Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-01-07

I " VIZ htNh'H Tvs hNNA ANN'tN'' W. ANN
future This city aud Commonwealth
wero founded by a man made great
"by deeds Of peace !" and if IL is in
General Grants power TO add TO his
reputation, il must be by such deeds.
War can hardly do any more for him.
lie has reached as high a pitch of
rank and fame as can be ochieved in
the career Of arms. Among tho mill
tary qualities which he possesses, that
one was not wanting which an acute
English observer says is indispensable
TO all the rest. Sir William Temple,
speaking of the requisites Of a great
commander, puts foremost "good for
tune" 1t is no derogation to say of
General Grant that his "star," like
that Of Napoleon, has eclipsed those
of all his rivals and adversaries. Not
to talk, however, the language Of SUI
perstition, we will say that we recog-
nize in Grants military career GER
tain unselfsh devotion to duty, which
is the surest human reliance, and best
assurance Of success in every path of
difficulty and danger. Let him bring
to his new sphere of action an unset
fish, ,anpartlsan desire to do right not
according to arbitrary personal no
tious of his own, but according to the
fixed standard of justice in its true
sense, which is the prescribed rule of
the law of his country. There is a
niche near that Of Washington open
to Grant in the temple of fame, if he
have but a tithe of the civic virtue
OF him who was first not only in war,
but in peace and the hearts of his
countrymen. Grant seemed to real
ize his high function in the future
when he said, "Let us have peace
He can give peace-solid peace-to
his country. He can ro-establish the
tottering foundations of civil liberty,
and bind the Union fast with the great
cords Of common interest and attach
ment.
The hope is sometimes expressed
that General Grant will change his
politics. We do not expect, nor want
any change in them that his hottest
political supporters could complain Of
as a Illustration of his reasonable
hopes. Let Grant, as President, but
realize his duty TO his whole country,
as his great predecessors did, then he
is welcome to cast the sops ard bones
of his patronage to the hungry politi-
cal pack that follow at his heels. But
let this content them. The Radicals
have elected President of the United
States, not, we hope, slave or a tool
oil their low and selfish purposes.
If General Grant has not wholly |
forgotten his political breeding, he
will remember with reverence the
name Of Jefferson. That illustrious
man, succeeding to power upon
great political revolution, after a con. |
test, perhaps, more bitter than the
political contest through which we
have just passed, uttered, as he enter
ed upon his high office, the memora.
BILE words, owe are all Republican,
we are all Federalists." But we can.
not better supply, to all, fit topics for
profitable thought to-day than by quo
ting few passages from the first in
nugural address of President Thomas
Jefferson. These utter the principles
by which, for seventy years, the peo.
pie of these United States lived pros
perous, peaceful and happy, in the
model Republic which was the
pride and the hope of tho lovers of
liberty throughout the world :
Letu fellow citizens, unite with one heart and
'ne mind. Let Us restore 20 social intercourse {
hat harmony aud Affection without which liberty ,
md even life are but drcary things. And let us
elect that having hanished from our land that re-
igious intolerance under which man 20 long bled I
md suffered, we have yet gained little Il we coun
enance political intolerance a. despotic. A.
'icked' and capable Of as bitter and bloody Der. 9
ecuuons. Every difference Of opinion i {
ot difference Of principle. We have called bv 7
lherent names brethren Of the same principle !
We are all bcpublicans-ve are all Federalisis =
: there are any among Us who would wish 10 dis |
olive this Union, or 10 chnneo H. Reppblienn I
lrm, let them stand undsturbed o. monuments !
! the safety with which error Of opinion NAV be
olcratod when reason s left free 10 combat ii. {
nov indeed that some honest men fear that re- I
uolican government cannot be strong that this I
overnmont cannot NJ strong; that this govern :
rent is not strong enough. he.
eve TINS, on the contrary, the strongest govern
lent on earth. believe Il IL the only one vhere .
very man, al the call Of the laws would a to the
andard Of the law and would meet irvnsions nf s.
he public order as his own personal concern
ometimes- is Is said that man cannot be trusted 4
itH th' kVNcfhmenl OF himself Can he then hp !,
listed with the government Of othorsf Or have J
2 iound angels In the form Of kings to govern c
I'M Let History answer this question. A
", too, will bear In mind this sacred pripeinle AZ
lat though the will Of the majority in ali casos
ud prevail that will, to be rightful. must be |
asonablo that the minority possess their eoual :;
ghis which equal laws must protect, and 10 vio- y
ie which would be oppression. What ~
ore is necessary 10 make us a happy and pros b
'rous pcoplel sti one thing more. fellow .oiti. H.
ns-a wise and frugal government. which shall =
strain men from iniuring one another. which y
all leave them free 10 regulate their own pur- IL
ls oi industry and improvement and shall not
Re from the mouth Of labor the bread il has
rned. This Is the sum Of good government. and "
D. Is necessary TO close thecirce Of our fcliotics W
RECONSTRUCTED MoRALs.-A SCALA bt
ag from boston, keeping a store at W
ashville, sold a negro ten pounds of n,
gar three cents cheaper than the nj
hers sell, but it turned out that the
n pound package was six pounds al
ort The darkie, however, declared o,