The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-08
BLooMsBURG. CoLUMBIA COUNTY 8,
Strike at the Heart of Secession.

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II cannot be long before the most threat
ening of our dangers will give way to The
overwhelming force enlisted on the side of
the law. Turbulent and violent as many
of the local gatherings of traitors are, even
on our very borders, we can still regard
them merely with pain, and not with fear
We can and will crush them if they persist
IN numbering the supporters of the law and
the flag of the United States. We can
sweep the whole length of the dark line
that separates The peaceful and law abiding
from the States given over 10 terrors and
dangers. They have brought ruin on them
selves, and we will not suffer ourselves TO
be destroyed because they choose to har-
Dor traitors, and 10 permit those rho choose
10 become such 10 riot at will in the blood
of the loyal and honorable Ii will not do
TO make Virginia dangerous as a residence
fora Pennsylvania, simply because he quiz
city aGheres TO Union. If nothing but mill
itary force will teach Virginia 10 respect the
rights Of citizens of other States, we will
send military force there which shall Eum-
ber as many thousand as they can gather
hundreds, and which shall reassert the su-
premacy of the law in every corner as well
as every city of that State.
We are abun1aEly taught by the events
of every day that force alone can now settle
this great trouble, and that force alone could
ever have settled it. The depth of guilty
preparation for destroying the nation was
beyond all conception. The fangs of the
great treason had fastened on everything
within their reach up to the very limit of
Mason and Dixon's line. Men had become
6ends, had pre- epared themselves for deeds
OF blood from which barbarism might shrink
with horror, had gathered their secret con.
claves under The shadow OF the Capitol at
Washington, as we'll as at the armory of
Harper's Ferry. All this preparation has
for months, if not years, been going on un-
der the lead OF traitors in the Cabinet, trai-
tors in the army and traitors in the civil
service. 1t is, as we now see it almost a
miracle that we were not destroyed before
we could be reused by the actual presence
of open assault We have at least been
reused, and there will now be recoi which
will have salutary terrors and decisive re-
suits
Let the government hurry forward troops
TO strike at the heart oil the great rebellion
strike al the ports aud cities of the coast
strike at Richmond, and hold the Chese
peake from head 10 mouth There. .need be
no concern for the northern border. This
we will keep in order with our reserves
Send the strong regiments forward to the
ultimate points of decisive action without
an hours delay. blow as terrible as the
nations vengeance can make il should fall
on Charleston instantly. Let that city be
TO the law. There are a hundred thousand
men burning 10 avenge the infamies and
insoence we have endured al that nursing
place of treason. The organ of the fends
who have destroyed the government, so far
as they have power, asks, in tone remark
ably moderated, whether we will have war.
We answer that they will have war-;erri.
bic war-annihilaiing war-uness they
atone for the outrages of so many months
and years. There will be few 10 call for
mercy to even the misguided, and none to
appeal in behalfo Of those who have rioted
in arms a,yains; US there for the past four
months. We will see if The tens of thou
sands who support the righ. cannot compel
obedience from the scattered handfuls of
desperadoes with which the southern towns
abound NORTH AmeIicon