The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-07-30
The Treason Of the abolitIonists


The Treason Of the ibolitlOnists.
We have frequently called the attention
of our readers TO the reasonable conduc, OF
the abolitionsts, and have given extract
after extract from their speeches and edito
rials, 10 prove that they have ignored all
allegiance to the Constitution, and express
ed the hope that The Union may be dissolved
The grea! end and aim OF these conspirators
| against the Government, have been 10 in
yoive The nation in civil war, and by tha:
means bring about dissolution of the Union
OF the slave and non-slaveholdlng States
Wendell Phillips boldly proclaimed tha.
TO have been his object, in speech, in
Washington city, which was published and
endorsed by all the Republican papers
The New York Tribune, edited by Greeley,
and the Anglo- African, edited by negro,
in New York, are the principle papers from
which the political articles in The Republican
of this place are taken. Both of these pa
pers have advocated dismemberment OF
the Union, both are disloyal and treasona-
bic sheets, and as such, their editors should
be arrested, tried, convicted and executed
for high treason. The white negro with the
black.
Previous to the breaking out OF the civil
war, no paper in the United States gave the
secessionists of the South as much aid and
comfort as the n. Y. Tribune The editor of
that vile sheet, advocated the doctrine of Sc.
cession in his paper, and declared that the
people of The Gull or Cotton States, had
perfect right to secede from the Union and
declared himself unalterably opposed to
Union which had to be pinned together by
bayonets. We lay before our readers some
extracts from his paper, which will fully
establish everything we have said on this
subject:
CFrom the Tribune of November 8, 1860 ]
If The Cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can do better out of the Union
than in it. tce insist on letting them go in peace
The right 10 secede may be revolutionary
one but 1t exists nevertheless.
We must ever resist The right of any State
TO remain iu the Union and nullify or defy
the laws thereof. To withdraw from the
Union is quite another matter and when>
ever a considerable section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve TO go out, re shall
resist al coelciUe measures Designed 10 Keep IL
in. We hope never TO 1--we in republic
whereof one section is pinned 10 another
by bayonets.
From The Tribune of Noutmber 26 1861
If the Cotton States unitedly and earnest
ly wish 10 Withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should aud would be
allowed 10 do so. Any attempt TO compel
by force 10 remain would be contrary 10 the
principles enunciaied in the immortal Dec
laralion of Independence, contrary TO the
fundamental ideas on which human liberty
is based.
From the Tribune Of December IL, 1860
If it y<he Declaration of indie pendence)
justified the secession from the British en-
pire of three millions of colonisis in 1776,
we do not see why it would not justify the
secession of five millions OF Sontberners
| from The Union in 1861.
From the Tribune of February %, 1861
! We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist, that the great principle embod-
| led by Jefferson in The Declaration oI
American Independence, that governments
| derive their just powers from the consent o
| the governed, Is souEu anu Just anu mat
if the slave States, or the Gulf States only
choose 10 form an Independent nation they
have a clear moral right to DO SO. <
Whenever ii shall be clear tha. the grea
body OF the Southern people have become
conclusively alienated from the Union, and
anxious TO escape from it, We will do onr
| best 10 forward their views.
Greeley is one of DR.. Johns loyal men =
His patron and his guide. These are the
vile traitors who call Democrats disloyal
and abuse the Generals who command oul
armies because they refuse 10 liberale the
negro in opposition TO the organic law oi
the land.