The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-02-03
The the So-calIsd Union Men !.


To hear AboIiiionists boast Of their Union.
ism is like nymph of the pave prating of
virtue, thing so long lost as 10 be nearly
forgotten. For years the Abolition leaders
sought power to disrupt the, UGion, and now
IN the hour of their supposed triumph they
claim to be Union men. They are for a
Union that will lop of all the States where
their doctrines are viewed with that horror
which the fears OF servie insurrection sx-
ciies-nc; the Union as il was bui an Abo-
lition Union, governed, as Mr.. Burlngame
said, 'by an anti-slavery constitution, an
anti-slavery bible, and an anti slavery God"
A Union, like that bequeaihed US by our
fathers, composed of slave and free States,
they oppose, and to show their abhorrence
oi the people of The South managing their
own affairs in their own way, they have
wrecked The old Union, and now seek to
reduce The slave States TO mers provinces
dependent on the General Government,
while New England and other Abolition
States remain lords of The ascendant, Civ
ing laws and Governors TO the States thus
undef the pan OF FederaiIsm.
Talk to one OF these men about the Tn.
ion, and never did man boast of more
love- Ask them if they would be- willing
TO see the war stopped aud the old Union
restored with slavery as before the war
commenced, and they will stuttsr and STAN
mer and do their bestto evade the question.
Press them for an answer, and il will come
10 a negative. Indeed The New York Til
buEe, more honest than It's fellows, has
made open boast that it was not in favor OF
reconstruction OF the old Union with sla-
very in it-for the negro il would sink the
Union and break up the Republic The
leaders are not for the Union as our fathers
framed it, but are ''uncondltional" Union
men, if they can have everything as they
wish, but not otherwise.
And yet these Abolition leaders, with
their cant and affected love Tor the country,
have duped many honest men into the be
lief that they are sincere, when their whole
political life is living witness OF their deep
hypocrisy and want of truth. The old Un>
ion never suited them, and they never suit
ed the old Union. II was loo broad and
expansive for their narrow souls, and they
were too selfish and too sectional for it's ex.
panded domain and diversified interests
When attacked by foreign foe these Abo-
iitio1 leaders never fought for the Union
when laws, demanded by the Constitution,
were 10 be passed they opposed, and when
passed these same men formed unlawful
combinations to resist their execution. Al
though Ihe.iathers of these men, previous
10 the year 1908, when The slave trade was
abolished supplied The South with "hu-
man chausls" from the coast OF Africa, yet
their sons spent much of the money thus
acquired in stealing and running off on the
underground railroad the offspring of The
very slaves stolen from Africa by their
fathers.
How can men who act thus be Union
menl The thing is mpossibe. They prate
of their Unionism, il is true, and The arch
fend, il is said, can quote Scripture when
it suits his purpose. If sincere, hey would
seek to right the wrongs they have Inflicted
on the country would repeal all their un-
laws, rescind all their militia
ry orders that conflict with the. Con sttstion,
and annul all the silly and mischisvous
which President Lincoln, by
the advice and consent of his Aboli ton al
visers, has issued, and which, acting as
frebrands, have The tendency to further
excite the people and proloug the war.