Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-11-25
abe Cl,arlido NppbIitan
CLEARTIELp, PA.
Wednesday Morning, Nov. 25th, 1863
White and Black Promises.

White and Black PROMISES
The old Jester who, unfortunately for
The Republic, now occupies tho Presidon-
tial chair, seems to be ~ prolific Of prom
,ses TO the people, ar he i, full Of vulgar
Iokcs to his misguided and ianatical nsso.
clates.
Ii is unnecessary for our present Pur-
pose to notice moIc than two Of his pub
lie pledges gircn, we presume, niter ma
lure counsel and dclibemtion. The first
promise, or pledge, he gave TO ciiIc men,
was in his Inaugural Address on the 4th
Of March, 1861, and is in the following
language:
81 do hut quote from one Of my speech
es when ] declare that L hare no purpose,
lircctlv nor Indirectly, 10 interfere l0iH tie i0S'-
tuition Of Sllveyy IN The States ,0hsTs Il cEtstS.
BELIEVE / HAVE NO LAWFUL
RIGHT TO DO so. AND ! HAVE no
INCLINATION TO DO So Those who
nominated and elected me did so with full
tuowledse that | made this and many
similar declarations, and had never recan-
led them. | NOW REITERArE THESE eBN1I-
MENTs; and in doing so | only press upon
the public attention the most conclusive
evidence Of which The case is susceptible,
that the PROPERTY peace and security
Of no section arc to be in anywlse
endangered 10y the now incoming admin
istration. ! add TOO, that all the protec
ton which consistently with the Consulu-
tion and law, can be given, will be cheer
fully given to all the States when lawfully
demanded, for whatever causc-as cheer
fully to ono section as to another
How this promise has been kept we need
not inform the reader, except that every
principle and right here enuncated has
been shamelully violated and tramped
ander foot by the very man that uttered
them.
So much for promises made to whiic
men.
The other promise alluded TO was made
TO black men. The President, in his
Emancipation Proclamation, promised the
negro slaves that he would not hinder or
restrain them in any effort they might
make to obtain their liberty. To this
thinly yelled invocation to the slaves to
cut the throats of their masters and mis-
tresses, and out-horror the horrors Of the
West India maSsacres, a number Of the
Presidents own friends at first stoutly OBJ
jected, upon the ground that if the slaves
commenced an indiscriminate massacre
ofwomen and childron he could not res
train them from the commission Of what
ever horrible excuses loste OF blood
might lead them to, The President wa.
SO tortured on this point by his own party
friends that he was compelled 10 address
letter to convention of his former
neighbors at Springfield. Ills, and in re
ferring to that portion of lis emancipation
proclamation, in which ho promised free
dom TO the slaves, lie says,
"Thc promise, being made, MUST DE KEPT.
We have no objections to any man max
ing and keeping good his promises; bu
We do object to the President eiolating ia
promises made to aohite men, while Ii
keeps sacred and lulflls his promise
made to negroes. And more than this =
the promise made to the negro vas mad
long otter that made to white men, an
should have been the last TO be fulfilled
But if either promise had TO be broker
why did he not prefer whae men
We have read and heard much a6ou
honest old Abe !" but we have seen bu
little that would lead US to make any sue
charge against him when the rights an
interests OF ghtc men come in conflict wit
those Of thiek-lipped American citizen
of African descent" 60 on. oppressor
we can bear the yoke rs long as any boas
ing 'loyalist."