Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-08-27

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ty in the North and West, they have
now impudently in their platform pro
claimed that here each State shall
regulate suffrage for itself, while al
the South the elective franchise shall
be determined by the Congress Of the
United States. Acting upon the double
motive of hate and the desire TO main.
tain partisan supremacy, they have
disfranchised large majority Of the
white population of the Southern
States, and conferred upon the ne
groes, by act of Congress, the right to
vote and then nt tho point Of the
bayonet, have proceeded to establish
seven State Governments, controlled
by negroes or white adventurers mean
er than they-mere sojourners, birds
of passage, and very foul birds at that
and have gone through the farce OF
admitting them into the Union and
to the right of representation in the
Senate and the House, and full vote
in the electoral college for President.
In this manner, gentlemen, they
expect to control the Legislation and
elections of the country. And these
ignorant, british negroes of South
Carolina and Florida, and other States,
do now make laws and levy taxes and
create public debt for you, white men
of Ohio; and they expect to overrule
your choice for President. Yes, gen
tlemen, under these Republican Re
construction acts, enforced by an army
for which you pay heavy taxes out Of
your beard earnings, half a million of
negroes in South Carolina, reinforced
by some adventurous white loafers
from the North and West, will control
as many electoral votes as a million Of
white men in Ohio. Aye, at this pres
ent moment the ''Governor" so-callei
of that State, elected by negroes, un-
der an act Of Congress, and through
the aid OF your army, is a citizen Of
Ohio, having legal settlement here I;
50 that if he would become paupcr-
and South Carolina is very poor now,
and no longer able TO enrich her sa-
traps-tbe proper town authorities in
the county of Henry, in this State,
could be compelled 10 maintain him
as public charge And moreover,
General William Warner, a noble con-
frere OF his from Ohio, has, observe,
Just been elected a United States Sem
otor E,.o,,, Aloharoa
These are the doings Of the Republi-
can party, and if not marvellous in
your eyes, they are at least costly 10
your pockets. These are a part Of the
blessings over which the Chicago plat
form exults, and a continuance, and,
indeed, a multiplication of which they
promise upon the election of General
Ulysses S. Grant.
RANK INJUSTICE OF THE REcoNsTRUo-
TIoN POLICY.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for a mo-
ment that the case were reversed. and
that the South had waged q success
ful war of conquest upon you here in
the West, and bad compelled, by force
Of arms, the introduction Of slavery
here, and You had surrendered in good
faith, under pledge and promise of all
other rights within the Union under
the Constitution and that, whom you
had no further power 20 resist, q
Southern. Congress had, at the point
of the bayonet, forced constitutions,
governments and laws on you against
your will, and that victorious and in
solent South Carolina has sent up here
the mcanest and basest Of her vaga-
bond "Sand Hill" citizens with carpet
bags in their hands, TO represent you,
the once free, white men of Ohio, in
the Senate and House at the Federal
capital, and TO usnrp the places once
filled by the Morrows, the McLeans,
the Corwins, the Ewings, the Hamers,
the Aliens Of this glorious Common
wealth, what would have been the
emotions Of wrath and indignation
which would have burned within your
bosoms And yet to just such indig-
mites are South Carolina and Virginia
and their sister States of the "Old
Thirteen" scorched and SCARED all
over with the flames of the war of
l776, subjected, by the false and de-
generate sons Of the New England
sires, who stood shoulder TO shoulder
by them in that grand revolutionary
which, in blood and suffering,
and with precious treasure, first bought
us our liberties.
"Ah, bat these men are now rebels
and traitors, and you, the Democracy,
received them with open arms and
gushing hearts into your recent Pres
Convention" Thank God,
we did, and by none were they hailed
with more cordial welcome than BY,
not the b,Oodless though bloodthirsty
home loyalists Of the war, but by The
gallant and noble heroes, the Han
cocks, the Franklins, the Ewings, the
Blairs, the Slocums, and the Steed-
mans, who had met them in deadly
conflict amid the sulphurous canopy
and shock Of battle. We mean to
have peace indeed we intend to re-
store the Union in fact and to-day
We know these men only as our friends,
and brothers-the de-
scendants of the Washingtons, the
Lees, the Hamptons, the Sumpters,
the Marions, the Prestons, the Haynes,
the Laurens and others, who, side BY
side, stood with the Hancocks, the
Adamses, the Starks, the Putnams,
the Gates, and the Waynes Of the
North in the heroic Revolutionary
Of &c, or with their sons and
grandsons in the latter conflict of
1872, or the Mexican war OF ls46-l
all whose fame is the pat
rimony of the whole country. This