Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-21
The Cause and the Remedy.


ent disturbance in the South. What @
mseraby contemplate subterfuge is il
for them TO say now, that because the
Democrats threatened, that if the people
would elect Lincoln the Union Wound be
dissolved, and that Lincoln being now
elected, the Union must be dissolved
merely 10 make their ,cordS good.
1t is rather remarkable that these gem
tlemen would ey en- give the Democracy
credit for having some regard for their
veracity.
But the plea is false as il is shallow
and contemplate. For more than ten
years the Democracy nave been n, Union
party in the North, and their presses and
orators have spared no pains in their eff
forts to show to the people Of the North,
that if the aggressive measures concocted
in the hotSbed of Aboltionism IN Massa-
chusetts, were sanctioned by the voice Of
public opInon-in such manner as we
now witness in the election of Lincoln
the South srn heart would not submit, and
as consequence, secession and disso!uo
ton must follow. This was the warning
given to the country by the Democratic
orators, aud presses, and statesmen. The
same sentiments were uttered, and the
same warnings given in every page, and
from every stump, from Ma son & Dixon's
limo TO the Aroostook. Our Republican
friends cannot deny this. They know it
is true. And they also know, that while
they were ridiculing the Democracy for
thus trying to save the Union, " as they
sneeringly called it, their black Republic
can Legislatures of more than half the free
States were passing laws nuyEtyng one of
the plainest and simplest provisions of
the National Compact. And these things
our Republican friends know to be true
nor dare they deny them.
But what is the present condition Of
our country, and what the remedy p
That secession is the order of the day
fixed fact-in at least five of the States Of
the Union, is beyond dispute. Are they
in earnest? Or are they doing all this
merely to make their words good?" Are
they sincere in desiring a separation and
the formation of Southern Confederacy ?
We hope we will not be charged with q
wish to frighten anybody, when we say
that we believe no people were ever more
in earnestin an enterprise they ever un,
dertook. There are many men in the
South who sincerely desire dissolution.
They believe they could prosper Letter if
separated from us, than they can in con.
nexion with US. But this is only the case
with comparatively but few of them for
the masses of the people there, as in the
North, can see no future for either section
on the other side of a dssolution-and
are therefore willing to submit to any sac.
rifice, except that of diShonor, to preserve
the Union.
If there is any meaning in the expires.
sion of public opinion, in the recent elec-
tion of Lincoln, it is, that Southern man
o"ning slaves, has not an equal right with
the Northern man, in the Territories the
common property" of a common Gov.
ernment. The Southern States are thus
put upon an inequality with the North, and
to which inequality every Southern man
will say he caunot submit withou. dis,
honor.
Besides this, some ten or dozen North.
ern States have passed laws nulEfyinq, to
some extent at least, that provision of the
Constitution requiring the rendition o.
fugitive slaves. This, every man in the
South believes TO be o breach of the Ma
tional Compact, and that if the North, be
ing the greater party, is permitted 10 eyadt
and violate the provisions of the Constitu
tion in one instance, te suit its convene
ences or caprices, it is natural to suppose
that it will do 30 in others, and, there
fore, there is no safety in living with {
people wEo are unfaithful to their solemn
contracts.
Our readers can now see with yha
power the secessionists can appeal to thei,
fellow citizens of the South. They repre
that it is so. We think there is no hone fo,
them out Of the Union, and that dis
union would be alike destructive 70 hot,
sections, to say nothing of the bloody and
destructive wars that must be the oonso.
quenoe' We think their only hope is !,
the Uhion-that the present triumpb O.
seetionallsm-ofw wrong and aggression mn
on the South is but temporary, and that
the great heart of the North will soon da.
light to repair all wrongs.
We therefore say to our Republican
friends, ifthey want to preserve the Un-
Ion, and restore peace and prosperity :,
the country, they have onlr to retrao,
their steps-correct their errors do NJ
they would be done by-oarrv an, =,