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

to regulate their own affairs in their own |
way. There is no division of the house !
against itself in the Constitution; it ex- !
lists only in the efforts of such fanatics as
Abraham Lincoln 10 create strife, stir up
discords, set brother against brother, and
father against son, in our great and hop.
py household of confederated States.
Four months after Mr.. Lincolns speech
we lind 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
J constantly coming into closer contact,
and collision results Shall | tell you
what the collision means? They who
: think it is accidental, unnecessary, the
: work of interested lanatical agitators, and
therefore ephemeral, mistake the case al,
together. IL is an irrepressible conflict
between opposing and enduring forces,
; and it 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 ana New
\ ork become once more market for
trade in the bodies and souls of men. 1t
is the failure to apprehend the great truth
that induces so many unsuccessful at
tempts at final compromise between the
slave and free States, and it is the eXis
tence of this great fact that renders all
such pretended compromise, when made,
vain and cpl emeral."
Governor Chase. of Ohio, is another adj
vccate 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 ough,
to own labor, then 90 for the doctrine o.
penly. Ifyou believe that freedom is the
3 right Of man, then join the party which
has inscribed on the folds of its banner
Freedom throughout the couutry's wide
domain"
1t may bo well to add that we know OF
no party, save the black republicans, that
contends for this issue. The democratic
party is fighting for the constitutional
rights of all sections--for the Constitution
:, rs it is and for the Union as ii is. They
. have nothing to do with slavery or anti.
slavery. They DO not proclaim Slavery
throughout the country's wide domain,
>, nor do they proclaim Freedom through
l. out the country's wide domain" for The
: simple reason that the Constitution leave:
that question TO be settled and decided by
the people of each State, and each Teni
tory when they come to form State con
stitItion preparatory TO their admission
into the Union, for themselves. Cover
- nor Chase would break down and tramp
le Under foot his solemn and salutary Oh
legation of the Conslitrtion for in no 9th
er way could his party uniurl the banner
of Freedom throughout the country
Of wide domain"
he Hon. George w. Julian, once mem
es ber OF Congress from Indiana, and at thi
Iy time the republican candidate for Con
re gress in the banner black republican dis
ct tricL in that State, at o Fremont meet
II ing in Greenvlle, Starke county, Ohio o'
, the 10th Of September, 1856, thus deliver
lie ed himself:
IN 1T is no use to deny il any longer Ou
ce republican party is a sectional party, becaus
en the South has forced us into it. Th
a. s,umpers of this old line, hoise-stealn
democracy, not having the fear OF God bC
g. fore their eyes, charge us with being sec
tional / tell you w6 arc sectional party.
na is not alono fight between the Mort
be and the South. 1t is 6 fight between free
I'll dom and slavery -bet0eGn God and The dev
~ -bawcca Heauen md heH"
es On the 10th of January, 1855, the Re-
OF Henry Ward Beecher the pet of the blac
cd republicans of Brooklyn, New York, in
'e, lecture in New York city, on the suhje'
of cutting the North from the South sal
OF "All ettempts at evasion, at adjournir
at concealing and compromising, are
ba vain. The reason of our long agitation
80 not that restless abolitionists arc abroa'
~. that ministers will meddle with improp'
liz themes, that parties are disregardful
,ta their country's interest. These are sym
in toms only, not the disease; the effect
lin not the causes.
"Two great powers that will not live t
ear gether are in our midst, and tuggng
a. each others throsts. They will scare
ot each other out, though you seperate the
IN. hundred times, And if by an insai
ac. blindness you shall contrive to put off Il
,ees issue and send this unsettled dispu
ON, down to your child en-, it will 60 dow
ave gathering volume and ttrength at eve
a. step, to waste aud desolate their heritag
his Lett be settled noD Clear the place. Bri
tly the champions. Let them put their la
ect ces in rest for the charge. Sound I
ok. trumpet and God save the right"
t it In his speech in the Senate, June 4, Il
me Mr.. Sumner, of Massachusetts,, thus rel
the rates the "irrepressible conflict IL
ur- trine:
the Senators sometimes announce u
Il 1t they resist slavery on political grour
a 4 al, mol