The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-02-15
Raids on the Constitution

The architects of ruin having dissolved
the Union aud trampled on our liberties,
are now planning a system Of raids upon
the Constitution When their work OF
destruction shall have been completed on
that fair charter of the Union, they will
have left it as different from the original
as Sberidau's torch has left the Valley OF
the Shenandoah.
One amendment to the Constitution con-
templates an express recognition in that
instrument of the existence of deity
The devil may be satisfied with that ad.
dition, but we see no reesop why the rev.
erential spirit, by which it is proposed, :,
might not, with equal propriety, sesk to
incorporate in the Constitution all the ar
ticIes OF the Christian religion.
Slavery constitutes another point Of
attack in the raids on the Constitution.
J he relgionists and moralists who urge
that proposition will we presume, push
out their views to the full extent by de-
mandiDg an amendment abolishing for ev-
er, within the jurisdiction of the United
States the system of sanity villainy which
reigns in Utah.
Religion and morality are, however, mot
the only hobbies of the men engaged in
the Constitutional patchwork. hey have
an excellent instinct for putting money ia
their constituents purses. Their amends
ments of philanthropy and Christi an ethics
are excellent precursors to that end by
bearing down the barriers of State sover-
eighty The domestic institutions ofa
State overridden by actual practice in a
clause of the Constitution the General Gov
ernment becomes thenceforth not the
agent, but the suzerain.
The States practically dsenthroned, az
such the Constitution ceases to be COM
promise between sovereignties. The par
amount and only only remaining sover-
eighty may then govern the whole as one
in fact and interest. New England con-
trolling the consolidation, holding the
powers, will proceed to tnrn her morals
and humanity into money The taxation
restrictions of the instrument of the Union
will, therefore, be all swept away in order
to promote the interests of the evangelical
concoctors Of the new sovereignty of Pur-
itana. Already an amendment to the
Constitution has been prepared with the
view of taxing internal interchange by the
Congress of the proposed ceDtralizarioD.
Another has just been offered in the Sem
ate. That amendment asks power forthe
Legislature of the "new nation" to lay tax
upon exports The raw material may be
thereby shut out by competition from for
eign markets; but whether or ot,the saints
Of New England are determined to have
monopoly its manufacture.
Puriania is moving on rapidly toward
its fall development. Harsh ethics and
severe godliness will constitute it's moral
foundation. The domination Of New En-
gland will work its centr allied power; and,
as shown in the last proposed addition to
the Constitutional patch work, will d. so
( by supplementing its protective tariffs, by
heavy duties on certain exports. Wooden
nutmegs will, under that hnppy regime,
superside foreign nutmegs and warm the
toddies of the tariff victims who break the
Maine Liquor Law on frosty morning in
the Far West
The West viii buy from New England,
because it will be prohibited by ''protect-
i've tariffs from buying anywhere else and
the West will also sell to New England,
inasmuch as it iwill be restricted in its
sales to other countries by duties and ex-
ports. Aud the cant of what the Boston
iaus call philosophy will those halcyon
daps for the new Jerusalem of Puritania
declare America for Americans that ~
to say for those of them who live in the