Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-05-06
NEW ERIES-VOl.IiI.--NO 43.

all over the South Poland and the exam.
pie Of her brave sons eScites their scolu
and indignation against our course, and
inoltes them to greater eXertions and bold.
er deeds BY such means Mr., Lincoln
hopes to obtain two more obsequi0us sens
ators, and with their aid, and that OF rep,
resentatlves elected by his soldiers, lie
may divide as many States as he sees fit.
lie is trying to override the honest old
Democray, and has been, and is now, 10y
every power Of force, OF secret police, by a
system Of Austrian spies and bastiles, aud
whele all lnis will not do, by money; for
was not Sl2UOO,OO0 o! money used for se-
cret service
Now, sir, this may do for time. Ee
has thrown down the glove | hope lie
may replace 1t, Tor it will only be ques~
tiOn Of time, ana short ume If not, then
it will be taken up. And sir, the issue
Will be taken ooidy, and 10y brave and
resoute men, who may think II better and
easier to die like brave men near their
tiresldes than to die like dogs, hgnung Tor
the negro anG to enslavc themselves.
Bat these principles and these lnstltus
tions were intended to quad the personal
liberty and the rights OF property Of the
individual man. These liberties aud
these rights are the endowment of the
Creator, and are inalienabe, aud governs
ment is only rightiul and useful as IL pro
tect5 them.
Ia every one Of the States they are
guarded by express restrictions OF the
sovereign people thereof. vi the powers
of the Government and in the delegation
of power TO the common government these
rights are expressly guarded against any
the slightest infringement in the first and
third of the seven original articles OF the
Constitution, and no less than eight OF
the ten articles Of amendment first are
worded to the protection OF these rights.
Of these ten articles Guarding your per-
sonal rights, eight have been openly VIOLA
ted by Abraham Lincoln. He has strick~
en- down lights older than the Ccnst'tu
tioL-older than Magma Charta-older
than the British Go eminent older than
he Roman Empire-yea as old aS clea-
ton itself, for II pleased the Supreme Hu'
Ter, oDlniscient and omnipresent. /, grant
a hearing to the first iuau. Adam, aud L.
the second man, Cain, before he condemn
ed. These sacred rights, coeval with cre'
alton, and stamped with the solemn sane
ton of the Supreme Ruler Of the universe
- these, Abraham Lincoln treats with
; scorn and makes the playthingS Of his
! u5alterns-his spies and intormers and
: the contemplate .jailors Of his army. lie
} has dragged the priest from the altar -
: tn, Judge from the bench-tho Iegislato?
from the hall-the citizen from his mid.
night bed Transporting them to distant
places holding their destination from
the anxious inquiries OF their wives and
} chiidren-puL them into prison without a
sil. gle process of law, until alarmed by the
first whisper of your rising wrath he was
forced to let them 90, while he was COM
PEELED TO testify to their innocence by dis,
missing them without even the preserta
! ton of IA charge.
He has seized in, and transpoT ted from,
the Capitol of the country unprotected
woman pushed her into prison in the
very midst of the great population of our
largest city, separating her entirely from
those Of her own sex. exposed to the ma
chinations Of his creatures, without the
: slightest defence except her own virtue
! and the guardianship of that Divine Being
wno ever keeps the vlrtuouS from the
> power of the evil one, conducting his
movements under such darkness aud Sc
crecy that her fate could only be discover
ed by accident.
! Mr. Speaker, how long will once free
; people suffer that tyrant, supported by
that mass OF corruption, (the Republican
party, to hold the power they 50 shame,
fully used for the overthrow of our lIbei :
ties? Being as insane us tyr1nnlcal, he
! has so waged tie war-commenced avowN
/ edly 10 enforce the Constitution and res,
tore the Unon--as utterly tc destroy the
, former aud render absolutely impossible
the latter. Throwing aside the establish
ed principles OF universal CIVILIZATION
that infractions Of law mast be pu1lshed
by and according to law-he mas proclaim
ed that the South Is not entitled 10 the
I benefits of the Constitution, but snall be
punished for its lntrac loD, not by us own
, provisions, but by his own arbitrary will,
under the convenient plea of military ne.
cessity, thus actually liampllng under foot
! the-tonstitution, which he Is able TO do
by the permission of the people of the
North, in order to enforce il in the South,
which he has shown himself utterly una
BILE TO accomplish. lie has so conducted
, the war as to shock the moral sense OF all
} mankind and to unite the people of the
South as one man against us making The
war, on their part, not merely contest
for independence of us, but one for the
preservation of all that man holds dear,
and thus, as far as in his power, making
the Union intolerabe and impossible. lie
has, as far as he was atle, broken up the
institutions of the South, for the preser-
vaiion of which it proiessed to withdraw
from the Union. He has armed their
slaves against them and sent unscrupu,
lous fanatics among them to fire up their
minds and induce them to wage war of
determination, numbering their women
and children. He has kept in his com
mand officers Of the army whose troops
have plundred unresisting inhabitants and
burned their dwellings, and who have
committed that last attrocity which men
can never forgive--the dishonoring of
their women.
Mr.. Speaker, will The people suffer Mr..