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

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the restraints imposed has burned out all
memories of the compromise and the COM
pact in those Northern communities,
which, under The false name OF Liberty
Bills, ob5truct the execution Of the BAR
gain. What part Of TIE purposes OF the
founders are tho underground railroad in
tended to promote? Whence come these
excessive schsibilities that cannot bear
few slaves in remote territory until the
white people establish a Constitution2-'
What does that editor or preacher know
0: the Union, and Of the men who made
it, who habilually reviles and misrepre-
sents the Southern people, ana excites the
ignorant, the thoughtess in our midst to
hate ana persecute them? What has be
come Of our glad and willing obedierce 10
the Supreme Court as the final expositor
of the compact?
BE not deceived. let me not prophesy
smooth things, ana cry peace when there
is no peace, Let the truth be spoken, be
heard, be pondered, if we mean to save the
Union. The conflict boasts that tits ire,
pressiLe. IT allies itself with equal read
mess to religion and inhdeliJy, It enlisls
all our passions, good and bad. It makes
common cause with the champions of free
dom the world over, and with the promo
ters of in8arrection, riot and discord at
home. With freedom Inscribed on the
banner it bears, il tvamples under foot the
guarantees of freedom contained in the
IConsGtulion and laws.
How is it TO be rypressed: Govern,
mental administration cannot subdue it.
That has been tried for several successive
PEI lod., and the conflict has waved hotter
| landhottcr, Will the next Administration
| be- more successful? Hoping for the best
it can do, what right have Yea OR | to am
tic,pate that the honest man who has been
elected will prove rccrednt to the maXims
that made him President Can trade and
commcrce subdue it,? Look at ths votes
of Boston Philadclphia and Pittsburg.-
/ Tho manufacturers and mechanics are the
Inoverning classes in these cities They
are intelligent ard q,iols 20 dis"over-thois
! interest. They have weighed and meas
pred the Southern trade, and then haze
voted against the Southern people But
what if they had not-what IT, like the
ciiv OF New y ork, they had voted against
the conflict, only 10 be overruled by the
country counties? Commercial cities can
not repress the conflict, if the people OF
the interior lend THEN sympathies. 40,
no. there is reason in the boast that the
States shall all become free. There Is good
ground to apprehend the extinction oI
property in slaves. All New England has
decroed it. Thegreat States Of New York
land Ohio have repeated, again and again,
the decree. Pennsylvania seems to have
sanctioned it. The Northwestern States
stand for the present committed toit,
What hope is left FOR the Cnionl !:
there man in this assembly who deems
! that this conflict can 90 on and the Unior
last? II there be, that man IS beside him
:, self; he has !ost his wits l will reasor
with no such man. But. though few may
believe that the Union can iorg endure
, the shock Of the conflict, yet many people
think that freedom absolute, Gncendi
tional. universal frcedom--is 80 great
! boon, aud negro slavery so grel / a reproaci
and evil, that the ahole iniluence of
E good mans life and conduct should be di
I rocted to promote the one and suppres
: the other even though, as aconsequenee
the slave States should be driven out O
D the Union. This is the prevalent dElem
F., per Of the public mind. "Who can min
: letter to a mind diseased7"
b Felow,citizens, profess no ability Il
this regard, but my mouth is open, aud
n will utter some of the thoughts thatpres
e up rom the heart to the lips
When under the articles Of confedera
{ tien, which carried Us through our Revo
,. tlutiopary war; States had grown jealous
d runfrUternal, disobcdient; and the Genera
i Government had proved itself too weak
J. suppress conflicts that were Arising, ih
II people took the remedy into their ow
# hands, called q Convention, and formed
= strouger government. The call Of tn
0 Convention, the election Of deputies, th
# State Conventions which followed, a
o served to engage the public mind, and
direct II TO the common danger, and tn
It possibl remedy. Thus the popular min
IS prepared itself to receive with approb'
n tion the Constitution that was formed
Il and impending dangers were averted.
= History is said TO be pnilosophy teacl
d ing by examples. Letus beinsiructed b
II this example. As we, Pennsylvania
d were the first 10 abolish slavery, let US !
Il the frst to move for the salvation Of th