Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-06-13

agents with which they intend to in
undate the South under this bill, ll,would
be an intolorable affliction under any
circumstances; but when it is rcmem-
bered that this brood Of mean, petty,
hungry officials, are to be sent there
to take charge of the negroes and
sustain them against the whites, and
to enforce negro equality, we may
form some slight idea of the pretty
little Radical pandemonium they mean
to establish in that devoted region.
To even discuss the unconstitutional
ity of ttisbill would be treating it with
too much respect. No man who un-
derstands our system Of government
will dare to urge that Congress has
the power to enter the States, select
out portion of their citizens, change
their civil status, place them under
special protection, send special agents
to sustain them against the rest OF
the citizens. and remove them when
necessary from under State laws and
State tribunals, and place them under
the sole guardianship and protection
Of the general government. ltwoald
wrong their intelligence to suppose
that any Of the men who voted for
that bin believed it constitutional
President Johnson could not act with
such men. No American who has
white conscience can. The conscience
has to be blackened in America, or
crimsoned in Europe, 20 make a Re
publican sufficiently blackor sufficient
/ ly red TO do the work of thoroughly
radicalized fanatic.
Ifthis country Is to be saved from
going the way Of the other republics
on this continent, we viii owe it under
God to Andrew johnson. If we are
ever again TO have anything worthy
of being called Union, we will owe
it 20 his loyalty and intrepidity. But
n Union kept together by bayonets,
or what is worse, by swarm OF ofic-
ia vcrmia, appoinie l under Civil
Rights bills,t interfere with the laws,
tribunals and rights Of the States, and
the hereditary constitutional liberty
of the people, is not worth an hours
preservation No, let us have q real
Union-a Union OF nearts laws, ,rghts
and privileges, or no Union. The
people will have no radicallzed Union,
with New England for its head and
Taxes tor its tail. We will have no
Union with eleven States out or Afri-
} eanized.
The war, 1t is true, has made us o
patient Neoplo, and taught us to sui
IL to any kind Of government, but
this must not be mistaken for a blind
ignora or slavish submission. We
start uD " .ie awake some bright
morning, snd conclude that rump
} Congress and rump Union at tho
4 same time are not quite the thing foi
, this country and so snrc MS we oper
our eyes to this fact we wall dow !,
Colonel Pride did with the rump Par
liament-send the rump Congress tC
seek the devil--anywherc else except
ln WuSniHioAs A4u oii"g p"NN
( whole Union, in ali its beauty an'
: majesty, The greatest and noblest po
: litcal structure in the world. To etfec
, this peacably We must have thor
! organization of the people. Every
! man who wants to pfcserv Q the Con
, stitution of the Union ought to entc
1 Johnson club. We owe 1t to th
obls stand taken by the President 4
: sustain him and what is more, w
owe il to ourselves and 10 the country
I and the principles of constitutions
4 liberty, to Sustain hiS policy so lon
s rs he sustains the Constitution ant
r the Union. This radical faction mus
G be put down by peaeeable organizf
/ ton, or the country vii drift rapid,
!. into social civil revolution.
|. Gentlemen, have the honor TO b,
d your obedient servant,
J. JAMES SHIELDS.