The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-04-16
The Renublican Party.

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Some six or eight years ago the frag-
meGis of the broken factions OF The old Whig
party. the remnant OF the know Nofhing|
parry, togerLer with a number OF renegade
and dsafected Democrats, were gathered
up and cemenled together by such political
doctors as VIM. H. Seward, Horace Greeley
and others and organized into a grea, Nor
thern Sectional Organization called the Re-
publican party. The organization was bas-
ed upon one solitary idea, that OF hostility
towards the Southern Sla'es and their iusti
tutious, and 'he whole stock in trade OF the
orators aud press of the party from hat day
TO lhis, has been violent abuse Of the South.
ern people, with defiant sneers at The rights
which they claimed under the Constitution
of common county This haired on The
part of large party in the North against
the South, was met by an equal hatred on
the pau OF large party IN the South against
the Norlh, and in the language OF The i'm
mortal Henry Clay '' Uaion on de side begat
Onion OF The other and the collision ofopinion
was qviokly joiloaced Jy fhe clash Of arms"
The Democratic party in the meantime
threw itself into the breach, and by It's con.
servatiyism, its love for the Uuion and rev.
erence for the Constitution, attempted to
stem the tide OF sectional agitation which
they foresaw and predicted would result in
the disruption OF the States and overthrow
OF the Constitution, bu. they were simply
laughed at by he leaders OF the Republican
parry and stematzed as Union Savers, =
and 'Doughfaces" and had other ap2ro-
brious epilheis applied 10 them The Re-
publican Uarty succeeded in carrying ma
jority of The Northern people with them
during the last presidential canvass, By APP
pealing TO their worst passions, and exci-
ting their prejadices to a degree that knew
no bounds. And when it became known
that Northern President and a Northern
Vice President had been elected by pure
ly Northern and sectional party, and that
in consequence and lear of which, the
Southern people were agita:ed and excited
10 a point bordering on revolution, the lead
ers of this party manifested careless in-
difference that was truly astounding 20
every genuine patriot in the land
And when Congress assembled shortly
afterwards, and when several Southern
States had already passed ordinances OF Sc
cessiou, and when men OF ali olher parties
expressed willingness 10 give up their
previous opinions, aud unite on some per
manent basis of settlement for the sake oil
the peace OF the Nation, and when the cou-
servalive men OF every section, under The
leadership of the patriotic Crittenden, the
lamenied Douglas and others, were making
herculean efforts TO save the Ship of State
from the impending ruin, and when appeal
after appeal was made TO the Republican
members of Congress by Southern Union
men, to yield lille aid to them in resist
ing the iide of secession in their own States
leaders of this same party were heard TO
exclaim "perish a hundred Unions rather
than abate one iola of The Chicago plat
form"
All this time the Republican leaders pre-.
tended 10 treat the whole affair with mock
leviiy, and affected 10 believe that there was
no real danger threatening the Union, and
all this dread apprehension in the minds of
the people was only the silly surmsing of
weakmnded Democrats aud credulous
"Union Savers" Mr. Seward announced
at the Asfor House, in New York, that
everything would be right in sixty or ninety
days, and Mr.. Lincoln in the silly speech
es which he made on the route from his
home 10 the Capital OF the Nation, gravely
told US 'thai there was nothing going wrong
and there was nobody hurt"
Then when MIR. Lincoln had been inau-
gurated President, and all efforts at con-
promise had failed, and after the South
Carolina rebels had attacked Fort Sumter,
President Lincoln issued his proclamation
for troops 10 sustain the Government and