The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-08-20
BLooMsBURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa, WEDNEsDA7

that the pledges of the President and Con
gress would be faithfully observed, WOULD
have relaxed their efforts in behalf of theil
usurping government, and, that the Uniol
men of the South, aud the returning sense
OF the inestimahle value of the Union Il
all divisions of population there, 'yoult
complete the restoration of respect anC
obedience to the Constitution and LAYS o
the Federal Government. These hopes
have not been realized, aud the explana
ton of this disappointment, in great de-
gree at least, is found in the evidence af
forded of aterrible fact that the Abolition
lists in the North are determined that the
white population of the South shall he ex-
terminated or held in subjugation, and that
our Government shall be overthrown, and
the Union of these States finally and for
ever broken up. Yes ertean,inoie the
whites ofthe South, or govern them as a
subjugaied people, and oUerfhrou, the
Government and destroy the Union, ii their
purpose. And we ask your candid con-
sideration for moment, until we present
to you Few points, from which YOU will
see that the inference is irresistible that
this is the design of this most disloyal
| band
The Constitution and the Union were
early regarded by the Abolitionists As the
barriers that st ood in the way of negro
emancipation. Hence, such Constitution
| was by them denounced as covenant with
death and an agreement with he'll. So
late as the 18th of June last portion of
1 ha h. 80 ~ ts.
Massachusetts, passed a formal resolution,
viz:
Resolved, That as Abolitonists, devoted
to the great work of overthrowing slnvery,
| we renew and repeat our old pledge, eNo
Union with shareholders" No support to
any Administration or Government that
permits slavery on any portion of its soil
and we value this war only as We believe it
must lead to emancipation by order of the
Federal authorities, or to dissolution of
the Union, which must speedily produce
the same result.
1t Is unnecessary to even specify the
prominent evidences that, from time 10 time
have been afforded that the Abolitlonists
had firmly resolved upon the destru uction
of this Government A few of the m are
found in the unconstitutional, so oalled i,
personal Liberty Bills" of several States;
the repeated declarations of prominent
party leaders, even in the last Presiientia al
campaign, (see the speech delivered by
Frank p Blair, at Franklin Hall in the
City of Philadelphia, on the I'd of Octo-
ber, 1850, one week before the election J
in which he quoting still higher authority,
declared that the object of the Republican
party was ''the ultimate extinction Of sIa-
very" In the asowed determination to
resist the decision of the Supreme court of
the United States, in the Dred Scott case,
and in such declaration as made By Sena-
tor Wade, CA Union where all men are
equal, or no Union at ALL Acting upon
this original purpose, and upon the conyic-
ton that return to Congress of Senator's
and Representatives from the Southern
States would result in their political over
throw, the Abolitionists in the late Con-
gress have pursued policy that has alarm
ed every loyal man in the North, and
forced the conviction that our gallant ar
mics in the field, aud the whole nation
were to be thwarted in their patriotic pur-
poses. The resolution above quoted,
adopted by Congress in July, 1861, i'm
mediately after the Bull Run disaster, it
was sought to re-affirm in the present Con-
gress through resolution offered by Mr.
Holman, of Indiana, in the following
terms:
ResOtcea, That the unfortunate civil
war into which the Government of the
United States has been forced by the trea-
couabIa aftan,ot IS g..
to destroy the Union, should not he pros
ecuted for any other purpose thai the re-
storation of the authority of the Constitu-
ton and welfare of the whole people of the
United States, who are permanently in
volved in the preservation of our present
form of Government, without modification
or change.
This resolution was defeated ty a mo-
ton to lay it upon the table, made by Mr..
Lovej y, by the following vote, yeas 60,
nays 5S. OF those who voted to thus de-
feat the resolution SO were Republicans,
while every Democrat excepting 1ne, and
every Border States representative, whose
vote is recorded, voted in the negstiye.
lnco operation With this most signif-
cant declaration, by the Federal House of
Representatives, We had the Military
emancipation proclamations of Generals
Fremont and Hunter. Along with these
we had the project of DIR. Sumner, in the
Senate, to blot out the State governments
of the rebel States, reduce them to ter
ritorial condition and to govern them as
such. Then followed various elnancipa-
ton schemes, and among them the project
of eonfiscafion Of slaves ,ominlhy, but
really "a bill to emancipate them. We
cannot probably better prove the operation
of such measures upon the Southern mind !.
than TO quote the following extr act from
the reply of twenty-eight repre- sentatives
from the Border Slave States to President
Lincoln, in reference to his appeal to them