Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-02-20


Limerick and British faith" 1t was ,n..
tho battle of Fontenoy, which was won
for France by the valor of the Irish Br;,"
ade, that King George II. exclaimsi
Cursed be the laws which depri, me- =,
such subjects u II is the iniquity of RI
tish lava in Ireland which has driven =.
many Of the population to America ~
people it, States and develope its resou,'
ces, to the great i'npoyerishment Of ,hs
British empire.
History is ever repeating itself. In.-
land has paid severe penalty for NJ,
violation Of the treaty o. Limerick. .Fe,
dinand and the Spanish Catholics broka
faith with the Moors. on the principle
held ia that day. that mo faith is % Ls
kept with htretics." The Muwulman
Surrendered Granada ty n treaty which
formally insured their religious freedom
But they were denounced No rebels BE-,
cause they would not obey tho laws in b.
coming Catholics and were porsecu,ed
and pu. TO tho sword till their fnal ex.
pulsion, seventy years after the treaty.
In like manner faith was broken with
the Hugeno,s, Nho were driven from
France eishiy-seven years after lhei,
charter Of freedom was granted by Henry
of Navarro. Thus solemn league and
covenant was established thrt c.quarten
Of century ago between the Northern
and Southern States Of North America.
guaranteeing equal rights TO all. In
about thirty years after the persecu.ing
Puritans, who had previously driven out
the best Of their own citizens TO enrich
other communities, resolved 10 break
faith. and commenced crusade against
the Southern States and their institution,
which. with some intervals OF interms.
sion, they have waged ever since, in Con.
gress, in their State Legislatures. in pub.
lie meetings, OH the rcstrum, on The bench,
in the press, III the pulpit, in the Sunday
school, by tracts and pamphlets, by carl.
catures, by lying novels ana more lyine
statistics, by emissaries inciting servile
iasurrec.ions, ending rith John Browns
invasion of Virginia. Havingat las, gain.
ed possession of the federal power, The
army, ;ae navy and the public purse
they ayow their determination to carry
out their design ot exterminating negro
servitude and making the black EQUAL to
the hite man, or of eXtermina!ing ths
slavehnders and all who sustain them in
the Southern States. Without this ins,i.
tuition i, is impossible for either the whites
or the negroes of tho South TO exist. The
slave owner, alarmed for his safety. tells
the Puritan, "You take away my life il
you take that by which live, and hence
we must par, company" Thus have the
-, ,nI Il ol, &c Al -
national crimes by forcing out ol the con.
lederacy seven States whose staples have
been the great sources of our national
wealth, giving the United States the bal
ance of trade against Europe, and afford /
ing employment 10 the half starved pop
ulation Of the barren soil and ungenisl
climate of New England Seven or eigh.
Stat es more will probat ~ follow the Other
seven from the same cause thus taking
away the largest, the most fertile and " |
far the most valuable portion of the soil.
Nor is this all Their gras ping greed and |
tyranny are likely TO drive to the South
the skill, the enterprise and the capital
Of the North, and thus doubly imroyor,h
the unhappy people left behind, who's
misfortune it Is TO have their lot cast
among those covenant breaker, and here
ditary prosecutors who from the time II
heir Decentralization on Plymouth Rock
10 the present, have been the fruitful
source of strife aud cliscnrd to the country,
which hitherto has prospcred in spite n
their faraticism, but whIvh has noS re-
ccived a; their hands a blow from who'd
effects il may never rccoyer-Ns0 Trs
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