Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-02-11

be wei! ~4lestIOueu, men they stlil per
siat in sinking the nation still deeper in
ruin?
GETTING THEIR EYES OPEN Both House.
Of the Pennsylvania Legislature have pas.
seJ resolutions inslrucIng our Senators
and requesting oar members Of Congress
to favor the reduction Of the duty now
required to be paid upon imported print
ing paper. The Legislatures Of New York,
New Jersey, and several other States have
taken similar action, and it is reported
that the Finance aommittees in both uou>
ses Of Congress will report iayorably.-
This is right. Let us have no pampered
Government m~oHopolies, such rs the PES
per manufacturers now enjoy, The duty
on paper is nov 80 per cent. The conse.
quence is there is none imported, and the
Government derives no revenue at all -
and our pRper-makers, by combining to-
gether, can fix their WI price. They
have 20 competition. Such is the effect
ola yrolcctre. tariff.
Fix The duty at, say 5 or 10 per cent
The article will then be imported. The
Government will then get some revenue.
Publishers will not be imposed upon, and
cheap reading be furnished to the people.
SuINNEY ON YOUR owN SlDE.-We pro.
test, solemnly protest, against our neigh
Dor of the Journal attempting to paddle
his rotten ond lickety old bark by pub,
fishing such Democratic documents as
Wright's speech and Frank Hughes let,
ters. Neither CT them Of Abolition
ism in the slightest degree, and to attempt
20 pass anything either would say in supN
port of that party, is sailing under false
colors.
Como out boldly, and give us a few
chapters from Garrison, Wendell Philips,
or Thad, Stevens, if you want to tell your
readers what your party is aiming at
Give us an extract from the late speech of
tho latter on the niger soldier bill, where
in he declared that. volunteering was play
cd out, and another attempt to draft white
soldiers was too dangerous to be thought
Of.
TIE SoLDIER'S Love FOR Il Moro
We clip the following item from the local
columns Of the Baltimore Sun OF the 18th
inst. 1t shows the affection u soldiers
have for the AGoIitiouists
AHlck BY Settlers on Colgroi Pcr8on8.-A
large number Of convalescen soldiers, I'M
der an armed guard, were placed in cars
Yesterday morning at tho Camden street
depot, and the cars attached 40 the freight
train that leaves tho depot for Washing-
ton, just after tho ten o'clock passenger
train. While the soldiers were awaiting
the departure Of the train. many Of them
got out of The cars and attacked every
colored person within their reach. They
also provided themselves with brickbats
and threw at every colored person they
could sec some Of these last were in their
houses along the line Of the track, and
Gouis wore broken and windows smashed
10y the stones, but no one was seriously
hurt. The guard appeared unable to con,
troll The riotous soldiers.
Ds3"Ihe Aboiilionists are continually
harping about the Democracy Of the North
being III sympathy with jeff. Davis and
his fellow s~ecessionists, aud at lhe same
time quoting extracts from Richmond pa
per- showing how all peace suggestions by
this Northern Democracy are spurned by
the rebel leaders. This is II Of the
strongest reasons why these efforts for
peace should be redoutled. The leading
rebels who are opposing peace, m~isrepre-
sent the Couthern people just as much rs
do the Abolilionists the people of.
the North and if the leaders on both
siues could be driven from power, we
would have peace at once, followed by al
reunion.