Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-04-20

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that you cannot save the country by The
policy which you have been pursuing, enc
you very vel! know it. Your party, while
in power, has committed acts which can
not be justified, and which cannot b,
blotted out. Let me recount, sir, &c brief
ly as ! can, some Of the charges which wC
prefer against the party now controllin,
the GoYernment-and charges which wC
believe will constitute part of the in
dictment on which history will arraign
them.
Sir, we charge that the following are
the fruits Of that "loyalty" which the Re-
publican party claims to represent. and
the result OF not quite three years admin
lstration OF the Government by them:
|. We charge them with having dissol.
we'd the Union Of the States.
.. We charge them with having inaup-
urated bloody, desolaling and ruinoas
civil war.
B. With having sacrificed on their un.
holy altar Of Abolitionism more than three
hundred thousand men, and sent them
prematureIy to their graves.
=. Suffering, mourning, death and des-
oIatIon carried into families in every neigh
oorhood throughout the land.
.. More than three millions Of men IA
ken from the industrial pursuits Of life
North and South for the deadly conflict.
3. Iney have created national debt,
/ incIudidg circulating bills of credit, of over
three thousand millions Of dollars, and
have nothing beneficial to show for il.
!. More than six thousand millions Of
dollars worth Of property already destroy
cd by means Of the war. and yet the pros
pect OF restoring the Union far darker
than when the war commenced.
5. The annual expense of the govern
ment already increased from about eighty
millions to about two billions and the
burden is still more rapidly increasing.
y A grinding, endless burden of direct
taxation 10 support the Federal govern
mcnt.
10. Millions OF dollars expended to feed.
clothe, support and educate the negro
slaves and to purchase their freedom; and
proposition for an expenditure for the
purchase Of negro slaves sufficient to bank
rupL the Federal Government for fifty or
an hundred years 10 come.
IL. Fraud upon the treasury and swind-
ing IN goyCTnment contracts 10 an extent
unheard "I in any other age or country i
and TO cast loose from all moral or legal
restraints the most prominent ofcuder.
SIMON Cameron, after his dismissal from
office, not only sheltered but highly hon
ored, and the operation Of the law for the !
punishment of frauds upon the treasury
actually suspended by an act OF Congress. /
l.. The constitutional currency OF the |
country virtually suppressed, rags, shin
pI9'i ear3, pasieboarls and postage stamps
substituted, and an uncertain, variable !
standard of value created which must in
oYlta6ly eventuate in widespread disaster
and ruin to the great industrial interests
Of the people.
l3. The abolition Of negro slavery in the
of Columbia, wholly unnecessary
ma TO say the least of it, palpabe breach
}! good iaith, simply 10 appease the rapa-
'.'y OF Northern fanaticiSm, at the ex
ocnse OF driving of hundreds of thousands,
u Union men in the slave States into the
southern army.
H. OEceasng negro slavery agitation,
lie conhscation and emancipation meas
res Mt the late session Of Congress. and
he proclamation oC emancipation, bv the
in the field and by the President
I the United States, confirming the pre-
Lotions OF the Southern disunionisls as to
he supremacy and rapacitv of Northern 1,
'boIiilonists, and by those means crush !
1g the Union mon ofthe loyal States and !
hereby producing unanimity in the South
the cause OF the rebellion,
10. The prosecution of the war, not in
nat ~ ttt j
lsposltlon required 3y the nature OF the y
oderal compact-but with menaccs of =.
and determination, besides y
ding and facilitating the escape Of fueit- u
o slaves aud encouraging scryile insur- G
'ction,
lG. The attempted emancipation of be d
7ecn three and four millions slaves of r.
yal Union men, as well a5 those of the cl
bcls 10y the simple cdiCt Of The President. u
II. The attempt to turn loose hordes of q
'sro slaves upon the free States, to com p,
ste with the white laborcr, and 10 wran-
e for social and political equality with n
e white race. Il
is. Thousands Of good and loyal citi. Of
ms arrested without legal warrant, drag d,
d from their homes, taken beyond the liz
nits Of their States, and confined in no &C
ical bastiles, without the opportunity of 10
trial, and even without being permitted OF
know the name of the accuser. or what Ia
arge, if any, has been preferred against qt
EN-. m
10. Loyal and patriotic citizens, who are ar
ady md willing to sacrifice all they hold sii
ost dear TO maintain the Constitution as ST.
IS, and to the restoration Of the Consti- re
ton as it was, denounced as traitors and m
loyal persons by political party whose SIX
tito Is, Union without slavery or no co
lion at ALL" We
20, The freedom and sovereignty oftb G,
ltes grossly oncroachod upon, and their
al su6yersion boldly threatened. W
q. The freedom Of speech and the free "a
N OF the press. tTo Of tho essential bull wi
rks OF civil liberty, inestimablo to free en-
N and formidable to tyrants only, .ram- po
.d down and crushed to earth. pu
=. The writ Of hajcas corpus and the hu
u, OF trla! by jury, two essential safe
'rds TO freedom, and which have cost de-
nlslnd so many centuries OF toll, blood mi
i and treasure, suspended or abolished wo
Inc rnaro od iot of tho President A..