The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-08-05

ina,ion-but there can be little difficulty in
determining their character and value, and
assigning the party which holds them its true
position teforo The public. Especially will
it be awork of ease, TO explode it's pre- tension
10 the sound opinions us held by former Re-
publican Presidents, and 10 bring il within
tho con ndemnation which they directed against
the herelical movements of the times in
which they lived.
Tho resistance made about 1920, TO the adj.
mission Of Missouri into the Union, was sim
liar TO the recent conduct Of ,hcse who mis-.
describe lhemselve ms Republicans. In both
cases the proposition was, that Congress
should prohibit slavery in territories (ot cause
il to be prohib,ed) prior to their admission
as Statss. The argumen, aguine, this was
! stated by Madison, in the Walsh letters, un.
dor all tho high sanctions which his abilities
and his position MS tho leading author Of the
Constitution, could confer upon IT, And il is
as we'll established us aEy historical fact cen
DO, that MIR. Jefferson was opposed 10 the
Missouri Rgi,alion throughout, and TO prohi-
billions OF slavery by Congressional coercion
us then proposed. His celebrated letter to
John Holmes, dated 92d April, 1920, furnish.
es conclusive proof Of this, and confirmation
OF The TACT will DO found in other parts of his
published correspondence. In his letter TO
John Adams of December 10, 1909, he says,
that, "irom the battle of Bunker Hill 10 the
treaty Of Paris, we never had so ominous IA
question; il even damps the Joy with which
hear OF your high health and welcomes to
me tho want Of it. thank God, | shall not
live TO witness lis issue" In u letter 10 the
same, April 22d, 1924, he suys-"Whal does
the Holy Alliance in and out of Congress in
tend TO do with us on the Missouri question
And this, by the way, is but the name OF tho
case il is only The John Doe or Richard Roe
Of the ejeclmcnl. The real question, as seen
in the States afflicted with this unfortunate
population, is, are our slaves to be presenled
with i:eedom and dagger" He says TO Mr.
Monroe, March ID, 1920" The Missouri
Question is the most portenlious one which
ever yet threatened our Union. In the gloom
lest moment OF the Revolutionary war, never
had any apprehension equal to that which
felt from this source" To Mr.. Short, April
10, lS20--he Although | had laid
down as law to myself never TO write, talk, or
even think of polilics 10 know nothing Of
public affairs; and had therefore ceased 10
read newspapers; ye, the Missouri question
aroused aud filed me with alarm. The old
schism Of Federal and Republican threatened
nothing, because il existed in every State,
and united them together by the lraternism
of party. But the coincidence of marked
principle, moral and political, with a geo.
graphical line, once conceived, feared would
never more be oblileraled from the mind :;
that it would be recurring on every occasion,
and receiving irrilations, until i would kim
die such mutual and mortal haired as TO rem
der separation preferable TO eternal discord."
He Gays 10 Joseph c. CsbelI, January 81, '2l
-"How many OF your youths, she Harvard
College, how has learning the lessons Of Anti
Missomi'ism, know not but gentleman
lately from Princeton told mo he saw list
Of students al that place, and that more than
hall were Vlrginans. These wiA return home
no doubt deeply impressed uith the sacred prin-
c,ples of the Holy ARianee Of Rcstrietionists ~
And TO Gen. Breckenridge he writes, Fsbru.
ary II, 1921. "The line OF division lately
marked out between different portions OF our
coufederaoy is such as will not soon, fear,
be oblierated; and we are now trusting 10
those who are against us in position and
principle, TO fashion 10 their own form the
minds and affections of youth. II, as has
been esilmat ed, we send three hundred thou
sand dollars year 10 The northern semina-
res for The instruction of our own sons, then
we must have five hundred OF our sons imb..
bing opinions and principles in diseord rith those
Of their otrn country. This canker is eating
, on the vilals of our existence, and, if no, az.
rested al once, will be beyond remedy" In
letter to Madison, in reference 10 the Mis-
souri, question, be declared that Rufus King,
"a distinguished fedeiaIisl) was '''eldy 10 r,sk
the Unton for eng ekanee If restoring bis party
10 porer, 0nd p'iggIing himsetto the a<ad Of
it," On another occasion, he declared the
question 10 be mere party trick that the
leaders of federalism defeated 10 their schemes
of obtaining power, have changed
their fact and thrown out another barrel 10 the
whale. They are taking advantage Of The
viruous feeling of the people 10 affect di.
vision OF parties BY geographical line, ex-
pec,ug that this will assure them, upon local
principles, the majority they could never o.
tain Oh principles o. federalism And, f.
nally, his letter 10 Gen. L. Fayeue, dated
November. 1, 1882, contains his judgment OF
the whole movement, expressed 10 his usua.
directuess and visor. He says;-'The Hart
ford Convention, The victory OF 0hsans, and
the peace of Ghent prostra,ed the rams OF
federalism. Its vo,aries abandoned il through
shame and morn6calion, AND Now CALL
THEMSELVES REPrPuCANs. B,a lag Rlrts aloTes
is ehangsi, the principles ere sas SsUs.
On the eclipse OF federalism with Us, though
n>, - sxIi,.,;,, is taalsrS sot nm thss Atfs-