The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-09-07
Peace.

ton Of Peace, the Boston Post puts the fol.
lowing pertinent question, and suggests
the proper answer:
Can there be peace so long as Dir. Lin.
coin and his ser--the engineers who run
now the political machine-sre al the
head of affairs Who are .ihe5 How
often are Democ rats pointed 10 Stanton and
Holt and HaIleck and Dickenson and now
Andy johnson with the remark Democr rats
run the machine. Who does not; know
that they hole thei positions on the ;acit
bargain 10 screen the men and the meas
ures they have, their whole lives loLg, con-
dsmned that they have 10 bend and cringe
TO the real engineers, that it is mockery,
an Insult, 10 call their adhesion to MIR. Lin
coin that of Democrats. They are Democrats
no longer They have been powerless but
TO do the ruinous work Of carrying out Abo.
lition measures, and the whole country
knows it and no Democrat, for moment
will accept one of them as an exponent.
The real engineers are well known their
theories and their objects. They are the
ooiho f1OOhAiOH oOAkl ONOly OCtuOCIdlIC
National Convention that ever met charac.
terized and denounced as enemies of the
Constitution and the Union. One OF them
is Charles Sumner, with his Cosmos theory
of the South, as clean as a sheet of white
paper, and be second Locke to write II
over it new law. Where in Gods name,
is there the first, sign of any hope whatever
of peace on this theory There is Henry
Wilson aud he has hundred times over
pledged himself 10 work until the san shall
rise on no master and set on no slave
How can he bring on peace Is not the
moral force of his whole past Rrrayed in
phalaux against him There is William
H. Seward, who reiterated Rufus Kings
idea that, as 10 a citizens ruls in civil af-
fairs there is higher law than the Consti.
tuition, and who sanctions the whole line of
Abaham Lincoln's transactions, can he
make peace? Who supposes il possible
for him 10 do it? Is he not the accredited
iaIher OF the inepressibls conflict doclrine4
Did Helper, and the John Brown class of
small Abolition dsmagogues, do more than
pnt his volcanic words into acts of blood 2
can he give peace to the country. But fur
Their the doctrines OF Garrison are now the
doctrines at the top. Hssinot this man, for
thirty years, literally cursed and swore
against :he ; u Mon Has he not centinualIy
called il a covenant with death and an
agreement with hellf This man of peace,
I'D ,F hlonI hic hos
hand for the rife to go TO the front, but
stays behind where safety is, and urges
schemes that turned this land into a holo.
cast OF blood. Is there peace element in
him or his theories! God forbid that he
should be an. agency for peace Once more
and go to the head; Did not Abraham Lin
coin announce that this country must be all
slave or all free ! With this we'll known,
a party took this man as their candidate,
and though adroit and deceptive, and ma
king nothing of solemn pledges 10 others,
he has been true 10 this idea-irue TO Phil
lips, Garrison, Wilson and the Abolition
cons piralors. AS the Chic. Magistrate of
the country, speaking not in accordance
with law or the Constit uiion, bot on his so
called military necessity principle, he dares
10 tell this nation there shall be no peace
until his partiZan tsIk.lo gel political power
is realized, until great communities change
their local law, until slavery is destroyed I!
American citizen, how can there possibly
be peace with this class of politicians in
power-welding the parse and the sword
the vast naval and military powers of this
nation? Look Tor the milk of human kind
ness ir the wolf, but do not look for peace
SO long as Mr.. Lincoln is al the head OF
affairs.
The first step in the direction of peace,
on the basis OF the Constitution and the
Union; is to change the National Admins
tralion. Let every good citizen rouse up
his genius 10 effect this work. Il is The on
Iy path Of honor OF TO peace.