The South. Thus in the
progress of events we had reacLsd that con.
summation, which The voice Of the people
has now so pointsdly :ebuked, of the s.iempt
Of portion Of the States, by a sectional or.
ganizstion and movement to nsurp the con.
troll of the government, Of the Uui,ed States.
confidently believe that the grea. body
Of those who inconsiderately took this
fatal step are sincerely attached 10 the
Constitution and the Union. They would,
upon consideration, shrink with unaffected
horror from any conscious act of disunion or
civil war. But they have entered into a
path which leads nowhere. unless it be to
civil war and disunion, and which has no
other possible outlet They have proceeded
thus for in that direction in consequences of
the successive stages of progress having con-
sisted Of series of secondary issues, each of
which proiessed TO be confined within con-
sliluiional and pesceInl limiis, bui which al
tempted indirectly what few men were vii.
ling 10 do directly, that is, TO act aggressive.
" against the constitutional rights of nearly
one-half on the ,hir,y-one States,
Il the long series oil acts Of indirect ag-
eression, the first we the strenuous agi.a.
lion, by citizens of Northern States, in Con-
gress and out. of il, OF the question Of negro
/
The second step IN tnis path OF evif con-
sisted of acts Of the Northern States, and in
several instances OF their governments, aim
ed 10 facilitate the escape of persons held 10
service in the Southern States, and 10 pre-
vent their exiradihon when reclaimed &C.
| cording TO law and in virtue Of express pfovi.
sions Of the Constitution. To promote this
object, legislative enactments and other mean,
were adopted to take away or defeat rights
which the Constitution solemnIy guaranteed
| In order TO nuIlify the then existing ac, O
Congress concerning the exiradiion Of fugi
tives from service. laws were enacted in
many States, forbidding their, officers, unde
The severesi penalties, TO participate 10 The
execution of any &c. of Congress whatever.
In this way that system of harmonious co
| operation between The authorities Of the Uri
led States, and OF the several States, for the
maintenance of their common institutions
| which existed In The earlier years Of the Re
public, was dsslroyed; conflicts of iurisdic
ton came TO be .iIeqpent; and Congress
found itself ccmpelled, for the support Of the
consdlnliou, and lhe sindioa,ion of lie pow
er, to authorize the appointment Of new Off.
Gers charged with the execution Of Its acts
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