The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1863-10-07

on ihegai grounds, and rush into the dislo y
al ring For 'sJeff7so disloyalty, he shouls
have been met by the whole force of ths
constitution and law ;neither the president
nor Congress, nor any other power, had {
J right 10 go beyond that. If the challenge
was an act of disloyalty, is moi the accept
ing CT it, on field of violated law, also ar
act of disIoyalty 2 Has Abraham Lincoln
and Congress any more right to violate the
law. in Furnishing rebellion, than jeff Davis
has 10 violate the law in starting rebellion
Broken law is broken law, whatever party
may be guilty of disioyalty. But we are
told that 'sthe constitution is suspended.n@
Who suspended it Who had a right tc
suspend il? To suspend the constitution
OF our conntry by force of arms is, itself, an
act of treason, ustupation aud rebeikon--is a
felon's deed, and deserves felon's DOOM
II the constitution is suspended, what are
Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet, and that
negro-spoutiHg Congrsss doing there In
Washington If the constitution is sus.
pended, they have no more business there
than any other equal number Of crazy men
aud vagabonds. If the constitution is sus.
pended, all their acts are without the autho.
ity OF law, and are no more binding upon
the people, than the edicts of political
caucus. ii the constitution is suspended.
the tax bill is farce, and the people will
be under no legal obligation TO respect it
O, ye wretched dolts keep on telling the
people that the constitution is suspended,
and low long, think he, it may be before
they will take into their heads TO suspeneud
you and your tax-gashers If the conslilu-
ton is suspended, the United States has
ceased 10 have any existence. and the State
Governments would then be the only legal
authorizes in this land. Suspend the con-
sii'u,ion, and. in an instant, the aforesaid
fishmonger and his second cousin the clam.
crier, will become the equals of Abraham
Lincoln in authority-wiih This single acci-
dental difference, that the one may Rave an
army al his back, and the other not. But
there is this about il il the constitution is
suspended, the army has no legal existence
and it would be under no more obligation
10 Mr.. Lincoln, than it would be TO follow
The fortunes of the traitor JEFF Davis. Such
is the juni6le Of absurdity and nonsense we
gel into by prOclaiming he constitution
suspended.
No: rather let as declare at once that
any man who dares to suspend the consti-
tuition, must himself be suspended, and that
directly, unless be give up his disIoyal busi-
ness. II we are men, let us show the
courage of men, and speak out. If there is
yet left drop of patriot blood in our veins,
let our soals stand bravely up, in our own
defiant bones and muscles, and proclaim il
aloud, right in The face and eyes both of re.
bellion and usurpation, that the coRstitu.
ton is not suspended, and never shall be,
while we've hand to strike in lis defense
1t cannot be suspended, except by the
same authority of the States which created
il. Mr. Lincoln has no more right 10 vio-
late one of lis least provisions, than the
hostler in the stable of the White House
has. He has taken solemn oath 10 sup
port the constitution, each aud every part
oft; and any effort on his part to violate
one Of its sacred provisions would only
make him criminal while that immortal
instrument would still stand, "the supreme
law OF the land, y or the whole legal being
of the Republic would tumble
This is the ground we stand upon The
constitution, the whole constitution, and all
the laws resting upon its firm foundation,
must be supported, defended, aud obeyed- |
obeyed, not in the South only, but in the |
North also; not by the people of one Sec
ton, but of every section not only by JEFF !
Davis, but by Abraham Lincoln, and by all |
the furious imbeciIes of Congress, who have
been working to overthrow our government.
To support the constitution and the laws is
The :rue loyalty. To violate these, is the
real disloyaity If the constitution -defying
and law-desPising party in power is not
disloydl, then the word has no nearing
And TO say that those who are pleading for
he constitution and laws are not the true
oyal people, is TO be fool, and moi 10
know our own language.
Lincoln does not blush 10 own that he has
violated the constitution, and done deeds
without the warrant of law; and the party
n power puts in the plea for him that the
constitution and laws of our county are
defective, and unequal TO the crisis There
ore Mr. Lincoln sets up his win, as above
he constitution and laws he has sworn to
hey. In one word, he virtually proclaimsI
himself dictator and, seeing that bis entire
'arty press justiies his nsurpation, be has
ately, we are told by his organs, assumed
'ersonal direction of the departments OF i
he army and navy, az il ambitions to play,
s nearly as possible, the role of the old
Hspe,ators of Rome, who, by precisely the
anne steps, destroyed the Repablic, and I
stablished the Empire upon It's ruins The
Erants in old Rome said it was necessary |
, assume extraordinary powers, bel
ause the laws were incompeiept; and the
eluded peoIs permitted this impudent as