Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-05

icrl ofiho Mr iari H,uH dated Noys
oslh, 1860 Tho present highlnl con
Ntion Of our country l. here presented
without any attempt ut establishment,
and tho awful truth announced that we
now have rspoiihon already inaugera-
ted, (which, n not checked IN the only
way possible TO check IL, may lead to such
exces.cs as will entirely eclipse the hor-
rors of the French Revolution of90 Then
the historian, in writing our epitaph, can
speak Of rs as "a nation who lost her lib
erty in vain effort to set the negro free"
But we have no space for comments,
and only give this letter TO our readers to
show them that the most imminent dan
ger threatens our beloved country. If il
was before the election, our neighbor over
tie way would, as he has previously done
all summer, charge us with doing so
A" merely for political eject" Let all such be
held responsible for our present difficult
ties
WASHINGTON, Nov, %, 1860
The March tf the Revolution-Pu Public Blindness
and Apathy-Thc Hidden Danser--Tho Eject
of Secession North and South-A Remedy for
! Existing EVls--Tho Personal Liberty Bills
! Must bo Repealed, &c,
have conversed with large number Of
persons here of al gtades IN political and
private life, and it is astonishing how few
understand the true character of the revo-
luton already initiated; all are engaged
in the seif-oeceit thar attends the not cal
ling OF things by their right names. In
stead of recognizing the fact that we are
advancing rapidly in revolution that
STRIKES Mt every interest in the whole
country, and whose development may
soon become as uncomfortable as was that
of France after 1870, everybody is discus.
sing the absurd iallacy of constitutional sos
cession, and talking of it as though it were
n thing that we can march to through an
Octavian piece, and after it ia consumma>
ted find ourselves prospecting and 20 pros
per as we were before tie disunion.
In this Ignorance of the true movement
that is hurrying us on lies the real danger
that attends the country. 1t flatters all
men, North and South, with the idea that
there is no necessity Of making any mutu
al concessions, and lullS them in the vain
confidence that the path of empire can be
trod with the same greatness and glory by
seperate coniederacies that has been ex-
IhiLited 10y nearly n century of Union
Northern men instead of trying TO seek q
remedy for the present evils and the
present intolerance which the ant-slavery
oligarchy is inculcating toward the South,
say, if they wish TO 20 let them 90. -
In this they forget that they are admit.
ting the remedy Of revolution, which can.
not possibly bring any gain to their own
section, while it will strike a deadly blow
to thousands upon thousands of private
interests there. The natural operation OF
! n reyo luton, even peaceable one, which
should erect two governments where on
ly ono now stands, would be the creation
Of antagonistic political interests, to be
, followed by thu inevitable train oftariff,
for revenue purposes, the agitation ofpro
lection for home Industry. and eventually
by the creation of n conflict of dscorlant
interests among themselves Why should
= tlc meat and grain of the West be forced
! in its seeking of Southern markets &c
r share with the domestics Of the East the
fate Of hostile commercial policy?
The Southern men are equally blind tc
the true import of the revolution they are
driving on. infatuated with the idea O
Independence, they ieign to believe, that
secession is a constitutional right and
nothing more; that every State can go of
on It's own hook-Governors 5ecome Pres
. idents, with cabinets, national revenues
, armies, and all the paraphernala Of am
bassadors and ministers plenipotcntial lie,
to foreign courts, not only without dis
turUing, to any great extent, existing ma
terial interests, but with q possibility o.
subsiding again into the shorn position
Of members OF n Southern Contcderacy,
and that too, with States having diverse
interests and tendencies. TO show how
impossible such confederacy would be,
we need only refer to the recommendation
of Governor Gist in relation to hostile leg
islation toward those slave States that dc
not follow the lead of South Carolina
The fact is that the revolution already in
Iaugurated, and if no. controlled, will de
velope itself in courses which its instiga-
tors little imagine, and which will carry
them to destruction as inevitable as was
/, that OF Robesperre and his revolutionary
associates,
There is but one remedy for the evils
that are before us. That remedy is a Ma
ticnal Convention, which shall recreate
the iraternal spirit between the North and
the South, and provide for it new consti-
tutional guarantees. The old bond oi
union and brotherhood has been eaten
away by The steadily advancing spirit Of
anti slaveryiSm at the North, and fear by
the South o! its obtaining political power
, in the federal government This senti,
ment proclaims an irrepressble con.
ilict, which has no other issue than q
brutal and bloody one. Already the
Southern people are reused to look upon
self,deferce at all hazards as the point oi
= honor, and this blinds all men to the
, counsels OF interest or safety. There
must, then, be mutual concessions on both
sides. The North must put down the in.
tolerant spirit which has instigated it tc
proclaim that slavery is an evil and Q
, crime in the South, where eight mil
lions OF whites and four millions of blacks