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

/ indiscriminate butchery!Ihls truly luIerhdl
suggestion as not adopted by the Presi-
dent when first proposed, but it has since
| been acted upon in more instances that
one.
We have charged the party at present
| in power, fellow citizens, with tyranny and
! usurpation. We now 60 further, and
solennly assert our belief, that there Is a
deliberate design to change the character,
| if not the form of our government. The
leading papers in the support of the Ad-
ministration openly advocate a modiica-
ton which will place greater powers IN the
hands of the President; and Il their ad-
vice should be adopted by the people, in
short time the chains will be firmly rive
ted. aud our liberties completely subyer
ted. The Philadelphia Press not long
since remarked:
.'Another principle must certainly be
embodied in our reorganzed form OF gov
ernment. The men who shape the legls-
lation of this country when the war Is past,
must remember that what we want / pow
er and strength. The problem will be to
co nbine the forms of Republican Govern,
ment with the powers OF Monarchlal
Government
About the the same time, as II by con
cert. we find in the North ADaerican
ssTbis war has already shown the alb
surditg of Government with limited pow
ers, it has shown that the power OF every
Government ought to be and must De UN
LIMITED"
Such doctrines as these would have met
with rebuke even at the hands of the elder
Adams but they we're the natural pre-
cur5ors Of the ''war power" which has been
made TO over ride the most explicit doc
trines Of the Constitution. The very
wrongs, ia fact complained of by our tath
ers, and enumerated in their declaration
against the English monarch, have been
revived upon their sons. This Admins
tration has wilfuily violated its own oath
bound pledges, and sought 'pretexts OF
innovation upon the established principles
of the Government :" it has fostered
Esprit of encroachmenk which teuds to
consolidate all the departments OF the Gov
ernment in one, and thus create, whatever
the forms may be, real despotism Ii
has rendered .'the military superior to the
civil power" 1t has superseded iu rsign
of lawless force the security prescribed by
law against seizure and imprisonment
.'without due process of law" 1t has
veriIv sscreated q multitude of new Offices,
and sent among us swarms of officers to
harass our people and eas out their sub
stance" By an iniquitous Conscription
law, il has distributed its agents among
the peopl 4pbacked by bayonets and cloth
ed with Discretionary powers over the llber-
critics if not the lives of our citizens. It
"has quartered large armies of troops
among as" 1t has Imposed taxes on US
without our consent" Finally, its chosen
aud purchased advocates are now clam
orous for stronger Government, that
"our charters may be taken away, our
most valuable laws abolished and the pow
ers of our Government altered fundamen-
tslly." These, we submit, fellow citizens.
are all of them features fairly exhi bited,
of that stronger Government, which oar
forefathers, appealing 'to the Supreme
Judge of the World" eighty year- ago,
pledged their lines, their fortunes aud
tbeir..sacred honor to put side forever.
We have before spoken, fellow citizens,
Of the depressed condition Of the country.
The mountain of debt which has been pill
ed up so recklessly, cannot be less than
three thousand millions OF dollars, when
all is fairly counted. OF this ,Pennsylva-
MAS share will be at least one-teDth of the
whole. OF $500, 600 900. The annual in
terest upon this sum (more easily estima
ted than paid will be about eighteen mill
Ions of dollars This, added TO the annu-
al interest IF our former debt, ,maks an ag
gregate of interest now, and henceforth,to
be borne by the people Of this Common
wealth. stated in round numbers, of TWEEN
ty millions of dollars! We canno5 heigh
ten this picture of the stern reality which
an inezorable aritbmetical calculation
gives. Some make even deeper debt
and darker prospect of the future.
Taxation always falls heaviest upon
labor it will now grind the poor to the
very earth. And yet the mock Phian-
theorists of the day are increasing the
taxation, and urging on system OF meas
ures, which, under the pretense of ameli-
Grating the condition of the African, will,
if carried on much longer, practically en-
slave the laboring white man and starye
his family. And besides this, if the Tor
chile abolition of bondage at the South
should succeed, it will only be TO bring the
white working men and women OF the
North into competition in the same paths
of labor with the African they have been
taxed and beggared to bring here and
support amongst Us
The favored caritalist, who has money
to lend the Adminltration, gets his bonds,
upon which there IS no taratIOn and thus
is increased the burdens of the laboring
and middle classes. But we forbear to
pursue this melancholy train of facts and
reasoning. and turn to the more grateful
consideration of how we can do something
for the correction Of these evils.
1t must be plain, fellow citizens, the on
ly hope that conservative men can have OF
saveing the country from impeding anara-