Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-01-17
THE MOST MOMENTO Us ISSUE
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thoughtless Northern masses did not
wake up in time to the unspcakeble
crimes and unimaginablc tomiooleries
Of Southern reconstruction" II has,
week after week, line upon line, with
an iteration absolutely painful to our
selves, and possibly, at times, to our
readers, said the same thing, with lit
tic variation-tbe country is rapidly
drifting TO national bankruptcy and
universal anarchy; and though, just
at this moment, the political "situa.
ton is uppermosl in the mind Of the
country, the material "situation is
charged with infinitely greater horrors,
and il Chandler, Grant a. Co. precipi-
tate nm armed conflict, and civil war
cnsues, even that cannot equal the
widespread horrors wrapped up in the
industrial and material "situation." "
Nor is there, or should there be any
mystery in this matter. Mongrclism
is social disease, as deadly to the ma
ton us smallpox or plague to the in
dividual man, and tho Incorporation
and attempt TO absorb four millions Of
negroes in our political system must AS
absolutely destroy that system as small
pox kills the individual. THIS simple
but awful truth is demonstrated all
about US. No President in Mexico or
the Mongrel Republics Of South Ameri-
ca ever gets his scat until after a fight,
and a bloody anarchy and universal
impoverishment is chronic everywhere.
1t is the misfortune US much as the
fault of the miscreants, Chamberlain,
Stearns, Kellogg, Yarmouth, &C., for,
as there is not one honest white man
from the Rio Grande to Brazil, so too,
the purcst and best man in all the North
that goes to the front and strives TO
enforce Mongreism, will become de-
graded and worthless beast, capable of
every possible crime, and deferred
solely by his abject cowardicc. A Re
! publican here in the North, bedevicd
solely by an abstraction, is an honest
and worthy citizen, but the instant he
goes to the front and strives TO apply
his abstraction and equalze with ne
grocs, he becomes devil, a beast,
capable, as we have said, Of every con-
ceivablc crime, and held IN check solely
by his abject cowardice
But leaving all this out of view, the
material and industrial question is in
fmtely more terrible than is the poiti.
cal, and may be grasped by this simple,
transcendent and awful truth Ecery
d" freedman" in the South tends 10 generate
a tramp in the North or, in other words,
the abnormal condition of the labor
system of the South recoils and per-
veris that of the North, and at this
moment million of men out Of en-
ployment are on the march TO tramp.
ism, and the rapid growth of monster
whose Mcdusa head, now barely seen
above the horizon, may soon terriiy
and shock civilization itself with its
awful proportions fully revealed.
What, then, is the remedy, or how
can the impending horrors be avoided ?
Why, simply and solely by the white
or homogeneous Republic OF Washing.
ton and jackson, leaving the negro
element 10 the States to deal with as
best they can. Human society can ex-
ist and civilization advance under Kings
or Russian Cars, but il dies the instant
Mongrelsm exists, as shown by our
census returns, and could the North
stand it, it would needs be simply a
II matter OF time when South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana would be dcpop-
ula,ed, both white and negro as abso.
lutely extinct as il no human foot had
ever trod their soil This portentious
asi terrible truth must be brought
home to the masses, and the Demo
cratic press must do this patriotic, and,
under the circumstances, holy work,
and the journal calling itself Demo
cratic .hat fails to do it, or assents to
Mongrelism in the abstract, is more
dangerous enemy TO the Democratic
cause than an open and avowcd Mon.
grel or black Republican organ. There
is just one simple, palpable, common
sense test 10 be applied--g a man
honestly believes that the negro is OF
the same species as himself, and there
fore il is beneficial to mate and mix the
the blood of the races, then let him ad.
vocate the attempted reconstruction" /"
and strive to absorb the negro element
in the nation but if he kao,cs that God
and nature utterly forbid this almalga-
nation in the individual, then he must
know that Mongrcl citizenship is
death to the nation as well as to De.
mocracy. The time has como when
this momentous issue is real, direct, and
must be met by the press and the
\ Democratic leadership, and therefore
all true Democrats must rally as one
man for TIE restoration OF the Republic
of Washington, and spit upon every
newspaper and politician that fails to
stand by IL.
In conclusion, think, reader, oh think,
what majestic as well as fatal issue
the white Republic of Washington or
the Mongrcl anarchy of Grant land
therefore every word you speak, every
act of your life, every journal you read
or support, tend TO the restoration OF