Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-12-05


nc OF the delusione and waywartncss
of the people in continuing their sup. /
port TO a political party which is man
Itestly bent on the complete dcstruc- /
ton OF the free white mans govern
ment, established BY our forciathers
But we must tell these Democratic /
leaders that the fault is moro theirs |
than the peoples. They have been
doing all they could for five or six
years TO educate the people in this
Black Republican abomination OF '1oy-
atty" If the thing now called by this
kingly name of loyalty, is right, then
the Black Republican party is right,
then the people are right in support
ing that party, and the Democrats are
wrong in opposing it. If the Abol-
tionists have n right TO overthrow the
Of States, and to subju
gate white men, for the purpose of
reducing them to an equality with ne
grocs, then they have right TO all
the natural fruits OF that sublugation.
The holding of States in sugugation
can be no greater crime than the very
act of suJjugdting, ana when you have
educated the people TO believe that
the one is right, it will take long
time to persuade their common sense
that the other is wrong. If you may
deprive any people of the right of
selfgovernment for a single hour, you
may for a day, il for day, for week,
iffora week for month, for month,
for year, if for a year, for all time.
The principle admitted for any time,
is good for all time. These Democrat
ic leaders went over themselves into
the filthy slough of Black Republican
loyalism alias despotism, alias devilism
of every Internal type, and did their
utmost TO drag the people after them,
and now are trying 20 drag them out
again with just about the same kind
of ropes or principles, with which they
dragged them in. Vain attempt
Worse than vain TO expect TO drag
the people out of the Abolition slough
with Abolition ropes If the Demo
cratic party is ever to return to power,
it must be through other agency, and
by other leadership, than that which
carried it over to the support of its
enemies. The organization, the ma
ehiRery Of the party, is worn out and
broken in the service of its enemies
Ii smells at once of the stencil Of ne
groes and the blood Of white men. 1t
is loathesome to every Democrat, that
is, to every Democrat who has refused
to be a party TO the stupendous crime
Of the Abolition war. If the Demo
cratic party, we say, ever returns to
power, it must be by other means than
this old filthy, venal, bloody, negroized
machinery Of the party organization.
The Democratic principle is not hurt.
1t is as bright, as pure and glorious us
when it started in the great struggle
of l776. Give it party machinery
worthy Of its strength, and it will
draw forth again the popular enthu-
siasm which was always the forerun-
ner and companion of victory. Do
we believe it possible for the party to
achieve success through tho leader
ship Of the very men BY whom it has
been soldg' The return of the Demo
cratic party, or rather of the Demo
cratic principle to power, (for after all,
that is the only question worth con
tending for,) must never be looked
for on this prosiituted, bloody, negro
worshiping basis of loyalty. The De
moeracy OF the United States was al
ways purely white. 1t can never re
turn to power except as a iohite mans
party. The attempt to make it a mu-
tattO party, or something between a
white man and a negro, has resulted
in nothing but disgraceful and coniin-
uous defeat. These cunning or rather
foolish leaders have been trying to split
the difference between a white man
and a negro, and the result is, that
they have made political Mongrels OF
themselves. What we want, what
we must have, nay, what we will have,
is purely iohite mans party. A par
ty based upon white supremacy, on
precisely the same foundations which
were laid down by the wise and pa.
triotic founders of this government, is
the only organization which can sue
cesstully cope with the negro party
To coneede anything to such a party
isto give awaya portion ofour strength
The wider the gulf between us and
them, the stronger shall we be- This
attempt to squat upon their grounds
is both folly and crime. The Black
Republican party holds the negro and
all that belongs to him in fee simple
and for the Democratic party to at.
tempt to get possession of any part OF
his body, is to play the part of a thieI
and fool at the same time. This
sort Of thing has been going on now
for several years under the present
incompetent and venal leadership OF
the party, with only this result-thC
Generalization of our own forces.
These considerations have led us to
support the proposition for an early
great convention of the true old De.
mocracy of the States-a genuine
Democratic convention, where the
people of all the States may meet on
terms of perfect equality. Not such
a bastard concern as that OF Philadcl
phia, where the marplots OF one sec.
tion held their bloody hands over the
voiceless mouths and choked throats
OF the other section, reading them les.
sons of reproot and submission. II
there is any man who bore a promi.
nent part in it, who is not already
ashamed of both its action aud its re.
suits, let us believe that be is past
blushing. 1t was no doubt amusing