The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-06-14
From The North Branch Democrat ]
The Proofs.


/ employed the following language, viz:
"Whcn the leading secessionisls OF the
gSouth were preparing to take their fatal
''leap they knew that the leading organ of
''the parry then in power, The New York
"Ifibrme, was then advocating with earnest
zeal and dangerous sophislry the right OF
:'secession. They knew that the then newly
telec,ed President had himself, years before,
"upon The floor OF Congress, given emphatic
Eek preston TO a substantially similar doc
Urine They knew that Senators Hale
Seward and Chase, leading and controlling
"spirils in the same party, had presented
"and seconded petition to Congress pray
cling for dissolution OF the Union"
a nameless and somewhat rambling wri-
:er in lbs las. Repubticsn-who kindly comes
TO the relief OF the editor OF that am;aSe
journal because che does not exchange with
you''-pronouuce the statements above
quoted "Iies," alleging that there IS 'not
one word of truth ia the whole of them I"
and defies their author TO prove them.
il affords me pleasure 10 comply with tie
writer's polite request By favorins him with
such proofs as | happen TO have at hand,
which uusl will prove highly satisfactory
10 him.
IN reference to the TsibuAe's advocacy of
secession. beg4o quote from the N. Y.
Tribune o: Nov. 9, 1850. "tf the cotton
States shall tecome satisfied that they can
do better out of The Union than in il, we
insist or letting them go in peace The riehf
TO secede mag be revolutionary one. bnt ii er
ISIS, perertheitSs"
From the same paper we quote again
awe must ever resist The right Of any Stale
10 remain in the Union, and npllifY the laws
,hereof-To lrifhdratg from he Uhion is guile
another mater Whenever a considerable
section of our Union shall deliberately re-
solve TO go our We shall resist all coercive
measures to keep il in. We hope never to
live in repUtlic whereof one section is
! pinned 10 another by bayoue,s"
We quote aeaiil from ihe Tfi5uie Of Nov.
2S 1860 "lfihe cotton States uuuodly aud
earnestly wish to Withdraw peacefully from
the Union, we ihnk. they should be allowed
10 do SO. .4.,y attempt to compel them 5y free
to remain 1c9ud be contrary TO the principles
e7uneiatei in tis imw1rtal Declaration Of IA
depeadeace contrary to The fnndsmev'ai
ideas on which human liberty is baSed.r
II will be observed that y.Poliie anlag-
ouisi takes very strong exception TO the
message of x-PIe>ident Buchanan in " which
the latter adserted to the fact that the Con-
siitu,iou is silent on the sutisc, OF seces-
sim neither giving the right, nor hY ex-
press terms granting the power to prevent; /;
but the Tribune broadly asserts the right Of
secession, ari jus, as broadly denies The
po1Oer 10 preUc,H secession Again. From
the New York Tribune of Dec II 1860,
while South Carolina was in The ac: of Sc
cedins) quote as follows: ''Ii the Decla-
ration of Independence justified .he seces-
sion from tie British empire OF three mil~
ions of coIonisis in 1916, we do not see
why i, would no. Justify the secession OF
five millions OF Southerners from the Union
in 1861
Again From New York T. iBune of Feb.
2st, 1861.
Whenever il shall be clear that the great
body of the Southern people have become
conclusively a;ensied from the Urion and
an xious 10 escape from il, lOe 1ciR do our best
10 forVGrd thsi, uie0s"
AT this latter date seven OF the Southern
States had already secedsd. II is not nec-
essary, therefore, for my present purpose, to
follow The 7riJunc through It's succeeding
issues These samples, covering period
or time when .heir effect was necessarily
more miscbie7ous thai they could have
proved al any other period OF the nations
history, will suffice TO show very clearly
the tr1ih of my assertion in reference TO
the Tnbune's advocacy Of secession. How
very easy il is for my polite accuser to dis
cover the mole in Buchanan's eye; bu!
how difficult 10 see the beam in the Trjb--
une $ or perhaps, his own. This, however,
would seem 10 be characteristics OF the
party of great moral ideas - and quite
naturally so, because their own sainlship
being assumed, all who differ with them
must necessarily be devils, or worse.
Again. We quote from Mr. Lincoln's
speech in Congress on the 18th OF January
1913.
"Any people, anywbers, Icing inclined
aud having the power, HAVE a RIGHT TO RISE
Up AVE SHAKE OFF THE EXISTING GOVERN
MEST: AND FORM NEW ONE THAT sUIIs THEM
BETTER,
Mr. Lincoln continucd-"This is a most
valuable, most sacred right, right which
we hope and believe il 10 liberate the world.
Nor is this right confined 10 cases in which
the whole OF an existing government may
choose 10 exercise ii--any portion of such
people that can may revolurionized and
make their own Of so much of the territory