Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-10-29
THAT aREBEL" ADDRESS.


1t was announced by the grand
moral idea" organs soon after the crca-
tion of the creature, that Hooton, the
Chairman OF the Radical State Com
mittee, was conducting tho campaign
without "keeping bottle in his office"
II Hooton was not drunk when he is
sued his address, some other fellow
wrote it, A more bigoted, tanatical
proclamation has never been put in
print, even during the war. 1t is
"rebel" all through, and we publish it
as novelty, to show TO our read
ers that il there is no battle on hand,
something like fool must have been
around when the document below was
begotten. Read, in part what the
raving bigot says;
To the people of Pennsylvania.
The Solid South only requires the
aid OF q few Northern States to reverse
the verdict OF the war to indemnify
unrepentant traitors for losses incurred
in rebellion against the nations life
TO destroy the public credit by blum.
dering tho National Treasury, and 10
blast the restored prosperity of the
people by repeating the financial and
protective legislation TO which we owe
the revival OF business. Docs this
overstate the danger to which our
country is at this moment exposed
The unrestrained rule ofthe rebel Dem
ocracy means ruin. The leaders OF
this dangerous coalition will never
hesitate to carry out the schemes if the
power TO carry them out can in any
way be graspod.
Remember this Any man who, on
the night when the whole North was
shouting over the surrender of Lee,
had predicted that in fourteen years
the Democratic party would be in the
majority in the United States Senate
and House OF Representatives and that
this Democratic majority in each house
would be composed of two rebel off.
GERS to one Northern Democrat that
the rebel general in second command
under Lee at Appomattox would be a
Senator from Georgia that the Post
master General and the Vice President
of the Southern Confederacy would be
in the House, with more than hun.
dred rebel veterans making laws to
govern and to punish their conquerors
the man then making such n pre-
diction would have been believed to be
on the road to mad house. And yet
what would have been considered in.
sane raving in 1865 is disgraceful his
tory in 1879. With this fact in re.
memberance, who will dare TO mark o
limit to Southern arrogance eand Demo
cratic cringing2 Will the salutary
laws protecting industry, will the pub
lie credit, will the Nations honor DO
maintained and defended by the malig
nant enemies OF them all2 Shall our
heroes continue on the pension rolls, or
will they be forced TO retire in favor of
the veterans Of the rebel armies A
Rebel. Democratic restoration in this
country means that the "lost cause"
has been regained, and no sane man
can doubt this-no honest man can
deny it. The safety Of our country
demands the eternal exclusion from
power OF that party in which every
unrepentant rebel finds congenial
home and hearty welcome, and finds
1t there because he remains in his sins
and for that reason only.
We are admonished by the rebel
Democrats and their brevet assistants
that State issues alone enter into the
present campaign. The Republicans
have nothing to avoid in even a harsh
review of their record since 1860 IN
the conduct of State affairs But State
affairs must wait. A mighty National
issue conironts us. Political murder