Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-09-06

m hour gthan apArty pledged to thu
abolition Of marriage, or Of the parent
nj relations, or anything else that vic
lated the order of nature but as th,
southern -men failed TO stand up ant
grapplc with the monstrous thing ant
sought to escape social destruction by
secession, and tho giving up of tn,
Union, army, navy, public lands, every
thing held in common by the States, 4
new issue was, TO u certain extent, pre-
sented that blinded vast multitude,
aud gives some small excuse for tn,
tremendous waste of blood and treas.
urc. But from the instant Of Lees
surrender TO this moment, there is nc
excuse that posterity will listen to foI
moment, aud every year and every
day, and every hour the "North," fol
ton years past has done its utmost tc
blot out not only tho liberty, but the
civilization, and indeed tho population
south of the Potomac, and it has done
this in modes so unnatural, disgusting
and horrible, that were the situation
accepted, were the present state OF
things to become permanent, in com
parison IL were an almost infinite mercy
to be swallowed up by an earthquake
rather than suffer doom SO awful.
A single sentence will demonstrate
this terrible truth. Within hundred
years, as the census shows, the negroes
would DO extinct, and inview of that
lingering death, with its unspcakable
sufferings, who will not say an immc-
diatc annihilation would be supreme
mercy, or in other words, If Grant
were to gather the whole four millions,
say next Fourth of July, and NOW
them down with connon, would il not
be a supreme blessing in comparison
with the lingering torture and final OK
tinction of these child.pcople. And as
the all-wise and bencfcent Creator has
made all things perfect, and designed
all His creatures to live and enjoy the
supreme blessing OF existence, and
therefore Furnishes the white man to at
least an equal extent for this mighty
wrong ON the subordinate negro, four
millions Of white people must needs be
doomed 70 the same final extinction,
and the situation" continued, one
hundred years hence both white and
negro in the great tropicoid South
must needs be extinct, and the coun-
try, the South proper the great semi
tropic land, endowed with such bound
less capacities forthe happiness of Gods
creatures, abandond to the wild ami
mails.
But at last comes the natural and
unacceptable penalties for such unspeak-
able wrong-doing. The whole mighty
North is on the eve of n collapse, in
deed, is in the midst OF a collapse that,
should Hayes be elected and things
left to drift to their natural conclusion,
will astound the civilized world for
ages to come. There is no mystery in
this prediction II is not necessary TO
suppose that Providence specially in
terposcs to punish nations or commu-
mites, though that, in the higher sense,
is no doubt true enough, but this is
simply a matter of cause and effect,
For the North to combine and usurp
the common government, and pcrvert
II into an instrument to enable man
in New York to govern n man IN Vir-
ginia, is u crime unspcakable, for il
strikes down the vital and sacred prin-
ciples OF selfgovernment, on which rest
the whole mighty edifice of American
freedom. Even were il to do real
good to Virginia, the crime would be,
nevertheless, atrocious-f the Ameri.
can, who drank in freedom with his
mothers milk, it should bc as spon.
and natural as breathing atmos-
pheric air. But when, in addition TO
this crime, the North strives to "abol.
ish" the distinction of race, TO "recon-
the order ofnature, and degrade
its kind to u level with different and
subordinate species of human kind,
then it commits sin against God and
and outrage on civilization so supreme
and unspeakable, that only future gen.
crations will be able to invent words
to fifty express it. Nor is IL the dia-
bolical and lunatio beasts that, like
Amcs, Kellogg, &c, go
into the South, and stealing tho ne
groes, use them as voters to rob and
plumber the Southern people, who are
morally the most responsible, but, on
The contrary, those who "know better,p |
md yet, for ten years, have stood idly
looking at this monstrous devilment.
Meanwhile, we repeat, the recoil of
such transcendcnt crime is at hand. |
The ruin of Southern production, from
which came two-thirds OF Northern
wealth and prosperity, has honey
,ombed the North with bankruptcy,
md men are walking on VOLCANOES that,
1t any hour may burst forth in fire
md blood n thousand fold more horri.
)lo than that which doomed Pompeii !
md Hcrculancum. The South has
,nly TO stand By the truth and elect $. j. |
rilden, TO find its hour of deliverance.
md to enter on new and glorious
hturc. IL it dcbauchcs itself with |
'longrclsm, and in its misery and
lorrors, seeks the aid of the devil TO |
ight the dcvilism that confronts il, il
lost, and the South lost, tho descend
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