Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-05-22

CLEARFlELD, "a.
ednesday Morning May % 1867



actcr seem to be awmlly out Of Joint in th
present unsettled condition Of the coun
try, and 10th seem to be entirely made
quatc to perform the task we we're taugh
TO believe they wee intended TO inCulcaI
and uphold,
The little education and experience ",
have received, is OF no assistance in oul
present dilemma. They rather tend to
confuse and confound. The first lessons
NC learned, were, that the doctrines o
Christianity inculcated the principles oI
"PEACE on EARTH AND Coon WILL TowARI
Men" Faithfully obcdient as true disci
ples of the Prince Of Peace, the founder,
Of our model institutions guaranteed tC
themselves and their descendants freedom
ofspecch aud Of conscience. The genuine
,pirit of Liberty as we'll as that Of Chris
iianity, are receiving new Interpretation,
if they do not threaten to sink into the
ocean Of Revolution, and finally Atheism
and Despotism.
The black hour of madness seems to
have descended upon us to cover US as
with pail from the light and influence
Of God's holy religion. We look back up
on the indistinct phantlsmagOria o! the
past as one remembers only the monstrous
conceptions of dream. Our spiritual ad,
viserS have armed themselves with carnal
Weapons, which they flourish as Justify as
the widest barbarian. "What more could
the heather do" For the past four weeks
we have heard nothing but war,warwar-
with equal vindiotiveness from the sa'
cred desk. the tar of justice, the roslrum,
and the corners of the street.
When we enter the Temples Of peace,
She first thing we hear is prayer offered
TIP for the success Of our ARM, the glory(?)
of our IN urderel fellow men upon the
battle field Of sectional hate-the waging
of which may soon prove a death blow to
Christianity and Liberty. How ridiculous
it must saen to every reasonable creature,
to listen to the prayers OF Our Northern
and Southern christians, each praying for
the triumph 0! o1r arms, and each strivs
ing to exterminate the other under the
plea OF JUSTICE and CHRISTIANITY.
We cannot comprchc nd how the God
of Battles can successfully dispose Of the
petitions oftbese conflicting parties, unless
he ignores the prayers of both, and per-
mits right and iu'lce 10 assert their domn-
ion once more, among those who are
proving so reckless and disloyal to botL
their God and their country.
We can give no better solution OF the
present enigma Of Christianity and Liberty
than the following which we take from
the Baltimore Sm:
:" We talk of civilization, and in sin,
gle hour as it were plunge into the wild.
est and maddest eNcessos Of barbarism.
The fact imposes upon US entirely new
and iuexplicable physiological phen omes
ma and we are led to ask whether, after,
all men is capable of anything more than
an abnormal and artificial cRt,raion. The
American people y press were Convulsed
with horror and no language was suffice
iently expressive to intensity their disgust
and Indignation at the enormities Of the
Sepovs in the Indian insurrection. Yet
instantly upon the ebulliticn of their hos
,iliy to their late brethren of the South,
the Northern press and pulpit cry aloud
together for the eXtermnation of the
Southern people, ingenuity eXhausts itself
in devising the most terrible and remOrse.
less agencies for fastening and periecting
the dlabolical work. The eager desire that
It should be done quick and without pause
: the only redeeming feature about it il,
proves that like murder, the deed was
felt to Oe too revolving to be long obout.
Humanity could not be trusted with a
prolonged task of massacre, rspne and
universal devastation"
What is here related Of "our pulpits
and pres es, will apply vita equal truth
10 the South.
We have but one suggestion to make in
this matter, 50 far az our religious fellow
citizens are concerned, and it is this =
hereafter If they feel like praying, let
them pray to the sod Of Peace, and for
the success and triumph OF rigit and
that peace and prosperity be speedily re.
stored to our and-prny for the peace Of
this "our Jerusalem"
We are aware that the "God of Battles"
is a popular Deity, but we doubt both his
authority and ability to do our country
any good, notwithstanding the innumera-
ble prayers tha. have been made to him
during the past four weeks. There should
bo some visible distinction between ma
ton like ours and those of the heather,
who know not God" If there is not, the
Sepoys of India may cause us to blush in
the end.
reH..l any of our friends wish to sub
scribe for a good I've newspaper in the
East, they cannot do better than by ta-
king the Patriot q, Uu0n published by O.