Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-24
NEW SERlES-VOL. I.-NO Is.

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main to Union, TO justice, TO defence, TO
welfare. and to liberty. But their is n
higher law than the Constitution, which
regulates our authority over the domain,
and devotes 1t to the same noble uurpo-
ses. App. to Cong Globe, lst Sess. 3lst
Cong, pages 2G3, 265.
Again in speech N the Senate, March.
1858, Mr.. Seward said
"The interests ofthc white race demand
the ultimate emancipation Of all men,
Whether that Contamination shall be al
lowed to take effect with needlui and
wise precautions against sudden change
ard disaster, or he hurried On by violence,
is all that remains for you to decide"
Still later only few days ago, at Bos-
ton he boldly proclaimed
"What Il commentary upon the history
OF man Is the fact that eighteen years af-
ter the death OF John Quiacv Adams the
people have for their standard bearer A
hraham Lincoln, confessing the oblga-
tions of the higher law which TIE Sage of
Quincy proclaimed, and contending 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 the
great triumphal Inauguration of this poll
cy into the Government of the United
States"
Gov. Chase, of Ohio. in his speech de.
| livered in Cincinatti from which we have
already quoted, said.
For myself am ready to renew my
| pledge, and ! viii venture to speak in
behalf Of my co.workers, that we will 20
straight on without faltering or wayer-
| ing until every vestige of oppression
] shall be erased from the statute books go
until the sun in all his journey from the
utm ost eastern horizon through the mid
heaven, till he SINKS behind the western
bed, shall not behold the footprint of
single slave in all our broad and glorious
| land"
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, in his
Boston speech in 1855 said
"Seud it abroad on the wings of the
wind that | am committed. fully commit
ted, committed 70 the fulust extent, in
! favor Of immediate and unconditional
/ abolition OF fsiavery, wherever il exists un-
der the authority of the Constitution Of
the United States"
In letter written on July 90, 1885, the
same Wilson wrote;
o." Let us remember that more than three
millions of hondsmen groaning under
nameess woes, demanp that we shall re-
prove each other, and that we labor for
heir delive.ence
81 tell you here to night that tile ag-
itation of this question will continue while
the foot of a slave presses the soil of the
Am erican Republic" ...... ,.....
CONCLUSION. ..
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,
} Reapa,h x Co., who have the merit OF BE-
ing more out.spokeu, old, and violent in
THEN assaults upon the Constitution and
the Union for the reason that, though
voting wlgl that party, ret some of he
republican leaders in some of the States,
such as Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New
} Jersey, where black-republicans is OF sloS
| growth, affect to deny their authority 10
speak for the republican party. So, in
these papers, we have confined ourselves
strictly toquotations from the Represents.
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 counsels di
rect, whose acts control il. No man can
) gainsay their authority to speak for it .
for they themselves constitute the party
We have made fair and honest quotations
from their speeches and lettes And
, now look upon the record. What does Is
all meant The dissolution of the Ameri-
; can Union, the emancipation of the South
ern slaves, and the reduction Of the South
: ern States and Southern men into the
! abject position of colonies and vassals. =
This is the "bloody goal" at which black
republicanism strives. And what is the.
t lesson this brutal programme ought TO
(. instil into the hearts of conservative men
: of the North? We unhesi,atingIy an
swer, Union for the sake of the UnIon.--
b When bad men combine, good men ought
). to unite; and when the bloody banner OF
i fanaticism is uuiurled to the breeze, anC!
(. when treason, grown audacious and def
G ant, no longer skulls in secret but with
o shameless front proclaims its principles
# and objects to the world, il is high time
Y for the friends Of law and order at the
Il North to rally around the Constitution
, ard to raise loft the flag of the Union.
It while yet we have Constitution, Un
G. ion, and flag, and before these Blacl,
y Republican reyolutlonists succeed in in
10 aueurating a reign of terror like the car
A. mage st Domingo, and before the Re
Id public of North America. rent into frag
. ments, has become thing of the past, :
~ fact only in the page of history. Their,
ID is but one political organization in thi
be country that has the power to resist an'
IN roll back the waves of Fanaticism. Tha
m organization is the National Democratic
party Firmly planted ia the hearts o
u, the American people, descended from th
i, pure and better DAYS of this Republic
contemporary with Washington, and Jet
~. rorsn,, nnd Ianksnn il sLands forth 70 daN