The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-01-02


nomination for the Presidency-square up
on the Chicago platform" Thurlow Weed
alone holds out the olive branch 10 the South
The other journals are in favor of maintain
ing the irrepressible conflict TO the bitter
end, most of them denouncng Mr.. Buch-
anan because he does not commence civil
war at once, and promising that as soon as
Lincoln is inangurated President of The eigh
teen free States, he and his Wide Awakes
will devastate the fifteen slave States with
FIRE and sword.
Such is the aspect or the Norh.T If we
turn TO the South, what do we find South
! Carolina out OF the Union, with Florida,
Alabama and Mississippi to follow her with
in three weeks, Georgia and Louisiana, and
probably Texas, before the expiration of
| January. In all of these States sovereignty
conventions have been called and it is ex-
pected that similar conventions will be
called Immediately in Arkansas and North
| Carolina In the latter the Legislature is in
session, and has ordered the arming of the
State, which will undoubtedly go, sooner Ur
later, with The Cotton States. The Legisla
lures of Tennessee and Virginia meet in
| special session on January 7, when it is
! probable they too will call conventions. II
is stated that even in Maryland the Legisla.
ture wilr;meet and call convention, in op-
position 10 the will OF the Governor, as has
| been done in Texas. The arming of the
| whole South, the demonstrations of Joy in
| ell thn oF
| Tie secession of South Carolina, and all
other signs of the times, plainly show that
before the 4th of March the whole fifteen
Southern States will be banded together i'll
revolution.
Thus the Union, the ';ship of State"
which has been steered safely through logs
and darkness and various danger for up
wards of three score years and ten-which
has hitherto weathered every storm-is
now being driven swiftly before wind and
tide to the rocks and shoals of civil war
and it is of no avail that the foaming break
ers ahead are pointed out 10 the officers
and crew 10 whom has been entrusted the
management of the noble vessel with her
| precious freight of historic glory, present
prosperity and power, and all The glowing
hopes of future years. Every man seems
drunk or mad, and shipwreck appears in
evitable. Reason and mode ration are ban
| ished from both sections. The organs OF
! opinion North and South are equally violent.
! There is 40 disposition 10 compromise on
| either SIDE. BY the elevation of an absrac-
/ - A.. olsa yit tho
reckless politicians have precipitaied The
| United States into the most evolutionary
| condition ever Witnessed in any country in
| the world, and from present appearances
there is every probability that We shall soon
be in the same predicamsnt as the people
OF Mexico.
But what is so strange in the present con-
flict is that it has been commenced, and
will be carried on, in spite OF the wishes of
the vast majority of the people. Three
millions and half of those who voted al
the Presidential election voted for Union
and peace. Dot of four millions aud three
quarters of sufrages, less than a million,
probably not more than seven or eight hun
dred thousand, were cast with the intention
of voting for abolition ; and yet by this
small fraction OF the people is the whole
country TO be committed 10 a deadly strug-
gle.
The lime is rapidly passIng-neary half
the period between the election and the in
auguration has already elapsed without any
step being taken 10 arrest the progress ot
revolution. Congress will do nothing--the
parry leaders, North or South, will DO moth.
ing 1t is high time for the people them
J selves 10 act and take the matter into theil
own hands before il is too late, before the
bloody strife actually begins, and place:
the peaceful settlement of the quarrel be
yond their control Unless the people i'm
: mediaiely meet in every city and town, and
; appoint vigilance committees and commit
; tees OF public safety, and insist upon peace
) and harmony between the two sections
there will be war-the end of which j
would be folly to predict. The politician
} and portion OF the people on both sidet
I are committed to hostiIities. There is ONLY
one man in The country, who, with the ait
I of the conservative millions, who abho
war, can now save the country from il
q horrors, and that man is Mr.. Lincoln, III,
! President elect, who has been elected 70
! four years from the 4th of March, and will
lave the control of the patronage and b,
COMMANDMENT Chief of the Army and Ma
Wy. Let him go back 10 first principIes-gt
T back TO the compromises of the cons;itu
d tion-and firmly plant his foot where Wash
q ington, the first President, stood when th
Union was established, under which 70
: more than seventy years we have enioye'
. domestic peace and an amount OF prosperi