Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-10
The Fruits of Lincolns Election-a
Word to the Border States.


The exaggerated and dangerous devel-
opponents whiCn Senator Seward is giving
to the black republican idea in the Nortlr
ern and Western States is pregnant with
evil for Pennsylvania and all the commus
mites lying along the northern boundary
| of the slave States.
1t is now beyond denial that the aim OF
| Jh" leaders Of The party which advocates
| Lincoln election to the Presidency is to
|agitate for the abolition Of slavery every
where. They diseiaim any intention to
do this 5y other than what they call con
J lst.tutlonal means but at the same time
! they announce new Interpretation OF
! the constitution and the federal compact
widely different from what has been ac.
cepted ever since we have bad a national
existence. Ghe federal courts are to be
recognized by the appointment of abol
ton Judges, District Attorneys, Malahals
and other federal officers the army and
navy are 20 be tuned from any service
that tends to repress servile agitation aud
commOtlon, and the whole policy of t.c|
government is TO be an mated with sym,
pathy for those zealots and fanatics who
believe that they are dong God and so
ciety service 10y enabling the negroes OF
the South 10 escape from that subleCtiou
and control III which they are maintained
by the laws of the Southern States. Such
"a policy on the part of the federal govern,
ment would give an impulse to TIE labors
of the abolition agitators such as has never
hitherto been witnessed, and which would
be productive of an excitement on both
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slave States productive of an excitement
on both sides of the line between the free
and slave States productive of the most
prejudiclal and unfore cen resu,ts.
We have seen the effect of the secret
labors of the abolitionists in the Southern
counties of the Central free States. They
are continually inducing larger or smaller
bands Of negros to escape from the South,
and seek an asylum in the Gelusive para.
disc offered to them in the North. By
this asylum population is brought into
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
of the most vicious and degraded charac.
ter. To such an extent has this fact pref
udiced the interests and excited the feel.
irCs of the industrious and thrifty whites
in these States, that in some of them leg.
islatlon hostile to the negro residents has
been adopted and 10 all of them measures
have been sought 70 protect the rursl dis
tricts from their pernicious presence
These facts are beyond dispute, and they
are known to all. No-, let us accept for
a moment, and for the sake of the argu-
ment, the blackrepublican prognosticaI'n
OF the effect Of their triumph in the ap.
preaching national election. They affirm
that the Southern States will not secede ::
that all the new Territories will be closed
to slave immigration that wall of free
States will bo erected round the slave
States, and that under the pressure of
growing public opinion slavery, thus hem
me in, must be soon extinEuished.
In this black republican scheme Of fu.
tur c policy nothing is said of the fate Of
the Southern negro population. What,
then, is TO become Of the four millions of
slaves whose enforced industry now con-
stltutes the prosperity of the South, and
whose domestic subjectlon forms :he safe
ty cf Southern society? With their lib,
Grafton, whether sudden or gradual, all
existing material interests in the South
must fall its present society break up,
and both whites aud blacks seek other
Northern communities survives these
must inevitably be ovsrrun by the out
Pourings Of the eight millions of impover
ished whites, and four millions Of ignor-
ant and uncontrolled negroes, whose for
mer social ties and material interests
would be destroyed. In such an exodus
from the South, Pennsylvania and all the
Central free States would be the first to
be oyerrun by the newly emancipa and
indolent blacks. Whoever has contem-
plated the negro in any other light than
as Fl subject for political agitation knows
what would be the result The rural dis.
tricts would be overrun with thieving ne.
gro IS crops, orchards, gardens and farm.
yards would be the scenes of their con-
slant depredations, and the industrious
inhabitants would be- despoiled Of the
fruits Of their industry in every way. The
towns and villages would be filed with