The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-09-13


guns and from bushes to FIRE upon the ia.
to carnage and plunder)-I say, there
were raids into this State directed by
Federal power about the beginning of the
present century. They seized John
Fries in Northampton county; they came
up into the County of Berks; they iufest
ed our borders; they seized some of our
people. They had not then the inventio
of Courts called "Military Commissions" )"
but they carried their victims to the u S.
Courts. They were not up to the latest
improvements in Yankee Governments,
(Laughter) but they did the best they
could in the circumstances of benightment
under which they labored in that dark
age. They took those persons before
Federal judges and there they tried them
and convicted them under forms of law
passed by the Congress of the U. s.,
which were complained of as unconstitu
tional. Besides the cases which resulted
in trials in those Courts, there we're other
cases of outrage upon the citizens at that
time. But. gentlemen, these we're but
feeble beginnings compared with modern
transactions. We have lived to some pur-
pose for fifty or sixty years. We have
improved upon the former example,
In our own localty-in our own county
we were last year honored, or at least
distiu guished, by the special attention of
the Government of the United States.
There was q raid upon our territory; there
was An occupation of our soil, without
warrant either of necessity or reason; and
the same class Of men who about the year
1900 applauded the arrest of Fries, who
then sang hosanHas to the alien and sedi-
tion laws and made themselves famous as
champions OF those measures of infamy,
lifted their voices loudly and under the
banner of a bastard loyalty proclaimed
their approval Of these proceedings. They
''laughed broad; their mouths were ex-
panded in a lateral direction their
tongues were unloosed; all their feelings,
passions and emotions we're high up
and exultant. They were triumphant
physical power, brute force, was on their
side. They were not to be subjected TO the
difficulty of arguing questions, OF enter
ing upon very troublesome debates, with
with those despicable old records, call
ed Constitutions in the way, and
watching their conduct and ready to
pounce upon them for any wrong they
might commit. No there was the bay
onet & cannon, the cartridge box and plenty
of money from Uncle Sans Treasury
(got originally by taxes, however). All
these instruments of power were here and
to be used on the eve of an election when
the question was whether "Old Abe"
should be retained in authority and the
actors i'll the foul scene continued in office.
They exulted that was their day of tri-
umph 81 they did their will Our boys we're
off in the army fighting for the Union call
ed there by their appeals, called there by
men who told them there was no party in
this war, that party was TO be buried ,
that it was not to be thought of--no not so
much as breathed about, 10 all this broad
land. They got them off into the army
they were sent to be slaughtered at Chan
cellorsville to be sacrificed in The PENN
sula; to fail before the heights of Fred
ericksburg to battle many a battle. field
with their blood and then these infamous
Wretches, in the hour of their pride and
insolent power, came to eeize the parents,
and brothers and relations and friends of
those heroes and incarcerated them in
loathsome prisons until the prise damp
seized upon them and some came back IN
collins and some came racked by disease
aud emaciated, to homes from which
they had been torn by ruthless power.
L say that was the day of triumph for
these men of evil but that day has passed.
The people are now to sit in judgment up
on this whole business and l do not doubt
what their judgment will be. Look at
Northampton Look at old Berks Glib
ralters of Jeffersoniau Democracy from
1900 to this day Did the raids of John
Adams and his federal myrmidons pay in
she long run ! No They made the worst
political iovestmen ever known in the
history fthis country. They reaped only
disgrace and injury from their proceed
iDgs, just as the Republicans will reap dis
grace and lasting inquiry from their wick
ed raid upon this county in 1864
Yes, gentlemen: that day of triumph
and of exultation has passed and you, the
fresmen Of this country, are now in stu
alton to resume the sceptre of authority
for yourselves and through the ballot-box,
by means of those little pieces of paper
which you are yet permitted to use as in
strumentalities of your will you can rectify
all wrongs and what is more, obtain secu
rity for the future. You can contribute
to preserve our system OF government, and
to preserve your own territory from raids
and yourselves from persecution in the fu-
ture. And it is circumstance of gratif-
cation Go be thought of at the end of our
indignant retrospect) that these political
persons who have SO misbehaved them
selves, who have SO maltreated our people,
Whn have so nnanlu. xhIhited their frne