Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-10-26

while many so.callcd Democrats
arc busily and faniically engaged In
accepting the XVIII aud XVIII
Amendments, because, A. asserted,
they are no longer dive issues Of o
political canvass, the people Of Mis-.
souri, are beginning to comprehend
that the minute the party Of the Con-
slilution shall cease TO war against the
validity of those denominations, the
rights oflhe States true Republican
liberty arc gone forever. Comment.
ing upon President General Grants
interference in Missouri affairs, and
tho tendency Of Radicalism to ride
roughshod over every monument of
civic freedom, the st. Louis RCpWJii.
can says:
"The national Republican party has
virtually declared against the right of
the people of n State to regulate their
domestic affairs in their own way, and
assumed for the Federal Government
the right to regulate those affairs for
them. 1t declares against all conccs-
sions ofpower to the people that would
leopard the dominant parly's tenure
Of power; it declares that test ooths,
acknowledgements, aud prescriptions
arc the proper and healthtul agencies
of republican government, in peace,
as well as in war; and that whatever
liberties the people of a State are al
lowed to possess, they hold simply
at the sufferance of the Federal author
I ity. The event is an alarming asser-
tion Of the supreme authority Of the
central government, and of its right
to invade the State with its civil agen-
cies, to control elections, and decide
domestic questions Such an issue, so
authOritatively made, cannot be con-
fined to our State. 1t will be made
to extend 10 other States, and will, in
the end, become a leading national
issue, with the Republican party avow-
ing the extraordinary claim, aud the
Democracy sternly denying it.
every day the South is justified in
her struggle for State Rights, and,
every day, tho war Democracy are be-
ing taught the bitter lesson that when
they made it possible for the South to
be vauquished, they struck murde. :
Gus blow at the beautiful system OF
government framed and transmitted
by the Fathers And what is the
reason now that so little enthusiasm
is exhibited all over the country, not
withstanding most important elections
in four great States are close at hand !
1t is because the cowdardly, time. serv.
ing Democratic leaders have debanch.
ed the people, and striven, in effect,
to reconcile them to the belief that
the grOssest usurpations are not TO
be questioned any more, and that the
most important matter in the universe
is for few Office ce.seckers to retain
possession Of their flesh pots The
people will never rally on any such
base issues, and they will be as igno
minously led as the French forces
have been, so long as men are permit.
] Ath " htWh Allt NbluHlll WIN uIt NNlu
their utmost to save their loyal con.
sciences and fat positions by sharing
the crime they committed in 1861 with
what they calt"dead issues" in 1870
There never was more stupendous fol
| ly than to suppose that Democracy
can win victory worth having by
stealing the night shirt Of Abe Lincoln
for an oriAamme. The Radical Pres
ident and the Radical party mean tC
destroy the States by centralizing the
Government And foolish Democrat,
have the hardihood to believe that thi,
despotic undertaking can be defeated
by endorsing usurpation and accept
ing the enemy's platform Was ther,
ever such madncssy Was there ever
such stupidity y'-Augustd { (Gd) Con
Stitmiondiisf.