Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-08-20

man VINO hllenuS 10 every other mans af-
fairs whether bis own are attended to or
not, Is almost exclusively Massachusetts,
nuisance. lie is commonly, though not
always, attached to some unhappy church
organization. To Massachusetts, society
mcddlng is indeed a scourge so great that
it may bo doubted whether it does not
fully Counterbalance every comfort and
blessing concentrated in this favored
country. Puritanism, which exalted the
manly English spirit by ianatiCism on the
one hand, degraded it on the other hand
10y espionage. It's churches were mutual
assurance societies in each other for the
morality OF their members. Its doctrines
are forgotten.
But the evils which the Turitans un,
consciously did, lives after them, and
churches which detest their memory and
deny their teaching, are managed on their
principles Massachusetts to-day Is COW
cred with societies, in which the best men
and women conscentiously, but reluct-
antly, and the worst of men and women
eagerly, and with a devilish delight, per.
= form the work OF suies and informers upt
on each other To say that such gigano
! tic system OF mutual espionage does not
/ degrade character is simply to say that
caves dropping and tale-bcaring aIe not
low and mean occupations. Under its
influence nothing is kown of a mans real
character or disposition IIaJi!ual watch.
| fitness upon the one side arouses habitu~
| hypocrisy upon the other ard il is only
when the petty saint of Boston expands
into lhc gigantic villain Of New Orleans or
San Francisco, that you can tell how vast
| q benefit YOU derive from his emigration.
| The wickcdncss looked little here lc,
cause we saw but little of it. The enOr-
nous pressure Of universal listening and
! pecpiug had driven it deep into the in.
| Inclmosl fibre, oiour society. SO pressed
| it produces smelling committees, it elects
| Hiss legislatures. 1t brings such men as
Deacon Palmer to associate, out Of fear,
with such men as Washburn, whom they
receive in their cellars and dismiss through
their back doors Nobody wlll deny the
fact or its application hcle, who Is not pre-
pared to deny the existence Of the Rev.
! Mr.. Ealloch, or his church member Mr.
! Hayes, who pceped after him and black.
! mailed him, and then exposed him. 1t
! is Mr.. Hayes turn to-day, it may be NJ.
| kal.oChS turn to do that dirty work for
Mr. Hayes Tomorrow. 1t is Mr. Wash
burns turn now, it may be the Gordon's
turn by and 10y. Bat be the tIrn whose
it may, the system of balbarous age ana
people applied to the control of civilized
mankind awakCns the fiercesl resentment.
/ Men have put up with the savagcst task
masters. They have endured the blood
les. tylants without resistance for mary
years.
They have subMittcd to the Kings OF
Prussia to the Cars to the House of
Ausuia-and even to the Turks. But
Government OF mcddling philanthropists
they cannot bear. 1t resembles the Gov
ernmcnt Of ycrmiu more than any human
dcspotism. Individually vile and odious,
but quite insignificant; when collected
they are all pcryading, all deyourng, APP
FALLING -lOathsOme to every sense, and
mtclIcrablc to the strongest body and
frmcsl mind, This is the Government Of
the Robespieres the MaIats-the WASH
burns the llobarts-the lIayeSes-is the
oppression which makes the wise man
mad, 1t made the Gordors mad when it
was first applied to them, and what they
uttered under its influence was temper
not treason. Nc. vas there sense as well
as temper, if they preferred jeff. Davis to
un Abolition Government, As ! underS
stand an Abolition Government man
might endure it. A man might endure
the Government of Mr.. Phillips, for he is
a geutleman--or OF Mr.. Garrison iorwha
ever may have been thought OF his sanity,
his honesty was never questioned. But
the Abolition Government which they
understood was the qulsltorial-the eel
lar-Hc sink amt ccSSpool committee which
stood before them ordering them to put
out flag and think there is no man Of
spirit with tlat in his mind, who would
not prefer the wolfshness of a Davis to
the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of Wash burn
The Gordons have Cone no wrong. --
They do no: hate their native county,
though they cannot like its imbecle
Governmental Government which has
everything given to it by generous peo>
pie, and which does nothing but waste
time, make speeches and feed contractors,
cannot be liked or trusted until il alters its
course. These sentiments ! understand
them TO express. | agree with them in
that; so do hundreds and thousands more
They have a rigut-mOral as well as legal
10 AlltNS sutu sentiments, llty
ought to express them: and woe to the
Washburn who shall meddle with them,
or with any one else in this way hereaG,
ter!
OPINION or COMMISSIONER.
The complaint IN this case charges the
defendants with giving aid and comfort
to the United States an informal mode
Of describing the oiiensc of "adhcriag to MsI
enemies of the United States, giving them
aid and comfort In other words, the
accusation against the defendants is trea-
son-for under the Constitution and laws
of the United States treason consists in
"levyng war against the United States, or
in adhering to its enemcs, giving them
MD and comfort" Aud the punishment
Of this oitense is death
To constitute this otiensc, some overt act,
either in levying var or giving aid aud
comfort to the enemy, must be proved. - |
1t is well settled that no words. or int,n,
tions even, however hostile or dsloyal
they may be, are sufficient, il they have