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

States that il has already come
Several States propose TO retire from the
Confe6erocy, and that Justly alarms us
We come together to consider what may
be done to prevent it, and we aro bound,
in fidelity 10 ourselves and others to take
the measure Of The whole magnitude of
the danger boom ......
This irrepressible conflict has grown out
OF the Anglo. Saxon love of Freedom. What
that passion is, and how It was offended
10y the introduction Of negro slaves may
be read IN tho chronicles of the American
Provinces, and especially in the earnest,
the eloquent, and repeated remonstrances
addressed by the Colony ofVirginia to the
Crown and Parliament Of Great britain
sgainaC their introduction.
But if the Anglo,Saxo loves liberty
above all other men, he is not Indifferent
| TO gam and thrift, and is remarkable for
his capacity OF adaptation, whereby he
takes advantage Of any circumstances in
wluch he finds himself placed. And, ac-
cordingly, by the time the Colonies were
prepared to throw off the British yoke,
and to assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal STATEN to
which the laws of nature and of natures
God entite them. il had been discovered
! that the unwelcome workers, against
/ whose introduction such earnest protests
/ lad been made, could bo turred to profits
able accoant in the Southern Slates--that
the African constitution was well adapted
to labor in ATTITUDES which alone could
produce some Of the great staples OF lie
and that the North, which could not EN-
ploy them proftably, would be benefited
by such employment as the South could
afford. Considerations Of humanity also,
rs well os the rights Of private property
entered into the discussions Of that day
What was best for an inferior race thrust
unwillingly upon superior? That both
should be free or that the inferior should
serve he superior, and the superior be
bound by the law Of ,ho relation TO pro-
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.,.c.a..,.,o,,g sbo,ld hirisIiction 10
LII. :, >, ,,ro,,,od T., tho Government
-..-..a.1 ,s,,,o s,a,,,. and tho peoplc Of
n,o S,oiosg n e.e were great questions
and like all the questions Of that day
uorc wisely settled
Tno Norlhern States abolished thcir
slavery and so gra,iGed their innate love
of freador,- lut they did il gradually. and
III, mol o,,,, ,beir Ioro of Gain Tic,
s,,3 ont slsyerv 70 tbe South. and they
roo..yod q 6,,I co,;yalent NOT ,nly in tho
,.r;ca Maid down lot in The msnufaotur.
;nro,,d ,o,,,merci,1 r,,oepcr;,v which grew
rn from, ,,,a nrodpc,io,s or .isyo labor.
whco tba Constitution came 10 be form
al some of lre Northern States still hello
q slaves bat several had abolished the in
4 s,itutjou. and it must have been apparen
That natural causes would force il ulti
! mately altogether upon tue South. Tn,
o love Of liberty was AS intense as ever, an,
1 as strong At he South as at the North, an,
. the love Of cain was common also to boil
g. sec,;ons Here were two master passion
Il a ba od;psied pnder circumstances of th
creates, lohcocy They ware adjusted an,
NJ Tho rroot Questions of the time were set
ls IreJ :, tbo oply D,onner nossible. Con
is cession ona compro,nise-con liberation
nj r,r socb others feelings md interests sac
= ,;eoo. or r,.i,d;css eorbea-snca and moo
:. or,,ior -iho.e u,ara ,he means by wbic
,ha ..,,,oro ra,roct Irniop,, was formed.
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