Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-02-13

subject.
The crime may have been committed
by person who has heretofore acted
with the Democratic party; but does
it on that account become the duty of
the editor to slander the whole party Z
Why does he charge crime, CON-
mitted by single individual, upon all
Democrats d? Would it not be equally
fair in him to charge it upon the whole
community The man who for four
years justified and applauded every
species of crime, committed in our
midst, is hardly a proper person to
insult a decent community with the
charge of murder, when there is not
particle of evidence attached to his
charge. Let him grieve, and shed
crocodile tears over this case, if he
wishes; but we hope he will not re-
main blind to the crimes entailed upon
us by his own partisans. The crimes
committed against religion, law, morals
and individuals by Lincoln, Stanton,
Butler, Baker, Benson, ct al, are yet
fresh in the memories of thousands,
and we are glad to know that the his
torian has recorded them as a warning
TO future enemies Of the Republic.
The editor in question should wait until
the effects of the stupendous crimes
committed by his own party shall
have been erased from memory, if not
from history, before he falsely charges
one infraction Of the law upon the De-
mocratic party. The air is still odor-
ferrous from the crimes he winked at,
and it would have been at least modest,
if not just, in him to have remained
silent about doubtful small matters,
while emitting TO notice real weighty
ones. That charity which should al
ways be found dwelling in the bosom
of deacon, should not be smothered
with "malice aforethought, and those
who stand in the front ranks OF the
army Of the Prince of Peace, should
not fire the first gun Of revenge and
hate. If, however, the editor of the
journal really desires the reformation
Of individuals, parties, or Govern
mcnts, big job has been lying at his
own door for several years. The field
in which his own political man
sion stands has q rank under
growth of weeds, and needs a hus-
bandman badly. Who or what party
was it, We ask, that destroyed the
dignity and respect of the nation, by
disregarding and openly violating its
fundamental laws and debauching its
people; not individual cases, but in q
wholesale mannerg Was it not his
own party, led on by the '1ate la
mented" and that modern Haynau-
Stanton Why howl now, when
"nobody is hurt ?" If our neighbor
is seeking missionary fields, we can
point him to large one, not half cul-
tivatcd, lying within the enclosures OF
his own party. Perjury is very little
more refining than murder, and we
would be glad if we could get along
without learning that either had been
committed; butif, unfortunately these
crimes should continue, we hope we
shall always be charitable enough not
to charge individual transgressions to
a party, or whole noighborhoods,
Whel parties organize to commit
crime, as the Black Republican party
did in 1860, (and have zealously prac-
ticed it up to the present hour they
can be justly charged with all the
crimes they commit; but individual
transgressions should never be trea-
sured up or charged against them.
The proclamations Of Lincoln, the
orders Of Stanton, the tinkling of
Stewards ''little bell" and the labors
of Baker and his satellites, are crimes
wicked enough to have emanated from
the ante-chambers of hell; yet this
deacon neighbor of ours has never
deigned TO notice these violations of
constitutions, oaths, laws and indi-
vidual liberties. The ribaldry, rob
berry and obscenity that occurred in
the White House not long since, and
the affair at the theatre on Good Fri
day night, should furnish material
enough for any missionary of medium
ambition; but they are passed by
with less notice than the last fbreak
up" probable amount Of timber"
"the weather." etc. The postilence,
famine and death, both physical and
moral, introduced into this country
by Lincoln & Co, ought 10 furnish
ample material for any reformer-and
especially to those who belong to that
household of faith. Political disease
and national decay are witnessed on
every hand, and the effects are waited
across the continent by every breeze,
until they are felt and seen by all
men-except those who worship in
the temple dedicated "to the unknown
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