Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-09-18
Daniel Weaster on the tight of Free
Speech in War Time.

| 1t may be well to calmly weigh, at this
present time, tho following words Of Dam
liel Webster. They were uttered in. de-
! fence OF great principle, within re2sona-
BILE bounds, ,at all times will be found TO be
essential to the safety Of our free institu-
tions. Webster said;
"Important as deem it to discuss, on
all proper occasions, the policy OF the
measures at present pursued j. is still
more important to maintain the right Of
such discussion in its full and Just extent.
Sentiments lately sprung up, and now
growing popular, render it necessary to
be explicit on this point. |. is the anH
cieut and constitutional right OF this peo>
pie to canvass public measures, and the
merits of public men. 1t is II homebred
right, tireside privilege. 1t has ever
been enjoyed IN every house, cottage and
cabin in the nation. 1t is not to be
drawn into controversy. 1t is as un"
doubted as the right OF breathing the
air, and walking on the earth. Belonging
TO private life as a right, it belongs to pub
llc life as a duty and it is the last duty
which those whose representative am
shall find me TO abandon. This high
constitutional privilege | shall defend and
exe,cise within this House, and in all pla-
ces: IN TINE OF WAR, IN TIME OF
PEACE, AND AT ALL TIMES. Living
will assert it; dying, / VIII assert 1t -
and. should leave no other legacy to my
children. by the blessing OF God will
leave them the inheritance OF irec prl2cl'
ples and the example OF a manly, lnde-
pendent, and constitutional defense OF
them"
SuooTlNG AFFAIR NEAR SAFE Harmon,
Pa.-The ancaster Express has the fol-
lowing account OF shooting atlray rear
Safe ilarbor, Pa, last Friday
A thort time since several men rom lhe
York county side of the river erected
some fish pots on one of the Islands in
the Susquehanna. y day or two after
wards tide pots were moved 10y Noah Sides
and man named Netf and his three sons
On Friday afternoon the York men re.
turned to the island, and finding their
rots had been removed, commenced re-
placing them, when they were attacked
by Sides and the Nefia, with guns and II
Aes and two of them shot and killed on
the spot. and third mortally wounded.
we have not been able to learn thenames
of the parties shot. The wounded man
at last accounts was not expected to live.
A RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE or ALI. NA-
TIoxs.-The next Conference ofChrlstians
of all nations is to he held in Geneva this
month. Most Of the principal cllergymen
of Germany, France and Switzerland are
to be present, and the representation
from great Britain is very large.
CITIZENS SENT TO FoRT LAFAYETTE.-Ed.
P. Wilder, a mining engineer 10y trade, at
Newark, New Jersey, was arrested last
Saturday, charged with attempting, thro'
a son in Virginia, to sell to tho Coniedc
crate government a rifle battery invented
by him.
DoN'T ALL SPEAK AT ONcE.---As the mar.
Iiape ceremony was about to be performed
in n church in Troy recently, the clergy
man desired the parties wishing to he
married to rise. A 'arge number OF la
dies Immediately rose, and in great
confusion all but one sat quickly down
again.
CRIME III HIGH PLAcEs.-We hear, says
the Boston Ttraveler, that two business
men of Boston, of heretofore unspotted
have recently been detected
in the crime of forgery. Exile from home,
friends and country is all that will save
them from criminal prosecution and pun
ishment. .....