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

ory that established State governments Il
make laws TO meet the exigencies, condi-
ton, climate, soil, &c. of each State, and
to regulate their own affairs in their own
way. There is no division OF the house
against itself in tho Constitution il ex
lists only in the efforts of such fanatics az
Abraham Lincoln 70 create strife, stir up
discords, set brother against brother, and
father against son, in our great and hon.
py household of confederated States.
Four mouths after Mr.. Lincoln's speech
we Ind the HoE. VIM. Il. Seward. the
great leader of the black-republican party,
expressing the same idea in his speech at
Rochester, N. Y:
THUS, these antagcnistic systems are
constantly coming into closer contact,
and collision results Shall | tell YOU
what the collision meansY They who
think it is accidental, unnecessary, the
work OF Interested fanatical agitators, and
therefore ephemeral, mistake the case AL,
together. 1t is an irrepressble conflict
between opposing and enduring forces,
and 1t means that the United States must
and will, sooner or later, become entire
| ly slaveholding nation or entirely free
labor nation. Either the cotton and rice
fields of South Carolina, and the sugar
plantations of Louisiana, will ultimately
be titled by free labor, and Charleston and
New Orleans become marts for legitimate
merchandise alone or else the rye fields
and wheat fields Of Massachusetts and
New York must again be surrendered by
their farmers TO slave culture and TO the
production OF slaves, and Boston and New
York become once more market for
trade IN the bodies and souls of men. IL
Is the iailura to apprehend the great truth
that induces so many unsuccessful at
tempts at final compromise between the
slave and Tree States, and it is the exis.
tence of this great fact that renders ali
such pretended compromise, when made,
vain and plemeral"
Governor Chase. of Ohio, is another adj
! yocate OF the ''irrepressible conflict" A
few days ago, at Pontiac, Michigan, he
thus stated the issue. or rather his con
ception Of the issue between the par.
! ties
Il ask you to take sides and decide
where you will be. If tie Lord be God
then serve HIM but if Baal, then serve
him. If slavery be right; if capital ought
to own labor, then 60 for the doctrine O.
penly. lfyou believe that freedom is the
right OF man, then join the party which
has inscribed on the folds of its banner
Freedom throughout the country's wide
domain"
1t may be well to add that we know of
no parry, save the black republicans, that
contends for this issue. The democratic
party is fighting for the constitutional
tights OF all seciions-fer the Constitution
as 1t is. and for the Union as it is. They
have nothing to do with slavery or anti
slavery. They 90 not proclaim Slavery
throughout the country's wide domain" ]"
nor DO they proclaim Freedom through
out the country's wide domain" for the
simple reason that The Constitu ton leaves
that question TO be settled and decided by
the people of each State, and each Terri
tory when they come to form State con-
stitution preparatory to their admission
into the Union, for themselves. Cover
nor Chase would break down and tramp
lie Under foot his solemn and Salutary OBJ
legation of the Constitution, for in no 9TH
er way could his party unfurl the banner
of Freedom throughout the country's
vide domain"
Hon. George w. Julian, once mem.
Der Of Congress from Indiana, and at this
time the republican candidate for Con.
gress in the banner black republican dis.
trict in that State, at Fremont meet
ingin Greenville. Siarke county, Ohio, on
the 10TH of September, 1856. thus deliver,
ed himself:
1T is no use To deny il any longer. Our
republican party IS sectional party, because
the South mas forced us into it. The
stumpers of his old line, hoise-st ealing
democracy, not having the fear of God be-
fore their eyes, charge us with being sec.
tlonal tell you zoe are a sectional party. II
is not alono fight between the North
and the South. 1t is g fight between free.
dom and slavery-betveen God and the devH
-bet,ceen Heaven md hel."
On the 10th of January, 1855, the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, the pet of the black
of Brooklyn, New York. in
lecture in New York city, on the subject
Of cutting the North from the South, said:
"All ettempts at evasion, at adjourning
at concealing and compromising, are in
vain. The reason of our long agitation is,
not that restless abulitionists ara abroad,
that ministers will meddle with improper
themes, that parties are disregardful of
their country's interest. These are symp.
toms only, not the disease; the effects,
not the causes
1.-TWO great powers that will not live to.
gether are in our midst, and Juggling at
eacI others throsts. They will search
zach other out, though you seperate them
\ hundred times. And if by an insane
blindness you shall contrive to put off the
ssun. and send this unsettled dispute
lown to your children, it will go down,
gathering volume and strength at every
step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
Letn be settled nolo. Clear the place. Bring
The champions. Let them put their Lam
,es in rest for the charge. Sound the
trumpet and God save the right"
In his speech in heSenate. June 4. 1860
ny sumner, Of Massachusetts,, thus reite-
Ia,es .a, the "irrepressible conflict" doc
senators sometimes announce that