Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-02-21


The .uarch or Rcrofufion
Wendell Phillips, the notorious Dis
who furnishes his party with I
brains and venom, is highly pleased
with the Stevens sprogrammc ofmaldng
u Poland out Of the South, as contem-
plated by the military bin Of the inia-
nous reconstruction committee This
traitor to his race asks for the negroes
Of the South a higher sphere in the
scale of society than is now enjoyed
by the middle classes in Europe. In
a late letter to the Anti SidpTy Stand
ard he says:
"A military supervision under Con-
gressional supcrintcndcnce is the best
plan. Hence we welcome this bill OF
Mr. Stevens. 1t must, however, bo
borne in mind that our Government
will largely take its tone and charac-
ter, for the time being, from the Exc
cutive. The spirit which be inspires
will, spite of all opposition, be felt to
the extreme edge Of the Republic, will
color and permeate every branch and
the minutest leaf of the tree 1heErst
step, therefore, indispensable and pre-
liminary to all others, is TO remoue the
rebel tcho is no,o encdmped in the White
H0uSe-lpbO. aided bU sOured and re-
vengefm politicians IN his Cabinet and
by fossil and Seruiie Bench, baulks
Congress and resuscitqtes half dead re-
belii0n Compared NTH such colossal
sin and epH as his Forrest, Mayor
Munroe and Surrdtt are mean game for
a nation 10 foilOlo.'
Nothing but the rank cowardice
that dwells in the bosoms of those po-
litical pirates has delayed the assassin
alton of President Johnson, while the
abrogation of the Supreme Court is
but question of time.
The New York Express says upon
this question;
"The two Bills which have passed
the House of Representatives, Ste
vens and Elliot's, are Revolutions
nothing more nor less,-utter subver-
sions of the Constitution, and an ut
ter overthrow ofthc Government itself,
Just as much as the Revolutions Of
Julius, ard Augustus Cesar, or of
Cromwell, or of Napolean, and il
must all end in the same way (or else
there is nothing in the lessons of his
tory) viz: in the Government Of this
,ohole country by some one man.
Stevens Bill makes General Grant
the Dictator,-probably to kill off
Grant, and to get him out of the way
of Butler, whom Thad. Stevens has
already nominated for the next Presi-
dency. ElIiot's Bill disfranchises
nearly all the whites of Louisiana, and
turns the State completely over to the
negroes, from .he Plantations, no more
enlightened than so many barbarians
fresh from Africa. Louisiana is to be
made Hayti Of, and the mouth Of
the Mississippi is to pass from whites
into the hands of blacks
at will destroy the property and
the agriculture of the State, and in
all probability, in the struggle of the
Blacks for supremacy, it will lead TO
Just such scenes as occurred in Hayti
in the last century, and in the early
part OF this.
"How any Republican Of the North
can possibly sanction this utter deg
radiation of the franchise, and agree to
take it into CO partnership in the ad-
ministration of this Government ANA.
zes us ! We presume that at heart nc
Republican does approve it, bat is
whipped into it by party associations
But how can an honest man be whip
ped into such a wrong or. into tho
subversion of the Constitution, which
this establishes precedent for, here
after to be applied TO other States
North as well as South, by majority
in Congress The principles of Ste
vens and Elliot make a thorough con
solidation of this Government, and
annul the States, with all State rights
Is even Massachusetts, man willing
to establish precedent that may here
after, in case of another Shay's rebel
lion, or a rebellion such as that on Dos
ton Common, in the matter of the Flu
gative Slave Law, give majority il
Congress a principle that will enable
that majority utterly to destroy th'
Massachusetts, Government and estab
lish some other in its stead 7
"The census of 1860 shows the fol
lowing to be the population of Louisi
ana
Whites S5I,629
of which l49,06S are in New Or
leans alone.
Nineteen-twcntieths of whom arr
disfranchised by Eliiot's Bill, leaving
to govern the State;
Free Blacks................. ............' lo'eit
Siascs..... wv w
Mulsitocs. 32,b25
And out of the city Of New Orlean
the w Nhites nave only zVo,ool 10 olise
against 325,000 Blacks in other part
. Of the State And of these 325,00'
: nearly all arc disfranchised by tn
G Elliot Bill
!, at is to be hoped-pcrhaps in vail
that such men as Sherman, Fessen
den, and Trumbull, who know bette
= than all this, will do as Henry Clay
or Daniel Webster, or Lewis Cass, 0
Stephen A. Douglas, if living, woul
! have done set their faces against sue
a monstrosity in government"