The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-09-23


Their long erished business Of agitation is
therefore gone--gone forever. Wherein, then
is The fitness Of Mr.. Wilmo,'s infammatory
address about Slavery to the exclusion oi
every other topic. Having no power over
The subject, il cannot be Of vital praclIcsl i'm
pohance In Pennsylvania, unless, indeed,
Mr. Wilmot in his feverish sensidveness, has
allowed himself to conclude that some dough.
laced Democrat, in obedience TO the Slave
powers, is about TO propose to re.esiablish
the institution in this State. Unit, this be
done the question cannot be go practical a.
he alleges. But is /, not singular that Mr..
Wilmot should seek 10 ssitate the public
mind in behalf Of measuses which have
been declared unconstitutional and 10 which
decision he agrees! Whist can be accom-
pIished by such efforts! Though he could
convince msiori,y Of the people that the
measure would work practical good to the
country, the constitution, until changed, IS
an ,nsurmoun,able barrier TO their adoption.
Would it not be wiser TO accept the philoso.
ply of the trite saying; that "it is useless 10
cry over split milk" When the election is
over he will need the benefit of some such
reflection, for think his chances are better
10 become the successor of Judge Bullock,
than of Gov. Pollock
do not mean to say thst the candidate for
Governor may not properly alude TO Slavery;
but MIR. Wilmot insists that measures which
have been declared unconstitutional shall
be recognized issues in the Gubernatorial
contest and continues 10 discuss these
measures as though they could be made
available 10 the country, and insists that the
people should take one side or the other
He says slavery is the only question involv-
ed, and has so far declined 10 speak on
State questions at all.
He says that Virginia has the same right
10 interfere with our public schools, that
Pennsylvania has with Slavery in Virginia;
and that is true; but did it not occur TO his
mind, ut the same time, that it would be a
most singular, if not ludicrous spectacle, to
witness a candidate for Governor in Vir.
ginia, resting his claims 10 popular favor
solely on his views about public schools in
Pennsylvania, and confding his discussions
TO that topic alone? Why the people of the
Old Dominion would get straight jacket
for any man who might attempt 10 play
such trick before high heaven. And what
would Pennsylvanians think of such impu-
dent interference? They would most cer-
soiniy in'isU tiIo virginia asplran, ~ rake
care of his slaves and leave the public
schools to them. Mr.. Wilmot would be
sure TO do this, and yet he talked for hours
about Virginia negroes, and said not one
word about Pennsylvania schools; so deter
mined does he seem to rest his claims OH
questions belonging 10 other States and over
which his has no control. Perhaps his
friends can explain all this, but think l
can safely assure them of one thing, if he
does not get more votes in States where his
address would be appropriate, than in his
own, he will be badly beaten. He will be
almost convinced that he has not only been
speaking for other States, but running for
Governor some where else than at home.
Mr.. Wilmot's prompt recognition of the
binding effect of the Dred Scott decision
has certainly surprised and disappointed
eornc of he fana.:--sA s.sierynfo. Dut r1iey
should notice that he dare not raise his voice
against the Constitution, when asking 10 be
permitted 10 take an oath to support it.
That he has yielded reluctantly, and with
exceeding bad grace, is evident from the
low terms in which he impugns the motives
of the Court. He says cit is easy enough
for the Executive to find corrupt Judges TO
carry out corrupt designs" This is coarse,
exceedingly coarse, scarcely alowable in a
common place politician, and utterly inad-
missible in candidate for Governor. Very
many who intend to vote for the author of
the base allegation, will despise his foul as
persions. Even they will not agree that it
is becoming in David Wimot to warn the
country against the corruplions of James
Buchanan and Roger B. Taney. But in his
anger at courts, he has gone out of his way
still further TO make an onslaught upon the
Integrity Ot Iile SupIeHlc Nouft Vi HIS oWi
State, and broadly alleges that its decisions
are often contradictory, and it is common
talk among the bar, that decision must be
revived every five years to have binding
effect. The courts should take warning, for
failing to be Governor, as this gentleman
certainly will, he may still retain the Office
of Judlcial Censorian
Fearing TO repudIate the decision of the
Supreme Court in express terms, many of
MIR. Wilmot's school of politicians are indus.
triously engaged in efforts to destroy the con-
fidencs of the people in its integrity. As a
means of doing this, they are in the habit OF
expatiating on the extraordinary circum instance
that the ordinsnce of 1887 should have been
declared unconstitutional al the end of sixty
years after its adoption, and the Missouri
Compromise SO declared after having stood
for nearly forty years. They certainly know
that the Ordinance of 1897 did no, derive its
authority from The present Conslitutiou--tha,
il was the work of the Congress of the old
Consideration, and was agteed TO BY the
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