The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-11-01
Fhs RsaI Issues.

mocracy is taking form rapidly in the pres
snt. The Loyal Leaguers vii. certainly be
<plucked from place In 1868. even though
they should remain in The mean time on
such rigidly good behavior as to esca pc that
fate al the hands ot Mr.. Johnson The nat
urahiife-or, we should have said, the IN
ndturat-of that parry, 6nas, therefore, its
extreme limit in November, 1868. with the
very strongss; presumption that it will be-
fore that have been put to death, which,
provided il be not deferred loo long. the
world will cer;ainly not consider untimsH.-
Like a shattered comet, iha; omen of evil to
mankind ma7 be expected, therefore, to
leap before long from its socket, and rush in
whirIing irasmenIs through political space
without orbits, without Ordsr--daugerous
eccsnlrici,ies of our system.
The central mass Of Black RepubIicauism
will retain in The disinieeralion OF The whole
certain attractive power. Some of the
parts will doubues.ly be drawn of 10 the
grand movement Of the Democracy; but the
iersaier number win be attracted into the
wake OF the remnants OF abolition. The
radicalism which we may expect TO consii-
fuse the nucleus OF the reconstruction of
Black RepubIicanism, is, consequently,
subject, atthis moment. OF important study
10 the observer OF the political 6rmament--
Mr.. Wendell Phillips, il is true, has, for The
moment, given up his clutch upon the body
of that party bur he has done so, be it un-
dsrstood, as an unavoidable preliminary TO
seize il in firmer grasp. The lea ling spir-
il Of the old and dead crusade of the fanati-
cism ne represents 90 we'll he will be also
the leading spirit OF the new and living cru
sadie which he has 20 ener on in his speech
al Boston. sss. t5a, e
The policy of the radicals is skslched ouI
very clearly in cerlain editorials OF The Black
Republican press. read under the Iishl aud
warmth infused into Them by tho last lee
sure Of Mr. Phillips The fundamental in
cipIes underlying the new crusade the same
as those that underIis the oIi.involve direct
hostility 10 the Government Of our fathers.
General considerations point plainly to the
coacIusion that rhe Black Republicans, in
coaceivaoie as the impndence Of such fact
may appear TO be, are eninenlly parry of
class. The aris,ocracy OF the Sonth they
siruck at because itsIood with ito basis of
color betwssn Them and the working classes
Of the North And that champion of the
dignity Of the ohte, being, as the radicals
would now have things .powerless, oh! how
pvsIysars The swanhy lips and kinky curIs
of tiiiscsgsnationl The blending of races
WILDE confined within he limits Of the so
cial equality which those radicals preach
and, once plished ,willthus have sep
sfaisd our society into the copps'. cotored
4rorkinz chssss5 aud the whi's children OF
that purse pride which appears to be IN The
vulgar conceptions Of New England, the
hiahes, ideal of ofs.arissocraey %
M.oWsndslI Phillips is no leysler. Far
from Il; his speech al Boston shows him. to
be in harmony with that impudeni~ vuIgari-
an of his followers, you proud stomached
ersndee! sThe South. Standing on the Pc
dss:al Of State rights, ruled The country"
said Mr. Phillips in his lecture at Boston,
ssby negroes and poor whites in one hand
and, as. John Randolph said, by sctite slaUes
IL me other--ihe Democratic party of the
Nonhl" Whether Mr.. Randolph ever used
the terms or NOT we do.nol pretend to ask;
bulcer,ain il is that theieadsr of the Radi-
Gals Of tbs North has accspted the definition
Of the working classes OF this section as
"whi,e slaves p' Caste he repeats,
sswiih The three fold whip Of the slave, sthe
poor uwhitoe and tbs Nonhern slates, ruled
the Fsderai Unionn sThe Northern slave
quoih he, "lhs white slaves, p saith lhe
apostle of the dignity of labor. the preacher
OF The rightsof toil Bat times change and
man change with lhsm. The Write slave
Of he Norih it becomes expedienl 10 mate 10
the black slave Of tbs South, SO that Mr..
Wendell Phillips and all his followers shalt
walk abroad as Horshipful as 50 many rat
salins M26Jsrins Only think Of ths' moral
alchemy that hopes TO convert the base
blood Of yopr saiveIing roundhsad ilnO the
generous and lofty graces Of an sutoefai !
But the design Of the Radicals on our sys- I
TEN Of government extends beyond The i'm
pndsnce os making i hing Of classes. In /
common with aIloiher shadss-o Black Rs-
publicsnism, ihsy have been seen. id ihsir
presses, thsir pnIpiis, heir Legislation, to be
determined snsmiss Of the principle " nni-
vsrsal ssfEnge. Their history for four'yssfs
he psorsd ihem % have been inirignins for
ne revoIu1ion Of his Government from one /
o: d'|Inssd aoshority 10 one Of dsspoiio csn-
IraIizalion. And Mr. Phillips.s spsscb de- /
<'srss open var against ihs rights tf the I
S,ssss 'sThsre 4, ao ssys. ''no crirpe ia
The docaloens e either ozliona| or Ini1 znaI- I