The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-01-13
NUMBER I2.
SAYING THE UNION.

opinion, 1t is an instinct Tie prospec, of
division of our county into detached frag-
ments, jealous OF each other, and warr:ng
perhaps against one another. is a picture
which 20 American can contemplate with
feeling other than those OF deep seated and
positive aversion. This popular instinct of
Union has been the great potoer which the
Republican party has welded TO carry out
their principles of negro equality. Assum.
ing that they were trying 10 restore the Un-
ION, II followed as logical consequence
| that they had the right to remove Whatever
obsilcles there were in the way of It's res
| toration. This has afforded Them the ex.
cuse, to the popular mind, Tor all their as
sauts upon the Constitution, and all their
outrageous attacks upon the American re-
lation o. races. Now there is no getting
over or around this instinct OF Union. It
must be satisfied, and it ought to be. for
how can these States live 30 happily as un-
der we'll regulated Federal Union, such
as that formed by Washington and his COM
patriots OF 1888 Persons often wonder
why the people acquiesce in and seem 10
support all unconditional and tyrannical
acts oil LiDcoln's Administration. The easy
answer 10 all this is, "lhe Union the Un-
ion u Tha. is associated, in the popular
mind, as such an unmiXed good, that any.
thing and everything seems of less vaIue
The Republicans have most powerful le-
yer 20 work with, and they know it. Let
man say ''Peace,7 and they tell you tina,
that means disunion, and so il does, al
lowing that party with their principle is
TO remain in power. The North, as repre-
| seuted 5y Abolitionisls, and the South can
no more live together than oil and water
can unite. What then Shall We give up
the Union! Nay. How then can we get
it?
First, we must deny IN toto that Mr.. Lin
coin or his party has ever made The first ef-
fort 10 save it The very last effort made
10 preserve the Union was made by the
Peace Convention in Washington, in Feb.
ruary, 1861, before MIR. Lincoln's accession
to office. Since then, all that has been
done has tended to destroy il, and to mako
It's destruction more certain and more sure.
Is there Republican in the land who does
not know that the Union is to-day further
of than when Mr.. Lincoln sent bis frs,
fleet to Charleston, and set in motion the
awful train OF consequences that have fol-
lowed But beyond all Ibis, the men in
power never wished 10 preserve the Urion.
We say this deliberately. They never
wished 10 preserve il, and they do not and
are not, trying to restore it, and would not
res ore il if they could. This position we
must also take boldly, for upon this hang
all the law and the prophets. We do no
injustice to the Republicans when we say
this, for almost any intelligent Republican
will allow it. Indeed, they never profess
ed to be in favor OF the Union. They abused
and ridiculed it for years. They derisively
declared Democrats ''Union-savers," and
compared them to old women "sitting up
with the Union, nursing it." 1t is fair 10
say that they had no particular objection to
certain kind OF a Union-exactly wha,
kind they have never defined, except that
the negroes should all be free; but as We
know of no Union except that embraced in
the terms of the Constitution, as prepared
by the Convention over which George
Washington presided in 1888, there is no
other Union 10 talk about That Union
they always repudiaied, and they have an
undoubted right TO feel ;nsuted when ac-
cused of any intention 10 restore il Iudeed,
so plain and so paipAble is their opposition
TO the Union, that Mr. Lincoln has Just s-
sued revolutionary pronunciamenio dec
laring it al an end and fixing one OH his ovn
terms
Now, the people want the Union, not Mr.
Llncoln's ghastIy hodge-podge of contra
band camps aud while mems graves. Why
should no: Democrats, then, make an effort
TO sGue the Union Yes, save the Union,
even yet. Nobody has tried 10 do it for the
j past three years. The Union, the great
and glorious work of Washington and Mad
( ison, has actually been abandoned. Let a
man therefore, De selected for candidaie
i for President, who represents tie UnioE tn.
der the Cons,rtutoa-tho White Government
formed by Washngton-not war or anti
( war simply, for when the government 10
again administered as il has been for sew
enty years. that moment there iciU be no iudr
for there wia be no cause for t0ar. Let US,
therefore, cease 10 support any longer
Disnnion Party and found Union Party, a
Democratic Union Party. Let US no longer
be the allies oi Disunionists and Abolition
lists, now in open revolt against the Union
of Washington, bat rather let MS rally iothe
standard OF our fathers, and sweep the ene-
mics OF the Union as the whirlwind sweeps
| the leaves of The forest.
counirymen once brought piece OF
board 10 an artist, with the request that he
shosld paint upon it ST. Christie pher as
large as life. "But," returned the artist sthat
board is too small for that purpose The