Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-11-04

seeming claims or The public expectations
Of certain prominent generals in this
monslrous war, they invariably break
down after they become wowod Abolition.
lists. Fremont fifteen years ago, was the
most promising man of his age In all this
country He was then Oarolnian, living
IN California, but, step by step, abandon
ing the Democratic principles In which ho
was educated, he became arh fciddy great
as the Abolition candidate for the Presi-
dency in 1856 Five years later he was
sent to Missouri with (usurped) imperial
powers, and the whole mighty Northwe't
in the hollow Of his hand. He built mud
forts about S.. Louis, raised big armies,
nattered the Germans, was licked by Price,
issued a proclamation of freedom and
subsided into Major General Fremont,
drawing q salary Of $4,000, and making
himself useful as chairman of league NEE
tings, &c. Gen. Hunter, in other days 4
model soldier, succeeded him, did nothing,
was sent to South Carolina, where he also
Issued proclamation of " freedom" abol-
ishing society in all the surrounding States,
and ended with JET Davis setting n price
on his head, which, il he returns close en-
ough to the rebels - to be caught, is pret-
ty certain to be paid. Pope, the immortal
Pope, WAS the next victim, and though he
never was much Of y soldier, he maGe a
/ tremendous noise for n while and then ex-
/ ploded. Ambrose Burnside followed him,
did pretty well at Newbern aud Roanoke,
but ambitious, he also bit at the bait ofthe
Abolition mumbo,j jumbo. fought on the
wrong side of the river and knocked out
the brains Of ten thousand men against
the entrenchments of fredericksburg --
" Fighting Joe Hook er," Gen. Pillows old
Adjutaut General, was strong pro-slaYery
and sensible fellow, seEt back niggers who
ran away from their homes in Maryland,
fought brayey and well under Mcclellan,
hut be, too, became convert TO the great
cause Of d" freedom" and then, with 100,
900 men. the best army on the planet, "
was beaten out of his Shoes by Lee with So,
600 " barniooted and half-starved rebels "
Finally, the last and greatest. "old Ro.
sey," who once, il is said, was too mach
| for Lee himself became the model hero,
| the exponent, the very champion Of
| freedom" who only wanted chance to
turn his bay yonets on northern Copper
heads, has failed worse than all his preGe-
cessors. They say he is actually coward,
and John w. Forney says that he fled
! from the field of Chickamauga to Chatta-
nooga. declared that all was los, and then
lay insenSible from opium for four-and-
twenty hours. What record What a
monument of dead regulations, Of fallen
heroes and miserable victims TO the Aboli.
| lion idol, to the huge and hideous god OF
nggerism that row overshadOws the land
! Such has been the fate Of all, or nearly
! all, of those who PROSTATE themselves at
the feet of the Abolition mumbo5jumboism
of The day. Public men, generals, states
men or politicians, &c, who are in harmo
ny with the wants, the instincts, the ma
ture of masses, succeed, do good, win hon
ors, &c, while those warning upon their
wants, 90 under, sooner or later. Thus
J Jefferson and his party, Jackso and hi
! party, were honored. while the kdamse
and their friends failed. And of all tn,
contradictions or violations of the uatura
; order, there has been nothing in all histo
ry so monsirous as the Abolition lunlcy
Just think, twenty seven millions OF whit
men forced dorm or four millions 1f ne
groes forced up to n common level, or " i'm
partial freedom Ifthe former were L
be made black, or the latter to he mad
white, or if " Honest Old Abe stoo,
, pledged to give them the same color, al
would see the boundless and impious ex
travngance of his mission" and yet tha
would lie a single item of the tout trScmbi
} of his present undertaking. This, .hen,i
why our abolition generals miscarry, for
they could succeed, and Old Abe fulfil hi
mission" equalize those God has mad
7 unequal why, tnen, it is obvious he woul'
e pu,h aside the Almighty, and begin
, make a new world altogether, for surel
: his ambition would not stop here, or u
simply recreaiing negroes into whites
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