Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-09-12
All Together.
"Friends of Liberty. afthe Constitutieu
and the Union. Rally"


and the Union. Rally"
We find the above on a grea. poster
hung up in one of our Hotels, calling a
Republican Mass Convention at Erie Pa,
on this day tI2th,). Whether, or not, this
is intended for q burlesque, we are unable
TO say !; but,it certainly becomes simply
ridiculous-an empty mockety-in, con.
,nexion with the gentlemen, WHO It is an
nouncea are TO officiate on This occasion.
Well might Brogn Eagle, orsomething
resembling, 9uzzard, hover at the head
of this hand bill, fitting emblem of the
heresies, that abolitionism alone can
hatch. There IS Henry Wilson and An
son Burlingams of Massachusetts,, and
Js,iua r.. Giddings and Bs1a,nin =. Wade
o. Ohio,--and Nathaniel P Banks and
John P. Hale all are to be present, to in
lstruct their fellow citizens, ''the friends OF
the Constitution and the Union" Here
my fellow Democrats are the names OF
those, who are calling on the friends Of
l"Liberty, to rally" pretty pack Of
speakers truly, to talk about fidelity TO
the Constitution, and the Union. Every
nan mad abol:tionis., every man an q.
vowed disunionist. Every man has advo.
Gated open resistance to the Constitution
and Laws Of the country. Every man now
holds, and breaches doctrines, which he
knows must drive the States asunder,
, or plunge their citizens in civil war. To
prove this let facts be submitted to cam
did world. 81, I'D ,.s-. r1ef t~e ID
On the goth Nov. 1859, Hon.. Henry
Wilson was one of a public Meeting, held
at Natick Massachusetts,, that passed the
following delightful resolution %
"Whereas, resistance to tyrants IS obe.
dience to God, therefore Re,olred, That
it is the right and duty of the slaves to re-
iist their masters and il is the right and
duty of the people of the North to incite
slaves toresistsnce, and to aid them in H."
4 And again, in public speech in the
! City of New York in October 1855.
"We shall change the Supreme Csurt oftls
! United States, and place MEN in that court
who believe with its pure and immaculate
Chief Justice, John jay, tha. our prayers
will be impious to heaven while we sus-
tain and supper: human slavery. We
shall free the Supreme Court Of the Uni.
ted States from Judge Kane And here
let me say there is a public sentiment
J growing up in this country that regards
/ Passamore Williamson in his prison at
Philadelphia as martyr 10 the holy cause
of personal liberty. There is a public
sentiment springing up that will prand
upon the brow OF Judge Kane mark
that will make him exclaim, as his name.
sake, the elder Cain: 1t is too great for
me to bear. I"
AT Black Republican Meeting in
Maine in 1855, Benz. F. Wade taught his
fellow citizens to rally in defence of the
Union, in the following graphic language.
"There was no freedom in he Southtor ei,
! ber wkite or black and he would strive to
protect the free soil of the North from the
same blighting curse. There was really "
Union nol0 bct1een ne North and tie South
land he believed no two nations upon the
earth entertained feelings of more bitter
rancor towards each other than these two
j sections Of the Republic. The only saLra,
, ton Of the Union, therefore, p4s 70 Be foundin d
resting il entirely from all hiR Of SLdrHy.--
There was no Union with the South. Let
\ us have a Union" said he, "or let us SWEEP
: away this remnant which wo call a Union
4 Lao for Union wksre di'm are equal, or td
no Uhio,i al all, and ! 60 for right"
And Anson Burllngame, another Con
s:itution lover, to be present on this oc.
casion, had declared with impiods | las
. phemy and treason.
"The times demand, and we must haze. al
anti slavery Consultation, an anG,sLaray BibIc
! and an anti slavery GodW .-.-frs ..
;, And Joshua R. Giddiugs is to be there
0 who at Palmyra, Ohio, in 1850, said t.
e THE Fugitive Slave law commands IL
Q to participate in arresting and sendi u
victims to this southern imnolation, b.
!, torture thousand times more cruel thar
u ordinary assassination. Yet, we are told
: we must obey this law and perpetual,
!. these crimes, until a slave ridden Congress
q shall see fit TO reclaim us from such sii
against God by repeating the law. Whetf
u er 1t be right to obey God rather thar
y man, Judge ye. From my inmost sou
Of / abhor,l dctest, and repudiate this law
# despise the human being gho would obey
= liz saek being has existence"
i And who again declared 70 lis fellov
!. citizens, that NJ --r3r tad s
n 81 look forward to the day when ther
- shall be seryile msurrection In the Soutl
US when the black man, armed with Britis
VS. Bayonets, and led on by British officers sha
ST assert his freedom, and wage war of e1
, termination against his master when III
torch Of The mcendiary shall light up he to,c,
ni and eitiss oftte So,th, and blot out the "a.
ly vestige Of slavery. And though mn
ID not mock at their calamity, nor laug
Ia when their fear ocnneth, YET WILL ma
;, IT AS THE DAWN OF A POLITICAL sILLEnIun'
=, And ]. r. Hale, Of New Hampshire
to be there, who in the Convention thl
nominated Fremont on the 18th of Jun