Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-11-06

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II in words as loud az thunder and as
hard as cannon balls; proclaim it to
tho world that the reason, and the
only reason, why all the dcstroyers Of
our Constitution and the architects OF
our despotism are not overwhelmingly
arrested in their illegal careers IL the
want of loud and defiant proclama-
ton Of their dcath-deserving crimes
and the justice and legality Of forcible
resistance. What. j mean, sir, il to
perpetually assert the right Of forcible
resistance to and the wrong and shame
Of passive acquiesence in the despotic
acts of illegal power Preserve the
manhood of public opinion, even if we
lack the courage to defend our liberty.
Fearlessly and increasingly proclaim
what we have an eternal right to do,
whether IL is our policy to immediate
ly enforce that right or not" Edu-
cate and inspire .he people with a
knowledge of tho right. The cause Of
our country is by no means 50 desper-
ate that it cannot be saved by the
patriotism and courage even by mi
nority. If Democracy and liberty
perish together ii will not be on ac-
count Of the strength of despotism,
but because OF tho weakness of the
will and resolution o. the party Of
liberty. No nation ever lost it's libcr
ty which did not first loose its virtue
and its courage No country was
ever reduced TO such straits that even
few brave and determined men
could not save it, Once, when the
liberty Of Rome was threatened, a
daring youth, Caius Mucius, inspired
by three hundred brave and noble
Romans, forced the tyrant Porsenna
to relinquish his grasp, and liberty
was preserved by the courage and
patriotism Of only three hundred OF
her youths. Is there no lesson in all
this to the hundred tyrants or so who
are the authors and leaders of all the
oppressive abomirations of Congress !
Let them read history and ask them
selves whether the people, whose
rights they are crushing and whose
property they are stealing, have not q
natural, political, religious aud eternal
right to con6scate their heads and to
throw their carcasses to be devoured
by the sea. There stands the sacred
aud inalienable right Of the matter
Are there not three hundred, nay, are
there not three millions, of young mer
iu this country 10 swear to the i'm
mortal Gods that American liberty
shall live, even though every tyranI
shall perish from the face of the earth
The history of the struggle of Ro
man liberty is full of similar instruct
i've lessons. The Emperor Vilelliu,
was in all bis instincts and passions
such another wretch as Grant, {
Stanton, or Beast Butler. He wa,
made Emperor by the bayone,s of his
soldiers, the same rs Grant was mad,
President by his. But the tyrant vi
telius soon wore out the patience o
the Roman people by expressions no
whit greater than those devised by
our Vitellius, and wish stirred the
heart Of every virtuous bosom in Rome
to see tho monster destroyed. On,
, day'a writing was put up in the forum
with these terrible but just words
, ave, In the name of the ancient Chal
deans, give Vitellius warning to de
part this life by the calends Of Octo
berp The warning proved itself Il
, be be will of the Gods, for it was tb,
) vote of an oppressed people. Th'
mo'tter was dragged from his hiding
place, into which he had crept like |
r dogdand with halter about his necl
DRAGGED through the streets to tb,
pulfc forum, and after being covere,
witt dirt and filth and loaded with al
/ soris Of reproaches, he was LITERAL,
bea. to death, after which they threw
, himjnto tie river. Not only all Rom
but all civilized mankind pronounce'
the doom Of the ,yrant just aud right
! eous.
A Unless justice is dead and mankin'
given up to be ruled by devils, tn
calends of October will surely som
day overtake such wrctches as
Grant, a Sheridan, Butler, Hol
! and Cameron. Among free peop
such plotters Of despotism have nevc
in any age escaped tho vengeance o
those whom they have oppressed
They need not Hatter themselves tha
history is to be reversed or that ~
sun is to stand still merely for thci
Q benefit. What has been In all tim
. will be again. The end of such des
q potism is death Those who meekl.
n give up that all is lost neither rea
history or consider the immu'ability o
a human events. The most triilipg AM
I insignificant event has often arreste
/, the most seemingly triumphant de'
}. potisms.
o After the battle Of Cannae, wbe
!. Hannibal had totally destroyed tn
n Roman army, and when the people 9
x Romo were on the point OF yie'din
n up In despair, when even the ch''
4 officers had assembled to make III