Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-04-01
CLARIFIED, Pa
Wednesday Morning April LIST, 1893.
BE NOT DECEIVED

w SV'Hs bNHOI@hA lNil'N''O ~ 'HS hhh
other States Of the North, and known AZ
the LovsE Union League. The ostensible
objects Of this organization are, the sup.
port OF the present Administration. and
the restoration Of the Union. In speech
delivered, the statement was made, that,
by means of this League of loyal men, we
Sould be enabled to distinguish between
loyal Union men and Traitors, as the former
would all rally around this organization as
q common centre.
When, at this time, a set of men pro-
claim themselyes such exclusive and de-
voted friends of the Union such earnest
advocates Of hat highest and roblest of
~ objects of patriotic e~ndeavor-its res
I3aatioE-it becomes the duty of all true
riots to inquire a little into their sim
vc,ity.
TO this inquiry we, who were among
lie Union Savers" of 1855, and long be>
Z re, when il cost comething to be a Un.
!on man, proposes to address ourself. If
80 find that the leaders in this movement
Lave always been Union men-consistent
aud devoted 10 I-cherishing, unfolding,
md sustaining its Constitution at all
times deprecating sectionalism, and tho
tanatical folly that has wrought u ruin,
we viii give them our most cordial sup,
port.
If, on the other hand, aided by the light
Of very recent history, we discover that
the leaders Of this new movement are the
same mel who, hand and glove with Abol.
ition and Secession traitors, have destroy.
ed that Union which they now profess to
be 50 anxious to preserye-aud well nigh
rendered its restoration an imposs;bility-
We shall fee justified in withholding our
support, and in advising, not only Demo-
Gratis, bat ALL CoSsERvATIyE MEN, to Ne.
uounee il as q political game, played for
the benefit Of lhosc who have basely be.
sTsyed the people, and who now seek, UNI
der cover Of that loyalty and Unionism
they but lately derided, to escape the ven
geance of a deceived and outraged people.
We assert that the men who, in 1856,
under the lead Of John c. Fremont, flung
to the breeze the first secession lag We ev-
er saw-with but sixteen stars upon it
are MI members Of the Union League.
We believe that the author of the "irrs.
preside co4yiet' doctrine, and his follow.
era, are very favorable to the Union
League.
If we are correctly informed, he who
made the astounding discoveries that our
"house," becauae divided against itself
cannot stand and that ''he Union made
the Safes is not opposed to the Union
League.
Nearly all those latent patriots who
proclaim their patriotism by urging q
vigorous prosecution of tho war, whilg
they act treason byrglSing 10 .Eyht," are mem
bers Of the Union League.
Many Of those who but lately found
laws "higher" than the laws Of the land,
together with many who were 50 eonscien.
iious that where Gods law conhicted, in
their opinion, with the law of man, felt
it 10 De their duty to disobey the latter,
o urge US 10 join the Union League.
All those who, a little while ago, were
willing, in a certain contingency, to "Ic
me Union Side" are now earnest working
members Of the Loyal Union League.
We feel assured that all those who sc
successfully and fatally opposed and de-
fcated the Crittenden Resolutions-which
had they been adopted, would have saved
the Union-are now high priests in THU
new Order, and i%mpudently ask us TO fol-
low where they lead,
Finally, we point TO those who, follow.
Ing the acknowledged leader of the Re,
publican party in the late House of Rep,
resentatives, who declared that with 'hi
consent the Union should Syv1R be res
tored % il was give to this relict o
kuownolhingism liz form and pressure.
Having thus inquired into the antece
dents OF the fathers Of this new party, anc
failed 10 discover from their past histor,
that they have sver been Union men, in In,
loyal meaning of the term, we feel bound
10 repudiate the spurious organization.
Gentlemen OF the late Republican party
you 'cannot escape history" Througl
the thin vail that you imagine conceal
your hypocrisy the people see clearly
There is left but one hope tor you. Re
member, that as the strength Of Sampson
lay not in the gross organs Of his physica
frame, but in the locks that crowned h;
temples, so the power Of this Government
and the strength Of this Administration
rests not in vast fleets and armies, but i
;he critten Constitution Of the United States