Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-10-19

fJary, beiorS that state adopted secession,
,ndeavored, in the House Of Representa-
lives at Washington, 90 obtain a similar
arrangement in that body to test the ques-
lion OF compromise before the people, and
10 was voted down by ll2 Republicans
against so Democrats--eyery Republican
ia the House voting in the negative. They
would not, they did not DARE 10 trust the
people, the legitimate source Of power on
this question,
AZ the hazard Of furnishing unnecessary
proof on this point, we beg attention 10
tho clear and explicit evidence Of Senator
Pugh, 4 cotemporary o9 tho author Of the
Address, in the Senate of the Udted
States. In the course Of his speech IN the
Senate, in March, 1861, he says:
"The Crittenden proposition has been
endorsed by thealmost unanimous vote OF
lhe Legislature Of Kentucky. lthOs been
endorsed by the noble old Commonwealth
of Virginia. 1t has been petitioned for by
larger nsmter of the electors Of the I'm
tied States than any proposition that was
ever before Congress. | believe in my
heart to-day that it would cary an over
whelming majority Of the people Of my
State, aye, sir, Of nearly every State in the
Union, Before the Seuatorc from tho
State of Mississippi left this chamber, |
heard one OF them, who assumes ut leas!
so be President OF the Southern Ccn!edcr.
ncy. propose 10 accept it, and maintain the
Union, if that proposition could receive
the vote it ought from the other side OF the
Heuse. Therefore, all cf your propositions,
Ill OF your amendments, knowing as | do,
and knowing that the historian will wUle
It down-at any time bctore the first OF
January, two thirds vote for thoCrltten.
ien resolutions in this chamber would
have saved every State in the UnioR ex-
cept South Carolina, Georgia weuld 10
here by her representa- ives, and Lousi-
ana-those two great StaVes--which at
least would have broken The whole coll
umn Of secession Globe, plg5 1900.
Upon the same point, on The same dhy,
the clarion voice Of the patriot Dor glas
sore testmoay rs follows;
The Senator Nr. Pugh) has sait that
Il the Crittenden proposition cor al have
been passed early ir the session, fl would
Save saved ali the States eX cept South
Carolina. ! frmlv believe il would
While the CritteRden proposition was
not in accordance with rny cherished
views, l avoWed my readiness and eager
ness to &C cept it in order TO save the Tn
ion, if We could Nnile upon it. | can
confirm the Senator's declaration that
Senator Davis himself, when on the Com.
mittee OF Thirteen, was ready at all times
TO compromise on the Criltenden propos-
zion. Twill 60 further, and say that NJ.
Uoombs was also.--Glo5e, page 1894.
How preposterous at this dny then, this
attempt of one Of the leading actors in
that evsutful drama thus 10 stine con-
science, and so seek 10 rescue his cocoon
spiralors from the recorded verdict of his.
tory, and The deserV ed and inevitable con-
domination OF a betrayed people The
controlling spirits Oft the Republican pat
'ty never meant peace never sought
peace from first 10 last. or any time or in
any form, save upon the one drear and
devilish condition of turning loose upon
our land three and a half millions of
black semi.barbarlans under the specious
pretense OF freedom, while in reality, it
efesSe etIr 's-a,S0dtt rruIrr rTvIr HUr1Fs OF COM
.paratiye happiness and peace, 10 ind star
,Yation, misery and death in an inhospi-
table cline
President Lincoln has but recently de-
clared, in very definite terms, be will
listen tono proposition of peace which
does not include this African millennium
Notwithstanding those plain constitution
al prohibitions Of all right on the part of
the General Government thus TO in,er-
yene, which he himself, with the oath of
office fresh upon his lips, declared he "6qi
no yGgal right and no intention to DISREGARD
II we were 10 credit the rawlings of the
chief advises OF the President, or, at least
those who seem to influence him most
iully-Sumner, Beecher and Philips- ra-
pid progress in these latter days, that the
haven OF human perfection must be near
at hand. But alas when we look hone.
fully for the blessed gale which is Ia hear
Us onward 10 its course, we hear nothing
but the loud breath of the tempest. see
nothing all around US but the angry and
troubled sea, everywhere sparkling with
loan and surging in its madness and we
ais tempted to ask, can this indeed be-
"Ih0 wind aud the storm fulfilling his wordr
These men are mistaken and mad or
sre traitors of the deepest dye, deserving
a traitors darkest doom. This eoualitv
OF the black and white races which they
are seeking to establish in this country
IS an absurd and idle Dream which =
brief contrast of their progress and pecu,
liarities mus. dispsl from every thought
ful mind.
a little more than two centuries sinca
when our fathers first planted few
germs of our race at scattered u3ints
along the North American coast The
whole number Of that race in the old
world did moi exceed six millioag. Enc.
land, Scotland and Wales then number.
ed fewer inhabitants than New York
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio do now. Mark
the progress in North America Mt this
time Including a wholesome Celtic in.
fusion there are at least thirty millions
and in the whole world (conressing there
also the same iniusion,l from eighty 10
ninety millions Of people, substaniially
Anglo-Saxon in their origin. We ore
everywhere thus displacing the more
sluggish races or hemming them in on
every side and at this current rate of
increase, in one hundred and frtv vosrs
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