Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-08-06
rHE WAY on rEAcE

aslHg iho auulhI lut ouuum.ou1
ndogu1lo cN.il.ou hHa Set been m0l.. N
that h iha game, Che rlIl Iur ulIr ihroo
hundred thousand moro soldiers. I. 70. Boo,
commensurate os was the call HNIp.u
months aro, for ,u.h M. H"#mh o
whip The South nudrDloNr tho lUrla We
leave aside The question whether amy uni.
ted and determined people numbering
twelve, or as IS the fashion now 10 COIN,
puto 10, p.ghi millions, can be crushcd ON
their own soil 10 was 10y ir.h aid that
/ ireland was suhjugated TO England. Bel
gium stands there with her livo millions,
more populous, and more Independent,
than ever bciOrc-though sho has been
the theatre Of the most famous battles Of
Europe, ooutury after century. Nwltzcr-
land. with less than three millions Of peo,
pie has successfully dcfcd the legionary
hosts OF Austria, OF Lorraine, OF Burgundy,
and Of France Portugal, with less than
four millions, sas always succeeded in reN
sisliug the attempts Of Spain, in the proud
est DAYS of the latter, to absorb her by
her prepondorating power 1t seems to
be one Of the aXioms OF BOnaparte which
time sanctions as profoundly true, that,
"a people, to he free of another, has but
to viii it," II the United States are tn
prove this an Unsound axiom, it must he
by far different display Of power from
anything yet exhibited. Volunteering
must DO abandoned, and drafting rcsorteI
to. 1t is no three hundred thousand men,
bat m#0n, that tho instant necessities
.oi the case call for. Hitherto the parti,
zans that originated this pcstilerous quar-.
rDl - froru tha Wob.g and Hlogns aud
Stewards, and Giddiug5, and Sunuors, and
Chandicrs, in Congress, or the Beechers
and Cheeyors and three thousand preach.
ers' OF New England, in the pulpit. down
to the gawlly Quaker or Bloomer>woman'
husband, who reads nothing bat Greol9y's
Weekly Tr,j,ms-have as u RUE, left the
war that has resulted, to be fought out by
the very men at tho North who have de-
nouuccd AMI deprecated their wicked
cJuspiracies. But this must end, If the
war is to be kept up. The innocent have
thus far, suffered for the guilty, but the
guilty will have to suffer, in their own
persons, ths horrors OF war, if the brute
force principle is TO be carried cut. It
must be a war IN which enough Of SuJsit,
tgtc2 cannot be found.
\ year ago those who pleaded for
"peaca' Wcro called "seCRSriOnisis, '"lTAi.l
tors, etc. Ihcn, the plea was that the
,CHr was to sc! free the Un'yd-loying people
.ot the South, from the gripe OF Secession
faction. IHSn, ,re pleaded for Peacc on the
very ground that there was still at the
Solth such sentiment, and 1t only re
quifed peace to develop 1t. We pleaded
that ,gr must destroy it-that only peace
could give it opportunity. That is all
past. We say yet, that, nearer or more re-
mote, the only hope for rc>union, on the
old, noble, grand idea Of our iorctathcrs,
must date the beginning Of It's work for
realization, in the establishment Of an
honorable peace. As the gallant Tom.
Seymour, Ex-Governor ol Connecticut, said
in his letter quoted by US last week, it is a
"monstrous iaIlacy' to ignore peaceful
measures and trust to "SVyHBdtny the
South by the Sword, as means Of re>u.
mon. The Union that secured our iIbcrN
ties as ireemen, was union Of free consent,
between the States. Tho violation of that
fundamental idea OF CONSENT and OF rescr-
we'd rights, not only rallies 10 the rebel
standard thousands attached to the old
Government, but has so invaded our IIbcr'
ties here IN the loyal States, that we write
Il sertence' such rs these-dcmandcd by
our consclence-the mere reiiertion of
the sentiments OF the men who formed
the ConsttuIion-not knowing but that,
tor publishing them, some clerk in the
Executive Department may order subser'
went agents, 10y the hands OF violence, TO
convey US again I" the dIngy walls OF Fort
La!ayeIie.
me mon loving people OF the Sece,
dcu states no are they? Read the
correspondence of the HsruH Times and
TriJrmr- those organs Of the Black Re-
publican regime. The Tyi5uos corr..pon,
.dcnce tells MS. living AS u,ua, that tbov oro
the negro slaves. The H,rlH and T,,o,,
correspordcnts tell as. alas too truly. that
there Is no such element lcn. I'm New
Orleans, in Memphis,in Nirginia,in North
Carolina. in those very cities and State,
where it might chiefly be expected. the
prolonged occupation by Union arms pro-
ducos only an eXtinrui,hmcnt of any
glmmor of Union feeling that la before
lna, il,ouuL, to .vigt