The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-12-26
NUMBER 81.

I i' '"S'So" WI ihe present provision that
Congress may admit States into the Union
which alone will induce a certain class of
/ people 10 be anxions 10 elect anti.slayerv
men, IN order that they may keep ou, a
slave Stae-l say, let the Constitution de-
scribe State, fix lis population and other
elements, and provide ior its admission by
Proclamation OF the President UPON the
establishment OF The facts Then, sir. the
! North would be separated from This ones
non the North and The South, on this dis.
! turoIng element, would be entirely free of
| OF each other; while all The other relations
would remain, and this great Government
go on performing its functions We sbouli
retain lis power, It's prowress, ns dignity.
and It's influence in the world. Perbap.
less radical changes may 90. If so, all the
better
The President of the United States, with
| patriotic desire 10 settle this question. has
suggested what he supposed would be suf-
Acient for the exeency. must say, and {
must say II with regret that do net think
his remedies will meet the case. | think
The disease is deeper and wider than ,he
remedy, in the first place. the points pre-.
sented by him embrace the coptroyerted
points over which parties have struggled
for years, The very source over which the
bitter struggle for ascendancy was made in
The late Presidential contest And | can
see no reason TO anticipate their adop,ion
by the dominant party in the North Nor
do think they would reach ihe seat of the
disease if they were adopted for my be-
lief is, this war of elimination and recrimi.
nation IS the seat of this disease; and if
you want permanent peace,you must strike
at the seat Of !he Usage geptace m the North
ern mind.
Honorable Senators yesterday said the
hearts of men must be changed. The hearts
of men ought TO be changed. trust in
Gods name that many of them will be
changed but that is no work for politicians
or Senators. 1t will be idle 10 hope for an
escape in that way. You must separate the
agiialing cause, if you expect those men
who are bitterly anti-slavery to drop the
subject. | am OF those who think they
ought 10 have done SO long ago. No man
has given that feeling less countenance
than myself. have never been in poiti-
cal struggle in my life that The rights of the
Soulh were not leading issue; and never
fallen that did not fall by the weight of
Southern issue.
But, Mr.. President, do not know that
can usefully pursue this subject further.
desire TO say, however, in reference 10 own
State, notwithstanding lis vote for the Re-
publican candidate al the iate election, iha!
il is conservative and Just State; that our
Southern friends can rely with confidence
upon the future action of that State. If
they ask redress in the form in which
have indicated, or any other on which the
people can act separate from other consid-
erations have not doubt that they would
give all the guarantees which any reasona.
bic Southern man would demand
# may be said that, in a minority, as
am, am not warranted thus TO speak, for
should not be regarded as authority; bul,
sir, every man of intelligence in my State
knows that other potent influences than the
mere distinctive principles of the Republi-
can party weighed in the late election
There were a complication of Influences
against US, and among them the most po-
tent, next 10 this slavery agitation, was the
question of the tariff The operatives in
the manufacturing establishments and the
mines away down in the earth had felt and
believed that the policy Of the Democratic
party was prejudicial 10 their interests; and
al the late election, though they were nat
uraly with the Democratic party, they vot-
ed in body against as. doubt not that
that vote was forty thousand in the State
No man is warranted, therefore. in assum-
ing that The State of Pennsylvania will ad-
here TO the distinctive doctrines of the Re-
publican party. do not believe distinc-
tive issue on the "irrepressible conflict"
usually interpreted in that State, would
get ore hundred thousand votes. No war
of aggression is intended by the people of
tina, State She will respond promptly 10
any demand for considerai and for re-
dress made in The proper spirit by her sis
ter States; and doubt not she will avoid
even the appearances of wrong by discatd-
ing certain of her statutes, which, though
in the main dead letter, have been mads
The subject OF complaint
But, Mr. President, sh6hd be glad, in
deed if Senators on the other side-those
who speak for the dominant pary-would
indicate what their present views are.
think, sir, in the imminent peril that sur
rounds US, they ough to do al least this
II is no ordinary occasion. II is not fine
when men may stand upon mere paftizau
victory. What is patty viciofy If the
county is to be torn BY violence, By fiots,
and rnobs, in your commercial cities, on
questions of employment, and bfeadl What
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