The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-02-20

emancipation, and that The fourth OF March
woulS have Witnessed in various quarters
outbreaks which, although they would have
been promptly suppressed, would have
carried ruin and devastation 10 many a
Southern home, and have cos, the lives Of
hundreds OF the misguided victims of North
ern negrophilism. Senators from six States
have now severed the links that bound
! them TO a Union TO which We were all al
tached, as we'll by many ties of material
well being as by the inheritance of COM
mon glores in The past, and well founded
hopes of still more brilliant destinies in The
! future. Twelve seats are now vacant on
this floor The work is only yet begun
II requires no spirit of prophecy TO point 10
many, many chairs around us that will
soon like, ours, be untitled and if the
| weird sisters OF the great dramatic poet
could be conjured up, they would presen, to
the affrighted vision of those on the other
side OF the chamber, who have so largely
contributed 10 the deep dsmnation of this
taking off, glass 10 show them many more
They WHO have SO foully murdered the
! Constitution and the Union will find, when
too late, that, like the Scottish Thane, that
For Baupuo's issue they have filled their
| minds,
Have placed upon their heads frultless
crown,
And put barren scepier N their grippe
No son of theirs succeeding.
Ia taking leave of the Senate, while we
shall carry with Us many agreeable recoI-
lections of intercourse, social and official,
with gentlemen who have differed from US
on this, the great question of the age, we
would that we could, in fitting language
express the mingled feelings of admiration
AMI regret with which we look back to oul
associations on the floor with many OF oul
Northern colleagues. They have, one af
ter the other, fallen in their heroic struggle
against blind fanaticism, until now bu
few remain to fight the batIle of the Consii
tuition. Several, even of these, will termi
nate their official career in one short month
and will give place 10 men holding opin
inus diametrically opposite, which have
recomm en- ded them to the suffrages OF thei
States. Had we remained here, the same
fate would have awaited at the next elsc
ton, the four or FIVE last survivors of tha
gallant band. But now we should carry
with Us al least this consoling reflection
our deparure-realzing all their predic
tions of i'll TO the repubic-opens a new
era of triumph for the democratic party o
the North, and will, we firmly believe. re
establish its lost ascendaucy in most of the
free States.
SENATOR BESJAMrN's FAREWELL TO THE CON
sTITUTIoEAL MEN OF THE NORTH.
Senator Benjamin concluded his eloquen
farewell TO the Senate on MoIdy week, il
the following language, addressed 10 III,
patriotic men of the North who have stood
by the Constitution and maintain the right
OF all the States -
"But to you. noble and generous friends
who, horn beneath other skies, posses
hearts that beat in sympathy with ours; I,
, you who, solicited and asssied by motive
the mos: powerful that could appeal 10 sci
fish natures, have nobly spurned them all
TO you who in our behalf have barred YOU
breasts to the fierce beatngs of the storm
and made willing sacrifices of life's mo:
gliltering prizes in your devotion to cor
stitutional liberty; toyou who have made ou
cause your cause, and from many of whor
! feel that now part forever, what shall J.
can say! Nought,l know AID feel ,is needle
for myself. But this will say for the pee
pie in whose name speak TO day. Wheth
er prosperous or adverse fortunes ava
you, one priceless treasure is yours, tt,
assurance that an entire people honor yor
Names and hold them in grateful and affet
tionaie memory But with still sweets
and more touching return shall your unse
! fish devotion be rewarded, when, in aft,
, days, the story of the present shall b
written, when history shall have passed ht
stern sentence on The erring men who hav
driven unofending brethren from the she
: ter Of their common home, your names wi
: derive fresh lustre from the contrast, an
when your children shall hear oft repeate
the familiar tale, ii will be with glowin
cheek and kindling eye. Their very shou
8 will stand tip toe as their sires are name
u and they will glow OF their lineage fro
d men of spirits as generous, and in pairic
g ism as high hearted, as ever illustrated
d adorned the American Senate.
't A wretched editor, who hasn't any wi
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