Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-04
On the Verge of Revolution.

etter from the washington coIIeSPoh
lent of the Nslg York Hh'ald, dated Nov,
18th. 1860. The present frightful con
lition. of our country is here presented
any attempt at establishment |
and the awful truth announced that We
now have "rerollaion already inaugera-
ted, which, if not checked in the only
way possible to check it, may lead TO such
excesses as will entirely eclipse the hor-
rors of the French Revolution of 90. Then
the historian, in writing our epitapA, can
sneak oius as "a nation who lost her lib
erty in vain effort to set the negro free"
But we have no space for comments,
and only give this letter 10 our readers to
show them that the most imminent dan
ger threatens our beloved country. If it
was Jcjore the election, our neighbor over
tie way would, as lac has previously done
all summer, charge us with doing so
" merely for political e8iet, Let all such be
held responsible for our present difficult
ties
WAsHIYGToN, Nov, 2S, 1860.
The March cf the Revolution--Public Blindness
and Apathy-The Hidden Danger-The Eject
of Secession North and South-A Remedy for
Existing Eyls-The Personal Liberty Bills
Must be Repealed, &c.
have conversed with large number OF
persons here of al grades IN political and
private life, and it is astonishing how few
understand the true character of the reyo-
luton already initiated all are engaged
in the self-oeceit that attends thenot cal
ling of things hy their right names. In
stead Of recognizing the fact that we are
advancing rapidly in a revolution that
strikes at every interest in the whole
country, and whose development may
soon become as uncomfortable as was that
of France after 1890, everybody Is discus
sing the absurd fallacy of constitutional sc>
cession, and talking of it as though it were
thing that we can march TO through an
Octavian piece, and after it is consumma,
ted find ourselves prospecting and 20 pros
per as we were before the disunion,
In this ignorance of the true movement
that is hurrying us on lies the real danger
that attends the country. 1t natters all
men, North and South, with the idea that
there is no necessity of making any mutu
al concessions, and lulls them in the vain
confidence that the path Of empire can be
trod with the same greatness and glory by
seperate conlederacies that has been cX-
hiLited by nearly q century of Union
Northern men instead of trying to seek n
remedy for the present evils and the
present intoleyan ,e which the anti slavery
loligarchy is inculcating toward the South,
say, "if they wish 10 20 let them 90. -
In this they forget that they are admit
ting the remedy ofreyolution, which can.
not possibly bring any gain TO their own
section, while it will strike a deadly blow
to thousands upon thousands of private
interests there. The natural operation OF
] a revolution, even a peaceable one, which
should erect two governments where on
/ lv one now stands, would be the creation
Of antagonistic political interests, to be
/ followed by the inevitable train Of tariffs
| for revenue purposes, the agitation ofpro,
lection for home industry. and eventually
/ by the creation of a conflict of discorddnt
Interests among themselves. Why should
/ the meat and grain of the West be forced
! in its seeking OF Southern markets 10
share with the domes,cs of the East the
fate Of hostile commercial policy?
/ The Southern men are equally blind Ia
4 the true import Of the revolution they are
! driving on. infatuated with the idea o
/ Independence, lhoy leign to believe, that
secession is n constitutional right and
nothing more; tina. every State can go of
on It's own hDok-Governor become Pres
. ii Is. ],
armies, and all the parNphernalia of am
/ baSsadOrs and ministers plenipotentiaiies
{ to foreign courts not only without dis
/ turbiGg, to any great extent, existing ma.
terial interests, but with q possibility OF
subsiding again into the shorn position
of members OF Southern Confederacy.
land that, too with States having diverse
interests and tendencies. 70 show how
I impossible such a coniederacy would be,
we need only refer to the recommendation
Of Governor Gist in relation to hostile leg
: islation toward those slave States that dc
! not follow the leat Of South Carolina
/ The fact is that the revolution already in
auguraled, and If not controlled will de-
velOpe itself in courses which its instiga-
tors little imagine, and which will carry
them toa destruction as inevitable as wa,
that OF Robespicrre and his revolutionary
associates.
+ There is but one remecy for the evil.
that are before us. That remedy is q Ma.
ticnal Convention, which shall recreatC
! the fraternal spirit between the North and
/ the South, and provide for it new consti.
/ tu.ional guarantees. The OLD bond Of
union and brotherhood has been eaten
away by .he steadily advancing spirit O.
anti slaveryism at the North, and fear by
the South Of It's obtaining political power
in the federal government. This senti
ment proclaims an "irrepressible con
iliot, " which has no other issue than
brutal and bloody one. Already tn,
Southern people are reused to look upol
|self-deferce at all hazards as the point o
honor and this blinds all men TO tn,
counsels OF interest or safety. Their,
must, then, be mutual concessions on boil
sides The North must put down the in
/ tolerant sDirit which has 'instigated n .,