Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1865-06-21

II blood is to be shed, be it so but lot il
not be the blood Of the people of these
confederate States, fighting against each
other. So far as am concerned, intend
to stand by the Constitution and its guar.
anlees as the ark of our safety, as the nal
ladium of our civil and our religious liner.
ty; l intend to cling to it az the sh; ~.
wrecked mariner clipgs to the last mol,
when isht and the tempest close uro,,nI
hlm' US IN other hands; it is cot in
oou's' We are for the Consl;. ;.,u,ion ss il
IS we intend to stand bv il. Rpt when
the time shall come, if % ever does como
Ior dividing this Unirn, | ask nv friends
,'0r'h and South, whore is the line to he
o'2"h ! lhe y Jrth, which is so sorampant.
~ Ieul Upoo ,he idea of universal liberty
III surely not have the audacity or the
,ttnp"oe.ce 10 come upon slave territory :
N"e5 certainly Will not approach as far
soo n ss tins Capitol. Surely they will
p0t want to embrace, in a government
10Y med by them, the shaft that has been
cared N this District in commemoration
OF the illustrious Washington. Will they
want TO come that Car south, and Law their
hands upon all the pledges of the Union
and the Constitution which compose that
shalt reared in our i'm mediate vicinity
Certainly not. Who will take our pledge :;
who will carry it away; who will first Inv
his impious hand for spoialion upon that
tower? felt almost like excaiming, in
the language 50 often used 10y the school
boy, from AddisoL's old play of Cato,
that teaches stern purity, uuyielding hon
esty and high appreciation Of fright:
-" Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in TIE stores &C heaven,
hed with urtommon wrath, to llast the wretch
40 owes his greatness 70 his country rain Z"
| feel, in the sincerity Of my heart, like
invoking the most wiIheriug analhcmas
upon the man, who would lay bi, s4crilIg-
ious hand uIon this glorious Union Of
these states who would take our pledge
.of faith; who would take the block Of
mal bic deposited by Tennessee, which has
inscribed upon its surface the sentiment
Of her illustrious son who now sleeps in
his graye-"The Federal Union. il must
be preserved" Who will carry away that
monument built by the contributions Of
the people? Imagine that about the
time when that takes place, that old man
TO whom | referred that patriot soldier
who sleeps in his honored grave, will rise.
shake off the ha6Ilmen!s oil the tomb,
and forbid the act.
But, Mr.. President, resume the line
Of my argument. commenced With the
purpose of showing that the recent !oray
upon IIGTpers Ferry was the leoilimale
result Of certain teaching to which have
referred. Look at tho provisional GOV
crnmenl which was framed by those who
carried on that expedition look at their
idea Of getting up stampedes, and their
expectation that when they struck the
first blow portion Of the white popu,a-
iion aud the Lacks would flock to tAcir
standard, and that they could maintain
themselves there for "a certain time, aud
then the Federal Government would be
made an instrument for the overthrow OF
slavery. | think the ac, is legitimate
result Of TIE teachings; AMI those who
have taught and still teach their followers
these doctrines, though they may not
have intended it, are, in fact, responsible
for it. II is the result of their teachings,
it is4helr work and now is the time to
commence reformation, and put forth
different teachings on this subject
Bat, Mr.. President, Senator'S have an
dertakeu to :ebuko those of US who have
spoken Of John Browns acts Of theft,
murder and treason, and apologies are
offered Cor the man who has committed
such outrageous eitenses. picked up
newspaper not long since which, referring
to the acts Of John Brown, said that, if he
passed from the prison to the scaAold,
making no false step, his gallows would
be more glorious than the cross aud
Christ, in the depth Of his agony, had ask
ed that his cup might pass from his lips,
but that ohm Brown has drank it to It's
dfegs, and therefore john Brown and his
gallOws have become superior to Christ
and his cross. The idea was, that the
coming and mission Of Christ were q fail
ure. and that John Brown and the gal
lows on which he was executed would be
their modern cross and their Christ
Such is the blasphemy Of these teachings.
once heard it said that (anaticism always
ends in hell or heaven. believe it is
true, II is one Of these Wild maldeniug
passions that take possession of the hu-
man heart, and that alTaya carry it TO sX
cess. There is no medium, and there IS
no cure for it but consumption OF the
passion itself. have got another idea in
ethics and that is that there never was a
nv people on the face OF the earth greater
than the god they wor5hippod and if
John Brown becomes the Christ, and his
gallows the cross, God deliver me from
such people as they, whether they are IA
uatics, Democratic or Republican, or any
other description of persons-l care not
by what mama thpV are called.
| hoped, when this resolution was in
/ troduced, that it would be kept clear
from party associations and that it would
pass with unanimity, without any apollo
gies or excuses being lugged in for the
acts complained of. We find, however,
that Senators disolam the acts of John
Brown in enc breath, and in another they
hold out apologies and excuses for the
man, saying that he showed himself a
man of endurance, man of philosophy,
a man Of tact, man of sense; and when
we speak of him as thief and a robber
and murderer and traitor they declare
that we should not soy such things about