Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-06-25

ing the nill, ana u was consequently rejected
Thus we see that the military are designed fol
domestic uses, and that instead Of employment
against foreign enemy they can he so managed
as TO direat elections. james Rose may hop,
through such instrumentality on future occa
SION TO become Governor Of Pennsylvania If the
foul weather should continue.
OLD ISSUES REVIVED.
: How the history of eighty years age
repeats itself The old questions are
presented, the old issue revived. You
preach consolidated government.
You hate and persecuto the foreign
+ born citizen. You debase your States
prostitute your people, and invite
the hand Of the Federal trooper
to supervise the ballots of your elec.
tors. Contrast the political condition
of the country now with that of the
Republic then as described by Jeffer.
son in his letter to Mazzei, thus:
The aspect of Que politics has wonderfully
changed since you left us. In place ofthat noble
love Of liberty and Republican Government which
carried ms through the war, an Anglical mon.
archial sris,ocratical party has sprung up, whose
avowod object is to draw over US the substance
as they have already done the FORMS of the Brit
ish Government. The main body -four citizens
however, remain true TO their Republican princi-
pies, the whole landed interest is Republican, aud
SO is great mass of talents. Against us are the
Executive Judiciary, two out Of three branches
OF the Legislature, all the officers of the Govern
ment, all who want TO be officers, all timid men
who prefer the calm Of despotism to tho boiserous
sea of liberty, British merchants, and Americans
trading on British capital, spectators and hold
in ha RaN be aal A.
invented FOR the purposes Of corruption and for
assimilatngus in all things to the rotten as we II
as the sound parts Of the British model.
II would give you a lever were to name to 70 u
the apostates who have gone over to these here
sies-men who we're samsons in the field and
solomons in the councils, but who have had their
head shaved by the harlot England. In short,
We are likely to preserve the III erty we have OBJ
tanned only by unremitting labors and perils
But we shall preserve it and our mass Of weight
and wealth ou the good side is so great, as to
leave no danger that force will ever be attempted
against us. We have only 10 awake and snap
the Lilliputian cords with which they have been
entangling during the first sleep which succeed.
cd our lAboTs.
Contrast tho doctrines then de-
nounced by Jefferson with the condi-
ton Of things today. Against us are
the executive and the judiciary. We
have the two Legislative branches OF
the government, but all the officers of
the government are against us, ninety
thousand in number. All who want
to be officers in that field are against
us. All sorts of men who prefer the
calm OF despotism to the boisterous sea
of liberty are against us. Spectators
and holders in the banks and public
funds, all these are against us, and
these to-day are, as they were then,
used as contrivance for the purpose
of corruption and for assimilating us
in all things to strong government.
Sir, the history of eighty years ago
repeats itself today
Packed juries, partial marshals and
distrusted judges were the agencies
feared then as the outgrowth of national
power consolidated authority and Fed
eral pressure, while home rule, our
own tribunals, honest judges and i'm
partial jurics were the desired altera-
tives. The latter are the results of
Democratic Republican rule, the form.
or the fruits Of consolidated Federalism
of strong government, of national
rule in the field that belongs to the
States.
STATE RIGHTS OUR DEFENSE.
In the crusade which Mr.. Hayes and
the stalwarts now initiates and the
States and the rights of the people Sc
cured by State law and State Consti.
tutions are desired or forgotten. 1t is
not the policy of the antagonists of the
Democratic party now to permit the
people to remember that in all the
older States the titles to our homes
spring from the colonial or State au-
thority, and that our persons, our
property, our lives and our personal
liberty, all find their safe guards there.
The States existed before the Federal
Government, and they and the people
created it. Each yielded to it some Of
their power, and plainly and clearly
defined in the Constitution what they
had granted. All other powers were
reserved to the States and the people.
Secession was revolution, but the
rights OF the States as plainly embodi-
ed in our Constitution are an entirely
different matter, and these and their
legitimate fruits are as vital TO the
whole, as necessary to our might, our
perpetuity, and our expansion, as the
former were destructive OF the whole
The consolidation of all power in the
Federal Government, the centraliza-
ton of authority here at the expense
of the State governments, the govern.
ment of the people of Pennsylvania in
their local affairs by Representatives
elected in Oregon and Florida, or the
regulation Of suffrage for our election
by those who neither know our wants
nor understand our system, is utterly
subversive of the essential elements IN
our growth and prosperity. 1t is in
its consequences as injurious TO the
government as secession. The Federal
Government IS supreme within its
, sphere, and State governments are
equally SO in their sphere.
pEsToY THE STATE you DESTROY THT
GOVERNMENT
The States wcro In existence long be-
foro the Union, and the latter took its
birth from their power. Without them
the machinery OF the Federal Govern
ment would cease TO act, and without
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