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

evil. affecting tu, .0mcv. aipyulIy fs
a,uI lilly oik, 'w.ulI t not n. l...ntat
slavery should Do abolished tNm tnu
Union desruyot.' all ...w to n7vo not
tho ggmotcat conception or their absolute
iuul0y lu the premises Tn Congress this
go. ton is constantly put o. Luutuakjaus
and others who are striving SO earnestly,
.uIl vaHIy TO resist the madness of the
hour; anil strange indeed, though resi-
dents o. ao-caiIcI States, they, lhemsc,vcs,
are often so muddlsl with tho tomioole,
ries that surround them as TO be quite uns
able to comprehend the folly Of the ques.
tion asked. Would you not prefer the
abolition Of slavery to disuniou Would
you not prefer the destruction Of society
to the separation OF the States? in fact,
would YOU not prefer making an attempt
to set aside the Almighty, and to re create
the negro, rather than the people of the
South should remove beyond thoinllucuce
of the "anti,slaycry' lunacy of the North
The question is not only absurd bat Who'll
lv lunatic-without the remotest element
of c0mmon sense in it or about il. 1t is
ike asking a man iG ne would not prefer
TO cut his leg oil to Jiowiag his nose, OF
rather TO tuke the small poX than 90 home
in the evening, or j! he would not lie will
ing TO take striChnine in the morning ra-
| thcr than 20 without his breakfast at the
usual hour. But what are the tdctS invol-
we'd in the general question, that ignOre
ance, hate. prejudice, and boundleSs un
reason so tumble up together? We are
nation of twenty-five millions of the bray
est, ireest and nOblcst white men on the
earth. Our political system rests on nat,
ural equality, equal rights, the same liher-
| " and the same duties for all and thus
calling into full and healthy activity all
the capacities Of all our people, we have
! advanced and secured a greater amount OF
happiness, within the last eighty years,
! than the world has witnessed elsewhere in
| five hundred years.
! Our system Of State sovereignty and
general Federation or local State govern
ments, charged with all domestic inter-
ests, and Federal government charged
with all those interests that connect Us
with the rest OF Christendom, are the
! best political arrangements the world has
ever seen, and for eighty years not one
conviction for treason nor drop o; blood
has been s / to support them. This has
/ been 80, nos alone because these political
| forms have been wise or perfect, bat be-
cause they were in accord with all wants,
all interests, I'll the instincts and desires
OF the people and unlike the systems oi
the pid World, that constantly conflict
with the instincts and liberty OF the peo
pie, ouss have harnonzed with them, and
all were leIt irce and equal to secure tnel'
own welfare anu happlnes'' In addition
D
to ihc WhtG cllZenshlp or pohllca. leoS
pie oI these States, we have some tour
millions oI hegIoeS-a subordinate race
whose presence IN our midst, as q natural
Suo5Iral luri I'D American society, mas CIV"
gen us Gear views 9' the natural eIuailly
OF our own race, and rendered practIeaole
those grand !1'lr "' HUeily and equality
promulgated 10y Jefferson IN Itiu, ANA
winch, IN addition 10 thus securing Tree
dom ioI lnr wmio laao!ng classes by ITS
labor !n climates and productions Impos-
-loi' 10 the "h,'e man, has gwen the na /
lion monopoly OF the great staples, cot
to"' sugar, rec tobacco, and brought the
whole world into suUect'on to the rroa;
herubHc oil the West But wonderful and
di,soco,u. ana to- the latest generations
un2cc'uniayio, party springs lp in tho
-'N' 'h .''.ts 'N'.''ttt-N % i''-lb 90 i.' r -.''
as "h,te man, and avows its design TO.
get po-s sNion OF the common government
. oi the States, and to- use t,H as an iHstru- .
men, for crIIEL out its 'idca,' Crto pen
u2 the negro element o.. cur population, /.
ant thu, s'ma day abolish the supremacy f.
OF the white man, and bring about Gins /
partial freedom with negroes = Or in .
other words. this party, with the absurd |
and disgusting theory that negroes are
.bFel-ThItc men, or men like themselves .
except in color insist on using the COM
mon government ot all the States for for.
cling his theory on those who have these
negroes in their midst
The people Of the South were insuled,
wronged, atroc.ousty wrongcd, but no
more so than The white luboring class,,
of the North, for the attempt to degrade
them into impartial freedom" with a
subject race involved the same final ruin
and destruction OF their rights, as white
men, whether in the south or in thoI
North, The sole difference between the