The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-10-19

!
this solemn adjuration fresh upon his lips
he sal: :
."I do but quote from one of my speech
es when / declare that Il have no purpose
directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
institution of slavery in the Slater where
| il exists. l believe have DO lawful righl
to do so, and have no inclinatihn to dc
so.'' Those who nominated and elected
me did SO with full knowledgs that Imade
this and similar declarations, aud have
! never recanted them. 1 now reiterate
these sentiments and in doing so, only
press upon the public attention the most
conclusive evidence of which the case is
susceptible, that the property, peace and
security of no section are to be in any
wise end ndangered by the now incoming Adj
ministration. add too, that all the pro-
lection which, consistently with the Con-
stitution and the laws, can be given, will
be cheerfully given to all the States, when
lawfully demanded, for whatever cause
as cheerfully to one section as to another
The repeated public pledges brought
Voluntarily to the standard raised in be-
half of the union, hundreds of thousand $
of as brave men as ever breasted bayo-
net. The armies thus <aised were pre-
cipitated on the South, with varied lor-
tunes of victory aud defeat, and war, civil
war-always the most bloody of Ill hu-
man strifes- has ever since ragged over
some of the fairest portions of that uIhap-
py region.
Bat the long cherished schemes of ia
naticism Tor the extinction of African ser
vltude could not be given up. No matter
If Massachusetts, sixty or seventy years
since, Osd sell slaves to the pc pleo of the
Southern States, under the guar antees of y
Constitution which she helped to form
still, Massachusetts meddlers, both in
Congress and out of it, now determined,
since they could not ''raiI,'' they would
re1ld ':the seal from off the bond" The
gallant .sthree thousand clergymen OF
New Euglandp-tworthy disciples of
the Prince of Peace rallied to a man,
in the new crusade of tanaticIsm, and
wrought, side by side, with inidels, who
have Tor years been in the daily habit of
sneerng at the Christian $ Bible and BIAS
pheming the Christian God.
The fears of our tinid and facile Pres-
deut we're worked upon, as well as his
vanity, and desire OF reelection, by the
extreme and radical members of his party :,
and the emancipation and con6scatioL
measures were forced upon him, and made
part of his policy in the conduct of the
war. Every effort of the friends ol peace
but forth IN Ongress was defeated. The
hostility of the Abolition leaders to serf-
dom in the south-to employ the words of
the lamented Douglas twas stronger
they believed that a disruption of the
Union would draw after it, as an ineyita-
bic consequence, civil war, servile nsur
rectious, aud finally, through these, au
utter extinction OF slavery in all the South
eru States and, it would seem, they act
ed even On this terr bic beliet.
Look at the record: On the 18th day
of December, 1860, Senator Crltsenden OF
Kestucky, the bosome friend of Henry
Clay in bis lifetime introduced into the
Senate OF the Uuited States series OF
resolutions, as a basis of settlement be-
tween the two sections of the Union. The
sc cesslon of South Carolina took place on
the 2Oih of the same month, aud her
members of congress retired from their
places. We are thus particular in refer
ence TO this subject. because our oppo-
nents, through their Central Committee 10
this State, have introduced it into late
address to you and there is a speeiOus
effort made IN that address 30 turn aside
from the Republicans, the just obloquy
aud reproach which the defeat Of Senator
Crittendens proposition has fastened upon
their party.
The offered compromise woHld In terms,
have sealed more than three-fourthS of all
onr territorial domain against slavery for
ever-pIacing about 900, 900 miles under
the provisions OF the Ordinance Of 1877,
more recently known as the "Wilmot
Provision" n"-leaving the remaining 3O0,-
900 miles subject to whatever laws those
who settled upon it mighs establish tor
themselves, Whenever they become
State. All the other features Of the pro-
posed compromise were nothing but re-
affirmances of he plainest powers and
provisions of tue Constitution. save, posi-
bly,, the fair and equitable stipulation that
slavery should lot be abolished in the
Vi OOiuhOidt % lOhS a. ~ NAtoS
ed in Moryland and Virginia, the two
States which had ceded that District to the
General Government
On the 18th OF January, 1861, Senator
Clark, leading Republican, moved to
amend the Cr1ttenden proposition by
striking out all The material provisions
certainly all thas contained the olive
hranoh of neaee and insertipO aiugle
resolution breathing war and threats to-
wards the South. This amendment was
carried by vote Of 25 in favor, all Re-
publicans, against % Democratic votes
But says the address of the Republican
Committee-s'six Southern Senators re-
fused to vote al all on the, proposed
amendment - md then with degree of
cool assurance remarkable even in these
times, it goes on to tell the people of
n. IL -