Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-04-03

crimes. George Washington was a
loatbsome capitalist, who never so far
as is known, did a days work in his
whole life. History may be safely
challenged TO mention a single occasion
on which Washington dug bitches, laid
sewer-pipes, carried bricks and mortar,
! cr-~Tr'tsd AZ q trade. .Coneeouently,
rious aristocrat, who received during
his early life a magnificent salary for
merely wearing u Generals uniform,
and who, In his latter days, VIGOROUSLY
and shamelessly lived on the interest
Of his money. He not only had money
in the bank, but he reached the lowest
depths Of scoundrelism as a holder Of
bonds and MORTGAGES. He was that
enemy of the human race, a creditor,
and with the cold. blooded selfshness
OF a Sbylock, he expected that his
debtors would pay him their debts
While many of his fellow. citizens, men
who earned their bread by hard work,
lived in log cabins on the western prai-
ries, Washington lived in a fine man
sion on the banks Of the Potomac, and
had the effrontcry to pretend that he
had q right to his homo merely because
he had paid for it.
Furthermore, this Father of our
Country was q gentleman, and a man
of intelligence and culture. We have
the authority OF many eminent western
statesmen for asserting that next to
a Shylock, an intelligent and cultured
gentleman deserves the contempt and
hatred of American citizens. lie had
some little knowledge of political
economy, and he was an unblushing
advocate of honesty. During his entire
public life he never improved a single
opportunity for cheating his creditors,
and he neve once proposed to cheat
the creditors of the nation. These
charges are made deliberately and with
a full sense OF their cnormity. IfWash-
ington's admirers-of whomi il Is under
stood that a few still survive, chiefly in
the Eastern States-can successfully
repel these charges, let them do SO. II
they cannot, let them cease to ask en-
terprising freemen whose representa-
tives have just passed the Silver Bill
to affect reverence for the memory OF
this weak and spiritless wretch. While
the West produces such noble States
men as Matthews, Ewing, and Bland,
It is as impudent as it is silly to ask the
constituents of those great men TO
stultify themselves by showing respect
TO the memory of n who was a per-
sonifcation Of all that the West regards
as hateful and revolving.
IT the West has a right to despise
the character OF Washington, we of the
East have. in our turn, no reason IN
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w "n' ""'s0u pun
nc services lhere was q Tune when
II seemed as II Washington, on secur.
ing the independence of this country.
had conferred unon ma a srhs,.n,;ai
lie, b., a. Sa.~
~ ''' ''' '.a'e' Gu" no
longer boast oil their independence.
Washington released us from the rule
of Great Britain, but the final result
has been our subsection TO the rule OF
the West. Already, western newspa-
pers taunt us with our helplessness to
resist the demands of western repudi.
ators, and western statesmen threaten
us with measures in comparison with
which the Silver Bill is a matter OF
slight consequence. In Congress, where
the Southern stakeholder once cracked
the plantation whip, the Western dema.
gogue now fits his familiar pig-yoke TO
our helpless necks. 1t is foolish for us
to ignore the truth which Mr.. Ingalls,
so plainly parades before us. We have
exchanged the rule of the stupid and
honest George III. for the rule Of the
ignorant and dishonest Western repu.
diator. We must suffer from his crazy
legislation and bear the shame Of his