The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-05-11
)LUMBIA COUNTY, PA. WEDNESDAY MAY IL. 1864


'li:e-long" pack was whislled up. "Scrip-
iure Dckn was selected. All he asked OF
obtained was q few crumbs from The leav-
| ings of his masters. Crumbs had been his
feed for years from his old friends, The
Estate rights" party, and, for crumbs, he
was willing 10 cite Scripture against them.
So with the "lifs long" Andrew johnson
now Prince of TSnnessss. So with
Brongh of Ohio. aad his predecessor-ihe
lifs-long" David Tod-Honesi Davy. And
so, TOO, with thousands OF others OF less
! note. but equally as hungry and ready ITO
bite and bark" whoever and whenever it
may be required by their masters.
One OF the mos: serviTe, az well as The
most ssgacious Of the .prowling pack OF
''tiie longs" is the galIan, Brieadier- -Gener-
al Judge Advocate Holt, native of Ken
lucky, and student of that truly great man
and friend OF Estate righisn-John Rowan
Al 90 early age he moved to Mississippi,
and remained th'sfe long enough TO make a
large fortune. He then returned to Ken
tncky 10 vegetale. All this time he boaaled
of his devotion to State righs.
In the canvass o. '56 he vas induced to
take the stump for Buchanan and Breckin.
ridge, and to hear his speeches on Stale
rights and Federal nsurpa,ion, one would
have supposed sn orator of '9s had arisen
and vas expanding the resolutions of JEFF
fefso and Madison. His speeches were
repubished all over The Union. He wan
ted Office and emoiument. Mr. Buchanan
made him Com missioner of Patents He
removed to Warrington. Money, money
was his passion. Still, like Lord Bacon,
his intellect was brilliant. BY chance he
got into the Cabinet-firs,, Postmaster Gen.
eral for while, and theu Secretary of War
Tor q slew days" A more subscribe n,
miuisfef 70 The powers then rsigning, was
never seen. He took sides with MIR. Bu-
chanan on the Lecompton question, aud
kept sides all the :ims just as long as
",hrft would follow tawnins"
The Black Federals came into power. A
pfsclical exercise of State fighls'-righis
that General Holi had always advocated a.
sacred-waE about to occuf The Genersl
deserted his principles, deserted his friends
and took sides with his old foes. II paid =
Re wroie letters 10 Kentucky, and made
speeches in Kentucky for Lincoln, his en-
pIoyer. II paid. He told Kenirckians that
Federal soldiers would not disturb ga flow.
er or 5iade of grass in their gardens."-
| Would project their propsriy-would regard
theif rights. He was paid 10 tell thsn SO.
He exhoned Keniuckians TO work al the
pnmps" to save the old ship Constitution
And when the Confederate troops came in
10 the State The General Ieit for Washing
ION. II wouldn't pay TO stay in Kentucky
but il did pay to go TO Washington.
| II became necessary for some "life long
msmber, OF the old .'Slate rights" pack, 10
howl for the procamaiions Of Mr. Lincoln
issued in January. 1859 General Hvl
howled. Forgetting his S,ais rights doc.
irines-forgetiing that Kentucky, which
'workeh at the pumps" at his bidding, de-
nounced the proclarnations as gross outrage;
! z-foresl,Ing that he owed to Mississippi fol
| his early success-hs still howIed /, paid
to howl
Il Vas necessary 10 damn General Fiiz-
John Porler in order to saws pei OF Mr.
Lincoln-General "Quarters-in-,he-Sad
Pope To do :his many unscrepu lous ans
lawless acis were indispensable. Mr. Lin:
coin whls,Ied up his Judge Advocate-Gen
Holt. Poreriwss damned. Holt did it.,
and, in the performance, also damned him:
self But what mauefed Il paid
Now Brissdist General Judge Advocati
Holt proposes system of military jus
,ice" TO expedite the inficiion OF punish
meni on offenders against his master. w.
suppose il was in view of this that he hal
been made Btigadier as we'll as Judge Ad
vocate, and We suppose, moreover, tha
some new outage upon States or citizens il
10 be psipslrs,ed, and that The General vii
be called upon as lifelong, to do it,
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