Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-01-06

And most desire should meet the blow of Justice,
For which would not plead, but that must
Shakespeare.
Obstnacy, if it may be called vice. is that
For which plead 'Tis not because 'tis right,
Nor because love to advance into anothers cause
Without he asks my aid. But since ts known
That man, within his breast, sustains
A quality which, perhaps, is not so gross,
Yet still too vile to adorn a Christians heart,
take the side of Obstinacy, when it's against
Cruel mans expressions hurled.
Oh how the brain rocks to and fro when
We get the unwelcome tidings, man is wrOnged "
Does it not wiring all our tender affections
And elicit our sympathies, with love so warm
That we, even lovers of law, could leap away
From the radiant joys orhome, that beams
Rich with modest pride, and rush,
With indignation kindled, and burning within
Our breasts, to ayenge a liberty outraged,
And freemen deprived Of Humanity's brightest
Noblest gem.
Thon hearken friends Of right, case is now
Before us, in its blackest, meanest form,
And demands our utter, hearty scorn.
When ministers of Gods word are from
The pulpit driven, and forced to cease
To look for pecuniary aid from those
Who have " through the purest motives joined
The Disciplined Church OF God " to find
The path that leads TO grace divine,
Because they would not their souls degrade
In clamorng politics, 10 eEgeuder feelings i'll,
And desecrate the sacred sanctuaries
OF Him. who despite the Devils power
To foster tyranny, cherished in our minds
The hope that Liberty would survive
The brutal blows she has received
By despotic hands.
Can We wonder then, since these misdeeds
OF Fanaticsm's vilest votaries, beaming
With soriid pride, in our faces flash,
That Obstinacy will arise towering above
The misty realms Of a crimpipg heart
And feeble mind, to check
The encrcaching strides of selfish, proud,
Power-loving man, upon the immunities
Of Christian ministers.
Who would, being gifted with the mind
of manhood, e'er bow, in timorous dread,
At the beck and nod of naughty foes
OF human l!berty-sacrifcing his every claim
To freemen's abode in the society of noble men
Sacrificing all the finer qualities that charm
The SOUL that adorns the mind, and gives
Grace and religious frmness TO the heart.
There is the eloquent, the high-minded
And learned J.giias, he is the man.
If man he be- whom fanatics, of our time,
Adore. They, to contribute, do not refuse,
But empty their Golfers in his purse.
And why? Is it because he merits your esteem
By preaching the glad tdngs of salvation
Among the followers of the Cross Not SO
'Tis because lie, the voice of Christ urheeds,
And will, their fendish minds to crafty,
Preach war and blood and invoke
The curse of God upon the men
And women of the South, and will, for gold,
Barter the soul of men to fight against
The Constitution of his country-to annul
Its sacred laws serving the Devil, robed
With the livery of Heaven" and devoting life
In the cause of sin, wrapped in the cloak
OfRegion, he thinks to hide his glaring crimes
Him they reward and honor, and why
Do they not reward, esteem and honor those
Who will not
As makes the angels weep ?"
'Tis because in opinion, they differ with you
Fanatics andirreligious Demagogues,
Nothing else! They love their God and
Their neighbour as themselves"
tired of writing in blank verse, and think il tin
yet allow me to state that the action of the abolition
res who disgrace the community and assemble at the
schoolhouse, and who are sucking away at the Hfeb
nation known, and deserve the contempt of every
uman liberty in the land
D bigots! Democrats can sustain their own ministers
The doctrines which Christ inculcated in the Sermon
. Yours as ever, YOUNG NESTO
A countryman walking along New York, found his
Oppea by barricade lumber and asked what it wa:
that's to stop the yellow fever" was the reply.