Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-04

fho-SLANEhf DOtThlNES OF THE ABO
y LITIoNIsT--cARpET.BAa AND CREDIT
MoBILIER TiIEvEs--nEpUBLIcAN con
u RUpTIoN---G uNFAITHFUL
NESS TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY.
10 Hon. James A. Garfield, Member O
Congress from Ohio :.l .ssHal
| have read the speech you sent me
, ! am astonished and shocked As the
leader of your party, TO whom the can
didates have specially delegated the
conduct OF the pending campaign, you
should have met your responsibilities
in very different way. ] do not pre-.
sumo to lecture so distinguished man
upon bis errors but ii j can prevent
you, even to a small extent, from
abusing the public credulity, it is my
duty to try. Promising only my great
anxiety to preserve the fraternal rea-
tons existing between us for many
years, | follow the Horatian rule, and
come at once TO "the middle of things
You trace back the origin of present
party ties to the earliest immigrations
at Plymouth and Jamestown, and pro-
fess to find in the opposing doctrines
cherished in Massaoh,sa,,s end VIZ
cinia the germs Of those IDEAS which
now make Democracy and Abolition
ism the deadly foes of each other. The
occordipa 10 yonr acconn, ,So c.oodar, -
and eonalitv Of ali races and VI. ,ho r;',ht
and dntv * overv man 10 evsrc;so h;s
nrivate INDIGNANT in noli,;cs 40 wall 40
,rl;g;on IN thc o,Por hand ,on 90, 80
forth as ;rreconcilably hostile 10 doc'
trine of VIRGINIA s,tIo, can;toi shorId
own labor that tho negro Ind no r;,h,s
of manhood and that ,ha wh;,a nan a,s
! might buv. own and sell him and T his
otisnr;na oronarn ~ EoIio,';n,. , "'u LIS LIS
assertions with Others. and linl,ing tbe
present with the long past, Won employ
the devices of your rhetoric TO glority
the modern Abolitionist and TO throw
foul scorn, not merely on the southern
people, but ON the whole Democracv
of the country. f.t.
This looks ioornod and ,b;,osonh;ooi
and !, o;ros rnnr sroaph - d;nn;,,
sceminoIv oboye tho rench os ,ha nrd2
narv dswonoore Uann,, l. ~ ~
lsnows thc eo1seo of ,hippggs f.I;o;,ons
IL the nor,;san momhor 81 Conanoss
whose s,nmn sneooh noas nn ~ So,
of time 40 tbo drst e6rnto;ns r ae aood
and evil Rnt vour eon,ros, of h;s,or;
col foc,s "a onor 40 ano nh;ao,;o,, ~ % ,mL;aL
I givo Won IN a form as s;mnlo as noss;
bIe whsn / sou ,ha, !, r. ,lh III, Js Jss,;
tute of ty,tL rbis Of conrso ,n,l;os liz;
NO ;nnn,o,;on on W 80 so" ',o5d "pnt' slp;,t
Yopr biah cboroc,orin ~ % oHuroh 49, as
well 90 tha s,",o forh;ds ,ha ha,;as ,h"s ."
von woniJ La LII ~ ~ 'a;Ie',i @ -; ,',;.. .na'
yosoo,a,;aa e' '''NP'
~,
my men o, massachusetts,, so iar
lio.a P'an,hy ,ne right Oh private Juog-
nient % cx''rpa'cu ana utterly ertm-
y"'o"ea II, ny i'c"ns 80 cruei 'nnt no
,aah ns .ho ., common @ numan,.y ,i,,y . can .n'nk
" .: unen' wv" nom w''noue ulsSus' anu
pu'g na.'on. an, SURPRISED XII 70 nhu
bear oftho S.;s,ht fni' oorsna,,,;ons a.,
CARRIED on svs,ema,,coll, ora;ns, RAJ
,;s,s and OnoLors ond C.,hei;os hor
thev fined imnr;sored ioshed m,t;la
ted ensIoyed and hon;shed cvcryhoJv
that claimed ,he r;ah, Of froa tho,nht9
how thev s,,snnad 10 mos, r;r,,,ons
and inotians;,a ,yor,ar and .nnkl;o,v
whinned them on thar nokaa hacks
only tar evnress;n, tha;r consc;.nt;ons
convictions9 Have yon never in ali
vour reading met with tho stnrv oi
ROGER W;lliams9 For merelv suggest
inc 10 tho nnblic Authorities ~ the
colony that no n nerson onobt to he MN
isbed on account of his honest oninions
he was driven into the woods and pur.
sued ever afterwards with ferocity
that put his own life and that of his
friends in constant danger. In fact,
the cruelty of their laws against the
freedom Of conscience and the unfecl.
ing rigor with which they were oxecu-
ted, made Massachusetts odious through
out the world nt f
These great crimes of the Pilgrim
Fathers ought not to be cast up to
their children for some OF their dc.
sccndants q hope good majority are
high-principlcd and honest men, sim
cerely attached to tho liberal institu-
tions planted in the more southern
ATTITUDES of the continent. But if You
arc right in your assertion that the
Abolitionists derive their principles
from the ideas entertained and nlanted