The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-01-22
NUMBER 3.
Shall tho Government be Broken Up.

Shall the Government be Broken Up.
In The present perilous condition OF our
couniry--at the moment when great strug-
gle is impending on The Potomac, which
all loyal citizens pray may crush out rebel.
lion and restore the Union il is lameniable
that The attention Of The Administration and
of the public should be diverted from
he one grand effou OF the nation at sef-pres.
ervation
For this reason, says the Albany frgus,
patriotic and prudent citizens are panied 10
see an announcement, in The New York pa
pers, by VIM C. Bryant, Judge Edmonds,
VIM Goodeil, VIM. Curtis Noyes Rev. DIR.
Cieever, Theodore Tilion, and others, of
the preparation OF petition TO the President
and Congress, asking for proclamation of
general Negro emancipaiion-no merely of
slaves held by rebels, buI also of those
owned By men whose fidelity TO The Union
is not questioned. OF course, :his is re-
quest 10 The President and Congress to
usurp power, overthrow The Constitution.
break up the government as now consfitt-
ted, and take the chance of establishing a
new political orgauizalion on its ruins
Neither the President nor Congress have
the slightest power 10 abolish slavery in the
Slates-no more than they have TO usufp
all other internal aud domestic authority re-
served 10 the States. II The work of usur-
patton or revolution is TO be commenced,
IN the way and to the extent asked for by
/ these petitioners, there can be no limit 10
lis progress, and the Constitution and the
| Union will be virtually abolished
II is refreshing 10 find, 10 connection
with this subject, the following staiemenf
IN the Washington dispatches OF one OF the
New York papers:
A radical Republican Member of Con.
eress had private interview with The
/ Presden, recently, in which the latter
avowed his affixed determination to oppose
any measure of general emancipation, or
for arming conhscaIed slaves OF rebels
# the President will sci his face like a
flint against these revoln'inory measures
and plant himself firmly on The Constitution
he may rely on The support, in every danger
and under every extremity, of the true
friends of the country, against fansticism
and treason in every form. Thus may we
hope for The SUPPRESSION OF the rebellion and
the maintenance of the Constitution and the
restoration of the Union But if the Presi-
dent faliers, all is Iost-ihe Constitution Is
gone the Union is dissolved into its original
elements-and we shall be left 10 the
chances of such reconsiructionof the poIitl-
cal fabric as may be found possible.
/ The Journal Of Commerce, after publishing
The petition alluded 10 in me above article,
remarks that the American people will not
sign this petition. Some thoughlless men
may. But those who respect aud revere the
Constitution, who rem ember the virtues OF
their fathers. and .he bonds which their blood
OF cemenied, who feel the solemnity of a
war for the Union, and look 10 the glorious
future, when The Constitution shall emerge
from lis trials with more than ancient splea-
dor, will shrink with horror from endorsing
the propositions of anarchy, which these
mistaken and misguided men have fool
ishly sanctioned with their names La.
zsrHe Unica.