The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-08-20


TIE Constitution and Union IN Pennsql.
caeia.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee address you upon subjects of the graz
vest lnoment The life of our beloved
country is in danger. The Nation writhes
under the throes of wide spread civil war
All cur patriotism and our wealth ali
our rhysical powers all of whatever vir-
tue exists in the Republic is invoked, and
should be promptly afforded to save the
National Constitution and the Union of the
States from utter overthrow
Is there Pennsylvania who values
the tito of American citiaen-who reveres
the memory of the men of the Revelation,
who values civil aud religious liberty
who abhors anarchy or despotis NOR,
who claims to possess a manly, patriotic
hesri;, that is not prepared to pledge life,
fortune and sacred honor for bis country,
in this, her hour of greatest need and per-
IL None can withhold such assurances Of
just estimate OF the Importance of pre-
serving the existence of our Repub lean
fhstilnfions. We approach you with the
full ,,onviction, that the hearts of the great
bodJ Of the people of Pennsylvania are
With their country IN this great crisis of
her destiny that all that is needed, to be
satisfied of feasible mode of relief and
extrication, and of the most effective organ
ization to combine all the forces that can
be applied to speedily and efiectually yield
the happy fruits Of returned peace and
property.
To clearly indicate the mode of relief it
would appear to be proper &c first deter
MINIS the cause or causes of our present diff
ficulties. Understanding the causes, it
would seem to be in the order of nature,
that restoration should follow up their re-
moyaI. It is not compatible with the prac-
tical efficiency of an address, such as this,
to engage in any elaborate exposition, or
historical account of the gradual progress
of antecedent causes, that have at last cul
min ated in the dreadful results We now be-
hol,l. We shall, therefore necessarily be
brisf, and best discharge our purpose By
statement Of facts, which you will all rec
ognize as correct. aud by the assertion of
propositions aud conclusions which we
maintain, cannot be successfully controver-
ted The troubles that are now upon us
are those that the fathers of this country
forssaw might arise upon the decay of pa
triotism, and against which they under
took to guard by the Constitution of the
United States. and the establishment there
by Of what was deemed by them-and has
until recently, proved, to be the harmoni-
Gus action Of States and Federal Govern
ueilt-in their refined and just relations to
each other Washington, in his farewell
address, pointed cut these dangers; and,
above all, indicated as the evidence of a
ualing attachment for the Union and as
the precursor of its fall, the creation of
secional parties. It was in view of prob
able efforts IN this direction that he appeal
ed to his countrymen ssio Indignantly
froWn upon the first dawning of every at
tempt to ALLEVIATE any portion of our coun-
trJ from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred
tiei which link together the various parts
Hid the countrymen of Washir gton suffi
eisntly appreciated his patriotic warning,
th, widespread civil war that now afiicts
rs would never have existed but on the
contrary, we should, at this time. under
thsI support which most bountiful Provi-
dsace is extending to us, be In the enjoy
mtnt of degree of prosperity and happl-
neIs I've venture to assert) unequalied in
this history Of nations. Most unfortunate
ly sectional parties have grown up, beget-
ting sectional bitterness and already the
tite of Americcn citizen begins to pale be-
fol'e the invasive progress of such titles as
Ntrtherner and soutberner.
Years ago men in the North, then
very insignificant combination, began to
as,si! our Constitution and our Union
'fllis faction basiDg its opposition upon a
misguided sentimentality II regard to the
selyltude of the negro race in the South
erll States, and allowing that sentimental
ty to swallow up all true feelings of patri
osism; and all duties as citizens, boldly
proolaimed their hostility to the Constitu
tien and the Union, which they rightly
cllIimed recognized and was pledged not to
in 7ade the control ofthe States respective
u over the institutions of domestic slavery.
Dsloyal declarations such as tsbetter no
u mon at all than a Union with slave
hs lders,s became the axiomatic dictu of /
this faction, then and now fin its formida I
bib proporfionsl best known as Abolition
is 5. Without dwelling upon the progress
al ID growth Of this faction, It is too lament- {
ally true and well known that proclaiming
Il roagh its leaders their chief object TO be :
8 he ultimate extinction of slavery It at
Is med 70 such consequence that the people I
Of the sla7eholdine States became alarmed /
u d began to form counter combinations to
r< sist the threatened overthrow Of what
d ey claimed to be rights that were intend
q to be sacredly guarded by the Constisa