Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-07-08
pa-lfis a poor rule that wont work

RSynlfis q poor rule that wont work
both ways, then all the rules that govern
the actions of the Jacobins must be bad
ones. Every sentence that falls from the
lips Of Democrats is weighed witlras much
suspicion as n professional thief catcher
watches the words and actions OF his vic>
tim and if they can possibly be tortured
into an cquivocal or doubtful import their
author is at once stigmatized as a 'cop>
porhcad traitor" q 'sympathizer with
treason" &C., and threatened with the
dircst vengeance that Jacobin ingenuity
can invent.
1t is not so with the Abolitionized Re-
publicans. They seem to have q license
to say just what they please, when and
where they please-precisely as every
body used to think they had a right to
speak in a free country. To them there
is no restriction of the liberty OF speech
but only to Democrats. They may de-
nounce the war with perfect impunity,
and il only amounts to an expression Of
opinion-which is every freeman's right.
They can hail the invasion as a perfect
Godsend. Leaoing and Influential men
of their party can publicly wish the rebels
would gut Harrisburg from one end to
the other" Another can as publicly de-
clare his willingness to see the rebels come
to "Clearfeld and 10y the town in ashes,
cheeriully suffering The loss Of his own
property for tho satisfaction it would af-
ford him to behold the destruction Of that
Of his 'oopperhead' neighbors :" and ano.
ther can declare that if Meade is defeated
in the contest now raging, he hoped to
God Lee would pursue his victory and
make a clean sweep Of the whole corrupt
nest at Washington"
Such are but a few o! the expressions
heard from the lips OF our political oppo.
nents within the last two weeks-from
men who have not hesitated to threaten
with the halter and the cibbet their neigh
bors for saying less than half rs much.
The ENRoLLNENT.-W believe the en-.
rollmert for this county is now completed,
and that without as yet calling into re-
QUESTION a single c2Rin, 1t appears, there
fore, that after all that was said about
threats of shooting" collins" &C., two
or three weeks ago, the enrolment has
been made here among the secessionists
OF Clearield" with perhaps less difficulty
than in almost any other county. In some
districts the officers making the enroll.
ment were specially obnoxious, personal
ly, to the great body Of the citizens, and
the wonder is that they escaped so well.
Those who were free from such faults,
men Of fair repute, and fit for their posts
tions, met with no difficulty whf tever.
In Knox township, where the enrolling
officer was shot in the foot, the enrolment
was completed by the Deputy Provost
Marshal for the county-Capt. McKIER.
NAN-who found no difficulty whatever,
except upon a single instance with q
lady, who made soma slight demonstras
tions with a can Of water, which she decla-
red was hot as Hades; but upon the Cap
tain politely assuring her that he had re.
ceived the benefit of the baptismal cere,
mony in his infancy, followed by q brief
colloquy, his business was transacted, and
he left the lady in the best OF humor, ful~
ly convinced that nobody was hurt"