The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-01-29
The AbOlitiOnists Preparing to abandon !
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niicant:
"Some OF our'public men do moi hesi ate
to say, that rather than bring back the Sc
ceded slave States into the Union they We uld
agree 10 peaceful and prompt separai ion.
They contend that in the event of renr ion
The slave despotism will rule By its ur ity,
and with the aid of the Breckinridge De no.
Gratis of the free States, and by mean of
the divisions of The Republicans, the d ,sii-
nes of the future of oar country will be
completely controlled by traitors TO the Sed-
eral Constitution. Although no open d am
oDslration in favor of this theory has yet
been made, it is undoubtedly sincerely en-
tertained in certain influential quarters
The public men who do not hesitats 10
/ prefer separation to the restoration of the
Union as il was with the rights aud ins litu-
iions of the several States unimpaired, do
moi belong 10 the Democratic party. We
believe that this is not alleged. They are
TO be found am ong the bilierest haters of
Constitutional Democracy-among the lass
ofmen who have professed an uncou pro.
missing devotion 10 The Union, ever since
the fall OF Sumter, and displayed their alri-
otism by suspeciing and denouncine The
majority of Northern Democrats as traitors
TO their country
When the antecedents OF the extreme an
tislavery men are considered. their sue den
conversion 10 ardent Unionism is some what
suspicious. Their fidelity 10 the Cen. iitu-
ton and the Union was not conspicuou be-
] fore the commencement of the war On
the contrary, they were unwilling 10 make
the slightest concessions for the sake of the
Union. Perish hundred Unions iriher
than abate one iota of our principles" was
the emphatic language of newspaper that
above all others was and is their mt nth
piece The New York Tribune of No, em
Der 20, 1861, said 80 any attempt to CO npel
them [lhe Cotton Siates1 by force to re main
would be contrary to the principles en- inci-
aied in the immortal Declaration o! nde
pendence, contrary 10 the fundamental IDEAS
on which human liberty is based.1 When
This opinion was uttered, The Tribuue and
its followers supposed the issue 10 be be-
tween The Union perpelualed by coupro
mise and separation, and they openly pre-
ierred separation. But the moment The
war was inauguraied, these men th1ught
they saw another way open for the a. tain
ment of The same purpose they had in view
when they advocated separation-and that
way was 10 use the war as a pretexl for
the total and final destruction of the in siilu-
lions OF the Southern States, and The AT nihi-
ID oC 81, -
of their apparent zeal-this and The iripos
sibiiiy of any longer advocating dis lnion
with safety Experience has convinced
Ehem that they miscaculated. The people
have proved more conservative and more
attached 10 the Constitution than was an
ticipated, and above all, the Presid mt of
the United States, who was calculated upon
as TOOL in the hands of the Abolitionists,
has dashed all their hopes by giving nmis-
taxable evidence of his determination to re
speci and obey The Constitution whi.h he
has sworn 10 protect and defend.
With all these disagreeable facts staring
them IN the face-witb The President irmIy
planted on the Constitu,ion-with ihr, war
conducted for the preservation of the Union
and not Tor the destruction of SLAYER and
with the conviction that success upon this
platform must diminish their influence and
leave them as far from the reaiza ion of
their plans as ever, the radical Republicans
are cooling off amazingly in the des re for
the restoration OF the Union, and are again
longing for permanent separation. Why 2
Is o. Iofs INTO gbo 1,,rb.
unconsciously, when he says subsa ntially
that they fear the formation o. a great Union
party, as the result of a restoration OF the
Union, com posed of Southern Union men,
Northern Democrats and conservative Re-
pubiicans which shall control the do stinies
OF the nation, and hurl these Abolit on ia
na,ics into everlasting oblivion. A nd this
is the heighth aud depth of their love for
! the Union The Uniod with aboIi ionism
as the governing po o%er has great attI actions
| for them-but the Union without this cond-
lion is gall and worm wood. Thty will
/ have none Of it, Separation is prefer ,ble to
them, because in Northern Republic they
| might remain masters
! One word concerning contradiction in
the extract quoted above. We De nocrais
- Breckinrldge Democrats" if you please
have been called Secessioni>ts anil Trai
tors, and everything else aoomnablt Tor no
other reason than that he Democratic party
as a national organization had nee sssariiy
many friends in the Southland his fact
has induced our political enemies II charge
US with settled design to assist III sse lor-
mer friends in severing their CONNECTION
with US Now This charge though Iedited
by some men who ought TO have hs d better
sense, was never very rational, be- ,ause II
is not natural for men under any GIRO umslan'
ces to desire dsconnection from tier po-
Iitical allies. But strangely enough lhe very
class of men who short time ago, saw in
every g Breckinrdge Democrat ank di-