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

! "OIu W TIE DOfuer SJdCeS,
The exaggerated and dangerous deycl.
opponents which Senator Seward is giving
to the black republican idea in the Nortll.
erh and Western States is pregnant with
evil for Pennsylvania and all the commu.
mites lying along the northern boundary
Iot the slave States.
1t is now beyond denial that the aim OF
IN" lea ders Of the party which advocates
Llncoin.a election to the Presidency is to
agitate for the abolition Of slavery every
where. They disclaim any intention to
do this 10y other than what they call con
stitutIonal means, but at the same time
they announce new Interpretation of
the constitution and the federal compact
widely different from what has been ac,
ceptcd ever since we have had national
existence, The federal courts are to be
recognized by the appointment of abol-
ton Judges, District Attorneys, MarDhals
and other federal officers the army and
navy are 20 be TUNED from any service
lhat tends to repress servile agitation and
commoton, and the whole policy of the
government is to be minated with SYM,
pathy for those zealots and fanatics who
believe that they are doing God and SO
ciety aservice by enabling the negroes ofI
the South 10 escape from that subsection
and control IN which they are maintained
by the laws of the Southern States. Such
a policy on the part of the federal govern,
mcnt would give an impulse to the labors
OF the abolition agi!ators such as has never
hitherto been witnessed, ~d which would
be productive Of an excitement on both
sides Of the line between the free and
slave States productive of an excitement
on both sides Of the line between the free
and slave States productive of the most
and uniore IN leut,.
We have seen the effect of the secret
ahors on the aboitionists in the Southern
counties Of the Central free State. The,
IRE continually inducing larger or smaller !
lands OF ncglcs to escape from the South |
ma seek an asylum in the Gelusive para
ilsc offered to them in the North. b,
ms asylum population is brought into
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
'i the most vicious aud degraded charac
er. To such an extent has this fact pref
ldlced the interests and excited the feel |
ngs OF the industrious and thrifty whites |
n these States, that in some of them leg
station hostile to the negro residents has
'een adopted and in all of them measures /,
lave been sought 70 protect the rurfl dis
flcts from their pernicious presence
heSe facts are beyond dispute. and they ,
re known to all Nor, let us accept for
moment, and for the sake Of the argu-
nent, the blackrepublican prognosticat'n !,
# the effect Of their triumph in the ap. ,
national election. They affirm
hat the Southern States will not secede.: :
nat all the new Territories will be closed
o slave immigration that a wall of froa ,
tates will be erected round the slave =
Iates, and that under the pressure Of {
rowing public opinion slavery, thus hem Q
le IN, must be soon eXtinguished. Il
In this black republican scheme Of fu- a
II policy nothing is caid of the fate of :?
le Southern negro population. What. /,
zen, is to become Of the four millions of q
aves whose enforced industry now con- :
flutes the prosperity of the South. and .
hose domestic subsection forms he safe.
oi Southern society? With their lib, y
alton, whether sudden or gradual. all n
listing material interests in the Sonth s
ust fall, its present society break IN. 81
ld both whites and blacks seek Other ~
enes Of livelihood. lfthe prosperity OF II
crthern communities survives, these /,
ust inevitably be ovsrruS by the out h
'urings of the eight millions of impover ~
he'd whites, and four millions of irnor- II
Il and uncontrolled negroes, whose for. N,
er social ties and material interests ~
build be destroyed. In such an exodus Il,
om the South, Pennsylvania and all the Il,
ntral free States would be the first to oi
oyerrun by the newly emancipnted and s,
dolent blacks. Whoever has contem- hi
'ied the negro in any other light than AT
a nj subject orpolitical agitation knows II
lat would be the result The rural dis n,
cts would be overrun with thieving ne. dr
D IS crops, orchards gardens and farm. N
rds would be the scenes Of their CON in
mt drpredations, and the industrious in n;
labitants would be despoiled of the ea
MS OF then industry in every way The ar
Yns and villages would be filed with nc