The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-11-06
The Manifesto Of John @ Breckenridge.

The ST. Louis Republican saws that this
gentleman has published a Manifesto 10
the People OF Kentucky. 1t is dated al Bow
iIng Green, and he says il is written al the
first moment since his expulsion from home
that he could place his ieel on The soil of
Kentucky. In II he resigns his seat as a
member OF the Senate OF the United States.
saying 81 exchange, with proud satisfaction
Term oI six years in the u. s. Senate, tor
tue muSket of a soldier." The address
would fil two columns OF our paper, and is
made up of sophisms and misrepresenta-
lions. He says there is no longer Senate
OF he UDIied States within the spirit OF the
Conslitulion-Hlhe Uni'ed States no longer
exisis-ihe Union is dissolved" But he
takes care TO conceal from the people whom
he Is addressing and whose confidence he
has betrayed, that while yet Vice presi.
dent aud presiding over the del iberaiions OF
the sena:e, he and a band OF Senators reck
lessly con<pred, by their speeches and acts
20 break up and destroy the Union, that
this was done long before tie Presidential
election took place, that he conHlved at The
course of the secessonists in the Charleston
Convention, IN preventing nomination OF
president by the Democratic Convention,
aud g'orled in II as being one sure means,
if the DEMOCRACY were defeated, OF dissoIv-
bt9 Tue OUiOu iudt 10 make assurance
dOnoiy sure, he lent himself as a willing
tool of the disunionlsts in their conclave al
Baltimore, and was the Chief instrument
IN bringing about the resut which he hyp-
ocritlcaliy pfetends to deplore. The plot
developed itself so fuly-so scandalonsly
did Re and Southern Senators and Repre-
sentatlves, and broken down politicians pro
Claim their IIiteation 10 break up the Union
that II was no. necessary 10 wait for the
Inauguration oi the new President 10 con-
vince Ihe country OF that fact II President
Lincoln had abaSed himself before them
and promised them even more than they
ever required. .slili they would have insisted
on a separation. There was treason in every
act. and they know it..
They knew that the President would go
before the new Congress utterly powerless !;
that the House of Representatives. was sure
10 be against him; that the senate was still
more decidedly against bin, and that the su.
preme Court was inhexibly honest and just
And yet they persisted in carrying their
iraitorous designs against the Union, and
succeeded. They are the authors OF this
civil war, with all its bighis, all its sicken-
ing details of crime, and all the monstfous
barbari.ies which have been so far exhib-
tied. He has no righ:, therefore TO speak of
the Union being destroyed except in spir
II OF utter selicondemBation. No wonder
that he is now refugee from Kentucky af-
Ter his completely in all the acts OF perfidy
aud crime by which this civil war has been
produced. -
On this point alone the world will con-
denim MAJ. Breckenridge and it is not
worth while TO follow him in other frivolous
ana unIusllflable excuses for a bad act.
Departure Of the Naval Expedition.
FoRTREss MoNRoE- Oct 90, via Baltimore.
The great expedition sailed this morning.
The flagship Wabask took The lead al day
light, nen gun was fired as a signal -
The steamer Cafacba bronshf up the rear.
The vessels, more than Fifty in number,
foFmed IN line few miles down the Rosds
and went out between the Capes in splen-
did style. The steamer Baltic had the ocean
. r,roo6 IN forr -zsf< 1T1<.4s.E-lz sho f1roof