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

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WHAT DEMOCRACY WOULD Do.
We're tho Abolition fanatics and the pa.
per mongors outside from the throne
which they so uuworthily occupy, tae
question is asked what would be the posi-
tive action Of their opponents or a su-1ti-
tuition ola plain Democratic seat for the
elevated divan Of the monarch who now
rules the country? The answer is easy.
There would be an immediate return to
an obedience to the dictates of every sec
tion of the constitution, under the str.ut-
est rules OF construction there would be
no tyrannical invasion ofpersonal liberty;
no government bastiles no imprisonment
on suspicion Of what citizens might do -
10 suppression of freedom Of speech no
military interference with the elective
franchise no suspension of the habeas
corpus.
These are the disabilities from which
the States, once Independent, would be
relieved by the substitution Of Demo
cratic administration for the present i'm
becility at the head of authority, and the
corruption ruling its weakness. A Demo,
cratic administration not being infected
with the "albo-negro" appetite for spill,
ing little blood, would not have pTecipi-
ated this war into the murderous conflicts
that have slaughtered so many OF our best
ctizens, and devastated so vast an extent
Of the most fertile regions Of tho country.
The principle Of Cancellation, suggested at
a timely period and supported by the De-
mocIacy, would have prevented all he
mischiefs of ruineus warfare, its worst con-
se9ueuce-an irrecouciIabe feeling of ami
mostly between the North and the South.
Under Democratic administration We
should have a return to the Union as it
was, aad the Constitution in its purity
Washington Cou8t. Union.
Gzg-IG the country shall be ayea, tls
Union restored, and the Federal Con5ltu.
ton preserved. the work must be done by
the Democratic party Democrats arr no,
alone in this belief and the expression Of
it. Go where you may, sentiment like
the above greet you, and they ara fro-
quenuy uttered by men who never voted
a Democratic ticket. Such sentiments are
fast spreading, and the number who be-
lieve them is daily increasing, - Un;ontoVn
Genius Of Liberty.
DzyThe Bedford Gazette, speaking Of
the Presidents late Proclamation, we'll
says:
Gle now argues, thus: To restore the
Union is to save negro slavery therefore,
], Abraham Lincoln, preterring the free
dom Of tho negro to the restoration OF the
Union, will impose such conditions upon
those persons in the reyolled States no
may be willing to return to Il cir a gi-
ance, as will send them back into the a-ns
of Secession"
. LIvcoLN's s MESSAGE. Part Of the Repub
Iican press commend the Presidents Pro
camation because it does not endorse the
doctrine of State suicide, and the other
portion because in does. THIS reminds us
Of the man who had an anim4! on exhi-
bition, and being asked by one vAo had
never seen such an animal before that it
was, replied: You pay your nonish--
you want him bear, you have him bear
you want him wolf, you have him wolf"
tz5~The President wants the South to
swear to support his abolition and eman-
cipation proclamation as condition for
coming back into the Union, and the war
is to be waged until they are forced to do
it. If they would swear to support the
Constitution they could not come. Now
what is the war Clinton Democrat.
rg~Ap editor having read in another
paper that there is tobacco which, if man
smoke or chew it, he will forget that he
owes a dollar in the world" innocently
,concludos that many Of his Subscribers
have been furnished with the article
+ EsasThc most direct method of deter
mining horse power Stand behind him
and tickle his legs with briar.
/ rRrH. s. Tyrnell, a Connecticut coun,
tryman, was lately robbed Of $4,000 in
New York, by female thieves
Gsy"Subslitutes are growing scarce in
New York. tits difficult to procure them
for $500, except in rare cases.
Gs5-To smile at the jet which plsrts
thorn in another's breast is TO become o
principal in the mischief.
LGyRear Admiral Farragut visited tho