Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-02-12

Wednesday Morning Feb l2 1899
WHO CAUSED THE wAR1

Our national oulhorlcs, and the auth,
critics of all the loyal States, aud all tn,
people Thereof are under the impression
that the war was caused by the dctcrmin
alton Of certain Of the Southern States tc
sccedc hom tue Union, eliminating in the
attack upon Fort Sumter, There are otl. .
ers. however who affect 10 find quite diC,
ilerent causes for the war, Some say it is
but the econsummation Of a conspiracy thot
has been maturing in the South for thirty
years, and whose authors simply embraced
the election Of Mr.. J ncoln as the iayora
HE pretext.
On the other hand, Democrats and
many others Of like conservative views.
are OF the opinion that this determination
OF the southern States to secede from the
Union vas caused, not 10y the election Of
Mr.. Lincoln, but by the endorsement of
the Chicago Platform by the popular vote
IN each Of the non-slayeholding States
which platform denied to Shareholders the
protection OF their property in the com,
mon territories and hence, that the le,
gitimate and unmistakeable cause OF the
war was the ceaseless ana senseless agita-
ton of the slavery question by Northern
Abolitionists.
But the A5oltionis;s have no hesitation
in OttriJuting the war directly to the in
stitution Of slavery per Sc. With them.
slavery is the sole and only cause. With,
out It, we would have perfect Paradise
on earth and as long as it exists we can
have no peace that the war must contin-
ue until the las! ve5tige of slavery is root.
ed o1t;' that with it, we can never PROS
per, and our lund will be accursed of
Sod ;--forgetting that ph it our country
did prosper beyond all comparison with
other nations; and forgetting also, that
this same mchaagog God repeatedly and
very signally, manifested his favor and an,
probation Of the forefathers Of these same
shareholders in their struggle for ndepen-
dence in l776, when slaves were held in
all the Colonies.
But the notorious Jim Lane OF Kansas
the U. ). Senator and Brigadier General
Jim Jane-seems to have made an entire4
ly new discovery. In lecture recently
delivered by him in Kansas, among other
remarkable things, he uttered the iollow>
ing sentence:
What It'd produce the war? hone
there are Douglas Democrats here, and
want to say TO them that the Douglas
Democrats, at Charleston, brought on this
war. 1t WAS they who had the nerve and
the courage to stand up for the prin-
cple that the people Of the Territories had
4 right o govern themselves. If they had !
ented to give up that principle, the !
Charleston Convention would have nomr
mated Stephen a. Douglas, and he would,
in all probability, nave been elected and
alive to-day"
This comes with bad grace from the
man who was the yilest enemy Mr. roug>
las had, and than whom no man was more
heartily despised by Mr.. D.
But if Lane is right, who will not now
readily admit tLat the salvation of our
once gloriaps Union could have been pur-
chased at very cheap rate2
In the course of this lecture Lane spoke
Is if he was at the head Of the expedition
about leaving Kansas for Arkansas, Texas.
&c. But this we see coutradicted, and
hat he is to be subject to the orders of
Gen. Hunter, who will be chief in COM
mand. Lane has no scruples for slave in
and is for universal emancio
patton. He says:
"Ihe chains are 10 be stricken from ev> L
FRY limb. Freedom is to be the battle cry
rom North to South, from East to West"
Nor is he less scrupulous about slave.
Nealing Hear him:
81 am authorized by the Government
10 say to every officer and private that I L
''S h'a a Slare>tor each one Of you, and don't
cnre ow soon you catch him."
PrT NoNE But AMERICANS or GUARD
An effort is being made in Congress by
the Republicans, to so change, or amend !
our naturalization laws, that persons OF
Foreign birth who serve in the Army du.
ring the present war shall be entitled to
all the rights and immunites of American
These Republicans are not easily un.