The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-01-23

TO them their properly, character and hves, |
but 10 form a confederation for themselves, /
apart and distinct from iniermedling fana:- |
les and their political abettors Thus stands |
,hescause and condition of disunion. Now
for the remedy.
Some there be who recommend coercion, |
blood letting by force of arms; but this Is
downright quackery, unsupported by either
law, reason or usage, and which, ii put in
practice could not fail to increase the dis
ease and render il forever ncnrabie. The
Constitution gives no authority for coercion
is a monstrous assumption, which if at
tempted would not only prove futile, but
potent in defeating the end and object of
its application. It is easy TO say, The
Union must ahd shall be preserved" but il
ii means preserved by force of arms then
any one maypperceive the thing 10 be
wholly impraclcabie. Neither President
Jackson, nor.anv President, including the
present incumbent, could force seeding
State, or StatesI into The Union against their
will. I'happen'to 'to know something of Gen.
Jackson s'motive with his proueness to use
the sword, besides the idea OF preserving
the Union, when he threatened 10 let slip
the dogs OF war Oh John c Gathouu's null
LITIGATION OF this threat, aud how il would
have been resisted at that day, even in
Pennsylvania, it would now be ;inexpedi-
ent TO speak. The true citizen is one who
regards all the peope of the Uhiied States,
whether OF the North, South, East or West,
AS one national family and entitled 10
brotherly respect There is, moreover, in
the American heart a generous sympathy
for the oppressed, as we'll as a magnanfrni-
" that would scorn 10 trample on or take
advantage of The weak. Therefore, wheth-
er the seeding State was Massachusetts or
South Carolina, the officers and men of the
army and navy, could not (many would no)
have the hearI TO slaughter their fellow cit.
izens and brothers. The militia of Penn
sylvania, il ordered out on such a service
against a neighboriHg State, in all likeli-
march, The probability is they would be
followed by mullitudes TO bring them back
before they had crossed the line, or 10 give
them fight on their own dung hill. And
thus civil war would rage at our own doors.
Hthese promises should be verified, there
is not a city, Town, or hamlet would escape
the desolaiing scourge; every spot through
out the country would be made 10 feel the
bloody struggle; brutality would triumph
over treason and humanity, as it did in
"A bnr
There IS but one legitimate remedy for Sc
cession and that is simple justice. The
siaveholding States never asked for more
than lhe' rights and immunities conceded 10
them, in common with the other States, by
the Constitution. All who deny 10 the
South their rights are disunionists Show
me the man who has been guilty of provo
king secession, and get invokes vengeance
on the head OF the, secsssionists, and may |
not say 10 him, without being rreveraut as
Nathan said unto David, ''thou att The
man."
Why will not these violaers of the Con-
stitution first purge themselves of theirini
| qniiies, before they arraign citizens of the
South for offences Of which they themselves
| are trebly guilly-frsi in violating the Con-
situation: second, in provoking others TO
violate it, and thirdly, in bearing false wit
ness against their neighbors9 Why will
not The dominant party in Congress speak
peace TO our outraged nation trembling on
the very brink OF destruction The obsti
macy. pride, or selfishness that wilholds The
| boon asked of them, may be the fearful
! sign that the Almighty is about 10 deal with
us'in wrath, by hardening the hearts of onr
| Legislators, las he didithe heart of Pharaoh
( of old, so that this nation may be over
1 thrown.in red sea of iblood. This appre-
hension is tenfold more terrible than II if-
! teen States should secede peaceably from
The Union. Yet let us not wholly despair
of avering the dire destruction OF our ma
1 ;ionality Let US reflect that the Abolition
! isis with ihe politicians who turned them
10 account, are considerably in The minorit--
Let all conservative citizens rally 10 ffowu
down coercion, which is bnr another name
| for civil war. Let Town meetings be held
/ everywhere 10 this end to show the Abo-
liiionis,s that their days are numbered anC
10 prove 10 our fellow citizens of the S0E.h
that they have by rfar more friends in The
North than they dream of-.riends whc
have sympathized with them on HE inva
sion of their civil rights-on the invasion o
their soil, their homes. and 6resides Ant
will not Virginia and her sister States of iht
South, pause, ere they turn their backs oil
so many true and loyal friends TO them an,
the Constitution. And thus may friendship
broiherly love, and the aspirations naturalI,
invoked by a glorious nationality, save th'
Union II these fail-iEen all is lost!
| Respectfully, your obi servant,
JAMES (,nWEN