Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-02-04
From tbo CoIuulu' lolio) sutsanan.
Judge Bartloy's IndiCtme1f hgafue
the GepubliOan Admir- .radon.

80 ~ Nl'A'A'SeI loF WIN ~ llth tNI1
hartley closed his speech on the Ei"a,
OF January Festival at the American, j
this city;
TIE Fruits Of Inrust,g The Republican Par,
wM tie Administration Of The Government
!. The dissolution of the Union Of th
States.
2, A bloody, desolating, ruinous civi
war.
3. More than three hundred Thousand
men already sacrificed, and sent prema.
tpreIy to their final account.
4. Suffering, mourning, death and desc
lation carried into families in ever,
neighbmhood throughout the broad ex,
pause Of the country.
5. More than three millions of men IA,
ken from the industrial pursuits of lite
North and South for the deadly conflict
e, A national debt, including circula.
ting bills Of credit, of over two thousand
million Of dollars, already created and
nothing beneficial to show for It,
7, More than five thousand million ot
dollars worth OK property already destroy
ed by means Of the war, and yet the pros.
pect Of restoration OF the Union far dark
er than when the war commenced.
3. The annual expenses Of the Govern
ment increased already from about $50,
100000 to about SI,0OOOO5,OOO, and tho
burden still more rapidly increasing.
9. 4 grinding. oppressive, endless bura
den Of direct taxation to support the Fed,
oral Government.
10. Millions Of dollars expended to feed,
cloLhe support and educate the negro
slaves, and to purchase their frced&m =.
and proportion pendiHE for an expcu-
dlture for the purchase Of negro slaves,
sufficient to bankrupt lLe Federal Gov
ernment for fifty or hundred years to
come.
H. Fraud upon the treasury and wind-
ling in Government contracts 20 an ex,
tent unheard Of il any other age or coun.
try, ana TO cut loose from all moral or lt-
gal restraints, the moss prominent often
der, Simon Cameron, alter hs dism ssal
from osAce, not only =helteped, bat high~
y h1norSd, and the operation or lLe law
Tor the punishment of frauds upon the
trea. lry actually suspended ty an ac' Of
Congo.
L. The Constitutional currency Of the
couaTy virtually suppressed, and RAGS.
sbiUpias.ogs, pas,eboara aud postage
Ein'nra snh .'i'.''~l and an uugrl.aiu. va
riabig standard 0, yU'ae cr-Jl-a, which
must inevitably CvCntuate lu widespread
disaster and ruin TO the grea. industrial
Interests file people.
Is. The abolition Of negro slavery IN
the District o Columbia, wholly uuHecos-
-ary, and TO say ,he least OF it, palpab,s
br0ach o! good mith, simply to arpea7e
tho rapacity u. Northern taraucism, al
the expense Of driving oil hundreds OF
thousands OF Union men in The slave
States into ne Southern army,
Il The unceasirg negro slavery agita>
tiau, the coOhscatiou and emancipation
measures. at the late session oil Congress,
and the prociamations OF emancipation bY
the General iu the field, and by the Pres
ideut Of the United States, confirming the
predictions G. Che southern disunicn.sts
as TO tue supremacy and rapacity OF Nor
thern Aboiitionists; and by these means
the Union men OF The slave
States, and thereby producing unanimity /
in the South in the cause of the rebellion. |
Is. The prosecution Of the war not in .
that redeeming spirit and conciliatory |
required ty the nature of the /
Federal compgcJ-JUt with meuaces of .
subjugatiOn and eXterminatiOn, besides |
aiding and facilitating the escape Of fugi.
tive slaves, and encouraging serYile insuT- |
rectious
l6 fhe attempted emancipation Of bee
Tween three and four million slaves
slaves Of loyal Union men, as well as those .
Of the rebeis-by the simple edict Of the
President,
IL. An attempt to turn loose hordes Of
negro slaves upou the free States, to COM
pete with the white laborer, and to wran~
gle for social and political equality with /
the white race.
lS. Thousands OF good and loyal citi- .
zens arrested without legal warrant, drag .
ged from their homes, taken beyond the .
limits of their States, and confined in po- .
litical Bastiles, without the opportunity /
OF q trial, and even without being permit, /
ted TO know the name of the accuser or |
what charge if any, has been preferred a,
gaipsL them.
l9. loyal and patriotic citizens, who
are ready and willing to sacrifice all they
held most dear, to maintain the Coustitu-
ton as it is, and 10 the restoration OF The
| mo- ta ~ NUS 'lOllDull'-h No TRAITORS I
md disloyal persons, by political party
whose motto is, "a Union without slavery,
)r DO Union at all"
-. The freedom and sovereignty Of the
States grossly onoroached upon, and their
otal subvegaion boldly threatened
81, The freedom Of speech and the free.
tom Of the press, two Of the essential bal,
Tarks OF civil liberty incstimable to free,
mon and formidable to tyrants only,
rampled down and crushed to earth.
-. The writ OF h7tcls corpus and the
right of trial by jury, two great essential
safeguards of freedom, and which have
'1St mankind SO many centuries of toll,
J.ooashod and treasure, suspended or q,
5oished by themere odict Of the Presi-
dent.
%, The cdiots and 9ecreos Of arbitrary
power substituted for the Constitution
,n8 laws Of tho land and the creation orI
, now criminal code ly am ExecriveI
proclamation.
"a Martial law declared taragrbrn.|
hs United States not limited Be- .hsl
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