Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-08-25

! tional authority against the revolutionary
attempts of the secediug States. On all such
questions he was invariably in sympathy
with the rebellion. But let the Record
speak for him.
On the 18th day Of April, 1851, the day
of the rebel assault upon Fort Sumter, he
opposed and voted against the bill for arm
ing the State.-See Legislative Record for
1861, pages s48-5, &c.
On the 10Th of April, 1861, after the news
OF the fall of Sumter had been fred by this
insult to the national flag, Mr.. C!ymer, with
MS hve disloyal colleagues, entered on the
Journal of the Senate their solem protest
against the passage of the bill for arming
the State.--See Legislative Record for 1861,
pages 902-3.
In the session of 1862, during tho dark
days of the Republic, and when feverses had
overtaken her armies, Mr.. Clymcr voted
against sustaining them in the field, by vo-
ting against the joint resolutions of the Le-
gislature to provide for the collection of the
direct tax levied by the United States. See
Legislative Record for 1862 pages 1915.
On the 9th and 10th of April, 1868, on
the consideration and final passage of the
bill to authorize those in the military and
naval service of the United States to vote
he voted with his Democratic colleagues
against every section.-Same page sos. :
In the session OF 1864, on he 9th of March
upon the joint resolutions proposing an
amendment to the Constitution authorizing
the soldiers to vote, Mr.. Clymer being pre-
sent d2gded and in the afternoon of the
same day, having asked leave to record his
vote, the Senate refused.-Se Legislative
Record 1864, 335-341. tf7 1a"d0 tm n1'
And later in the session, when bill was
introduced to carry this amendment into
effect, Mr. Clymer not only spoke against it,
but with his twelve Democratic colleagues
voted against it.-See Legislative Record,
1864, page 500. '
During the session of 1868, Mr.. Clymer
voted against joint resolutions in favor of O
law to define and punish reasonable often.
ses.-Legislative Record, 1868, pages 2048.
During same session he voted against the
bill to legalize the payment of bounties tc
volunteers. This was on the eve of the IN.
vasion of the State, and but three months
before the battle of Gettysburg. .--Legisla-
tive Record for 1868, pages S09-11.
On the 9th. Of March, 1868, Mr.. ClymeI
opposed giving Andrew johnson, then g ov.
ernor of Tennessee, the privilege of speaking
at the Capitol of Pennsylvania on behalf Of
the loyal men of the South. He denounced
him as a usurper, charged him with "up
ment is founded :" with having "bent the
suppliant knee before the throne of power >
and that, "for pclf or some other considera
tion," he mad yielded to the meaures of the
government. He further spoke of him "a!
a mere hireing of Federal patronage and
power."-Legislative Record of 1868, page,
376-7.
On the 21st of April, 1895, he addressed a
public meeting called under hIs auspices
and held at the Court House in Reaching
Berks county. Among other violent ant
inhammatory language against the Genera
Government, he advocated the resolution,
that resistance by force to an invasion O
our personal freedom Is a virtue" and tha
1--WE do not approve of this war as at presen
conducted. We never did approve of it il
ITSELF"
On the Gath of August, 1868, in his So
merset speech, Mr.. Clymer declared that i
Woodward and Yallandigham were elected
Governors of Pennsylvania and Ohio, they
with Seymour, of New York, and Parker, o
New Jersey, would unite in recalling frou
the amy the troops of their respective States
and thus compel the Administration to cal
s. convention of States to make terms Will
traitors.
:: On the Sd of February. 1854, when Mr.
Clymer was charged with having uttered
such q sentiment, he failed to justify him
self, and went so far as to declare that tn,
United States then presented mournfu
spectacle amongst the nations If the earth.
Mr.. Clymer was afterward a supporter o
the Chicago platform, which declared "tha
after four years of "failure to restore th
Union by the experiment of war;" Gimme
date efforts should be made for the cessation
of hostilities" '~
And his whole public career, and all hi
official acts and private declarations hav
uniformly been consistent with the abov
record. He might do to rule over Soutl
Carolina or Virginia, but never over tn
loyal men of Pennsylvania.