Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-24


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ses.'-App. to Cong GloLe Isl Sess. RI
Cong, pages 2G3, 2j5
Again in speech in the Senate. Mrrc,
1908, Mr.. Seward said
"The interests of the white race de.,ard
the ultimate emancipation Of all mon
whether that consumniation shall be- al
lowed to take effect, with needTu, aul
wise precautions against sudden charoc
and disaster, or be hurried on ly violence
IS all that remains for you to decide"
Still later, only few days ago, st Bos-
ton ne boldly proclaimed
"What a commentary upon the history
OF man is the fact that eighteen wears aE
ter the death of John Qui CIV Adams the
people have for their standard bearer A.
nrahan ihncoln, confessing the obliga-
tions of the higher law which tie sage Of
quincy proclaimed and contencing for
veal or woe, for life or death. in the IRE.
pressible conflict between freedom and
slavery. desire only TO say that we are
in the last stage of the conflict before tbo
great trlumphal Inauguration of this poli-
cy into the Government of the U6ited
States"
Gov: Chase, ofOhio, in his speech de.
hvered In Cincinatti from which we have
already quoted, said.
For myself am ready to renew INV
( pledge, and | will venture to speal, IN
behalf cfmy co-workers, that we will 90
straight on. without faltering or waver-
ing until every vestige of oppression
shall be erased from he statute books
until the sun. IN all his journey from the
utmost eastern horizon through the mid
heaven, till he sinks behind the western
bed, shall not behold the footprint of a
single slave N all our broad and glorious
land"
Senator Wilson. of Massachusetts,, in his
Boston speech in 1855 said l.:
Send it abroad on The wings of the
wind that J IN Committed, fully commit
ted, committed 20 the fullust extent, in
favor of immediate and unconditional
abolition ofslavery, wherever it exists un.
der the authority of he Constitution OF
the United States"
In letter written on July 20 1885. the
same Wilson wrote:
" Let rs remember that more than three.
millions Of hondsmen groaning undo.
nameless woes. demanp that we shal re-
prove each other, and that we labor for
heir delive-ence.
Il tell you here to night that the ags
itaton of this question will continue while
the foot o. slave presses the soil of the
american Repub !c."
coNcaus-oH
1t will be perceived that we have made.
no quotations from that still more ultra
and extreme portion of the republican
party led by VIM. Lloyd Garrison. Wen
dell Philips, Abby Foster, Gerrit Smith.
Reopath d Co., who have the merit of be-
ing more out-spoken, old, and violent in
their assaults upon the Constitution and
the Union; for the reason that, though
voting with that party, yet some of the
republican leaders in some of the States
such as Indiana, Pennsylvania. and New
Jersey, where ck-republicans is Of sloc
growth affect to deny their authority tc.
speak for the republican party. So, H..
these papers, we have confined ourselye~
strictly toquotations from the Representa-.
tive men, the admitted leaders-the en-
dorsed aud everywhere acknowledged
founders, creators, and nurses, advocates
and chief supporters Of the republican
party the men who made this party
whose talents sustain, whose cnun.rl- al
rect, whose acts control it. No man car,
gainsay their authority to speaE r,rlI.
for they themselves constitute the oarCy.
We have made fair and honest quotation
from their speeches and lette.s. And
now look upon the cord What doesi-
all mean? The dis. luton of the Amer.
can Union, the emancipation ofths South.
ern slaves, and the reduction Of the south
ern States and Southern men into the
abiest position of colonies and vagsas.
This is the bloody goal" at which black
strives. And what is the
lesson this brutal programme ought to
instil into the hearts of conservative men
of the North2 We uhhesitatingly an,
swer, Union for the sake of the Union
When bad men combine, good men ought
to unite and when the bloody banner OF
tanatlclsm is uuiurled to the breeze. and
when treason, grown audacious and def,
ant, no longer skulks in secret, but Will
shameless front procaims its principle
and objects to the world. il is high time
for the friends Of law and order at the
North TO rally around the Constitution.
ard to raise aloft the flag of the Union.
while yet we have a Constitution, q I'm
ion, and flag, and before these Black
Republican revolutlonists succeed in in
augurating reign Of terror like the car
mage OF St. Domingo, and before The Re
public of North America. rent into frag-
ments, has become ching of the past, a
fact only in the page of history. There
is but one political organization in thi-
country that has the power to resist and
roll back the waves Of 'anaticism. Thai
j. the National Democratic,
party. Firmly planted in the hearts OF
the American people. descended from the
pure and better DAYS of this Republic
with Wa-hip gton. md Ief-
ferson, and Jack son, it stands forth To day
as it has ever stood the champion OF the
and the Unicn. II has en-.
coat tered and ovri'htoEn tho Black Re.
publican dlsunion party upon one battle
field. Let the conservative men oG tho
now rally to It's standard and il
will again meet overthrow and vn10uisl