Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-02-07

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administration. has in itself no power
to make such change, and their at
tempt to do so has rendered them lust
as liable to punishment as any other
great criminal or violater of the law,
no matter what his offence may be-
Tho difference between Administra.
ton and Government is as great as
that between grantor and grantee, or
between principal and an agent in
hw. olINl1
A few days ago the vindictive and
devilish spirit Of the party in power
was expressed in the United States
Senate by SUMNER in his speech on
the Amnesty Bill and the Civil Rights
measure, which shows to what extent
these men would prostitute the gov.
ernment and liberty in order TO make
all subservient TO their administra.
tion. After reading mass of letters
and memorials and petitions and vol
umes OF trash, sent and signed wholly
by niggers, Of course the opinions and
prayers OF white men are not respect.
ed by this deformed specimen, who,
it appears, "lacks the attributes of
men" lie concluded with an appeal
to pass the supplementary civil rights
bill, $50 that the rebels might always
remember that amnesty came to them
coupled with justice to the colOred
race"
Rare language to be spoken by a
Senator of the United States, against
a people whom they have stricken
down, made bankrupt in cash but not
in honor, and who, to complete the
triumph of the fanatic, must be hu.
inflated by tho niggers the admins.
tration has stolen from them. To ef-
fectually do this, the whole power of
the government is TO be invoked by
this supplementary and illegal mon.
strosity. There is no right, and Con-
grcss can pass no law that will make
a right, by which military rulers or
niggers can be imposed upon the
Southern people. But there is right
which God has given every man, to
kill every wretch who shall consent TO
be the tool of the tyranny of the ad.
ministration. Sumner is sowing the
seeds for a terrific harvest Of wrath,
for the future if not for ourselves. III
we treat the Southern white people as
he proposes, they ought to hate US,
and all that remains of us, to our re.
hottest posterity. They would be
dogs TO ever forgive such insults. Nor
will the scales OF eternal Justice ever
be even until they are avenged of this
stupendous wrong.
Congress has no more right 10 es-
cape the penalty Of wrong doing than
individuals have. They cannot es-
cape it, cover up their dcspotism as
they may by all sorts of foolish con.
gressional enactments and scmblances
of law. They will still roll out of
their graves like hot, seething, invisi
BILE devils, to scourge and worry you,
Mr.. Charles Sumner, through all time.
Have you.not already piled up wrath
enough against the day Of wrath 7"
Is it necessary to appease your devil. |
ishness to keep on throwing hot and
corrosive acids into the already boil.
ing canldron Of blood 7 Congress
seems to be mad, but, alas the mad.
ness of nations seems sometimes to be
sin that the Almighty will not for
give. Ia forty centuries of history, it
has been the forerunner Of destruc-
ton. No government can long sur.
vive which is based upon cruelty and
spite. 1t ought not TO survive. IL is
the right and duty of all men TO de.
stroy any government that seeks only
to enslave its people. There is such
word as allegiance, but no brave man
owes allegiance TO government not
OF his own choice or free adoption,
and much less to one which Expresses
him. II is the divine and Invaluable
right Of any people 10 destroy an nd
ministration, or even government,
which oppresscs them, in the shortest
manner and by any means they may
sec fit to use. This was the doctrine
of our foreiathers. 1t is the doctrine
of great and good men in all the ages
Of the world. The opposite theory is
the invention Of tyrants. Its advo
Gates were always fools or kuaves
Oppression is not government.