Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-07-08


mand the convention. Good examples,
like bad ones, are contagious. Perhaps
one and another Of the Northern ana
Southern States may do The like until the
requisite number have conourred, and
then we wall have National Convention
to consider the evils and dangers Of the
day and TO devise remedies which, it may
be hoped, shall prove as salutNry as those
Of 1857. And now, as then, the progress
of these measures will awaken inquiry
and thoughtlulness in the masses, will call
off their minds from the petty politics Of
the day, and from the misohieyous agitae
ton of slavery questions, to the grand
problem ofhow We can render this glori-
Gus Union perpetual.
In what form and to what eXtont the
power Of the General Government should
be increased is not for me to indicate, but
with the confessions Of President Buchan-
an and Attorney General Black before US,
that the Government as now constituted,
is unable to prevent or punish secession.
or to suppress the proud conflict that dis
turbs our peace and boasts itself irrepres.
sible, have ] not right to assume that
the Government needs to be strengthen
ed? Have not rigbt to say that Govr
efument which vas all sufficient for the
country fifty years ago, when soil and eli,
mate, and State sovereignty y could be trust,
cd TO regulate the spread of slavery, is in
sufficient to-day, when every upstart poll
itician can stirthe people tomutiny against
the domestic institutions OF our Southern
neghbors when the ribald jests Of sedi,
tiou8 editors, like Greely and Beechcr, can
sway Legislatures and popular votes
against the handiwork Of Washington and
Madisor-whcn the scurrlous Ibols Of
such a book as Helper become favor
ite campaign document, and are accepted
10y thousands as Law and gospel both
when jeaously and hate have killed out
all our ffaternal feelings for those "ho
werc born our brethren, and who have
done US no harm? The traditions Of the
elders fingered in the generations which
Immediately -.'a~soflad The adoptiOn o.
the Constitution, and their passion ioi
freedom, just as strong as ours, was chas,
tened into loyalty 10 the Uniop, and ven
Grafton for the rights Of the States. tn,
Constitution. which was strong enough tC
govern such men, is too weak to restrain
US who have outgrown the grave and mod.
crate wisdom that excited no irrepressiblC
conflict between brethren, bat taughtthcm
. to dwell together in unity. wouldmake
it strong enough TO restrain the malucs
of our day.
And let Inc people consider the motives
for preserving The Union, They wouiC
Je brought directly TO these by the &c
bates of the Convention, and by the ante
cedent and subsequent debates. car
suggest only some Of them.
First our name, md place, and power
as one Of the nations CT the earth. Ar
not these worth preserving? IN eight
years We have matched the greatness tia
! Rome and England were centuries in at
, tanning. What may be done in the mex
eighty?
9 heard asagacious statesman say, abou
: three years ago, that in twenty years iror
a that time, if we kept together, we woui
4 drive England from ali the markets Of th
a world as frst-class trader They wer
words Of cLeer, but there was the iueyita
S bleiG In what markets We should riv,
, England, or even the pettiest kingdom {
f the earth, attic, dissolution of the Unior
: that statesman and no other has venture
> to predict,
See what pro. periiy would como to |
. .ot the North il the process Of thc gran
I rivalry predicted by lhat statesman Mar
IS ufac,ures and navigation have built u
1.-THE greatness Of England, and they woul
: do the same for US as a nation, and {,
}, our section Of the nation. Manufacirrir
5, has already made us great. In no one IT
u spect are the rise and progress ofour coul
O try SO remarkable as in its manufacture
9 The nmrow,minded English statesman
n who gou6 not have US manufacture eve
al a ''hob naii could no be carried aiiy
{ through the factories Of Philadelphi
e pittsburg or Lowell, would, to be consis
II ent with himself, curse the false gods wh
o had inspired his unreasonable Wish, an
q hasten to die again. We staA rerT need
d .depeaF again on any foreign nation for a fab
, ltt1t e1n % made of c5ttor iron or rood, Thl
! fr at least, we have come. Aud VIII
cities, and towns, and drailroads, and cana
D. have We built up in our progress! Ho
~ much personal wealth and social happ
ress haYe we crealed-what additions
y our population--whal accretious in Il
. value of our farms and miuerals--what il