The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-11-30
A sad Picture OF the Northern United States
Popular Liberty Gone-fhe war Grow
Ing More and More EnVenOmod.
New York Cor. London Times I

bIiiy of the institutions on which popular
liberty seemed TO repose, and found them
insufficient Tor the day OF peril. The lon-
ger The war lasts The more envenomed il
grows. N rh and South are not free Re-
puhlics fighting against each other tor
principle oi honor-but hostile des2olisms,
ignoring the rights of the peope-the one
striving TO exist, the other 10 dominate
Liberty and war are found 10 be as incom-
patbIe on one side as on the other. The
law of might is The only law recognized.
Mems passions are Infiamed TO the fever
point, and madness takes the place of rea-
son. Thieves and swinders in high places
grow fat upon the plunder OF the army and
the people. Commerce in the Federal
North is demor allzei, and, having made
up It's mind for high prices, shudders al the
prospects OF peace and reconciliation. re-
mole and shadowy as they are, and curses
the victories, real ol supposed, which the
Government and generals in the field an
nounce. because they bring down the prie-
MUM on gold, reduce prices, aud, if con-
tinueG much longer, will ruin thousands OF
spectators, large and small, and produce
financial collapse, perhaps national bank
rupIcy; even though they might not in the
long run be found stable and productive
enough TO produce the pacfication of the
! country. Party feeling Is venomous, and,
as the day OF election tor the President
draws near, brings into play the worst char.
aclerIslics o. human nature, and should the
contest prove close, threatens 10 introduce
a new element OF revolutionary convulsiou
into The seethng caidron OF popular pas
5ion The existing Administration is al its
wits end 10 calch The wavering favor of the
mnltiude-iies BY itself, or It's agents, on
every event Of peace and war tina: II can
twist or exaggerate into reason, or sem.
bance of reason tor the Perpetuaiion of ills
power. The working classes are sullen and
discontented, scowl al the idea OF forced
conscripiion, always threatened but never
attempted in any populons community, and
camor for an amount OF wages in depreci-
aied paper which will represent the pur-
chasing power of the wages in hard money
they received before Iheir. .shands, or those
OF their sons, were imbrued IN the blood of
their Southren brothers, and up TO this time
camor, and are likely 10 clamor, in vain.
States as large as European kingdoms are
governed under martial law by attorneys
and mule drivers, who seem 10 think that
the more horrible the airociIies they com-
NIT on their political opponents the greater
service they will render to the Government
/ that employs them. And over and above
these sources OF evil 5roods the dark, in
! iquilous conviction that il the North cannot
: conquer the South, sor The South the North,
aud that the Union cannot be restored by
civil war, foreign war against France or
England, unprovoked although il may bs
by either OF those Powers, may afford the
last desperate chance OF preserving what
these proud Americans call 1.-The life of the
nation ;" a nation, however, that has never
! YET existed, and which, if The civilized
world was wise, and awake TO lis own ia
terest aud security, it wod!d never suffer TO
exist, if The formal recognition OF the South
as an independent powertwere sufficient 10
prevent, or even 10 retard the consu NINA
ton. II the Union be- indeed, moribund-
which The Northern Americans passionaiely
| and continuously dehy-it dies hard. The
strong man disbeieves in his own dissolu-
( tioL. All things are mortal but himself.
! Rome and Greece may be dead. England
may have approached her last Lour, but
| The Union is in It's vigorous and rampant
youth, and neither iusidious disease nor
sudden calamity shall strike il down He
feels that no external hand has aimed
( blow al her vitality and cannot believe that
in his rude and lusty frame there exists
poison that he can neither eradicate nor
| neutralize, and that the same physical laws
which apply to olher living beings apply
also TO him. HeAcurses his doctors, repu-
/ diates. their remidies, and even in the last
/ agony thinks vigorous maturity and a
| green old age are before him.