Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-03-07


22d of February.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. %.
TO the Editors Of the Intciligencer:
Detained from the great Union
meeting by circumstances beyond my
control. must address 1t telegraph
ically.
President Johnson's veto opens the
new campaign IN favor of the Union.
1t arrests the overthrow of the States
and the concentration Of all power in
one consolidated military despotism.
1t prevents the expulsion of eleven
States from the Union and the cree
tion of eleven Irelands within its linn
its, to be controlled and oppressed by
military power. II prevents the quar-
tering ofa large standing army and
hosts of officials in the South, with an
enormous increase of our debt, to be
followed surely by oppressive taxation
or dishonoring and disgracefulrepudia-
tion. 1t prevents the defeat Of the
plans of the Secretary of the Treas
ury for the funaing and reduction Of
the public debt,and safe and gradual
return of specie payments. Repudia-
ton is degrace and ruin, and the proba-
BILE extinction ofrepublican institutions
throughout the world The result of
large standing armies and oppressive
taxation, caused by the policy Of the
Presidents opponents, would produce
an earthquake convulsion. 1t would
quadruple the excise and income tax,
blight every field, ,becalm every vessel,
break every bank and railroad and
ruin every factory in the country. 1t
dissolves the Union, destroys the Con
stitution, and erects military des-
potism on its ruins. 1t would post
pone, perhaps indefinitely, the trans
fer Of the command ofthe commerce
and exchanges Of the world from Eu-
rope to America. European despots
would exult, whilst the friends of
freedom IN the Old World, and especi-
ally in Ireland and Germany, would
weep tears of blood.
The prolonged government of eleven
States as conquered provinces, enforc-
ing taxation without representation,
would permanently ALLEVIATE the South
from the North. 1t might drive them
to madness and despair, and renew
the civil war when our credit and re-
sources were exhausted We have
emancipated, through a great consti-
tutional amendment, carried only by
Johnson's policy, four millions of ne
groes. Let us not attempt to enslave
eight millions of our erring white
brethren of the South they will all
welcome death before such fate as
this. ! have fought all my life against
secession and disunion in the South.
and | renew the contest against it in
the North. Congress has no consti-
tuional power to dissolve the Union;
and to condemn eleven States to terri
torial pupilage is dissolution of the
Union. i cannot act with Northern
or Southern disunionists. Johnsons
policy alone can practically restore
the Union.
1t has already crushed the heresy
of secession at the South, and il alone
has secured constitutional majority
for abolition of slavery. If the heresy
of secession is crushed at the South,
and emancipation secured, the crown
ing glory rests upon the head of An
drew Johnson. Slavery and secession,
our only discordant elements, being
thus extirpated, the Johnson policy
will go on conquering and to conquer
not by the sword, but by wisdom and
magnanimity. 1t will subdue at the
South their passions and prejudices.
1t will touch their hearts and conquer
their affections. We shall hear no
more of exceptional and individual
acts of insubordination, for We shall
have Union of interests and affec-
ton; Union of States, with states and
not with conqueredprovinces Weshall
have the Union and representation of
all the States, ,as ordained by the Consti
tuition. We shall have cordial, fra
ternal, AN ever expanding and perpctu-
al Union. Men of the South, from
Virginia to Texas, close up the ranks,
and fight harder to get into the Union
than you ever did to get out of it.
You fought us under the secession
flag with unsurpassed courage aud
endurance to get out of the Union.
Come, now, our erring, but still much
loved brethren of the South, and rcas-
semble with us again at the political
family altar, at Washington. Come with
loyal hearts under the flag of our sires,
and to the music of the Union, and
we will give you cordial welcome.
Come, and the recording angel will
blot out in reconciling tears the
memory of human follies and trailties.
The people on whom Johnson has
always relied are with him, and will
welcome back all Unionists to seats
, in both Housac nf Cap,r.o,e