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


watchword must be, "the Constitu-
ton" That is the immortal charter
Of States rights Let any man who
will not stand by that 60 over to the
traitors at once, that tho party of LID.
erty may be well wecded of it's bram-
bles, The man who proposes to hold
on to the Constitution and nt The
same time to reIinquish State sover-
eighty, is logical curiosity. He
proposes to fight for shadow-worse
than that, for shadow in the form of
a substance. But the idea Of the
Constitution without State sovereign
ty has not substance enough to throw
shadow.
As to principle, as TO precedent
the late election, so called, has really
established nothing. A certain amount
of brute momentum has overcome a
lesser amount of resistance. But the
Constitution still stands, with one
party opposed to il and another for IL.
The Democracy is for il, and although
at the present moment in the minori,
ty, it by no means proposes to yield
the sacred ground to this noisy foe.
The anti-States' rights, or old Federal
party, was in minority from the
close Of John Adams administration,
in 1900, TO the election OF Abraham
Lincoln. Indeed, during oil that pc
riod it lay buried, for the Whig party
was, as well as the Democracy, q
States rights party. The party that
Just now rules this country came out
of the tombs even after Lincoln's cleo
tion, and, out-doing the devils in the
ancient country of the Gadarenes, en-
tered into the men instead Of swine
and drove them down the steep places
nto a sea OF blood.
But, does a swinsh majority dis.
hearten us? Not if we are men: not
if we are patriots. Wo must fight thi;
battle Of liberty, II necessary, as long
as we live and if it is not settled be
fore our deaths let us bequeath The
sacred struggle to our children, anc
TO their children, as long as there il
one brave and virtuous man left OF
tho continent.
In looking FOR the redemption o
our country we must base our expec
tations upon influences that have W
reference to Executive action No
can at present such expectations b
, based upon any sort of recognition .
the lawfulness of those bills of Con
gress. There must be q great and do
! termined party, which sternly refuse
to admit the legality of this indeccn
rump of Congress, and which wi
, proclaim all it's acts null and void. A
t long as this body is treated as a Cor
r gress within the meaning of the Con
, stitation, and as long as its acts ar
r regarded as law, without a resolut
and uncompromising protesting party
!. it is useless and foolish to cheris
hope for the salvation OF the country
] We have at all times the right OF aI
' pealing to. the ballot, but we have
!, also, alas an illustration of what nT
: pealing to the ballot means in the lat
] election 10 this State and in Mort
c and South Carolina. There seems {
: be no longer legal ballot. Whe
Y the vote of every patriotic State is I
l. be overbalanced and made void b
: swarms of niggers; when in th
0 Southern States the election return
b are to be made by set of miltar
o vagabonds without the least restrain
= or supervision Of law when, whethe
3 the vote be one thousand or one mi
Y lion depends not upon the populatio
Q but upon The will of those unprinc
! Piled tools of Congress, the marti'
Q law commanders, Congress not onl
= makes the law but does all the votin
r through the machinery of its devic,
g Are we to be looked upon as a natio
Y Of fools, as well as a nation Of towards
Q Let us keep party in the Aeld, a
! though smaller now than our oppre,
n sors, but one that will be mighty !
n the profound strength of its patrio
Q ism and its manhood. The thunder
9 Of such party will ut last tumble
Q ruins this vast African temple Of de-
d potism and lies If against the bel
o bcgotten machinery of Congress tb
temple cannot be voted down, il mul
o be thrown down Up to this gran
Il point the people must bo educate'
z They must at least be taught and
y made to feel that the career Of tb
If terrible despotism is not only TO
!. arrested but is to bc stopped, even
/ in doing il every other usurper is seI
q seeibing down over the brimstor
, track. Terrible thought, but is
g half as terrible % the thought thu
3 the free system Of government esta
}. lished BY our forefathers is to
,f thrown down foieverY Is il not be
y ter that every usurper and tyr"nt
l. the world should be pitched headlor
J. into the Vastarian Gulf than that ev.
o ono virtuous citizen should lose h
It libertyi ltis not only right and jus
B. aud In accordance with the higne
10 and holiest sanctions of law, that u
4 fasces should be wrenched from Il