Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-03-21
GEORGE B. GooDLANpER. Editor.
ClEARFlElD, PA.
Thursday Morning, March 81, 1867
The Third ReroIusion.

Iho progress OF events Is truly icar-
ful. Disunion and revolution, in a
horrid form, revels as Justify today at
Washington as it did at Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1861. The war has
been over for nearly two years. At
its close there were but eleven States
excluded from the benefits Of Congress
sional representation; to-day, there
are sixteen and the people seem to
be as composed and tranquil as if
nothing extraordinary was transpiring
around them. Ifthe Rump of a Rump
can exclude the people of six '1oyar'
States from voice in Congress, what
is Il there TO prevent another Rump
from from establishing perfect des-
potism? Demagogues, like Thad.
Stevens and Beast Butler, should be
Stunned and despiscd by an honest,
free people, equal to Jack Sheppard
or a Monroe Edwards; for while the
latter can only plunder communities
of goods and wares, the former rob
them oftheirliberties. A highwayman
may and sometimes does restore that
which belongs to his fellow; but dem
gogues never make restitution. They
always gain the confidence of a con-
fding people-just as the Devil gained
the confidence of our first parents in
Eden, by misrepresentation first, and
finally by naked lies. To illustrate
this, we need but refer the reader to
the fact that the men who previous to
1860 clanored for-and had painted
upon all their banners-"free sol" I"
"a free press, and "frec speech" were
the first to fill our forts and bastiles
with freemen for exercising "free
speech" and were the instigators and
leaders of mobs to batter down q "free
press" and to establish a military
despotism upon Stree SOIL To illus
trate little further: Suppose Bishop
Stevens. of the Episcopal Church,
Bishop Simpson, Of the Methodist, DR.
Breckenridge Of the Presbyterian, and
other leading clergymen, were to DO
clare themselves in favor of the views
of Yoltaire and Paine: where is the
churchman or religionist that would
not be alarmed and vehemently assail
them and demand their expulsion |?
Yet such a conversion and betrayal Of
former friends and doctrines would be
no more sure and radical than that of
the leaders of the Republican party,
who have filled prisons with freemen
and established military despotism
upon American "free soil 7" Let
"loyalists" who prate about consist
ency answer.
The object of the Radicals is, evi-
IDENTIFY, the concentration of power in
the few; because, first, nearly half
the Union is distranchised; next, the
President is to be impeached and de-
posed; cleaning of Congress of all
Democrats and the creation of com
mittee Of safety will then follow. The
course of Revolution is always the
same. Beginning with demagogues,
it ends in granting power, or securing
power, TO the base and cunning. One
House, instead Of House and Senate !;
then a committee of safety; a Robes
pierre, and lastly a Napoleon. The
road we are going is an old, ofl-trav-
eled one. 1t has been repeated again
and again throughout all history, and
always lead to tho same blood aud
crime. Men arc no better than they
were, and not even original in their
wickedness