Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-03-21

chosen armies OF the world. lie was
master, and was not content The
purple that had filed his dreams and
was esteemed the summit of human
achievement, was but bauble Of emp
tness when the Empire was his own
and the restless ambition that wildly
mocked the tempest in death, could not
accept peace with apparent omnipo-
teuce. The Macedonian chieitain out
stripped the conquesis Of the cheitain
Of Europe, and he turned to the capi
tai OF the Gear to make the names Of
Alexander and Napoleon stand abreast
in history. lie parlcyed in the blood
of forty thousand soldiers ut Borodino,
marched 10 MUscowunopposedin battle,
aud saw the vengcncc Of the elements
portray his own discontinue as the
flames kissed the heavens aud the
SHOWS of the North came to multpll
desolation. From the Kremlin back
through pitlcss winter and more phi
less foes, with bis line OF march thick.
~ strewn with his bravest warriors,
he reached Paris only to accept exile
and IRON exile Waterloo, and thence
the exile that welcomed death.
rbe world is fall OF Napeloons. We
have them great and small. rhoy aid
history in its ceaseless task Of repeat.
ing itself, and as they march to their
little Moscows and perish in their TO
treats from mad adventure, they
teach the same lesson and accept the
same destiny. The political field is
studded with Napoleonic leaders who
rise aud reign and clutch the air and
fall. Mr. j. Donald Cameron is the
latest little Corporal who has won po.
litical empire aud must now make his
march upon his Moscow He is the
heir OF dynasty and its hero as well,
II has fought hard battles, won costly
victories, ana attained omnipotencc in
u great Commonwealth after years of
perpetual conflict, For u full genera,
ton the war has been wagcd in many
struggles the house Of Cameron was
defeated, and in all, whether victor or
vanquisbed, ghastly and unhealing
sears remained to tell how u brave
people had battled with ambition. 1t
had its Leipsic and its Au sterliIz il
advanced and retreated in the varying
fortunes of the struggle it conquered
It's Spain, its Austria, its Prussia ii
divided the crowns OF its conquests
among it ITS chieitains, aud had con
iessed obedience to its own political
kingdom. But ii is not content. There
are other chieilains with larger domiu-
ions, with vaster powers, with more
iervent wcrshippers, and there must
be II Cameron march upon Moscow. A
cabinet portfolio, a baublc to the great,
"A scourge to lltileness, is not in the lit
OF trophies Of the latest victory, aud
all the others are tastelcss to the appe-
lite. There mustbe u fresh campai gn,
a fresh victory, II fresh crown and fresh
homage FROM those who have been
taught that their only privilege is obcdi-
ence. And Cameron is on his march !;
Harrisburg Will be his Burodiuo, where
ho must maintain the field IN costly
sacrifice, aud he will ind his Moscow
" hen he enters the Senate III triumph,
whence he must som retreat IN tho
bleak tempest OF fallen and iaitIless
friends.
We are not Of those whose counsel
is sought by the ruling house OF Penn
sylvania but ii We desired only the
overthrow Of the Cameron domination,
we should welcome the transfer OF
Senatorial honors from father to son,
and the proclaimed contempt Tor pub.
lie opinion that such barter of the
brightest jewel Of Commonwealth
gifts involve. It is notice 10 the Re.
publicanism OF Pennsylvania that what
IL has tolerated IN its necessities must
be the inexorable master for another
generation and the time and circum.
stance chosen for the proclamation OF
supreme and perpetual Republican
subordination, are most iDauspicious
for the ambition that climbs only alter
its own insatiate greed. Senator Cam.
eron Is OverlhrOwn in his national
leadership by the new departure OF
President Hayes. 1t is the fortune OF
war, aud must submit or be broken.
Secretary Cameron has failed in his
effort 70 remain in the Cabinet, and his
victories won for his party at such
fearful cost Of public integrity, OF vio-
lated law and Of imperilcd peace, have
turned to ashes in his hands. 1t Is
history repeating herself, and he but
wars against fate when he seeks to re.
trcive his fall by straining his political
power in his State beyond the point
OF public forbearancc He is bold,
brave, successful leader; has well earn
cd all the honOrs ho has worn as polit-
iral rewards are commonly estimated,
aud there is none IN the State who tan
take his spurs and wear them but be
is n leader of the machines into whirh
men are fashioned in times Of political
degeneration not leader OF the pe,,-
pie, and he will shivcr his sceptre
against the mailed breast of rcbellious
Republican sentiment ii b, shall rush
from defeat in Washington TO re-.
trieve 1t from supcrserviccablc Legis.
laturc. His election to the Senate is
altogether probable indeed, il may be
accepted as certain II tho programme
shall not be hindcrcd by wiser councils
than those which suggested it; and
the veteran Senator may retro with a
foreign mission without special com.