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

D but by different and inconsistent reasons
: The leaders, which comprehends what
D was previously known as the States Rights
| party, and is much the lesser class, seek
/ to break down national independence and
f set up State domination. With them il
$ is war ag inst nationality. The other
class is fighting, as it supposes, to maintain
and preserve its rights of property and
domestic safety, which it has been made to
believe are assailed by this Government
, This latter class are not disunionists per Sc !;
they are SO only because they have been
made to believe that this administration
Is in:mical to their rights, and is making
war on their domestic institutions. As
long as these two classes act together, they
will never assent to a peace. The policy,
then, to be persued is obvious. The former
class will never be reconciled, but the lat
ter may be. Remove their apprehensions.
Satisfy them that no harm is intended to
them and their institutions; that this Gov
ernment is not making war on their rights
of property, but is simply defending its
legitimate authority and they will gladly
return to their allegiance as soon as the
pressure of military dominion imposed by
the Confederate authority is removed from
them.
"Twelve months ago both Houses of
Congress, adopting the spirit of your mess
age, then but recently sent In, declared
with singular unanimty the objects of the
war, and the country instantly bounded to
your side to assist you in carrying it on.
If the spirit of that resolution had been
adhered to we are confident that we should
before now have seen the end of this de-
plorable conflict. But what have we seenI
In both Houses Of Congress we have heard
doctrines subyersive of the principles of
the Constitution, and seen measure after
measure founded In substance on those
doctrines proposed and carried through,
which can have no other effect than to dis
tract and divide loyal men and exasperate
and drive still further from US and their
duty the people of rebellious States. MEL
itary officers, following these bad exam
pies, have stepped beyond the just limits
of their authority liz the same direction,
until in several instances you have felt the
necessity of interfering to arrest them
And even the passage of the resolution to
which you refer has been ostentatiously
proclaimed as the triumph of principle
which the people of the Southern States
regard as ruinous to them. The effect of
these measures was foretold, anu may now
be seen in the indurated state of Southern
feeling.
''To these causes, Mr. President, and
net to our omission to vote for the resolu-
ton recommended by you, We solemnly
believe we are to attribute the terrible
IF 4hoca -, fha
Government and the continuance of the
war. Nor do We (permit Us to say, Mr..
President, with all respect for you) agree
that the institution of slavery is 'the lever
of their power" but we are of the opinion
that "lever of their power is the appre-
hension that the powers of common goy-
ernment, created for common and equal
protection to the interests of all, will be
welded against the institution of the
Southern States.
= "Signed by,
4 G. a. WIcKLIFFE. Chairman.
Garrett Davis, Chas. B. Calvert,
K. Wilson, G. L. l.. Leary,
j J. Crittenden, Edwin H. Webster,
Jno. S. Garlic, d. Mallory,
j. w. Crisfeld, Aaron Harding,
j. S. jackson, James ). Rollins,
Fl. Grider, J. w. Menzies,
john S. Phelps, T'hoaas l.. Price,
Francis Thomas, G. w. Dunlap,
VIM. A. Hail.
la further prosecution of the emancipa
ton project of the Abolitionists We have
the proposition to arm and enlist the ne
groes as soldiers. Indeed, we are inform
ed, from official sources, that one General
in the army has already organized u full
regiment of negroes. We forbear to dis
cuss the question, whether such soldiers (O
are not a burlesque upon the name, and
whether clothing and arming negroes as
such, beside the waste of clothes, arms, and
other supplies, is not exposing US to defeat
in battle, from the clearly established fact,
that the negro is utterly disqualified by
nature to stand the musketry and artillery
fre-not to speak of the bayonet charge
OF modern warfare. The subject has in
tinitely greater proportions when regarded
in its effec. to discourage enlistments by
our own race; resulting from the commen-
dable repugnance of the white man to be
placed upon an equality of military rank
with the negro.
But not the least Objectionable consider
alton is the fact. that this inferior race
having their minds and passions infamed
by the tales of real or imaginary wrongs
which Abolitionism is too careful to impart
to them, will, with arms in their hands,
perpetrate the atrocities of ''the indiscrim-
mate slaughter of all ages, sexes, and
condition" "-barbaritie in warfare-of
which our ancestors complained against
Great Britain, who had employed against
them the ''merciless Indian sayagss. =
The history of the negro wars and in
surrections in st. Domingo, and other
West India Islands, is replete with the
barbarities of rapine and slaughter of