The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-10-19
(s.et4 ADDRESS OF
THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

ITO THE CITIZENS OF TENNS YLVANIA
A prescribed duty, as well as long
Established usage, impels US to address
fyou in regard to the questions involved IN
fthe several elections now at hand. In
Jdisch arging this duty we shall speak plain
My and candidly what we know to be truth.
In this, the fairest, richest, and (unti
Nately) the most favored land of all the
Jearth; bere, where the last footprints of
Sscivilizstion had been planted iu this land
talone of all the Christian nations of the
Sworld-lhe fell spirit of war is now rag
ling. Our proud aid unexsmPled career
(ol prosperity as a nation has been. thus
rudsly checked; our industry, that is DOT
devoted to the purposes of destructive
war has become paralyzsd our fipan-
ciar coueerns have been thrown into utter
confusion and debasement we have hence
forth-probsbly forever-Io stagger un-
der load of debt greater, and under tax
alton more onerous, than that OF any other
nation ON the globe confidence in tue
stability Of our Institutions is everywhere
sadly diminished--in 6ue, gloomy fore
bodings as to the future, alarm, embar-
assment, and distress have taken the
place of the happy peoce, confidence, Sc
curity, good order aud coDteDtineDt we so
lately enjoyed.
Nor can hope find resting place in
contemplating the MEs who now control
our Government aud administer It's laws;
and it turns sickeued and sadly away
from the audacity, arrogance and tyranny
il finds 10 Ugh pla' es. even IN the very
cItidel of the natlou. Scioists in govern
ment; atheists 10 religiou; men who are
free lovers ip one sphere, I'd free thieves
in another reuegades III politics, and
scoffers at every we'll settled principle Of
public right and private virtue, now sway
the destinIes of this Republic, aud are
crushing out the very life Of American
feet6om.
For three long fearful years have the
best blood ard stearnest Efforts of our peo-
pie been freely given III a civil war which
has no parallel iu the history of the world.
When fhis war commenced, the Demo
cratic party in the North, as such was
PROSTATE under recent defeat, which re-
suited from it's own unfortunate divisions
Bat what graLd and inspiring spectacle
was presented on bearing the first thunder
of rebeIIious arms Political and partisan
feelings, even in that hour of party hu-
initiation, where all laid upon the altar of
the country, and The SUI of Heaven never
shone upon people more unitsd.resolute,
and determined than those of the North
ern States at the period we refer to.
Whatever might have been the views of
the Northern Democracy in regard to the
causes which untimely eDgeRdered this un-
happy strife; however much In their IN
most souls they deploIed the mad and
reckless career Of AboliliODism however
deep was their destination of the course Of
those party leaders. who had been for
years sweeping up all the low, lurking el-
ements of bigoiry and fruaticism, and di-
recting their vilest efforts against the
rights, interests, aud institutions of the
Southern peoele-still the attempt of a
portion Of that peoplet in consequence, to
break down the authority of the Constitu-
ton over the whole country, and destroy
the Federal compact was criminal act
which could not be tolerated or justified.
The amplest remedies for the wrongs
complained of were not ogly within hope,
but at hand Two millions of voters had
Just recorded their ballots in a general
popular election against Abraham Lincoln
and the ONE million who supported him
and his policy. There was besides,
Democratic majority in one, if not both
branhces Of Congress, which would rem
der him powerlsss to inAict any permanent
evil on the country.
The right of secession, claimed by the
South as the remedy for their grievances.
It's a political heresy condemned by Mad
ison with bis latest breath, and by many
others of our ablest statesmen in all Sec
tions Of the Union. Call the Constitution
. compact, il you villas does Jefferson
in the Kentucky resolutions Of '96-but
It is compact o. sovereign States, made
with each other as such, having NJ right
Of secession ssnominated or constituted in
the bond" The Union thus formed was
in its nature, If not in terms, perpetual.-
Secession, then 10 view of the compact, is
simply Revolution and the breaking up
of the Union our fathers had beq ueathed
MS, was, under all the circumstances we
have detailed, and the thousand other con-
siderations and consequences which must
crowd every intelligent and patriotic mind,
not only treason at law, but against the
best hopes of mankiLd We could not
then-c1nzot n0io-and aeUer usH consent
to Il.
In this spirit Of determined loyalty to
The Consultation and Laws, the Democra-
cy Of the North, With scarcely an exeep-
tion, relying upon the pledges given BY
President Lincoln, yielded him their
ready and efficient support. What were
some OF those pledges First in,his oath
Of office t<I viii sunnorf the Conafifukion