Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-10-01
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Speech.
A CONSERVATIVE REVIEW OF IT.


whose administration was marked by
conciliatory policy and an absence Of
sectionalism which was at once re.as.
suring and gratifying to the conserva-
tive sense Of the whole country, should
in his latest reported utterances at
Youngstown, Ohio, recently, have
manifested 30 decided u leaning to-
wards the men who are now engaged,
for selfish and partisan purposes, in
stirring anew the bitterness OF sectional
spirit. Certainly the President now
says much that is utterly inconsistent
with the earlier coneiliatory tone and
policy of his administration His ad-
dress is an elaborate argument-none
the less artiully contrived because in
the specious form OF an historical re.
view-to show that practically the
war is not yet ended, and that the
mission OF the Republican organization
as union-saving party is not yet com
pleted. He does not charge upon the
South overt rebellion, it is true, but be
intimates that there is yet rebellion in
the hearts OF the people. His position
seems to be that the constitutional
amendments, especially the fifteenth,
while not openly resisted, are practi-
cally nullifed by spirit Of lawless.
ness pervading the Southern communi
ties, which makes the right intended
to be secured and guaranteed OF no
avail. Finally the heresy of States
Rights, which the President argues
was the real issue involved in the civil
war, is only scotched, and not killed.
1t is difficult to conceive how an in.
telligent man, occupying theposition Of
President Hayes, could,be guilty Of so
great o number of fallacies as are IN.
volved in the scope Of this argument
and in the conclusion which it is in
tended to enforce. Mr.. Hayes, or, as
he seems to prefer on this occasion to
be styled Gen. Hayes, devotes the first
and larger portion of his address to an
endeavor TO show that the real cause
which lead to the civil war was the
antagonism between the National
theory or idea Of the Union, represent.
ed by the loyal North, and the States
rights or notification or secession
theory, three things which he con.
founds together as if they were one
and the same, represented by the South.
This is not even historically true. One
would suppose IN reading this portion
of his remarks that President Hayes
had read Mr.. Calhoun, but never heard
of the Hartford convention, and that
he know nothing of the long and bitter
antislavery agitation which preceded
the firing upon Sumter and the out
break of civil strife. So far from
the doctrine of notification being
peculiarly Southern or Demo.
cratic doctrine, Mr.. Hayes should
surely know that the doctrine was
never pushed to more extreme and, as
the sequel showed, fatal limits than
when the Northern States, nullified
the compromise act of 1850, adopted
for the purpose Of saving the Union,
The truth is that neither is the idea Of
an American nationality an invention Of
the Republican party or oneof the aro,
snltsu of tho war nor il the doc,rine ot
States, rights ,be abominablo and sec'
tionaI hcrcsv which ,ho pros;don,
seems to imagine Roth IDEAS arc ON.
sbrined in and consecrated bv tho Con.
stitn,ion 10 make for ali nurnoses
reoniring national orcanila,ian q
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