Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-04-13
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Commissioners l.ongslrcih's decision Qn
"wednesday last, made ono Daniel Web
stcr mutc ur ono Daniel Dnngcrheld less
llut That Is no gain aflcr all, Tor hardly
any ono believes that The new Wcbsicf
viii long bc iound this side Of the Cana
dian line. 10 speak serious, i Is the gene
ral prevailing opinion that commissioner
.Iongslrelh, " lie followed only the CON
yictions he received through the cNami.
cation ul the witnesses, land this we will
not doult,) has been led TO conclusions
which hardly any other man Of common
sense would arrive at. The testimony OF
the three white gentlemen, who swore
that they knew Daniel in Virginia, and
were positive as to his identity, could moi
be made void by two negroes pretending
/ to have seen the same Daniel at Harris
/ burg in the year 1883.
| But ever if that was true it did not
prove him TO be another man. Why could
4 the would-bo Webster not say and show
where he was born, where his parents and
relations lived We cannot help regard
ing the decision of the Commissioner as u
grave error, to which, it is true, Judges,
rs we'll as others, sometimes are liable,
twice before he undertakes TO hear and
decide another case like this. Conscen-
tious, as we believe the Commissioner, ms
very conscience will now convince HIM
that he is not the man to weigh all the
eyidercc properly under the exciting in
huences of surrounding fanatics, aboli-
tionists, &c. But much as We regret the
error of the decision, we feel still more re-
grct and sorrow at the spirit of sectional
.lawlcssness which created it, How long
will our people be blind to the glaring fact,
that our whole prosperity depends upon
. the sacrcdness of our constitutional Ubll
cations to our fellow citizens OF the South
ern States?
How long shall misunderstood humane
2 Ity he allowed to cndanger the prospects
of this great Union which otherwise would
soon raise us TO the greatest, noblest ano
hanpiest nation on earth? If our geOgraph
! ical diversity makes us feel naturally ;
, certain scctionalty, let us consider this IL
: its true ligLt. The northern section o
the Union, and especially Pennsylvania
, is destined to become an industrial State
I and our City of Brothcrly Love is 20 b'
the heart Of it. We could hardly subsist
|NllllOul pul llltllullNllllh lllNNhoAiN -"
what industrial State can prosper withou
: extended markets for its manulacture IS
+ And are we not indeed, blessed 10y on
t union with large number of States th'
, Southern States, whose destiny, from eli
, mate. &C., it is to remain for centuries t
y come, agricultural and consuming custom
i ers of this State.
c If our manufactures, our merchants
o our laborers, our citizens at large, talk
this into proper consideration, they can
not avoid seeing how much justice ant
e our own vital interest demands lIoDl us T.
II suppress that spirit of Ianaticism asains
r. the South, that section which is Just a
~. essential to us as we are to it. We ar
- not the solitary ones of whom Southern
# men can buy. That should never be iol
r, gotten. Nevertheless, we find many prom
n nent in their connections with the South
fostering and aiding the Abolition press i
propagating ideas fatal to our mutual II
/ terest aud to the existence of the Union
c Therefore let this painful error OLA mlsle
V Judgment be the occasion for Our fellow
citizens to awake and look straight at tn
disastrous consequences which ccrtainl
must follow, if we allow this fanaticisn t
N grow stronger and to separate the natur;
=. Union of the mutual producers and col
SumCrs.