The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-04-26


BONDS, and certificates OF shares in oil com
panies. Mr.. Clarke promptly handed over
the paper 10 Marshal Milard, in whose Gus
| tody it now remains From a sperusai of
/ this paper il seems fc tiave been prepared
! by Booth as a vindicaiiou of some desperate
act which be had in contemplation and
! from the language used il is probable that it
! vas plot 10 abduct the President and car
! ry him off 10 Virginia. # also appears that
Booth was one OF the party who was en-
/ gagged in the capture and execution OF John
! Brown of OssawstIomie.
| My DEAR SIR +: You may use this as you
think best. Bot as some may wish TO know
lrhen, Jcho and iOhs, aud as.I know not hoie
TO direct, give ii lin The words Of your
MASTERY
( $50 WHOM 1T MAY coECEE -
Right or wrong, God Judge me, OF man
For be my motive good or bad, of one thing
| amsuFe the lasting condemnation of the
/ North
love peace more than life. Have loved
the Union beyond expression. For -four
/ years have waited, hoped and prayed for
/ the dark clouds TO break, and for a restora-
ton OF our former sunshine. To wait long
er would be a crime. All hope for peace is
dead. My prayers have proved as idle as
my hopes. Gods will be done go 10
see and shaFs the bitter end
have ever held The South were right.
The very nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
four years ago, spoke plainly, war-war up-
( on Southern rights and institutions His
election proved it, "Await an overt act"
Yes, ill you are bound and pundered
! Whai Jolly The South was wise Who
! thinks o: argument or patience when The
finger OF his enemy presses on the trigger
In foreign war /, 100, could say. country,
right or wrong" But in a struggle such as
ours [wbere The brother tries 10 pierce the
5rothet's hearD for Gods sake, choose the
/ right When a country like this spurns
justice from her eide she foFfsiis the alegi
ance OF every honest freeman, and should
leave him, untrammeIled by any fealty So
ever, TO act es ms conscience may approve.
/ People OF :he North 10 hate tyranny, 10
love liberty and justice, to strike at wrong
and oppression. was the teaching OF our
fathers. The study of our early history
/ will not let me forget ii and may il never
! This country was formed for the phiie,
no, for the black man. And looking upon
! 4frican Slrvery from the same stand point
/ held by the noble trainers Of our Consttu-
( luton, l. for one, have ever conside red 1t
one OF the greatest blessings (both for them
/ selves and us) that God ever bestowed up
on favored nation. Witness heretofore
! our wealth and power witness their elsva.
! ton anj enlightenment, above their race
elsewhere. ! have lived among it most of
my life, and have seen less harsh treatment
| from master to man than | have beheld in
the North from father 10 son. Yet, Heaven
knows, no one would be willing to do more
/ for The negro race Than [, could | but see a
way TO still better their condition.
But Lincola's policy is only preparing
| the way for their total snnihilation The
South are not, nor kaUe they been, fghting for
the continuance of slavery. The first ba:
tie of Bull Run did away with that idea
Their cause since for t0dr have been as no
bic and greater far than those that urged our
fathers on. EUen should we allow they
were wrong at The beginning of this contest,
cruelty and injustice have made the wrong
become the right, and they stand now (be-
fore the sGmirslon and wonder OF The
| IL han IF
Hereafter, reading of their dee dS, Thermopy-
le will be forgotten.
When aided in the capture and execr-
ton OF John Brown (who was a murderer
on our western border, and who was fairly
tried aud conuicted, before all impartial Judge
has since been made god), was proud
/. of my little share in the transaction, for
deemed it my duty, and that | was helping
our common country TO perform an act o.
justice. Bot what was crime in poor
John Brown is now considered (by them
seIves) as the greatest aud only virtue Of
the whole Republican parry. Strange Trans
migration! Vice 10 become a Virtue, simply
because more indulge in it.
| thought then, as '1ot0, that the Abolition
lists scers The only traitors in the land, and
that The entire party deserved the fate o.
poor old Brown, not because they wish to
abolish slavery, but on account of the
means they have ever eudeavored TO use 10
to effect that abolition. If Brown were liv.
ing doubt whether he himself would have
set slavery against the Union. Most oil
many in the Nonh do, and openly curse
the Union, if the South are 10 return and
retain a single right guaranteed 20 them by