Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-12-14
From the Cecil tMd.,) Democrat.
The Fruits Of Philanthropy Negro
ism at West Point.

The Fruits Of Philanthropy--Negr
ism at West Point,
One of the most effective weapons
that Radicalism once welded against
It's foe, was the distortion OF the
language of the opinion Of Judge Tan
ey in the famous Drcd Scott case,
whereby it was made TO appear that
the Supreme Court Of the United
States had decided that ''a negro has
no rights which a white man is bound
to respect One of the fiercest battle
cries Of the pseudo philanthropists
who with 'the sword Of the Lord and
Of Gideon" have been doing the most
desperate work Of prescription and
persecution known TO modern times,
was "equal rights for all men" With
the first as flaming fire to the ut
most the reckless wrath of an unthink.
ing populace, and with the other as a
dazzling pole star to light the way,
the Republican party have been able
TO do more 20 upset old theories, 10
shock established order, and TO intro
duce perilous innovations, in the course
Of a single decade, than even they who
attempted to ride the whirlwind they
had sown, aud to direct tho storm
they had melted, believed it possible
TO accomplish in less than a century.
They have seen 60 down IN the gulf
Of their begctting, a political party
coeval with the government, and in
whose hands tho reins Of power had
for the larger portion Of that govern
ment's existence been entrusted, and
had SO well nigh suifocatod it, that It's
death was fondly cherished belief,
which nothing but the events Of the
past season have sufiiced to shake
They have succeeded in tearing up by
tho roots an institution ramifed
throughout half the governmental
| domain, antcdating the governmen,
itsclfand protected if not fosterod by
the fundamental law. They have
built and kindled the fercest funeral
pyre that over burned on the altar Of
national devotion, and in its flames
have swept TO destruction all that was
distinctively characteristic Of the age
that preceded il They have subvcrt.
cd the Constitution of The nation, and
upset tho throne of its dignity They
have turned an army Of crusaders IN.
TO a band of maraudcrs, and left moth.
ing sacred which they might polute,
nothing intact which might have in-
CURED their hostility. They have
developed the powers Of destruction
to q degree at which the world stands
aghast, and in the name of reform
have buildcd a structure without a
model, of elements the most hctcro
gcneous that diabolicalingcnuity could
group together Reckless Of princi
pie, bent upon innovation, sworn to
overturn, aud eager to act, they have
made straight paths crooked, and out
Of things orderly have educed mex.
tricable disorder. Cherishing the faith
that the world was upside down, they
have bent their madjcned energies TO
set il TO rights and have ofcourse sue
ceodcd in rendering all topsy turvy.-
Believing that nothing which existed
before them could be right, they have
treated all as wrong and sough moth
ing SO eagerly rs TO exlirpate it,
Hence "heavon's first law" has been
wantonly disregarded throughout, and
the result is seen in an utter inversion
Of manhood's ideal and natures plan
With their crusade success, and
power IN their hands, il bat remained
to put in practice the fancful theories
10 whose behalf they had welded 10
such pcrilous effect their knayish
watchwords and their maniac war cry.
Hence to show the folly Of the judicial
dictum that "nogrocs have no rights
which white men are bound TO res.
pcct,' they must prove the converse,
that white men have no rights that
negroes are bound TO respect And
inasmuch as the demand of "equal
rights to all men has been disregard.
cd to the prejudice Of The negro, they,
to mako things even, must show a
similar disregard OF itt to the prejudice
OF white men. Nor will il be denied
that they have obcyed this peculiar
law Of compensation TO the letter. II
the white was once regarded as The
superior race, the failure to expose
such iallacy will not be at their door.
On their banner is inscribed bat one
word, and that the sadly suggestive one
/ "Cufloe' Whatever they do must
be done for "Cunee, and woe to him
in whose interest "Cufee" is betrayed.
IL were better for that man that a
mill stone had been hanged around
his neck and he cast into the sea-
Human rights as well as human dig.
mites intelligence and virtue, as well
as pride and power, truth and reason,
humane attributes and manly in
stincts, all that men prize and all for
which nations struggle, must be i'm.
molated on The altar devoted TO "Cuf.
fec" Heather tribes and people rear
of wood or stone an idol and worship
it. Christian people worship the un.
seen God, and recognize their ideal in
the iaintest portion Of His works.
But this peculiar party of philanthro.
py and purblndoss, pluck from the
: degradation in which nature has left
it, the most bideous development OF
! the human form divine and, placing