Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-01-31
GEoRoE b. GooDLANDER, Editor.
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Thursday Morning, Jan, 81, 1867.
The .vufiOnaI Crisis.


profit but little by experience. Four
years Of fratricidal war, with its I'M
told evils and personal affliction, seem
to be forgotten already. A portion of
the people seem as detorminedly bent
on National ruin, as they were in
1860. Though warned time and again
not to elevate western political jay
hawker to the Presidency-that dis
union would be the result-they heed.
lessly cast their ballots to put in power
those whohad openly declared itwould
overthrow our union. They said they
did not want war, disunion and an
archy; yet they coolly, in November,
1860, voted for the very men who had
promised all this. Whether fathers
preferred greenbacks and 500 and
7-3O bonds to their sons, we are not
able to say; but this much we will
say: that many of them grasp and
caress their bonds today more affec-
tionately than they did their sons in
war times. They lost them, through
the persuasion Of knaves and dema-
gogues, during the reign of A. L., and
we tell them now, that if they follow
the counsel and advice of the same
men in the future, they will not only
lose the price of their sons, but their
religious liberty. Yeloyalists to-day,
who voted and talked for war in 1860.
do you want the same thing in 1868 2
If SO, advocate and sustain the course
of Thad. Stevens q Co. More drafts
and bounty taxes will be your lot, If
you continue to vote for men who
have no more respect for the Consti-
stitution than hyena has for corpse
We clip the following extract from
a late letter written by Mr.. Raymond,
a very loyal member of Congress, who
seems to snuff danger from the breeze.
Hear him:
"The doom Of our Government is on the brink Of
executions and yet we are quiet win nothing
rouse usl Are we as sluggish Of apprehension
now, on the one hand, as We were before the rebel
lion, on the otherl Our Government is in peril
now, as II was then; not Of disintegration but Of
usurpation-the usurpation Of absolute power by
the temporary representatives Of a majority Of the
people Of part Of the country The men whom
the whole country, except a degraded though in
hucntial part Of the Democratic party trusted dur
ing the rebellion with the task of preserving the
nation are using their trust to pcrpetuato their
own power and preserve their own party They
pursue the course which they have taken as We
all know, from the fear Of the return of the Demo-
cratic party to power. That would indeed be
calamity; but there is one possible which is so
much greater that the former dwindles into nothing
in comparison-the destruction. not Of the Consti
tuition, which might be made better or worse and
little harm be done, but Of something much greater
than the onstituton-constitutiona government
OF this we may be sure that he present course Of
Congress tcili, II continued end either in The de-
strneiiOn Of eonsiifutioHai government or the re-
storation fhe Democratic party. II the Presi- |
dent isimpeached and suspended from offlcc during
his trial. and the powers Of the Supreme Court are
defined by Congress. the impending coup d'eiat
Wiii have been struck, and the majority Of an i'm
perfect Congress will be absolute master of the |
whole country, not only now, but at any time
hereafter
This alarm and advice comes from
%oyal" signal gun, and ought most
assuredly to cause alarm.
How cheap! CONSTITUTIONAL Gov
ERNMENT saved by merely putting the
Democrats in power
We also take an extract bearing
upon this point from the Washington
Constitutional Union, which says:
Events have already brought the Government
70 .ne very verge OF another revolution. II the
hauicai majority OF Congress pursucs It's treasona-
bic course much longer, The Government in oyf,r
TO maiaiain itselG riH haze 10 arm in supporters
AT the call Of the President all his friends North
ana South, and in the army and navy, will re-
spond. In such contest the issue eanpot he
doubtful Congressman may be valiant fighters on
The hoors of Congress, but when they come to lead
iheir cohorts into the field, it viii be another thing
The real armies and great soldiers of the Republic
VIII be found fighting under the flag We advise
the Opposition Of the determined and fixed fact
that Andrew johnson will serve out his eonstifu.
tional term Of Office"
Should the representations herein
set forth be realized, no one will
dare to say that it was not foretold.
The people are compelled to put the
Democratic party in power in tho
States and nation, or our country will
be irretrievably lost. To suffer much
longer under the aifiictons OF such
fanatics as those who now rule the
State, will certainly produce a more
fatal disorder in the body polite, than
cholera would in the physical system.
An ounce of preventative is worth
pound of cure. Vote the old "Union
Savers" ticket, and all will be we'll
CHEAP SALvATIoN.-Henry J. Raw.
mond, as perfect demagogue as ever
walked in shoe leather, now one of
the loyal bumpers, in fit of reverie.
seems to realize the hopeless condi-
ton Of our country. In letter to his
paper, the N. Y. Times, after pointing
out some of the iniquities of his broth
or bumpers, he exclaims, "that the
present nourse Of Congress will ifcon-
tinued, end either in the destruction