Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-04-15
crEARFlELD, PA
Wednesday Morning April 18TH 1868
on any Terms

peace on any IerlnS
within Il few months a party has
sprung up, whose chief end is to secure q
peace on any terms, no matter how dishon,
cradle, --EggerLead orym.
Although it isnot so said in plain words,
ret It is self, evident that the AsS -istant
editor alludes to the Democratic party in
The loyal States, in the remarks quoted
above. What must be thought Of u pub.
lie journal, controlled by men who make
special pr%etentions to piety who claim
hat they are perfect models Of morality
notorious FOR BOUNDING a trumpet" be-.
tore lhem-who can so deliberately per>
petrare a wicked, berefaced and malicious
alsehood !-wkeH they kaoto l. to be mchP-
Who Is In favor Of "peace on amp lerms?7
Is any oneS Most certainly the Demo.
cratic party Is not for they will submit
10 no settlement that does not promise a
RESTORED Union and Nationality -inme.
Aiately, il possible If not, at the earliest
possible .eriod,
We DIZZY these foul>moulhed slanderers
10 poin, 60 a single resolution, j" speech
or "pubI.s act" for which the Democratic
party i, IN any sense responsible. favoring
an uaco.,t iioaai, or "dishonorable" peace.
r they cannot do this-aud We know thev
cannot then gre their souls Glackened
with the damning guilt Of bearing false
witness against their neighbors
No, no. The peace tho Democrats want
IS based upon very important CONDITIONS
conditions which could be readily obtain.
I'd we're it not that the powers of the gov
crnment are controlled by men who seek
20 confer no such blessings upon their
country. Those conditions are, that the
Union DO restored as il wuS-thaL the rights
# The States, and consequently the person
al rights Of their citizens, be occurred as
hey we're before the p,esent usurpers
came into power and that the sacred
provisions Of the Constitution be respect.
cd.
These are the "terms'' upon which the
Democratic party advocate u peace or
rather, q cessation Of dos,!tt@-until at
least mn effort be made to restore peace"
upon these conditions.
And well they know that snrh II policy
would result in peace. Bat peace would
enable the people TO behold their country
destroyed by the folly and wickedness of
the Republican. Abolition party and raN
Their than submit to this, they would
drench their country in blood, and blast
the hopes of self, government forever.
We have pronounced the charge of our
~neighbor as maliciously false, and deman.
ded that he be held up before the commu-
nifty as a public c%alumniator, unless he
s~ubstantiates his charges.
Having done so, we now, promising to
he tried by the same ordeal before which
we arroign him, and bound by the same
rules of evidence, charge
LIST. That his party are opposed to peace
for fear that peace, if brought about now
might result in restoring the Union as i!
rJs.
I'd. That the aim of the party now in
power is to change our form of Govern
nent from a Union Of equal, Independent
and co ordinate States-a family Of Re-
publics, as it were-into a Centralized
consolidated Nation.
3D.. That the party in power deem the
total distraction of African slavery as of
greater importance than q return to 10y
ally on the part Of the nov seeded States,
on condition that their institutions he
recognized and guaranteed from molestO-
lion as under all for mel administrations.
9Th. That, according 10 the admissions
Of the party in power, the success Of the
war is destruction 10 The Union and a failure
c! success, a restoration Of he Union.