The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-08-09


bers engaged, the resources il so suddenly
improvised, and the duration and intensity
of the conflict. Ii was only less astonish-
ing than The numbers and resources II en-
countered. 1t has ended as all rebellons
must end when opposed by greatly superior
resources and numbers. The rebellion is
over. It's leaders are, capives, exiles or
supplicants for pardon its armed adherents
have saluled their flag for the last time, and
its friends throughout the South have yield
ed the contest Their submission has been
graceful, unanimous, and in all apparent
good faith. Not an armed Confederate is TO
( be found within the Limits of The State.-
The Federal Government. professed TO draw
the sword only for the sole purpose OF en-
/ forcing its constitutional authority wher-
ever il was opposed f; il is this day supreme
within the entire limits of the United States.
1 No opposition is anywhere attempted nor
ind eed, can any be organized. Why, then,
| ask, are we threatened with desPoiism
! as inexcusable as rebellion Why are free
! elections denied 10 the Union men and quail
fled voters of The State? Why have nom
residents and loungers around Federal
camps, withou: your knowledge or consents
and in defiance OF your protests and ap-
peals, been permitled TO nsurp the nigh and
responsible places of power, and 10 d eclare
/ themselves your oppTessors and masters
and this, too, in contempt of that Decara-
lion of Rights, whose sacred principles are
inviolable, and by your Constitution, 'ex-
cepied out of the general powers OF Gov
ernmeni?' Why are offensive rulers being
sci over the loyal people OF the State by
those who are jointly responsible for the
war? Why are bands OF armed negroes
permitted TO roam over the country, plum
! derng and insulting the timid and delease-
less And more than these, why are you
and 1, whose souls are unslainted by trea-
son, compelled 10 drain this cup of shame
al The hands of those who were the origi-
nal instigators of The rebellion !''
| ] beg leave TO assure your Excellency
! that, in using the words "original instiga-
i tors of the rebellion," | alluded 10 you !;
further, that | spoke in no Pickwickian
sense And now that | may invoke your
clemency, not for myself, bui for those who
listened 10 my remarks, frankly ceness
that | submitted certain proofs OF the truth
! of my charges. | told the people that the
first lime ever saw you, you were har-
anguing the multitude 10 prove me an Ab-
olilonisi that it was somewhat "raw and
gusiy day." and that your vehemence in
! the open air caused you 10 contract throat
! disease, from which, unfortunately for the
country, you profess not TO have recovered.
| alluded to your early speeches in Con-
! personal abuse OF John Quincy Adams be-
cause of his religious anisiavery opinions;
to your reverenlia confession that God had
/ killed off Gen. Harrison because he was an
| Abolitionist. also Told the people that you
/ had in 1855, in the Stale of Tennessee,
/ proposed that every Southern man should
| "joiu in one fralernal hug" and plunge into
| rebellion, if Fremont and Dayton were
/ elected. Ia addition 10 this, informed
the audience that heard you, in the Senate,
I in December 1859, denounce Mr.. Seward
and ;he Republican party as wholly respon-
/ sible for the murderous raid oil ''ihis old
/ man Brown" whom you then stigmalizeh
as "nothing more than a murderer, rob
/ Der, thief and traitor" ! said also, that
you not only supported Brecknridge the
candidate OF the ayowed disrnionists, but
! that after the election OF Lincoln, after the
meeting of Congress in December, 1860,
! and only one day before the assembling OF
/ the Convention which declared South Caro-
/ lima out of ;he Union, you had, in the Sem
ate OF The United States, made a laboret
/ speech, embracing part of two days, III
which you positively pledged yourself, in a
contingency which has long since happen
/ ed, 10 join these same rebels, 'to perish in
/ The last breach, y TO "burn every blade OF
I grass" and TO make your grave in "the
! last intrenchmenis" of rebel freedom. |
\ told the people that heard this speech,
! (during the delivery of which Jefferson
! Davis offered you most unprovoked insult
1 the effect of which will not now attempt
I 10 stale, and that every word of it was de-
! signed 10 convince The people OF Tennes-
see that they were an oppressed people and
you their champion; that their constitu-
tional rights were in imminent danger and
that they ought 'to demand additional Sc
curities )" that you then and there submit
ted the following written 'basis" upon
which you declared an unalIerable purpose
''to fight the great battle for our rights"
ResolusG, That we deeply sympa,hize with
our sister Southern States, and freely admit
that there is good cause for dissatisfaction
and complaint on their part, on account OF
the recent election OF sectional candidates
J to lhe Presidency and Vice Presidency OF
J The Unied States: yet we as a portion