Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-21
Clearfeld, Pa, November 81, 1860:
The Cause and the Remedy.

ISOLATION, we are perfectly satisfied that
the black Republican press should con-
tinue its false charges against the Democ-
racy MS having been the cause Of the pres!
ent disturbance in the South. What a
miserably contemplate subterfuge is it
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 TO make their ,cord, good.
1t is rather remarkable that these gen
tlemen would even give the Democracy
credit for having some regard for their
veracity.
But the plea isa false as il is shallow
and contemplate. For more than ten
years the Democracy nave been III, Union
party in the North, and their presses and
orators have spared no pains in their ef-
forts to show to the people OF the North,
that if the aggressive measures concocted
in the hotsbed of Abolitionism in Massa-
chusetts, were sanctioned by the voice of
public opinion-n such manner as we
now witness in the election of Lincoln
the South ,rn heart would not submit, and
as a consequence secession and dissolu,
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
line to the Aroostook. Our Republican
friends cannot deny this. They know it
is true And they also know, that " lille
they were ridiculing the Democracy for
thus trying to "save the Union, as they
sneeringly called it, their black Republic
can legislatures of moro than half the free
States were passing laws multiplying 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--a
fixed iact-in at least FIVE of the States OF
the Union, is beyond dispute. Are they
in earnests Or are they doing all this
"merely to make their words goodH" Are
they sincere in desiring separation and
the formation of Southern Contederacy
We hope we will not be charged with {
wish 10 frighten anybody, when wo say
that we believe no people were ever more
in earnest in am enterprise they ever un
dertook. There are many men in thu
South who sincerely desire dissolution
They believe they could prosper letter i
separated from us, than they can in con
nexion with us. But this is only the cas-,
with comparatively but few of them; TO
the masses of the people there, as in th,
North, can see no future for either section
on the other side of dissolution-ant
are therefore willing to submit to any sac
rifice, except that Of dishonor, to preserv
the Union.
II there is any meaning in the express
sion of public opinion, in the recent elec
ton of Lincoln, it is, that Southern mai
owning slaves, has not an equal right witt
the Northern man, in the Territories
common property" of common Gov
erpment The Southern States are thu
put upon an inequality with the North, an,
10 which inequality ereyy Southern ma
will say he cannot submit withou. dis
honor.
Besides this, some ten ora dozen North
err States have passed laws multiplying, I
some extent at least, that provision OF tn
Constitution requiring the rendition {
fugitive slaves. This, every man in tn
South believes to be breach of the Ma
tional Compact, and that if the North, b,
ing the greater party, is permitted to evad
and violate the provisions of the Constit,
tion in one instance, to suit its conven
ences or caprices, it is natural to suppos
that it will do 30 in others, and, ther,
fore, there is no safety in living with
people wLo are unfaithful to their solem
contracts.
Our readers can now see with VIII
power the secessionists can appeal to the
fellow citizens of the South. They rerr,
that it is SO. We think there is no hope f
them out of the Union, and that di
union would be alike destructive to bot
sections, to say nothing of the bloody ar
destructive wars that must be the copse
quence. We think their only hope is
the Union-that the present triumph
sectionalism--of wrong and aggression II
on the South isbut temporary, and tn
the great heart Of the North will soon d
light to repair all wrongs.
We therefore say TO opr Ren,h,;o,