Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-10-06
NEW SERIES--V0L. 10, NO. I2.

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tianity according to New England
theology
"But now New England is as soiJly
Republican as Lancastercounty, Penn
sylvania"
And what is Lancaster countyY It
was the home of man who believed
not in God or morality; who defed
all laws given by q higher power /;
who openly deded society; who lived
in concubinage with wench who
died unmourned, was buried unwept
and will remain unsung for all time,
even by the blacks whose friend he
proiessed to be. As one rotten apple
spoils a barrel so did Thaddeus Stevens
rot the people there he taught them
disobedience to the laws Of God and
man, backed as be was and made intlu
ential by that party which is as rotten,
corrupt, and full of degradation as he
himself was. lie stood the co-worker
Of Abraham Lincoln, one of the gifted
few who were boosted into notoriety
by Forhey. And, like etbe late lament.
ed, Stevens has gone 10 his home,
wherever that homo may be YET no
tears are shed or prayers offered in
his behalf
anew England is, indeed the school
master"
Her emissaries went forth, some
tine since, full of ianaticism, hate,
disregard Of the rights Of States or Of
the rights Of people-they went abroad
meddling with that which concerned
them not, and returned in time laden
with spoons, watches, books, keep.
sakes, and mementoes, stolen from the
homes of those who became prosper.
Gus and homelike by attending TO
their own business.
New England taught thieving to
the nation. She taught those in high
places TO rob, to steal, TO cheat, 10
murder, TO trample upon rights, TO
ignore laws, and the country Is suffer
ing from Maine to Mexico from follow
ing the example of this most illustri.
Gus Of schoolmasters
She has indeed done her work well
at her own hearthstone She has de
stroyed the market for half the goods
she once manufactured She has ADDED
to the cost of living to her working
men. She has made the poor man Of
New England poorer aud the rich man
richer; and the society Of the States
named to-day is but a crawling mass
of moral putrefaciion, resulting in the
finding in the streets still-born babes
by the thousand each year; the over
crowding of her poor-houses and pau
per novels the filling of her court cal
endars with applications for divorce,
and the unloosing OF all restraint upon
that society which in the South never
was so cut up, rotted and demoralized
as now in New England.
Forney calls the evils which have
followed Republicanism over the coun.
try benefits, +, Republicanism has ben
Gifted Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi
and Arkansas-benefted the South
everywhere according to this. But
more for the population Of hell than
heaven. And he would have these
benefits continued till the South, and
the West, and the entire land becomes
but the hot-bed of iniquity and putrid
sink Of moral nastincss which New
England has become in exact propor-
tion as she has become Republican
When all these evils come upon US
when our country becomes but home
for paupers on the one hand, and aris.
tocrats on the other when every State
in the land shall turn out material for
houses of ill.iame aud assignation as
New England turns them out; when
from this land will 20 forth into overy
other, crowds of thieves, carpet. bag.
gers, wandering vendors of diluted
religion, and spectacle eyed hunters
for stolen propcrty-then will Forney
and all Of his political kith and kin be
in their glory.
And when the workingmen Of the
South and Of the West--lhose who toll
on the plantations, or in the forests or
mines shall be compelled by Legislation
to work for the support OF New Eng
land manufacturers, monopolists, bond.
holders, and aristocrats--then will the
editor Of two papers, both daily, be so
inexpressibly full Of happiness as to be
willing to spend his eternity in the
company Of the descendants of witch.
burning Puritans. now noted more for
their corruption and degradation than
moral or political honesty.
He asks other sections to try the
same remedies Excuse us Not be.
lieving in total depravity, we could
not think of such thing - Pomeroy's
Democrat.