Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-14

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AValhrf Presidential election haI lt0h
htli hnd h large plurality N iho diU.u'
IA lhf uottfnmuhl hhte ai4paei lhrit
pprttnco uf Altaham Lincoln oi llu.
pot. 10 th8m iho, tccm Willing iotnlfutl
ibe cate nni Constitution of iho hfea'cst
of fcs uo,etnmtnls The omo bust
was cohadod 10 Washington, ,dhms and
jefferson md our only hope is That The
uov,tnmcnt entrusted now 10 NJ Lincoln
will hc delivered over 10 vi, successor NJ
. the end of his term, With the addition Of
more slars to our glorious banner and the
ltiphtS Of al tho citizens Of all the States
preserved aud continued in the same
spirR aud feeling which has heretofore
been voncLsGcd unto us.
The Democratic party had--in the Ian
lguago of celebrated orator" the world,
the flesh, and the Devil" to contend with,
in addition to the refractory members of
Our own fomily.
II is notifying to US to know that, not
only in our own town and neiGhborhooG
but throughout the whole country, nu-
merous Individuals, who have been heres
tofcre acting with the Democratic party,
seen fit to desert US or not vote at ALL
Those who voted against their party
friends, going square over to Liucolnism,
are willing to avow q principle bad and
wicked as it may prove in the end to every
one of us. Those Democrats who did not
vote at all, represent nothing-not even
themselves. Such men are an injary to
any cause they may espouse, as they are
certain to flee when danger approaches,
and when every one should act from rrin-
ciple.
To those who stood by us we say, we'll
done but you have done nothing but
your duty. Let not those Democrats who
plainly and explicitly declare for Consti-
tutional truths, fear to loose by their ex.
plieitness; let not those who implicitly,
or less explicitly, declare their assent TO
the same truth, hope to gain by their
explicitness. 1t is this Constitutional
truth, North and South alike; and the
Democratic party, North and South, will
have to stand or fall according as it does
or docs not adhere to this great cardinal
and political truth of the co-oqpal right of
each and all of the States in the Union.
The true friends of the Constitution and
the Union, who imagine that the Demoo
cratic party at the North can sustain itself
against the Republicans by standing tins
idly, shrihkingly, tender footedly, and
cowardly on tho platform of adjudicated
Constitutional truths, deceive themselves
egregiously. We can and we will redeem
and save our party. We can redeem it in
one way, and one only; and that is, in
frankly, manfully, firmly, and foarlessly
planting ourselves upon the great finda-
mental truths and principles of the Con,
stitution. In this manner wa have sue,
ceeded heretofore, and it is the only way
hcCul triumph III tIlC lHtuTe. III we can
not succeed in this manner then it will
be evident that the American Union is
nothing but lifeless corpse, phantasm
of magnificent greatness, mere sham of
power; and is about to enter the great
Maelstrom of departed Republics, and
live only in memory and history in the
lugubrious procession of tho departed
empires Of tine Old World.
We have done our duty as well rs we
.underStood.it; weare clear; let the result
come. We arc ready to discharge our
duty still further, if need be but hopsw we
will not be in the unfortunate situation
of not knowing what TO do.