The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-11-16

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h XIII H over this far
\ SlISsSsSN ZsiAkh land o ours,
rs "A have happier
4 lSS5T ~ inmates since
n lES the counting
~ of the ballots
lRSS1lg1lSnSS last Tuesday.
lRSI{I0S SSSNS Since til e
INgM%lTSlEls fall of Sumter
l2J))sNSzy{S American his.
) INK tory has re.
LIS corded no
event so ma.
iestic in itself and so momentous
10 It's effect upon the future of
civilization as the mighty up
rising Of the people Of the North
IN defense Of their homes, their
rights and their Industries on
last Tuesday. The first shot
aimed by treason at the flag
that floated over Charleston
Harbqr thrilled the nation with
an electric shock that fused the
lines OF party and made men re.
member that before all aud
above all they were American
citizens, the interiors of the
glorious trustofclyil liberty, the
descendants of patriots who had
given their fortunes and their
lives that republican institution
might be established on this con.
tinent and the sovereignty of
manhood be maintained against
the tyranny Of kings. The war
upon American Industries inan
gurated BY The unrepentantB our-
oonism Of the South, aided by
Grover Cleveland and "a faction
of Northern Democrats whose
spirit and purpose were not less
reasonable than those Of the
Tories of Revolutionary times,
has been more gradual in its eff.
feet upon Northern sentiment,
but it has unified the North as
thoroughlyas the blow struck by
secession at the heart Of the Re.
public.
The Press warned Northern
faaf0rra Congfesy i hundred
times during she progress Of tne
tariff conflict a Washington that
their traitorous subserviency to
the cabal of Confederate briga
diers that ruled Congress with
a slavedriver's whip would bring
down upon them the crushing
wrath and overpowering con.
domination of the patriotic citi.
zenship Of the North. 1t point.
ed out repeatedly that the man.
date Of the voters expressed in.
the spring and fall elections of
1893 was emphatically against
the overthrow of protection. But
the great majority of Northern
Democrats in Congress were deaf
to warning and disgregardfulof
patriotism. They detiantly dis.
obeyed the PLAIN instructions of
their constituents. They delib-
erately sacrificed the prosperity
. he Northern people the stand
q Of Northern wages and the
comfort Of Northern homes to
the demands Of the stubborn
egotist in the White House and
the threats Of Southern politi.
clans who sought revenge for
Appomattox,
The news columns of the Press
to-day and for the past two days
record theresult. with a unani-
nifty thatis absolutely Npnparal..
leled in the life of the present
generation the people of the.
North have repudiated the faith
less demagogues who betrayed.
Them. The column which the
Press prints elsewhere, giving the
Republican pluralities in North
ern States on Tuesday in com
parison with the pluralities cast
by those States in 1892, indicates
q political revolution without a
precedent in American politics.
The Northern commonwealths,s
whose people constitute sixty.
five per cent. of the country's
population, whose employers pay
'seven-eighths Of all the wages
received by American labor and
whose territories contain an