Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-12-18

Wednesday Morning Dec Is 1851

Wednesday Morning Dec Is 1851.
TIM Prosrrcr-The Secretary Of IN,
Treasury informs the people Of the Uni
ted States that their Indebtedness. in 1863
will amount to nine Llgdrci millions of dok
.ars' Rather steep, this. Bu, he says W,
can pay it all in thirty years To enable
va to do so Of course the Secretary cnlcu-
latos the war to end by that time with our
country reunited and us prosperous as it
was sixteen months ago
But ifho has committed as great blum.
der in this estimate as he did in that OF
July last, our Indebtedness, by 1868, in,
stead Of being nine hun lred millions will
be nearer cigl teeu hundred millions. lie
told Congress, in July, that he wanted
only S3lS,5l9,jSl to run the machine" to
the first Of July next (lS62 The time is
not yet half up and he informs Congress
that it will take S2l4 100000 more to car.
ry him through. The only reason he as
#igns for this seventy per cent. of a mis-
take is, that the Presiden. and Cabinet
thought they would not need over 300
600 soldiers to put down the rebellion,
when, al The same time, they asked Congress
to give them 100000. If a school,boy
would exhibit himself as contradictory be.
tore bis teacher as Mr., Chase has done be.
scre the American people he would be or
dercd on the "dunce stool"
In July, the Secretary informed the
public that the revenue from the nsw re-
publican tariff, and from the Public Lands.
would be 100000, 900. Henow SAYS it will
not amount to more than onc.Lalc that
sum lie wants Congress to raise the du-
ty on sugar from p to cents per pound,
teo from 10 to 90, and coffee from tc5.
Hs2@ The most potent question now be-
fore the American people is, whether they
will choose to live henceforth, rs they have
lived for the last eighty years, with few
brief Interruptions, at peace with all ma
tions, happy and prosperous beyond com.
parison at home, or calmly submit to an
Abolition Revolution in our political, civil
and religious rights, equal to that Of the
Red Republican Revolution of Franco?-I
The Revolution just now attempting to be
inaugurated by Sumner, Loyejoy & Co,
may not prove as direful in It's incey ton,
but if allowed to proceed and become per.
tcctcd under the direction Of these rana-
tics, it will prove far more disastrous and
horrible to us as a nation than the bloody
French Revolution did to the people Of
France.
This class of men seem to have an idol
atrous love for the negro; so much so
that they are now attempting to obliterate
what the laws of Nature have indellibly
implanted in the Caucasian and the Ne
gro races-distinction of color-and con
sequeHtly two separate and distinct races
OF men. II seems that Sumner d, Co. arc
determined 10 put the two races on an
equal footing, so far as civil rights are
concerned-rot by raising the negro up to
level with the white man, but by drag
ging the white man do,cn to level with
the negro. In seeking TO better the con-
dition of the African, they are willing to
hazard the destruction of the most pros>
porous nation on the face of the globe
VIZ @ey succeeaf This depends, for the
present, upon President Lincoln. All eyes
are turned towards him. We are not alto,
gether without hope.
A~DAN RICE, the great American show