Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-17

happy Union. The Senate know that 1
have DEPRECATED allusions, on ordinary oc-
casions, to that direct event. The coun.
try will testify that, if there DO anything
IN the history OF any public career wor-
they ofrecollection, it is the truth and
sincerity of my ardent devotion to its las
ting preservation. But we should be
false In our allegiance II We did not dis I.
crlminate between the imaginary and real
dangers by which it may be assailed. Alb.
litionism should no longer be regarded rs
an imaginary danger. The abolitionists,
let me suppose, succeed in their present
aim OF uniting the inhabitants of the free
States, as one man, against the inhab-
itants of the slave States Union
on one side will beget Union on
the other, and this process of recip.
rocal consolidation will be attended
with all the violent prejudice, embittered
passions, and implacable animosities
which ever degraded or deformed human
nature.
One section will stand in menaciug and
hostile array against the other. The COLI.
sion OF opinion will he quickly followed by
the clash ofarms. / will not attempt to
describe scenes which now happily lie
concealed from our view. Abolitionists
themselves would shrink back in dismay
and horror at the contemplation of desc
lated fields, conhagrattd cities, murdered
inhabitants, and the overthrow of the
fairest fabric of human govern
ment that ever rose to animate the hopes
of civilized man"
How sadly true, nay, how prophetic, al
so, are these words of Mr.. Clay. The tri-
umph Of sectionalism is the downfall of
the Republic. 10 preserve the Union we
must keep the bonds our fathers made,
and crush out and cxter inmate this hy-
headed monster ofabolition;sm. The
man who casts his vote for Lincoln, in
that act, deliberately, sole mnly, and know
ingly, votes for dissolution of the Amer.
ican Union! There is no dodging this
position. What are the principles OF that
sectional party, and what the utterance,
of the men who form, lead, and con.
troll it' Behold tho record ...
Before proceeding to tho record, how
ever, let US see how, in the speech from
which we have already quoted, Mr.
Clay sums up the designs Of the abolition
ists;
"And the third class are the roal ultri
abolitionists, who are resolved to perse-
we're in the pursuit of their object at al
hazards. With this class the immediate
abolition Of slavery in the District of col
umbia, the prohibition of the remova, o
!. slaves from State TO State, and the refu
sal to admit any new State compIisin,
within its limits the institution OF domcs-
tic slavery. are but so many means condu
' cing to the accomplishment Of the ulti
mate but perilous end at which they avow
edly and boldly aim, are but so man,
short stages in the long and bloody road
to the distant goal at which they woule
finally arrive. Their purpose is abolition
-univerSal abolition-peaceably If they
can, forcibly If they must"
How graphically descriptive of the
. black republican party of the present day
, The pictureis true to life.
. Lincoln andhis supporters in faror of the hid
eous doctrine Of negro equality!
On the 10th of October, 1854, Abraham
Lincoln delivered speech at Peoria, II
I linois in which he used the following Ian
guage:
What do say is, that no man is GOO
enough TO govern another man without an
, Others consent. | say this is the leading
principle, the SHEET ANCHOR of amer
lean repubucanism. Our Declaration Of In
dependence says: . .....
; "Ws Ii old these truths TO be self.eSi
dent-that all men are created equal, tha
they are endowed by their Creator will
certain inalienablc rights ; that anon
these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursui
of happiness. That to secure these right
governments are instituted among men
: DERIVING THEIR JUST POWER FROM THE con
SENT OF TUE GOVERNED
III have quoted so much at this tim
merely to show that according 10 our an
cient faith, the powers Of cfGovernment ar
derived from the consent Of the govern ed
Now, the relation Of master and slave !
,, pro tdndo total violation Of this principle
, The master not only governs tho sav
= without his consent, but he governs hin
by set of rules altogether different iron
what he prescribes for himself. ALLOW
|, ALL the governed an equal voice in tn
Government and that, and that only,
self-government." - Howell's life Of Lin
I coin, page 279.
Q Again, in a speech delivered in Chicag
o during the last Presidential election
which we find published in the lllinoi
! State Journal the State organ Of tn
. black-republican party of Illinois, on tn
: 10th day Of September, 1856, Mr.. Lincol
s said
!. "That central idea, in our political OF
inion, was and until recently continue
'f to be the equality of men. Ard, althoug
it was always submitted patiently to whate'
: er inequality there seemed to DO as ma
: ter of actual necessity, its constant work
: ing has been steady progress toward tn
o PRACTICAL EQUALITY OF ALI MEN.
# "Let past differences as nothing be ; an'
i. with steady eye on the real issue, let us re
Is inaugerate the good old central ideas of til
= Republic We can do it. The huma
n heart is with us: God is with us. w
e shall again be able no, 70 declare that a
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