Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1865-02-08
lfrom the Old Guard, for February
Conspiracy in Congress.

ny mountain has conceived and bro't
t1r'h mouse--a contemplate, laugba.
'ioh OF mouse. The abolition.
,1eu congress, after terrible labor. has
Drought forth the resolution paving The
way lot the alteration oftbe Constitution
ior aoollshing slavery. Now. all the con-
pany OF fools or knaves who voted CO..
this resolution have recorded tbems.,ao, .o
as being in favor of both of the foIlow;no ?
! propositions -. ~
~; !; me perpetual dissolution of this
ohion, ny barring the last avenue left O.
pen iDr tDr lhe return of the Southern States.
me destruction of the Government
formed by our fathers, by blotting out
,Ae sovereignty OF the States on which n.
lone it was founded.
2lfipped OF all shams and lying dis.
guiSes, 1t is simply proposition to reyo.
lulIohl2e, overthrow, and DESTROY This
government. 1t is hundred-fold worse
man all the iollies of secession combined,
il lne secesslonist is traitor. those who
vo'ed ior this resolution are double traitors.
because they 60 for destroying the organ.
ic principle on which our government ia
based. The original inhefent. and nm.
Helegated powers of a single State cannot
oe legally torn from it, not even by the
action OF all other States through the
FORM OF altering the Constitution. That
cause OF the Constitution giving certain
number OF States the power of altering
me instrument, does not, by any
means, give the majority the right
10 overthrow the vested lights or so des-
Troy tho organic being of a State. The
vote OF the majority 10 alter the Constitu.
'ioh cannot touch the minority in any
matters that were not delegated in the in
Strumeht under which the alteration
CiaimS 10 be made. The reserved, or un-
delegated, rights of the States are not sub
Ject 10 any jurisdiction which the States
20 not themselves sanction. Suppose that,
under the plea of altering the Cons.:tu-
'loh three-quarters of the State should
vote 10 reduce all the people Of the other
quarter to State fvassalage-would that
oe Law Suppose that, under the style
and title of altering the Constitution,
three-quarters should vote that they would
appropriate to themselves all the wives
anu daughters of the other quarter, would
NOT the quarter say TO the ihree-urarters.
'ohoI your authority! Were in that iaStrl.-
ment did ue delegate to anybody those sacred
matterSF They werc ncrer SUI iects of Federal
5fiitttal5iiar. aaIGAansarg f3r1hecptfrotset yo,.
may d0lssa the Constitution ,o9l yonr bodies
are rotten and your souls damne d; we shall des-
piSe and dsfyyou! What Stat what hus-
band, what brother would not talk after
this strong fashion? No. we will not be-
lieve that there can be suclr fool in Con-
gress as one who really thinks that, un-
der the plea of altering the Constitution
the organic and untransferablo rights Of
States can be legally overt hEown. We
can no more alter the Constitution to rob
States of their Slaves" than we can TO
kdnap their wives and daurhters. We
iini it much easier to believe that those
who propose this kind of thnr nre knares,
than to let them off under the more char
liable conclusion that they are icfots. We
leave it to those apostale Democ rats who
advocated this resolution to settle it with
their constituents as best they can, wheth-
er they have been bribed outright or lost
their senses.