Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-21
CLEARFIELD. PA, NOV. eI, 1850.
AN ED1roR ON L1rERARY sr1Lrs.

ter it unstintedy. Actuated, probably, by such
feelings, the editor of the Cleartfetd Repabh-
can, tho Democratic organ in this county, re-
proves, in a severe manner, the s'refractory
members Of his political s'family." SIT is
Z" notifying to us to know says he, esthat not
" only in our own town and neighborhood, but
/" throughout the whole country, numerous in
&C dividuals, who have heretofore been acting
"with the Democratic party, seen fit to desert
US or not vote at all.'' Having, with the
politicians of-his party generally, looked anx-
iously, Micawber-hke, for s'somethng to turn
up" by which the Republicans might be de-
feated, and being sorely disappointed in that
expectation, it does not surprise us to hear our
uptown neighbor affirm that those who went
square over to Lincolnism, are willing to a.
vow principle bad and wicked as it may
dull comprehension prevents us from discern
ing clearly what ssprinciple'' he refers to as
being likely to prove ssbad and wicked'' to
those he embraces in the phrase ssevery one of
us ~ unless we keep in view the fact that both
the junior and senior partners in the Republ-
can establishment, as well as some influential
friends, hold public offices which they may
possibly lose before very many months pass a
way. OF ssthose Democrats who did not vote
at all, % he speaks very distinctly; he says they
"represent nothing-not even themselves ~
and scare an injury to any cause they espouse,
" as they are certain to flee when danger ap-
"proaches." Poor fellows, what a deplorable
situation they must be in! We don't know
what they are to do. IF they are not as great
towards as our uptown neghbor represents
them to be, they might go South and secede.
After thus sharply reprimanding the Gre
fractory members of his party, the editor of
the Republican turns his attention to such as
continued firm till the battle was ended. :sTo
those," he remarks sswho stood by US we
"ssy, well done; but you hare done nothing but
81 your duty" Though the concluding words
may seem a little frigid, if not arrogant, those
to whom it Is addressed will doubtless leave it
pass quickly from their minds and dwell with
admiration and wonder on the brilliant SEN
tence which our neighbor uses in immediate
connection with the foregoing, viz: 'Let not
those Democrats, who plainly and explicitly
" declare for Constitutional truths, fear to
" loose by their explicitness; let not those who
:" implicitly, or less explicitly, declare their
sent to the same truth, hope to gain by
{" their explicitness." Very likely they wont.
We take it for granted that such an ssexplicit"
intimation will be ssimplicity'' obeyed by the
"true friends of the Constitution and the u
nion,'' who are told that they ssdeceive them
selves egregiously'' if they 'simagine that the
=" Democratic party at the North can sustain
I" itself against the Republicans by standing
.s timidly, shrinkingly, tender -footedly, and
" cowardly on the platform Of adjudicated
constitutional truths.'' We shouldn't won
der if they did. And our neighbor tells his
friends that there is only one way to save their
party, (Which he says he can and will redeem,)
and that is, in s'frankly, firmly and fearlcssly"
planting themselves upon s'thc great funda-
mental truths and principles of the Constitu-
tion.'' Then, warming up with his subject, he
paints in vivid colors what will be the fate of
our great governmental structure. eff we can
" not succeed in this MANNER" he exclaims
with trag effect, sc then it will be evident that
" the American Union is nothing but iifeiess
" corpse, phantasm of magnificent greatness,
" a mere sham of power; and is about to en-
" ter the great Maelstrom of departed Repub-
" lics," (u-g-h, we tho't she was gone,) sand
" live only in memory and history in the lugu-
- brious procession of the departed empires of
I" the Old World.'' Wouldn't that be horri-
BILE! We do hope that our beloved Union will
keep out of such an outlandsh ssprocession,''
with such breaking adjective as that
Be that as 1t may, however, we cannot but ad-
mire the 'explicit' and eloquent language which
the writer in the Republican uses throughout
his article. Such scholastic jems are rare, and
we know of nothing that will come near it in
comparison, unless it is the account given by
a Western reporter Of lecture which he saws
was "desgned to demonstrate the mysterious
" operation of the disintegration of the etomo-
" logical formula, in which the chronological
" element predominates in logical form, by a
mysterious conformation of sympathetic au-
" thenticated integration of vernacular phe-
:" nomena, terminating in intricate material
" resolutions of spiritual nature, in referen-
g tial, indirect and objective analysis of the
I" ego and non ego of the individual, which re-
" suits in three cognotive epochs of miscella-
sc neous things" We do not pretend to be a
competent judge of such things, and therefore
leave it an open question whether the writer
in the Cearfe.d Republican or the Western re-
porter conveys his ideas most ssexplicitly."
A couple inches of snow fell hero last night