Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-03-12
50 Eternal Vigilance ts the Price
Of Liberfu.v

The hostile attitude IN which the
besotted Congress to-day stands to-
wards the liberties of patient and
suffering people, is, in all respects,
worse than that assumed by the Par
lament of England which led TO the
American Revolution; and every
white man who truly respects that
Revolution, and hates the despotism
that caused it, cannot fail to regard
with undisguised horror the present
''most infamous Congress" 1t is
needless for us to allude to the "many
infamous acts" of this Congress. The
past ten days has so crowded them to-
gether, that no sane man can overlook
them; and it must bring the hot blush
ofshame to the cheek Of every honest,
patriotic American, when he contem-
plates the infamy which the Rump
and its supporters are trying to per
petrate, while the people stand idly
by and see every vestige Of their rights
taken from them. The conduct Of the
Stevens Star Chamber; the infamous
outlawry and arrogance of Stanton,
the murderer of soldiers and the
criminal conduct of the drunken and
besotted commander of the Army,
Hiram U. Grant-all tending to the
same end, by the entire subversion of
the liberties of the people should
nerve every man who loves his coun-
try and acknowledges protection to
his family, who respects the Constitu-
ton and laws, to array himself on the
side Of the Government and the peo-
ple-the conservative millions Of the
country who are hostile TO the treason
of the Rump-we who embrace more
than two-thirds ofthe physical strength
of the nation-must resolve nOi0 that
we will not be bound hand and foot,
without some earnest effort to prevent
so great an outrage upon the Govern
ment Of our Fathers.
Fellow-citizens Of Clearfeld county,
we appeal to you: arc you willing 10
longer submit to the outrages Of the
drunken tyrants at Washington con-
stituting the Rump? Will you longer
hug the consoling phantom of forbear-
ance, under the false idea that the
time has not come 10 assert your God
given rights as free citizens Of the
country Willy say it is too soon :
All ! too soon these words ring on
orr head and fall on our heart like
the incubus of a night mare Wehave
often read where the fatal words, alt
is too late" have been wrung from
the anguish-riven soul Of ambition,
when it saw its last chance pass by
and its sun begin to set we have Of.
ten heard of its being too late TO do
justice; we are told that the sinners
dcath-bed often witnesses the expir-
ing cry Of at is too late to be saved !"
we have often thought that the most
melancholy sound in all tho realms OF
the lost will be the dcspairing solilo-
guy Of the soul that has gone down
to death from the Mount Of Gospel
privileges, alt is too late for mercy
here = but we have never yet heard
or read that, when wrongs have been
suffered, justice and right can come
too soon. We have yet to learn that
justice, when deserved, can be prema.
ture. What would the patriot sires
Of the Revolution have said, had they
been told that the redress which they
demanded Of the British Grown was
prematurey What would the immor.
tai Washington have answered, had
he been told that it was too soon to
resist the oppression and tyranny of
tho Mother Country! What would
he have said, If he had been told that