Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-03-06
CLEARRlBLD, PA.
Wednesday Morning, March 9, 1851
THE EXODUS.

TO Washingt is certainly without
parallel in the history of modern perform
nnces. We frequently read Of nocturnal
flights, but ihfy have usually been
prom pied by mere than mere mental ap-
partition. Joseph, of old, warned by n
heavenly messenger, "arose and took the
young child and its mother, and departed
into Egypt by night and Nicodemus,
stung by sense Of sin, sought the Savior
between two days; ut We are really at n
loss to determine what shmg Abraham and
led him to give his friends the cold Shoul,
der, and sneak disguised at night into
Washington. Some say that SeSard told
him to do it; and, ready to follow rather
than lead, Lincoln obeyed his instructor.
This may be so, and yet it seems incon
sistent with the representations we have
had Of the Presidents back bono, iron
will" and unhinching irmness; others,
still more charitable, think twas. because
Uncle Abe having learned that something
was wrong in tLo country" got afraid Of
assassination in Baltimore, and therefore
parsed through in bag, without giving
the Plugs, Thugs, "Rawbones," or Rip
Raps peep at him. This. however, seems
more difficult of reconciliation than the
first hypothesis, for Baltimore is the city
in which the Opposition have for years
held their bloody reye!s, and where all
but Democrats are allowed to vote, with
out being shot. II was at Baltimore too,
that the Republican candidates got that
large vote, which our little down town
neighbor, directly after the election, pa.
raded before the people with such poiu-
pos.y, TO show the strength OF Black
Republicanism in Southern cities. Why,
then, did Abraham steal past The Bdltimorsdn,?
The cue 10 this ridiculous stampede is very
easily unwound, the cause is as natural rs
She act was unnecessary, so far as the Pre-
sidents personal safety was concerned.
The Republicans have endeavcred for
months, by misrepresentation and faiso.
hood, to intlame the minds of Northern
men against their Southern brethren; for
this purpose the columns Of the New York
Tribune. and other leading Republican
papers, have made startling revelations;
"great armies" "bloody conspirators,"
"sworr assassins, "cocl murderers,"
knights of the Golden Circle" with
hundreds of o.her ghastly things, since
tho Presidential election, have been
plenty. Washington was to be taken by
fire and birthstone" and the President
elect, and the Republican party, were to
suffer death by piEen. This was made the
excuse, or rather the justification, for tho
gathering Of an'nrmy at the seat of Gov.
eminent. Every Abolition and Republi-
can Governor rendered men and money
to avert the terrible calamity; 1.-The
streets Of Washington were TO stream in
blood !" that q dreadful battle was there
10 be fought, was a'forgonc conclusion.
No human sogacity, no patriotism. no act
o. mans, could avert it; and the only
alternative was, to send Il Northern army
to the national Capital TO repel this mur-
dcrous invasion coming W from the South,
headed by awful ".fre eaters" Lincoln
was to be hot at Springfeld;" he was to
"bc stabbed at indianapolis, or the train
in which he and his suite travelled, was 10
b, "precipitated down on embankment
and all crushed TO pieces;" expert gar
rioters had been dispatched TO strangle
him at Pittsburgh, if by any possibility
he should ever reach that point. His
death by violence was beyond all ques-
ti1n; internal machines were at every
railroad station :" and powder plots, ready
r.imed, were waiting to blow Old Abe
into eternity. In the face Of those repre-
scntations, ITO every ono of which hrr-
drt tls of shivering Republicans were ready
to be qualifed,) Mr.. Lincoln had every
where been received in the kindcst man.
ner, the greatest enthusiasm marked his
course, all men Of all parties everywhere
met, and welcomed him; his journey was
perfect ovation, bright faces were all he
saw, pleasant words were all he heard,
kind acts were all he received. So differ.
ent was the reception OF the President
from the predictions Of the fanatics, that,
after getting to within few miles of
Washington with the most perfect safety,
some grand fr,sli must be performed,
some terrible plot must be disco, cred, to
give at least the emblance of truth to
those miserable ,rications with which
Northern coercionilts, for their own base
purposes, had Hoesisd the country. And
then the army stsi, lied at Washington,
at an enormous expssse. Some necessity
must seem 10 exist for this grand military
display So the irrepressibles" suddenly
discover a mares nest" at Baltimore,