Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-07-02
Who Began it-Abolitionists are Dis
unionists Their Scurrilous Abuse OF
Washington.

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Washington.
From the Journal of Commerce.
The Union is the nation. The country
for which we battle is the Union made by
the fathers, on principles which if rightly
appreciated by the people. would make il
as permanent in duration as the world
If the war were over today, we should
still have in our body polite the elements
of discord, because we should have eneS
mics of that Union among US. In seek
Ing for permanent establishment of
unity and harmony, we must seek to con-
vert, or eradicate the men who are oppo-
sed in principle to that Union. 1t is
grand error to imagine that the removal Of
slavery vii remove all opposition to the
! Union
! The only basis on which men can unite
! in government is the basis of mutual in,
terest and mutual yielding. The same is
| true Of States, eminently true of a large
number of States banding together TO
! form ono great nation. The enmIty to
/ the Union is not local 1t exists at the
| North and at the South. If any one
l doubts NcrthOrn abolitionism is the ally
| of Southern secessionsm, a study Of his,
| tory will remove the doubt and stamp the
! truth of the allegiance as an everlasting
fact. 1t is true that some men, and good
men, too, forgetting in the fierce excite>
nent Of the present the whole history Of
their progress step 10y step, which brought
US into the trouble, are disposed to look
with leniency or the Northern disunion-
lists among US, because they so earnestly
advocate the war against the Southern
disunonists. BUtwe have said, and we
repeat that no abolitionist is in favor of
war for the old Union and no candid abos
litionist will be found to-day who denies
that he is opposed to Il restoration of the
Union rs it was. We are living in the
midEt Of a triangular war. Southern rer
bellion attacks the Constitution ard
makes war on its defenders. N6fthern
| Union men, by hundreds of thousands,
rise 10 the defense of the Constitution, the
old instrument Of sanctfied memory and
world, wide influence for good, while a
! third party, protesting to be Tor Union,
acting with steadfast purpose against the
! American Union, and when driven to the
wall openly confess that they regard the
! Union with the adherence of "ROman
criminal chained to a loathsome corpse"
and that they uphold the war only be"
cause they hope to have it effect what
| the Constitution failed to accomplish"
| We do not use our own phrase. We but
quote from the leaders OF political radi'
calsm. We invite any American who has
at heart the true interests of the Union,
TO recall few facts in the past, which are
too near being forgotten. We shall state
nothing that will be disputed 10y even the
radical men of the day.
The theory of radical aboltion;sm as
rropognded 10y its most eminent leaders
was this, that the Constitution of the u
ted States was sinful and therefore a
detestab.e instrument. They demanded
the exodus of the slave over the ruins of
the American Union. They avowed hos1
tility TO the Constitution in all their meet
ings all their exerlions being the abolition
of slavery, they recognized no human law,
treaty or compact as of sufficient force to
stand in the way of eflecting that result.
Pat of the radical aholItionists were op-
posed to the introduction of the subject
into politics Others favored the idea. The
result was division of the ranks, and the
/ formation Of an abolition political party.
/ BY gradual but certain progress, the two
elements virtually remitted and radical
abulitionists became politicians
! For ten years they have continued their
disuion lahors as politicians. They pub
lished their papers and documents with
. the memorable words, "The Constitution
| is a league with death and a covenant
/ with hell" They abused and vilified the
memory of the fathers. We 60 back to
one abolition meeting in Massachusetts, as
a specimen of hundreds that were held
throughout the country. A speaker ma"
med Foster, thus argued:-
"Was it not that lhe only hope for the
slave was over the ruins of this Govern
ment and Of the American Church The
! dissolution Of the Union was the abolition
of slavery. Why not, then, address them.
selves plainly to their work"
Another speaker, one Remond, said
that:
Remembering that he was a say ehold
er,he could spit upon Washington. Loud
Kisses and applause, The hissers, he
said, were Shareholders in spirit, and ev-
cry one Of them would enslave him if
they had the courage to do it. So near to
Fanuei, Hall and Bunker Hill, was he
not to be permitted to say that that
scoundrel George Washington had ens!a-
we'd his fellow mem"
And Mr.. Wendell Phillips, the Apostle
Of Abolitonism, and now the representa-,
tive OF the conditional Unionism, so ele,
gantly illustrated 10y Governor Andrew,
OF Massachusetts,, thus in an apolegelc
manner, intimated that he eoincided in
the views concerning the "scoundrel
Washington" and proposed to vail the
statue of the greatest OF men. He said:
ole should be 10th to atiix TO the name
of Washington the epithet which Mr.. Re
mond did. Ho knew his defecs-the ef-
feet OF his evil example; but let us re
member his times his cAucati0n-let US
remember che good service he did once
and again for the sentiment Of liberty
washington caS a sinner. il became an Ap,er.
'can 70 coDer his face when 10 placed his Jhst
among ttc great men Of the Uorld,, for it was
stained with great gout Of blood. Yet
ne was great man had great virtues, ard
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