The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-07-03

mlhlsuatlon 10 enforce Inc provisions OF
! this law has caused perfect panic among
the runaway slaves in the free STATES, and
{ they have been escaping in multitudes to
Canada unpursued and unreclairned by
their masters. Is there found in this rea-
son for dissolution of the Union
That the slave States are not recognized
as equal in the Confederacy, has, for sever
al years, been the cry of demagogues and
conspiralors But what is the truth Not
{ only according TO the theory, but the actual
have ever been aud still are, in all respects,
the peers OF the free.
Of the fourteen Presidents who have
seen elected, seven were citizens of the
slave States, and of the seven remaining,
three represented Southern principles, and
received the votes of the Southern people
SO that, in our whole history, but four Presi-
dents have been chosen who can be claim
ed as the special champions Of the policy
and principles of the free States, and even
these so ohly in a modified sense Does
this look as fthe South had ever been &C.
| prived of her equal share of the honors and
powers OF the Government The Supreme
Court has decided that the citizens OF the
Slave States can, al WILL take their slaves
into all the territories of the United States !;
and this decision, which has never been
resisted or interfered with in single case,
is the law of the land, and the whole pow
er OF the Government is pledged TO enforce
it. That it will be loyalty enforced by the
present Administration, | entertain no
doubt. A Republican Congress. at the late
session, organized three new territories and
in the organic law of neither was thefe in
troduced or attempted 10 be introduced, the
slightest restriction Of the Southern emf
grant 10 bring his slaves with him. AT this
! moment, tterefore-and state it without
qualiication-there is not territory be-
longing 10 The United States, banks robbed
of large amounts of money States into which
the Southern people may not introduce their
slaves at pleasure, and enjoy their com
pIeie protection. Kentucky should consid-
er his great and undeniable fact before
which all the froihy rant of demagogues
and disunionists must disappear as a bank
/ of fog before The wind
WHAT WILL kEsTucKY GAIN1
For this catalogue of what Kentucky must
suffer in abandoning her present honor and
secure position. and becoming a member
of the Southern Confederacy, what will be
her indemnity4 Nothing, a5soln tely noih-
ing. The ill-woven ambition of some of
her sons may possibly reach the Presiden
cy of the new Republic, that is ALL Alas,
alas, for.that dream of the Presidency of
the Southern Republic which has disturbed
so many pillows in the South, and perhaps,
some in the West, also, and whose lurid
light like demon Is torch, is leading ma
ton 10 perdition The cIamor that is in
sisting upon the Soulh obeying the laws,
the great principle that all popular govern
ment rests upon the consent of The govern.
ed is violated, should not receive mo-
meni's consideration. Popular government
does, indeed, res; upon the consent of the
governed, but ii is the consent not Of all, but
\ majnJity Of me governed Criminals are
every day punished and made to obey the
laws, certainly against their will, aud no
man sapposes that The principle referred TO
is thereby invaded. A bill passes by Leg
though the constituents of all who voted
against it should be in fact as they are held
TO be in theory, opposed TO its provisions,
I still is not less operative as law. and no
right of self-governnenl is thereby trampled
/ on. The cIamor alluded TO assumes that
the States are separate and independent
governments, and that laws enacted under
the authority OF all may be resisted and re-
| pealed al ihe pleasure OF each. The peo-
pie OF the United States, so FAR as the row.
ers of the General Government are concern
ed, are unit, and laws passed by major.
ily of all are binding upon all The laws
and Constitution, however, which the South
now resists, have been adopted by her
sanction, and the right she now claims is
that of feeble minority TO repeal what a
majority has adopted. Nothing could be
more fallacious. Civil war, under all cir
cumsiances, is terrible calamity; and
vet, from the selfish ambition and wicked
ness of smsn, ,eths best governments have
no: beeu'able TO escape it. Ia regarding
thar which has been forced apon The Gov
ernmsnt of the United States, Kentucky
should not look so much at the means
which may be NECESSARILY employed in It's
prosecution as the IN ach chinaiions by which
! this national tragedy has been brought npa
on Us. When | look upon This bright land.
/ a few months since so prosperous, SO tran
quill, and so free, and now behold it DESC
laied by war, and the firesides of its thirty
millions of people darkened, and their bo-
som wfung " ith anguish, and know, as
do, that all this is the work Of score or Two