The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-06-15
Love of County.

childhood, the bright hopes of youth, the
earnest struggles of mature years with all
that we have loved and won and lost there /
in, circle around the name of country with |
a sweet but melancholy radiance. In our
country is included all that we hold holest |
and dearest-parents, brothers, sisters, |
home, wife, children, and the green graves
of our fathers In our county we enjoy
larger SELF Her fame is ours. Her great /
ness is ours. Her honor is ours. Her glory |
is ours She is all ours and our love for
her is simply an enlarged, unselfish, gener
ous eelf love.
We love our land because il Is our oton,
And scorn TO give aughi other reason why |
II is true, therefore, as Yattel justly OBJ
serves, that he who furnishes the glory of e
nation does i: an irreparable wrong. The
injury is not only that the nation is lowered
in the eyes of other nations, but that il is
lowered in its own .eyeS. lis people ale de-
prived of one OF their chief moral blessings,
which is tha, OF being able TO delight in the
unsulied lame and honor of their country.
In the degradation of his country every cit
izen is degraded, and in her dishonor every
citizen is shamed.
Yet even this is not the worst. Argne as
we may against the doctrine OF the old toast
/ (and in truth it has been made 10 sanction
many crimes), there is still soft something
: in our hearts that says: "Our Country,
! right or wrong v' And we:e it possible for
! huma nature 10 be always we'll balanced
| SO that this should mean the love OF coun-
try in spite of every loss of glory, and in
spite OF every blot on her fair fame, The sem
timenl would be deserving of all accspta-
/ tion But in the nature OF things il means
much more than this Wha. we should de.
nonnce as infamy ia an Indifferent person,
in the object of our love, "we first endure,
then pity, then embrace" And hence il
the public morals be debauched this very
love OF country. which in the design OF a
kind Providence is meant to purify ard
raise The aspirations of the people, is trans
formed into an instrument Of degradation
Whatever be the morals of country in lis
corporate capacity will inialibiy be ihe
morals of its citizens, and whoever lowers
or exalts the tone of public virtue, at the
came time plants the seeds of good or i'll in
every family within its borders.
Till within the past three years iSe pso-
pie OF this country sloried in her, both be-
cause she was their country, and because
her fame was still unspoued with reproach.
How have we been robbed of this-oul
best inheriiance-by the uEscrupulous
mouniebanks who, since then, have con.
rolIed our deshnies! What are the main
, points of our public morals under Mr. Lin.
coins Administration
! First. Gross bufFoonesy end heartless-
ness, illustrated by the President of the
United States himself. The man who has
been Joking amid the desola,ion of The land
aud who could whistle negro airs among
the unburied corpses Of his butcheTed coun-
trymen, is hardly fl 10 bo tbs representa-
; Tvs and model of twenty millions of peo
ple Yet his vile-example has been sedu-
. lously followed. Congress has become al
foul in language as brothel and we dare
= say that never in the history of this Repub
> lie was iccntiousness, levity of speech. and
callousness TO human suffering as rife among
US as to-day. A common saying lately hat
been this "Why, Grant has certainly no
, los; more then forty thousand men, and W.
+ can soon make up that p The people nov
can talk with apathy OF forty thoHsan'
graves, because they can supply material 6
J, ill as many more.
q Second. Braggadoeio with cowardly sub
! sersiency TO foreign powers. We have buI
. lied England and made mean apologize
! therefor. We have bulIied al the world o
I. the Monroe doctrine, and then taken off Gu
n hats 10 France with every sentiment OF kline
n ness when she trod il under loot. Nay, W
u have carried our subserviency 10 foreig
=, powers to the extent of shameless treach
i. cry. We have delivered our helpless re
ugees into the jaws of certain death. fl
,r gitlve from the distractions Of unhapp
II Mexico has been surrendered TO Coitina
f. by whom be was mercilsssly shot, and
this city OF New York, subject of h
, Crown of Spain has been arrested in def
is ancs of ell law and humanity, aod wi,hou
n known accusation, without even the decor
a form of trial, smuggled aboard foreig
n ship and carried to TIE tender nercies
:. the Governor of Cuba, from this giorioI
" "reiuge of the oppressed of the EARTH"
- Third Utter falsiiy in every act of Go
o; efnmen, officials. The suPprsssio Usri ar
II suggesiio Jfdln are resplendsnt virtues wh:
i. compared with the astounding lies petp
traled by this Adminisratio From NJ
Lincoln's deceptive Inaugural Address dow
TO Mr.. Stewards use Of clumsy forgery
10 dupe q sister nation, the whole public b
siness Of the country has been casrisd
81 through one iniernsl tissue of mendscity.
70 Fourth. Wild rapacity in parasites al
agents of the Government. RePublca
be declsre thar ia the Treasury Dspanme