Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-04-11

We note, with tho warmcst feelings
ofhope and joy, some evidences among
that portion OF the Democratic pres,
which sustained the wnr, that they
begin to comprehend tho real object
Of the present Tory Mongrcl party
This party founded ON the iundament
al lie that unequal races should have
equal rights, has been marching ioi
thirty years to accomplish the over,
throw Of Democratic institutions in
America. Originating, perhaps in an
honest misconception, it has been seiz-
cd hold Of by all the Tories and enc.
mics of popular institutions, TO seal
the doom OF republicanism in the New
World. 1t has swept into its ranks
all the debris Of Toryism--allth the ma
lignant old Fcderals, and all those old
Wings, who hate a Democrat more
than they love their country. Every
tarifiite, and every person trying to
live by his wits upon honest men s la
Dor, have reinforced it. To fix this
multiple alliance Of Toryism, fraud,
rascality and robbery of all kinds up
on the country, is now the great and
absorbing object Of the party in pow
er 1t is scarcely possible, il they car.
ny the next Presidential election, ever
TO oust them except through revolu.
lion, and it is doubtful whether such
monstrous crimes as they have com
mitted can be adequately punished
until, having filed their cup Of iniqui-
ty TO the full, the people rise and visit
upon them swift and terrible retri-
button. Their grcenback falsehoods
may explode, however, at any time,
and the people reused from their leth-
argy by the sharp pangs Of financial
sufierings, may hurl them from pow
er ere they are aware; but no matter
how the final catastrophe comes
whether this year, next, ora few wears
hence, the Democracy of the North
should not lose q moment in perfect
ing an immediate organization of Wig.
lance Committees, or Minute Men.
If We do not intend to wait until we
are bound hand and foot, until our
lives, our property, our liberty. and
our wives and daughters even, arc AT
the mercy Of brutal soldiery. then
let us arouse There is not a moment
to be lost. There ought to be Dem.
ocratic Convention in every State at
the earliest practical period, TO make
arrangements for full and complete
organization, and to give fair notice to
the tyrants at Washington that we do
not intend to submit to the programme
imposed upon the Southern States.
Every county, every town, every
school district, ought to be organized
forthwith When Patrick Henry
sounded the buglc blast that reused
our iorciathers to arms, he declared
"that the clanking of their chains
could be heard on the plains Of Bos-
ton" To-day they can be heard on
the plains Of the South, and they will
soon be heard here, unless we speedi-
ly prepare for the worst.
DO You say that there is no danger ?
How many people supposed even
twelve months ago, that this party
could or would have consummated the
atrocious act of despotism that dis
graced the city of Washington lust
before the ides of March, And will
not a party that will deprive one set
of men Of their liberties do the same
to othersy Do these men now hate
the Democrats of the North quite as
much as they do the people of the
South I And what, then, will restrain
thom from placing us in the same po-
sition Z Only this, the Dant Of po,ser
They will do it il they dare, and they
will dare to do it if they sec that we
show spirit of slavish submission.
aud take no means to vindicate our
rights against their usurpationsg To
be forcwarned is TO be iorearmed. i'll
we are worthy of the name OF men.
We entreat, then, those gentlemen
of our own State, who have the con. |
troll OF the party organization, to set
this ball in motion. The time is most
opportune to arouse a spirit and an en-. |
thnsiasm which will rcvolutionize the
State. A most important election is
10 come off this year, and, with prop.
er cxertions, we could easily carry the
delegates for the State Convention.
The Importance of this cannot be over
estimated. III the Abolitionists have
lhe revision OF the Constitution. as
now seems probable, they will doubt.
ess introduce such test oaths in il as
will deprive twenty or thirty thousand
If our citizens of the right of suffrage.
But, even II nothing of this kind were
" stake, the importance of immediate
organization would not be at all de-
The steady march of the
hongrcl party to realization of their
'bjcct-which are nothing less than
he overthrow of American society.
civilization, and the downfall of the
plendld system of government be-
Iueathed to us by our iathors---are
easons enough why we should lose no !
ime in grand effort to save il. When
he mailed hand of martial law is up
m us, IL will be too late to resist We
hall neither gather strength by mae
ION nor gain adherents by submis-
ion Every reason admonishes us to
rganize at once and confront our on
mes as every true man meets bis foe.
The Mongrels are muttering out !
tammering excuses for tho vile act Of ,
heir party chiefs. The Democrats
re indignant, and ready for revolu.
ion. Says the great poets y
"There is tide in the affairs Of men
Which, taken at the food,
Leads on to fortune"