Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-05-06

ruptlUn. The whOlu Suuturtu coast IN
strewn with the wIeCS ui transports, not
lost by unusual stress ur weather but by
the yillalny of the men who Tor the sake
of money are permitted To- send armies to
sea in ships long bel re condemned as un>
seawo:thy, Corruption dcprives our SOL
ders OF needlul clothing food and means
OF transportation. We are publicly told
by Right Rev, Bishop that the Capitol
stnks OF II, and that its foul hand snatch
es for paltry gain the sustenance even from
our sick anu wounded soldiers.
such has this tyrant made our country
at home What has he made it abroad
so exalted was our position that the eyes
Of all men were fixed on US. We find in
our career our enemies were confounded
by 1t. We were held up as the exemplars
OF liberty--as the models of virtue. The
Republican party has made America
scott and liberty derision. They have
gwen to the English language that new,
that disgraceful, horrible word, the Am
erlcan bastile; and, as if to make 1t inns
peris lab!e, they have associated it with
the undyinc names of Columbus, Lafay-
etI, and Warren. Hencelorth no man
shall pass through the portals of the North
without seeing il engraved upon the walls
OF the iOrlresses which guard them. The
PRESIDENT has tampered with great ques-
lions Of international law, violating them
with the reckless audacity of ignorance,
and shriu king from the consequences,
with the ungraciousness of impotence,
surrenderlng not voluntarily but upon de-
mand the passengers Of the British ship
and the money OF the Holland bankers,
and promising when confronted by Eu-
rope, TO block up no more harbors with
stone.
I Now, Mr.. Speaker let US look our af>
fairs square in the face We are degraded
and batiied at home we are degraded and
desplsed abroad. Can the people, will
they, endure this for two years longer -
Never The people, in thunder tones,
have spoken to this corrupt and infamous
ADMINISTRATION, calling upon 1t to return
to our old landmarks, and what has been
the answer? Insult has been added to-
g, injury-shall we not speak again and
again? Let us Legislators speak with hut
one voice and see # Mr.. Lincoln will not
hear. In four years more we will be loads
ed down with a debt greater than that OF
Great Britaln-that burden which keeps
her laboring population ever poor and
miserable-w will reduce US TO the
same condition.
, In two yerrS more, (unless we can pre-
vail on the present administration to
change its polcy,l discussions already ap-
pearing will widen between the east and
the west and between the Atlantic and
Pacific States. In two years more the
starving laborer of our cities will be array
ed against the capital accumulated from
the diotresses of the country. In two
years more Europe, already covering
Mexico with armies aud the gait with
fleets, which two years ago would never
have been attempted without our consent,
bat the propriety of which Abraham Lin
coln's Senate declines even 20 discuss-irf
two years more, in contempt of our weak .
ness. will dictate terms to The Cabinet and
will not hesitate 10 make war npon u.s.
In two years more the reign Of Abrat am
Lincoln, for cost OF emancipation and sus-
.enance, will visit W with locust plague
of Egypt, eating up what the caterpillar
has left, and the plague of hls lice will
creep into all the houses. In two years
more this war, unless changed in its Oh
jccts, will ill our rivers with blood, and
lay out the dead in every house.
Mr.. Speaker, let Us then pass these res
olutions unanimously and coming as they
do from the immediate representatives oi
the people, backed by a large majority OF
the popular vote, and clearly indicating
the voice of Pennsylvania, perhaps they
will te needed by the lyrants at Washing
ton. At all events, we will have done
our duty, and at the end of two year,
more when the present despOtic and i'm
becie administration shall have ended
their Infamous career, we will endoavor I"
save what may remain e oar once glori-
Gus Union unlock the ietters which the
base Abolition Congress has been go &C.
lively engaged in forging foi us-restorr
our own liberties, and show to the peop'r
of the South that we have no desere I"
destroy theirs. We will invite them, up,
on the American principle Of mutual con-
sent. to full commercial intercourse 10
an uninterrupted postal communication
to political reunion, and to old joint
guardianship of the American Continent
and then, and not till then, can we reas
onably hope to restore the Union as II
was under the Constitution as u -
HANp3 AND PErT.-A writer IN The IT.
hn6c Monthtg, speaking Of the crGel mus
tlce to which the feet are subjected say
the foot's fingers are the slaves IN Tia"
reyublio of tho body. Then black leath
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