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

Inai0n--put there ran p6 ilttle difncutty IN
determining their character and value, and
assigning the party which holds them its true
position before The public. Especially will
it be work of ease, 10 explode its pre- tension
10 The sound opinions as held by former Re-
publican Presidents, and TO bring it within
the condemnation which they directed against
the heretical movements of the times 10
which they lived
The resistance made about 1920, TO the ad.
mission OF Missouri into the UnioG, was SIM
liar 10 the recent conduct of ihsse who mis-
describe themselves as Republicans. In both
cases the proposition was, that Congress
should prohibit slavery in territories Cor cause
il 10 be prohibiied) priorto their admission
as States. The argument against This was
eta,od by Nfutisuu, m me walsh letters, un.
der all the high sanctions which his abilities
and his position as the leading author of the
Constitution, could confer upon il. And il is
as well established as aEy historical fact can
be, that Mr.. Jefferson was opposed 10 The
Missouri egitation throughout, and TO prohi-
billions of slavery by Congressional coercion
as then proposed. His celebrated letter TO
John Holmes, dated 92d April, 1920, furnish.
es conclusive proof of this, and confirmation
OF the fact will be found in other paris of his
published correspondence. In his letter 10
John Adams Of December 10, 1909, he says,
that, "from the battle of Bunker Hill 10 the
treaty Of Paris, we never had so ominous
question il even damps the Joy with which
hear of your high health and welcomes to
me the want of it. thank God, shall not
live 10 witness It's ISSUE" 10 letter 10 the
same, April 22d, 1921, he says--"What does
the Holy Alliance in and out Of Congress in
tend 10 do with us on the Missouri question
And this, by the way, is but The name of the
case tits only tie John Doe or Richard Roe
Of the ejeciment. The real question, as seen
in the States afflicted with this unfortunate
population, are our slaves TO be presented
with freedom and a dagger" He says 10 Mr.
Monroe, March Cd, 1920" The Missouri
Question is the most portentious one which
ever yet threatened our Union. In the gloom.
lest moment of the Revolutionary war, never
had any apprehension equal to iha, which
felt from this source" To Mr.. Short, April
10, 1S20--he Although / had laid
down as law 10 myself never 10 write, talk, or
even think of politics 10 know nothing of
public affairs; and had therefore ceased to
read newspapers; yet the Missouri question
aroused aud filled me with alarm. The old
schism ofFederal aud Republican threatened
nothing, hscause il existed in every State,
and united them together by the fra,ernism
of party. But The coincidence Of a marked
principle, moral and political, wilha geo.
graphical line, once conceived, feared would
never more be oblilerated from the mind !;
that it would be recurring on every occasion,
and receiving irri,ations, until Il would kin
die such mutual and mortal hatred as TO rem.
der separation preferable to eternal discord."
He says 10 Joseph C. CsbelI, January 81, '2I
-"How many of your youths, she (Harvard
College, how has learning tie lessons Of Anti
Missouri.ism, know not but gentleman
lately from Princeton told me he cav list
ofs'udents at that place, and that more than
half were Virginians. These w;n return home
no doubt deeply impressed soih the sacred prin.
eples of the Holy alliance Of Restrieiionists p"
And to Gen. Breckenridge he writes, Febru-
ary IL, 1921. "The line of division lately
marked out between different portions OF our
coufederacy is such as will not soon, fear,
be Deliberately aud We are now Trusting 10
those soho are against us in position and
principle, 10 fashion 10 their own form the
minds and affections of youth. II, as has
been estimated, we send three hundred lhou-
sand dollars year 10 the northern semina.
ries for the instruction of our own SONS, then
we must have FIVE hundred of our sons imbr.
bing opinions ndpr,neples in discord Nth those
Of their own country. This canker is eating
on the vilals of our existence, and, if not ar.
rested al once, will be beyond remedy.n In
a letter 10 Madison, in reference 10 The Mis-.
souri, question, be declared that Rufus King,
"a distinguished fede,aist) was "ready 10 risk
The Uinon for eng chance Of restoring his party
to 'popsr, and srigghng himselfto the head Q,
| It," On another occasion, he declared The
question to be mere party trick" that the
! leaders of federalism defeated in their schemes
of obtaining power have changed
their fact and thrown out another barrel 10 the
whales They are taking advantage Of the
virtuous feeling Of the people 10 affect di-
vision of parties by geographical line, ex.
pectiug that this will assure them, upon local
principles, the majority they could never OBJ
tain on principles of federalism" And, f.
nally, his letter TO Gen. La Fayetie, dated
November 4, 1892, contains his judgment Of
the whole movement, expressed In his usua.
directness and vigor. He says THE Hart
ford Convention, the victory of Orleans, and
the peace of Ghent, pros,rated the name Of
federalism. Its yotaries abandoned il Through
shame and modification, AND NOW CALL
THEMSELVES REPUBLICANS. But The name alone
is changed, the principles are The same. = y =
On The eclipse of federalism with us, though
not its extinction, its leaders got up the Mis-
souri question, under the false front of les
sening the measure of slavery, bit Nth the real
uie,o of producing geographical diuision q
parties tch,eh nagM ensure them the nert P,esi.
dent. The people of the north went blind
fold into the snare, followed their leaders for