Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-08-13
ADDRESS
OFTHg
Democratic State Central Committee

! UelnOCTdJlC oIdI6 O6uJIdl OOullllIJto'
! Y3he Democrats, and at McoMa Fr;nRs Of
tho ousuhaioa dnd Union, IN PcVsylga-
| uia:
The Democratic State Central Commit,
tee address you upon subjects Of the graz
vest moment The life Of our beloved
country is in danger The nation writhes
under the throes of wldo spread civil war.
| All 0ur patriotism all our wealth all our
physical spowers all Of whatever virtue
exists in the Rcpubic is invoked, and
should be promptly afforded to save the
National Constitution and the Union Of
/ the States from utter overthrow.
Is there Pennsylvania who values the
| title of American Ci!izen-who reyer es
the memory of the men ofthe Revelation
who values civil, and religious liberty --
who abhors anarchy or espOtism-or, who
claims to possess a manly, patriotic heart,
/ that is not prepared to pledge lite, fortune
and sacred honor for his country, in this,
| her hour of greatest need and peril. None
can withhold such assurances OF a Just C5
/ timale Of the importance otpreserying tho
existence OF our Republican institutions.
| We approach you with the full conviction
that the hclrS OF the great body Of the
people OF Pennsylvania are with their
country in this great crisis Of her destiny :;
that all that is needed, is to be satisfied of
a feasible mode OF relief and eXtrication,
one of the most effective organization to
combine all the forces that can be applied
to speedily and cilectually YIELD the hap,
py fruits Of returned peace and prospcri'
ty.
10 clearly indicate the mode Of relief it
would appear to be proper to first deter.
mine the cause or causes OF cur present
difficulties. Understanding the causes, it
would seem to be in the order OF nature,
! that restoration should fall upon their re,
moyal. 1t is not compatible with the
practiccl efficiency of an address, such rs
| this, to engage in any elaborate eXpoSl-
| tiOn, or historical account Of the gradual
progress of antcccdant causes, that have
at last eliminated in the dreadful results
we now behold. We shall therefore nee,
cssarily be bricf, and best discharle our
purpose by statement OF facts, which you
will all recognize rs correct, and 10y the
assertion Of propositions and conclusions
which we maintain, cannot be successfully
contiOvertcd. The troubles that are now
upon us are those that the fathers Of this
country ioresaw nj ghi arise upon the de.
cay of patriotism, aud against which they
undertook to guard 10y the Constitution
of the United States, and the establish
mcnt thereby of whR. was deemed by them
and has, until recently, proved to be the
harmonious action Of the States and the
Federal Governmental in their defined
land Just relations TO each other. Wash
ington, in tue Farewell Address, poin-
ted out these dangers and above all, in
dicatcd as the evidence OF a waning at
tachment for the Union and as the pre-
cursor of its fall, the creation OF Sectt0Ha
parties. 1t was in view OF prOblbIe effort,
in this direction that he appealed to his
cOuntrymcn ITO Indignantly irown upon
the first dawning of every attempt to al
ienute any PORTION of our country from
the rest or to enlcebletEe sacred ties which
link together the various parts" Had
the coumtrymen of Washington suiticientr
" appreciated his patriotic warning, the
widespread civil war that now aiiilCts US
would never had existed but, on the COL.
trary, we should at this time, under the
dence is extending to us, be in the enjoy.
ment OF degree OF prosperity and happi'
ness 1--WE venture to assert) unequallcd in
the history of nations. Most uniortun
ately, sectional parties have grown up
begetting sectional bitterness and al,
ready the title Of American citizen be-
gins to pale before the invasion progres!
of such titles as NortLerner and Souther'
ncr.
Years ago men in the North, then n We
~ significant combination, began to as
sail our Constitution and our Union. This
faction basing its operations upon a mis-
guided sentimentahty in regard to the ser
vitude of the negro race in the Southern
States, and allowing that sentimentality
to swallow up all true feelings of patriot,
ism, and all duty as citizens, boldly pro.
claimed their hostility to the Constltu.
ton and the Union, which they rightly
claimed recognized and was pledged not
10 invade the control Of the States respec.
iyely over the institution of domestic sla-
very. Dsloyal declarations such as bet,
ter no Union at all than a Union with
shareholders" became the automatic dicto
Of this faction, then as now lin is its for
midable proportions) best known as Abo'
! litionists. Without dwelling upon the
progress and growth of Il his faction, it is
lamentably true and well known that pro
claiming through its leaders their chIei
object to be "the ultimate extinction of
slavery" it attained to such consequence
that the people of the slavehoiding States
became alarmed, and began to form coun-
! ter combinations to resist the threatened
overthrow OF what they claimed to bo
rights that wcro intended to be sacredly
guarded 10y the Constitution of the United
States. At the same time there has eXis>
ted an insignificant, and of themselves
powerless, band of disunionists in one or
two Of ihe slayeholding States, who seiz
ed upon the opportunity thus afforded by
the aggressive action of the Abolitionists
to stimulate these counter movements
These efforts were too successful and ma
terials too, for such efiorts, we're being
continually supplied by the SUCCESSES Of
I the AboltoDists. Abuse and abloauy n,
gainst the Shareholder steamed out from
some pulrits in the North, where the vi,
rns of Abolitionisn, had been infusa1 Ra