Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-11-25
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When Richelieu had involved France In
halfurgle in which shc was made 10 feel
The edge of the sword most kechly. aud
the invaders were carrying fire and sword
through some Of her best provinces the
tongues Of ffenohmen were loud and bold
enough against tire Prime Minister. The
Cardinal not daring TO throw them into
dungeons. as I've was won't to do, or to an
rest them, got his metcenaries TO write
panegyrcs for him. These mercenaries,
VINO thought the more flaming their IN
cense was. the stronger it sfhelt, the rich
eI it would be thought, and the price be
the greater, always oyerdid it, We we're
reminded of this historical fact by very
lalored eulogstic article in the Philadel-
phia Press, recently, upon Secretary thsse
we may say by numerous articles IN most
Of the Republican journals throught the
country. TIE fall of Woolsey, and the
wreIched reputation Of this abandoned
Minister of the proHigate Louis, should
teach these Cabinet Ministers Of President
Lincoln how vain and ieetng is present
popularity. The Secretary Of :he Treasu-
~ cannot escape the damning verdict of
lullhlllhl HlhlOll NuJ uiOlt lHhll MS Col-
leagaes in tho Cabinet--the Secretary of
State and the Secretary OF War Here is
a triumvirate that in less than five years
will be overwhelmed with the curses OF
deceived and a ruined people. The hope
now OF the country is, where the hope ey-
er is, under the tyranny OF cruel and pow
erlul ministers, in the disunion that con-
tinued success must necessarily create
among them. Their interests may be at
first the same while their power is unset
tied, and they have competitors, but when
by ytheir authority, or the authority of their
masters they have suppressed all opposing
parties, and have no more their common
antagonists to contend with, they begin TO
think each of his own advantage, and TO
rise higher on the ruins of one another, as
they rose together before on the ruins OF
Their rivals.
D.. Is not this condition OF things already
becoming visible in the Cabinet? These
panegy rsts of Messrs Chase and Stanton
will "s!ng small" a few years hence, when
they see these men whom they have so
ba'ely eulogized flying in terror and dis
grace, with Ill-gotten gains, from their in
dignant countrymen. The fate OF the orr
ginators of the South Sea Bubble, and cl
john Law, mus. be the fate of the present
Secretary of the Treasury. The ineyita-
BILE law of retribution must, sooner or la
ter. ovartake these men who owe their rise
to their country's ruin, and whose for
tunes increase as those OF the country :
diminish.
The men who are eulogising the fnan-
cial plans Of Mr.. Chase, and the war policy
of Mr.. Stanton, know full well that both
tend 10 the rapid destruclson of the coun-
try and its material interests; but they
find it TO their gain to bask in the smiles
Of court favor, hoping that they at least
|, with present opportunities, when the erasl
comes, will escape ruin. lE the meantime
the laboring poor, whose scanty wages
hardly enable .hem with the high price o
provisions to keep the wolf from the door
are deceived and cajoled. But let lhes,
: unprincipled men in power, and these syc
, ophauts Of the hour, beware, when, 'miC
0 the ruin and destruction they have occa
:. stoned, the fury of the popular reveng
shall be directed toward their betrayers
The shock given to credit, the stoppage II
speculation, the contraction to eXpendi
t ture, will he so excessive that the laboiin,
I classes will be involved suddenly in mos
: overwhelming distress, and the same eau
- ses which increase their discOrtcnt, nm,
, augment their disposition TO revolt, vii
4 disable the Government by The rapid fal
y of the revenue either from administering
d relief or eXcring force. This was the hi-
G tory OF France in the latter part Of the las
o century. 1t will, It must be ours, for lik,
1 causes produce like results in all ages. -