Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-02-09

NiU constantly MNlUINN uNtI lUiN I'IlANiN
grievances, real 0r imaginary nud Seem o.
think that because The, ur thcit ItIcrds
have boon dboppoInlrd in obtaining %
share ol tho tidils ol office, the Demo.
cratic party must be broken up and dcs.
tioycd They seem to have adopted ops
position to the National Administration,
rgh rr uluny, as tho lcst oi Democracy -
This state of affairs should continue no
longer, We have been wrlugling and
quWrclliug among ourselves too long ale
ready, and " Union and Harmony should
now be our Motto. II we go into the next
Presidential contest with our ranks divided
and disorrunilcd It will be vain for us to
hope to triumph over the united hosts of
/ the opposition. All should remember that
the Democratic party has higher aud
holicr mission TO perform thnn that Of
clcvating certain men TO office. II is the
guardian OF our free institutions Of govern
mcEt and the only shield of the Union
against the efforts OF the sectional organi-
cation, called the Black Republican Party,
to weaken anu destroy the league Of love
(which binds this fair broad Empire, State
10y State" All sincere members of the
PARTY should therefore nt once manifest
disposition to forget past differences, and
uni,e beneath the banner under which
they battletl in days gone by. five wish
to prevent Sectiouali m from triumphing
over the principle of Nationality, we must
at once unite and prepare for the contest.
John w. Forney is the leader of the
disorganizers in this State, and by the open
ialsehoods and misrepresentation Of facts
he is constantly promulgating through the
columns of his paper, the Press, has ioubt-
less succeeded in deceiying many honest
Democrats. The following article which
wo clip from the Pc,laSyhaHian, is well
timed and will repay perusal:" :"
"The feversh and wild articles Of the
, Press dav by day indicate that the Editor
of that journal is in an unhappy, distemo
pered condition of mind. We pity the
man. 1t is common and familiar thing
to hear others say, that he is to be pitied.
What but some kind of monomania can
Induce him to annoy his readers and dis
tress he public with violent and eXasper-
Iated dcclamatiOns about the President ?
2 The public care nothing for his private
griefs. A wise Frenchman once said, that
the mistortunes of our friends are not al
ways unpleasant TO us. Cannot the Edi,
q J.
, wisdom from this saying Of the French
man? Can he not see that if friends are
not dspleased with his troubles that ene~
mics may be pleased. BY his course he
not only exposes that which a prudent
nan would wish to Conceal-he rot only
shows how much he is displeased with
himself and how much he is punished by
his own tormentiug thoughts, but lie also
gives color TO ;hc idea that he is some
times under the influence Of more vulgar
excitement. He is fast drifting away from
the power of selfcontrol. He is delivered
over to his own passions, his unspeakable
hatreds bad associations with bad men,
had habits that gave tone to all he says
and all he does, that will sooner or later
reduce him low enough in the public
Judgment, as he perhaps Is now in / IS own
esteem. Take his own version of his own
wrongs. He tells us that he is a cast, off
instrument neglected and degraded by
those he has been the servant Of; and
then he publishes to the world the secrets
of those who employed him, and divulges
the private affairs of those under whom
he held place. Madly lie walls, like n dis
charged steward or bailfi, angry that he is
IItIlbNt tA4, anu lhil Va AiEN NlANN' iANNNN
we pity him. Other men like the editor
Of the Press have been taken from mean
places in life and put in exalted posts, and
like him they too have forgotten them
selves and been undutiful to those who
Ihonored them-honored them with rank
and station, and all for favor. Such low
} men thus promoted are always presump-
tuous. Manschikoff was kitchen boy
The great ruler of Russia iancied him, and
by his favor and countenance soon ads
yanced him to the dignity of a prince
but the Car could not endOw Mcnschi-
koif with the qualities of a noble. With
! all his titles and dignities he was but a
lscullion, rapacous, indolent, wasteful, Ii
'centious and drunkr. He conspired against
his master and bcnefactor. He could not
2 only attempt 20 poison him with the Sian.
ders of his pen, but he could plot against
his life. Discovered and degraded he was
sent to Siberia to learn there in those
D gloomy solitudes that submission and obe-
dience and sense of duty he had violated
I Let the editor of the Press read this, our
well-meant homily. Perhaps this may
teach him something that will benefit him.
as the consciousness of his merited pun.
ishment may deter and restrain him from
= his present excesses."