The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-03

stole indifference, aud see those who are T
willing 10 stand by the constitution aud up |
hold e'pillars of the Government driven /
away by the raging surgss that are now |
sweeping over .somesporlions ofsihe coun-
Try As conservative msn, as patriots, as
men who desire the preservation of this !
great, this good this unpraI eIed Govern
nent, ask you 10 save the country, or let
the proposition be Submitted 10 the people, |
that the hearts OF rhe people may respond to
Them. have an abiding corfdenca in the
intelligence, the patriotism, and the intsgri
~ of the great mass of the people; and |
feel in my own heart that. if this subiscr
could be got before them, they would settle
the question, and the Union OF these States
would be prserved.n
(Applause in The galleries.
THE ABoLITIoNIsT pIsUEIoNIsTs.
ain most that shall say On this occasion.
shall differ very essentially from my
Southern friends. The difference will con-
sist, as think, from wha; have heard and
what see published in lbe various period
icas of The day, in the mode and manner
by which this great end is to be accom- plish.
ed. Some OF our Southern friends think that
secession is the mode by which these ends
can be accomplished; that if The Union can
uot be preserved in its spirit, by secession
they will get those rights. secured .and per-
petusted that they have failed to obtain
within :he Union. ! am opposed 10 seces
sion. / believe il is no remedy for the
evils complained of. Instead OF acting
with that division OF Southern friends who
take ground for secession, ] shall take other
erounds.while Try accomplish The same
end
81 think that this battle ought 10 be fought
not outside, but inside of the Union, and
upon the battsmenis Of the Constitution
itself | am unwilling, of my own volition,
to walk outside of the Union which has
been The result of Constitution made by
the patrcls.of the. revolution They formed
the Constitution, and This Union that is 20
much spoken OF, aud which all of Us are so
desirous 10 preserve, grows out of the Con-
slilution; and: repeat am! not, willing 10
walk out OF the Union growing out OF the
Constitution, that was formed by the palri-
OTIS, and | may say, the soldiers of the Rev.
oiuIion. So far as am con cerned, and
believe may speak OF some degree OF con-
fdence for the people OF my State, we join
ed 10 fight that battle inside and not outside
OF the Unon,'i must be. those who violate
it. We do mol intend TO 60 out 1t is our
Constituted: il is our Union, growing ont Of
the Constitution; ard we do not intend TO be
driven from il nor out of The Union. Those
who have violated the Constitution either
in the passage OF what are denominaled
personal liberty bills. or BY their refusal TO
execute hs fugitive slave law-lhey having
violate the instrument that binds us together
must go out and not We"
If SLAVERY Is ABOLISHED THE NON sLAvEHoLD-
KRs WILL UNITE IN sUBJUGAFING THs
SLAVES.
81 have said, in speaking Jon lhat'subject,
that in 1856 had seen a spirit and ieel-
! ing manifested in the country that | had
never seen before, which convinced me
clearly andtconcnsively what. The Abolition
! agitation would eventuate in when il was
! pressed TO It's final ullimatum. | say tha,
! if the day ever does come when the effort
| is made 10 emanciPa,e the slaves, TO abol-
! ish slavery, and turn them loose on the
/ country, the non-slaveholders of the South
will be the first men 10 unite with the slave
! holders TO reduce them 10 suhlugation again;
and if one would De more ready 10 do so
than the other, il wenld be The non-sIave-
| holder. | have said that; and that if their
resistance TO subjugation were obstinate and
stub born, the nom STAKEHOLDER would unite
with the slave holder. and all this Abolition
! phianthrophy, all this Abolition sympathy
when pressed 10 its ultimatum, would re-
suit in The extirpation of The negro race
| This IS what said. |; is what | felt, and
what | saw, and what l know to be the
| feeling of the Shareholders in the slave
( holding States to-day. Press this question
10 its ulii n alum, aud the non STAKEHOLDER
! will pniie, hes and hand, in subiugating
the African and il resistance be made, in
extirpa,ing the negro race;and that is where
this question will cad. Notwithstanding all
the sympathy and all The philanthropy lhs:
may be evinced if the agitation be carried
ont succe ssfully 10 its consnmaliou.
"Ii | said anything in the presence OF
bearing of anybody on that point, that is
what did say; and repeat new, that the
idea of there being any difference between
the feelings of the Shareholders and non,
shareholders of the South on this question