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

year FLOR year, and why not for life +?
Once, during the hardest period of our
} revolutionary struggle, when the Britinh
army was devastating the State of Virginia,
some parties in the legislature, moved ty
weak fear and blind cowardice, proposed %
make Patrick Henry temporary DICTATOR
At the sound of these words, a noble mind
ed Virginian sprang to his feet, aud e,r-
Gained, Though am the friend of Patrick
Henry, the day you place your dictalorial
crown upon his brow, that same day m
plant my dagger in his heart !'' This bold
step brought The deluded towards to their
senses; and from that day such words OF de-
lusion and folly have never been repeated
within the boundaries of this Republic un-
til the accession of the present party TO pow
er. Since the foundation OF the Govern
ment, the name of dictator, of military gov
| ernor, or of martial law, has been a sound
( as foreign TO these shores as that nsnrper,
imperator, or tyrant. Never since the stars
shone above our fair fields, were these
names heard until now. Alas my coun-
trymen, what millions OF gloomy miles
have we run back in single year, Over
| what precipices and into what gulfs have
we plunged in single year While lhe
thunders of ungodly rebellion are rattlng
and kissing at one end oil the Union, con-
tumacious disregard OF constitutional and
statute Law is bfeaking up the very foun1a-
tions of our Government at the other In
the whirl of rebellion AT one end, and of
usurpation at the other, the land of our
fathers seems to be going down, and utterly
sinking in an ocean or blood. My God
with what fsarful, bewildering velocity we
fall Never before, think, since the .Ju-
dean herd, suddenly filed with devils, rush
ed down the steep places into the sea of
Gallilee, and were drowned, was there such
another sight 10 behold
Then there is this further british stupid
ity-that the only men in our land who are
honestly and earnestly working 10 preserve
our constitution and laws, are denounced
as disioyal while those who are subYeriing
both, are pronounced loyal In the mad
jumble of human nonsense, loyalty aud
disloyalty have changed places. To ask
thatt the conslitu ton and laws shall be re-
spected, is TO sympathiss tcith rs5sl6on--so
we are told and further subjects every true
patriot to threats of hanging, or being drag
ged off 10 military dungeons, to be subject
eG TO treatment which sends the stoutest
and bravesi men to the grave in a few
monihe
Alas into what swinish gulf are we
( fallen, when such men Sumner and
Wade are called ''patriols )" while those
who love their country, and wonld willingly
die 10 save it. are denounced as "iralcrs p'
o, reason o, shame where have you hid
den yourselves, when these loud praying
foes OF the constitution; who have for
quarter OF a centuary denounced our nations
flag as ''flsunting lie" and polluted
rag" are allowed to elevate their treason
into patriotism, and.to glorifJ their ulaIig
nant hatred Of the constitution into a blow
for the Union Shall | be told that sym
pahize with the accursed folly and crime
sill in cowardly silence, aud see the party
IN power trampIing the constitution under
loot, and pulling down the whols temple
of our liberty aud laws over our heads
Who are they that ran up and down, his
sing and snesring and praying about dis
loyalty Why the infamous indorsers of
the treasonous "HelPer book" which de.
clares -
That "henceforth we will have no union
with Shareholders p
of tua .uaddad - ooa v,,,1ozo
from which no earthly power can ever die
worse as. We are determined to abolish !
slavery at all hazards.u
That ''against Shareholders as a body we |
wage an exterminating war;
That shareholders must enancipate their
or tive will emancipate them for
you.n
That SIT is solemn duty to abolish sla-
very in the South, or die in the attempt''
That "the present is time to try the strength
Of arms-now is the time TO strike"
That 1--WE are not only in favor of keep
ing slavery out OF the territories, but, carry,
ing our opposition 10 The institution Il step
urther, we here unhesilsiingly declare our
'elf in favor of its immediate and uncoudi-
IionaI abolition in every State in this con-
Iederacy where it now eyistsu
"That, sin this extraordinary crisis of
affairs, no man can be true patriot with
out becomming an abolit:onisi. A Free soil
or is only tad pole in an advanced state OF
transformation an abolitionists is the full
Ind perfectly y-deveIoped frog" II
lhis book was called the "lmpending
cricis, meaning the comming doom OF
he South. 1t was the textbook OF the Lin
:oin campaign. Sixty-three Republican
members of Congress subscribed hundred ,
ioiiars piece 20 circulate gratuitonsly
Is'sldrsd thotssand copies of the work. Be-
ides these congressional assa ssins Of con-
iitusiopal rights and the Union, the leading