Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-10-15
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER I5 1879

llOnb so nuOlluhHy ulBcu upoH olhcIr
could not possibly be counterfeited
He has fairly earned the title of
Onion SAFER He has deserved th,
sneer OF the opposition when they saIc
no sat constantly "beside the sick be-
of tho Union . and If the Union /
destined to expire in the insanity 0
civil strife, his devoted affection will
keep there to the last, like love watch
ing madness on the bed of death"
If We had been in any sense opposed
TO the Government or unfaithiul I,
the Union, would we have proposedHucl
candidate for Governor MOI W,
would have nominated some blacl
Abolitionist who believes the Consti
tuition to be q convenant with hell, ant
who by destroying the Constitution
would make an end Of the Union az
certainly as you take the life of a mar
by cutting the heart out of his body
Or we would have worked out our dc
structive purpose by nominating somt
mighty contraotor-one of those large
handed robbers who are weakening the
Government by depicting It's Treasury
and stufling its money into their owr
big pockets. With such man WELD
ing all the power and influence of thi:
great State, the Government surely
could not last long In short, if We
had any evil intent against the Union
we would have taken any candidate
we could lay our hands on rather than
George Woodward, the Union Saver
the man of upright character and
downright speech-whose hands are
clean Of all crime, aud whose pockets
are empty of all gains except what
came there as the just reward Of bis
honest labor,
Much rs we honor aud love HIM per
sonally, it is not for his sake that we
desire to make him Governor. Setting
aside his fidelity and ours TO the Ma,
tional Government and Union, we
could do something a great deal more
for his profit than that. Let him avow
his apostasy from the faith of his
fathers let him prostitute his con.
science and bis intellect to the pur
poses OF Abolitionlsm lei him forget
that he belongs to the Caucasian varie.
" Of the human species and enter the
service Of the negro let him make a
few speeches to show the superiority
of the African over the Saxon race
let him contriye the ways and means
Of promoting negro instructions and
always stand ready to take the part
Of the negro right or wrong above
all, let him denounce the Constitution
as il is and curse the Union as il was /;
let him abandon the principles Of lib-
erty in which he was bred, and dc.
grade himself low enough to call every
freeman a traitor who is not willing
to be . slave. If he will do this he
may get contract on which he can
cheat the United States at tho rate Of
n hundred thousand dollars month.
If his inexperieRce should mako him
awkward, and he should be detected
and exposed 20 that even his conieder-
ates in knavcry are compelled TO ad-
nit bis guilt, there would still be a
resource for him. When the worst
comes to the worst, we can get him q
foreign mission--send him to cool his
bushes in the SHOWS of Russia or hard.
on the bronze upon his check under
the hot sun of Spain.
But stealing the public money or
trampling on the Constitution is not
his idea OF loyalty or yours either. He
would restore the Union by defending
the Constitution, by giving to the laws
their just supremacy, by guarding the
rights Of the people, and by driving
off those obscene birds Of prey that arc
now gorging themselves on the pros
tratc carcass of the Nation.
know there are those who think
that the Union never can be restored +;
who believe that the great guilt of
blood and fire which now rolls between
the North and the South has been
made by this Administration so wide
and so deep that it will remain forever
impossible | am not one OF those
who regard restoration as a forlorn
hope. Every man who has sense
enough to know his right hand from
his left must believe that, II the Dem
ocratic party had been successful in
1860, this country would now have
been united, prosperous, happy and
tranquil. The American flag would
have waved over every inch OF our ter
ritory, mot one star extinguished nor
one stripe erased" And no concession
to the South would have been made or
needed beyond what was required by
the Constitution or demanded by that
magnanimity which the stronger par.
ty ought always show in its treatment
of the weaker. As our troubles began
with the advent of the Aboltionists to
power, they will end when the people
scourgo back that band'ofmalignants to
the obscurity from which they ought
never TO have emerged. The Demo.
cratic party built up this Government,
kept the Union together for seventy.
five years, and was always ready "to
shield it and save it or perish there
too" The same party win bring back
the better days Of the Republic and
remove, If not Immediately, at least in
process OF time, that hugo mountain OF
sorrow which is now crushing the life
out of the country.
One thing is perfectly certain that
IL tho Union is ever restored, IL must
be on the basis of the Constitution and
laws. Other hope Of salvation TO us
there is none under Heaven. When
the Constitution was put aside and
another system Of Government, com
pounded Of proclamations and coniis-
cation acts, was substituted in its place,
all possible chances Of the Union were
postponed until the Constitution could
be brought back again. When you
require tho Southern people TO obey
tho Constitution and the laws which
were made by. their fathers as well as
ours, it is but'thoir reasonable duty to
submit, and II they do not sec it so, it is
our duty to make them. But it is o
widely different thing when you offer
them conhscation act which strips
them of land and goods, coupled with
proclamation which lets loose four
millions of Ignorant negroes, with Abo.
liuon preachers among them TO incito
insurrection and urge the indiscrilni-
nate slaughter Of the white inhabitants.
Whether they oughtto give themselves
up to this appalling fate, is question
which | leave TO be decided by those
who have the authority. But that
they will never voluntarily consent to
union with US upon such terms,
think is certain. If they did, would
that be the Union that Wash.
inpton made ? Would not n Union