Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-03-16

G 80 p'cu Conulllon OF the remarks
o which we propose, in the face of myopes,
valetudinarians and optimists.
3 Taking nations rs they are, and the
D world as it is, regarding the present and
future OF the United States and looking
to the best interests of this Republic and
the world-we are constrained to believe
agrcat war necessary, imminent and bene-
fetal.
VI the immense amount of suffering. in.
Jury and deprivation inflicted when en-
battled hosts meet, the meanest intellect
can judge; but that these losses are not at
all times sufficient to counterbalance i'm
mediate and future benefits, let the
American Revolution testify. No man
with an intellect to appreciate, and a soul
to feel the benefits conferred upon the
whole civilized world by the suiierings and
hero-deathS of our foreiathers, can fail to
acknowledge the necessity and benefits of
occasional and righteous war. The man
who seeks to gain distinguished good,
which is planted upon the summit of
lofty mountain, must not stop in his ca
reer to mourn oyer the daisies crushed
under his foot-tread, and the car of hu>
man progress must pass on through FREE
quent distress. he-benefts may be eter.
nal and worldwide, but the suffering tenn
porary and limited
! Such was the good prize won for the
earth by the American Revelation of lib-
ertv against the old traditions and tyran-
nical restrictions, amid want, horrors and
war. Such crisis must i,S,e United States
again pass through, before they 5hall have
accomplished their destiny, and fairly
launched mankind upon the broad sea on
which the bark, freighted with the hopes
of the friends of selirgovernment and hu-
manity, shall fairly test its qualities and
Strength. That which this Republic may
do for the development and advancement
of our race, has been so befogged by Foul tn
of July orations and patriotic effusions on
the 22d of February, that few have the
iaintest glimmering of what career we
might run, and what destiny, only circum-
scribed by the limits of the earth, we might
accomplish. In our path stands England
obstructing this glorious and humanity
betting progress, stands the selfish gov
ernment of the British Isles What Great
Britain has been is, and will be, the cares
iul reader of our columns has, or soon
will find. 1t is too fruitful subject now to
speak, explaining how she is tyranncal
abroad, while partially free at home how,
when making pretences of impartiality in
her diplomacy, she is grasping; when pla-
carding fair-dealing, she is resorting to
the basest treachery when protesting q
single desire to remove shackles from
trade, she seeks to gain peculiar advan-
ttages.
To-day, as at all past crises, Great Brit
ain looks to nobody but self, and seeks
special immunities for British commerce.
although proclaiming an almost disinter-
ested regard for the extension of ciyiliza-
ton. Her plans are we'll laid and well
accomplished. England is a great power.
She is the mistress o. the seas, and di-
vides with the United States the mission
of progress. There are other powerful
nations and governments, but these two
! hold more especially in their hands the
destiny OF humanity. They are ripah.-
Not rivals in doing good, for their systems
of action are different. England desires to
restrict and shackle, but the United States
bend their whole energies to remove OBJ
structiops and tear the bonds from hui
manity. England is tied to the traditions
of the past America bends her gaze upon
the future. One desires partial freedom
> d
! the other has freedom at home, and de. I.
sires it for all others.
In pursuance of ner settled policy the
English Cabinet seeks to thwart our just
policy at every step. On every sea and
every land she attempts to carry out the
interests of her contracted isles, to the in
Jury of all others. Liberty, humanity,
progress are as nothing when weighed in
the scale of her temporary interests.
England is in the path of freedom and
the worlds development She is now
weighing like an incubus upon the future
of civilization and the United States. Her
colossal power, built up through treachery
and usurpation, stand boldly in antagon-
ism, Is the only obstacle to the boundless
future of good which this Republic dreams
to win.
Fortunately the British empire is a crea-
ton of mans intellect il is a htSttS nattvde
it may be overthrown by sudden storm.
France may grapple with her and she
might fall, TO give place to the universal
supremacy for good of the free Republic
of the west. The United States may be
forced 10 resent her arrogant interference
and insults in every portion OF the globeSe
A war thus arising would be a second
war of the American revolution. 1t would
be for the emancipation of the world, for
the emancipation of commerce, for the
emancipation OF progress. 1t would be an
effort to supplant the old with the new, to
enable the United States to continue, TN
interrupted, its noble career of regenera-
ton of humanity. Where now the Ameri'
can voice is weak, itwould then be mighty
for good, and we might look forward to the
Inauguration of an era as much more glos
rious than the past, as we are now thirty
millions strong, when in the Revolution
our strength was only three Millions
Such a war would unite, fraternally, all
the States of this coniederacy; such war
would enable the Democracy of the old
world to break their shaokle ---of suoh
war we are an advocate.-Patriot Dc Union.
An exchange tells of an editor who went
sodierinu and was chosen Captain One