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PRINCIPLES, not MEN.
TERMS : $1 50 Per Annum, if paid in rdvar-'o.
NEW SERIES VOL. IV. NO. ?5.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 0, iRfik
TiP IS
.i-"1 ifci .'-.Li.a.'! t- r '
CARRIER'S ADDRESS
; TO THE I'ATKONS OF TJ1LI
1831 FOR 1864.
Bo composed every thought, and each violent uiotiou,
That encases my mind in life's treacherous snares.
"iid tlio hour tliat urges my pen to devotion,
To glance at the dying year's gladness and cares.
How darken'd the late smiling face of creation !
Time's wheels almost halt in their fleeting career,
As viewing the scenes of their own desolation
Glanoo behind, with it t'.urt, on the grave of the year.
On the last solemn reign of this day of reflection,
A madness seized hold on the chief of cur land,
And tho patriot's eye shed the tear of dejection,
At a nation' dishonor, and war's bloody hand.
Laden, with many, lile's hopos liavo soon ended,
Within the dark cover surrounding the bier--Or
to death' lonely halls, in slaughter descended,
And in blood made, their beds with the grave of the year.
Then our flag proudly floating, with its Hue-crimson flashing
Was nobly defuinfeTl by heart true as steel
But the ncgroe's black banner their hopes quickly dashing,
Chilled those patriots' ardor uud dampened their zeal.
For the Union, they iBought, they so bravely were fighting,
And to punish the rebels, who, its might then defied.
Their mistake thoy discovered, their fondest hope blighting,
Found mixed races their mission Abolition their guide.
i 1 1 1 1 defending that banner with a Spartan devotion,
They in heaps pile their bodies on Gettysburg plain,
And the capture of Vicksburg bwd'odwHli proudest emotion
The hearts of those heroes who hail bled not in vain.
Though tho frenzy of mudmeu they viewed with alarm,
Yet they gallantly fought for America's name ;
They spurred their base teachings so pregnant with harm,
While, they added fresh laurels to their garland of fame.
The flag of our Id Democracy
( ur faiih, our hope, our trust ;
Tho oft-tried shields of freeman's rights
Now meekly sweeps the dust.
Th Keystone state has recreant proved
To this, her former faith,
While ethers following in her wake
Embraced her partial death.
New Jersey, placed by Freedom's voice
Our views now to proclaim,
Deserves, ns she shall soon receive,
The merit duo to farao-
Tho homo of gallant "Little Mac,"
The Mecca of the patriot's heart,
'J hough tho tempests burst upon her soil,
Could not bo moved by fear or art.
But freemen's sons will no'er consent
To calmly loso their blood-bought lights
i'reo speech, Freo press their proudest boast
In fertile vales, on mountain bights.
They will not teo their father's grrves
Troden down by armed slaves
Hushing on like maddened wave
l!ed with human gore.
They will not see our banner bright,
Torn and trampled in the fight
By the foes of truth and rigid,
Torn to wave no more.
No ! tho boon those fathers won,
Led by glorious Washinton,
Shall descend from sire to sou,
Ages yet untold,
(io 1 will nerve the patriot's arm
To withstand the gathering storm
Freemen's hearts are yet too warm,
To be bought with gold.
But Clearfield. My beloved homo!
As my mind roves back o'er
The year that Lii9 passed
Never to leturn, 1 blush for thee!
The pvp of a whiffet : the tool of
A dirty Jog called 'Forney' (tho same
John of Forrest memory, who doth delight
In gobbling up the sweet tit-bits
That fall from tho table of his master,
The "great joker") hath been among your
Tine clad hills. Bv the aid of "wealt
C O It It V. SPOS1II2JICK.
Fur the Clcnrflold Hi'publican.
P.LCCAIilA TOWNSHIP, DFX'. l'Jth, 1SC3.
"Thortf is a vice that most I ilo uMiur,
Ami innot li-?iro should mcotllio blow of Ju.-tico,
Fur which X would not plead, but that I uiiint."
,S7m.ic(i'i.
Obstinacy,' if it may bo called a vice, is that
For which I plead. 'Tis not because 'tis right,
Nor Lrcuuso I love to advance Into another's causo
Without ho asks ray aid. Hut since 'tis known
That man, within his breast, sustains
A quality which, perhaps, is not so gross,
Yet still too vile to adorn a Christian's heart,
I take the side of Obstinacy, when 'lis against
Cruel man's oppressions hurled.
Oh! how the brain rocks to and fro when
We get the unwelcome tidings, " man is wronged "
Does it not wring ull our tonder affections
And elicit our sympathies, w ith love so warm
That wo, even lovers of law, could leap away
From the radiant joys of home, that beams
Rich w ith a modest pride, and rush,
With indignation kindfcd, and burning within
Our breasts, to avengo a liberty outraged,
And freemen deprived of llumauity's brightest,
Noblest gem.
Then hearken ! friends of right, a case is now
Before us, in its blackest, meanest form.
And drmuuds our utter, hearty scotn.
When ministers of God's word are from
The pulpit driven, and forced to cease
To look for pecuniary aid from llio-o
Who have" through the purest motives "joined
Tho " Disciplined Church of God " to find
The path that leads to giaee divine,
Becau.-e they would not their souls degrade
In clamoring politics, to er.geuder feelings ill,
And do-ecrate the sacred sanctuaries
Of Hi m, who despite the Devil's power
To foster tyranny, cherished in our minds
The Lope, that Liberty would survivo
The brutal blows she has received
By despotic hands. .
Can we wonder, then, binco these misdeeds
Of Fanaticism's vilest votaries, beaming
With sor lid pride, in our faces flash,
That 01 uinacy will arise towering nbovo
The lnift) realms of a crimping heart
And feeble mind, to check
The encroaching strides of selfish, proud,
Dower loving man, upon the immunities
Of Christian ministers.
Who would, being gifted with tho mind
Of rnnnheod, o'er bow, in timorous dread.
At the " beck and nod " of haughty foe
Of human liberty sacrificing his every claim
To freemen's abode in the society of noble meu
Sacrificing all the finer qualities that charm
The soul, that adorns tho mind, and gives
Grace and religious firmness to tho heart.
There' is the eloquent, the high-minded
And learned J-J'rics, he is the man.
If man ho be, whom fanatics, of our time,
Adore. 'They, to contribute, do notrefuso,
But empty their coffers in his purse.
And why ? Is it because he merits your esteem
By preaching the glad tidings of salvation
Among the followers of the Cross ? Not so !
'Tis becau-e he, the voice of Christ ur.heed-.
And will, their fiendish minds to gratify,
Breach war and blood ; and invoke
Tho curse of God upon tho men
And women of the South, and will, for gold,
Barter the soul of men to fight'against
The Constitution of his country to annul
Its sacred laws ; serving the Devil, robed
With tho "livery of Heaven," and devoting a life
In tho cause of sin, wrapped in the cloak
Of Iieligion, ho thinks to hide his glaring crimes.
llim they reward and honor, and why
Do they not reward, esteem and honor thoso
Who will not
Tiny tach fantastic tricks Mars hifih Utavin
At makes the anjels wt-eji ? "
'Tis because in opinion, they differ with you
Fanatics and irreligious Demagogues,
Nothing else ! They lovo the ir Go 1 and
From tho Nciv York Dnlly Nows.l
THE SECOND CONSCRIPTION !
MI II. I. HE lIAVi: A THIltDf
Tho second Conscription will Boon bo
upon us. Thoo of our citizens over the
age of twenty and under that of forty-live,
who have not been blessed by fortune
with tho three hundred dollars which is
to seen ro them from a forcible conscrip
tion, are already trembling lest fortune's
I fickle wheel may luiu up their names
land thus forco them into the army to do
jbatcle, not against a foreign foe, but
j their own countrymen.
I We were promised peaco within sixty
j days after the war commenced then the
time was prolonged to ninety then to six
months, and then within a year it would
j certainly close. Enlistments then were
(made for three years or tho war, and to
jfill the more than thrice decimated ranks
i of these three years, or ths war men, the
nrsi ur.ilt was nat, r.mt now we are soon
to have the second of the series. These
new couscript.i ore to serve for three years.
ther power to draw yiay for servants they
never had, forage for ideal horses, or to
plunder the foldiors by stale food, or the
government by contracts given to friends,
who generally divido the spoils. The
war at an end, ' Othello's occupation
gone," and men wbo never earned a dol
lar by honest labor, but who have made
fortunes by tho toil and death of others
will find their proper level in tho deser
ved contempt and scorn of all honest men.
It is to support men such ns these we
have named to continue power in the
Lands of misproud ambitious men of tho
Abolition persuasion, who would rather
rule half of a republic drenchod in blood,
than live in a Union cemented by brotherly
affect ion that tho war has been contin
ued. To do this, it is necessary to have
more Eoldiers, and hence (he draft is to bo
WHAT DEMOCRACY WOL'LD D"V
Were tho Abolition fanatic and the j v
per mongers outride from tho th oiio
which they so unworthily occupy, tuo
question is asked what would bo the posi
tive notion of their opponents or. a sn . ti
tution of a plain Democratic seat for the
elevated divan of tho monarch who now
rules the country ? Tho answer is easy.
Thcro would be nti immediate return to
an obedience to tho dictates of every ( o
tion of tho constitution, under tho btr,i.t
est rules of construction ; there would ba
no tyrannical invasion of personal liberty;
no government bastiles ; no imprisonment
on suspicion of what citizens might do ;
no suppression of freedom of speech ; no
military interference with tho electivo
franchise j no suspension of tho habeas
corpus.
These are the disabilities from which
put into execu'.iou, und men who believe
the war ni'iiht with honor have been the States, once independent, would be
avridod, are to be forced from their dis-1 relieved by the substitution of a Demo
trncttd and suffci hrz families, and made : c.atio Administration for tho pros' nt im-
J to inarch where b'ood and carnage, sick-! becility at the head of ant hority, and tli3
n 1 .lii, .1. r .1....' I i ...i: u,., a 1 ,..v,
unless the war sooner close, and, if Aboh-, ' h J ' i 1 . , .
, , , , , . , ... I occurrence. But a few months will cbvse cratic administration not being lntectea
tion holds rule, and contractors have their I . ' i , ,, .,,
, , ,. , . , r, , ., before tho decimated ranks must nsain be with the "rdbo-ncgio appetite for "spill
way, he who enlists or is drafted for the , . ;:
,,, r t , ,, iiiiuj i' hum iiiiuiiiL-i HiiauiiuLUll ui in iu a niuc iiuuu, nuuu iii'.iiaii. H c-vi wl
in other forms, long 1 .'fore peace is res
tored. The thirty vear.. war in L'urone
will find a parallel in the more than thir-j
calling themselves ' Wi r lVuooratP," for a timely period find supported by the Da
ton many of them liavo a feeling and an , raocraey, would liavo prevented i;ll ;ha
interest in common with the ultra ALdi-' niehtefs of ruineua warfare, its wi'vst con
tionists of the pre.-er.t day -tho Aboli-' se'pienoe an irreconcilable iWdinp of ani
lionirts wiil not do it, for their interest moitv between tho North und the South.
will follow as sure as night follows tho day, aled this wur into tho murderous conflicts
unless our rulers and their advisers are j that Lave slaughtered so mniy of our bwt
given to understand that the war must nt citizenr,, and devastated so vast an extout
rrwrt t,f 1 ,v.' 1 !irnn'.,l.!.- ,.!r. T!,L- ,.V ,1,., 1'. ., I 1 1 .f!-Q ,.- ni mt.i,
vears war in America, and the child as i .,, , . . . , ... . , .
' , vti . .1 i r. t will not bedone I'V those hv; nd politicians Hie principle of conciliation, suggested at
n-l,M.n tviil l.n li'il.l. irt Mm ilrrTlt if 1 i ' ' r
IJ" """" ' "
I others than thoe w ho make fortunes by
the war do not step in iird closo it by res
! toting peace to our detracted country,
j Those who wish to put an end to this
' tin I o nt' 1 1 i n r. (n ,t n , linr-k- iefipo with nil
I., ,, c. ., " , , .land their audition points in a different Under a Detnonr.itio administrate wo
1 its blessings to the countrv are denounced , .
direction, phi u,e i eopie, the men ti ail should have a return to tlio Union as ic
parti"s, who love tho Kepub'.ic fnd its ia- was, and the Constitution in its pjiity.
stitutions, niu.-t take tho matter in their M'aJi',nt:. Conn. I'm '!.
own JiaRxs and unn a great 1 oaee party t
of the country, w ho will save ui and them
selves from another conscription, by sav
ing the country from further peiil, and
rc.-toring it to peace.
For the sins of our ruler", the people,
. I we think, have been punished sulli' ienUy,
as Copperheads--.is scoesh in their feel
ing6, and as traitors in their heart, by
tho very men who are engaged in plun
dering tho soldier of bis hard earned, pay,
and in sw indling the Government by his
thoddy (ontracts, and who now urge on a
conscription w hich separates from his wife
and !ittlo ones the husband, who has not
the Government price paid to free each
l-'U the country i-lir.il - v. ed. tii
Union rvstored, and tiie Feden.l Con '.:'
tion preserved, the work must be don by
tho Democratic pnt Iv Democrats ar- w
alone in thi belief and the e:cprssi. n of
i'- Go where you may, seiitimer.' ; likj
the above greet you, and they n i fre
quently uttered by mon who never votod
a Democratic ticket. Such sentiments aro
fat spreading, and the number who be
lieve them is'daily increasing. Uniontown
C'lilM of Li hi-.-!,;.
iifdrn ; lt,n IlilrirL nf fhimhi:. If ri:iv
. ,. r , r' r ill.. and it now remains for the people to re-
I for Ins freedom from a forced draft to servo f
, ' UH'I linn I u 11 1 IJ iin-ll I IIUIII IJIl'U MiUlll-
in the army. , ,
The second draft will soon bo upon us. lf cy do not this soon, they will
The mines of all liable to serve, are now K!ir liku "'' Man of the Sea
in the hands of tho Provost Marshal and on the hack of Sinb.nl, fastened so eilec-
his colleagues, and wives t-cmblo lest ' M' as 10 m'lke il '" impossibility,
their only support and that of their chil- -'without forcible means, to shake it olf. -
dren be rudely taken from them, snd , 'J lie f-vil "P"-''! them, and they nmU ap-
they confined, like criminals in an i.dand ' l'' tliC ctive. If done soon it will
f.,..., .,,;i c.,rrrv..n.i...l I.,, n .,.,,-,l 'spaiefuiuie tiouMe, and it may spare
1 iIimv nre sent South to do battle and offer '. l'Clil, too,
I their lives that some General may Pt,emtet n'1 n,a 1'' trending of nil I, Abraham Lincoln, preferring the frei-
! glory, and some Abolition contractor make , eurscs-a rcpei.tmce that comns too late', dom of tho negro to tho restoration ot tho
j money out of their blood and their; WHO PAYS Union, wiil impose such conditio vnot.
'services. As sure as tho day of the sec- " IVo car lo :ds of r, nfrdnunls number- U,,,e i" 1" thc t0VollC;l le h?
' ond draft arrives, so will tho third, and . in" about a hundred and fiitv. one-half ,n;l' lo ' to , e,uin t0 u i;i' ft
: the fourth, and the fifth, be upon u, tin
C-.r-Tho Bedford iruzctte, speaking of
the President's late Proclamation, well
say? :
"He now argues, thus: To restoro tho
the full realization of Hint Union is to save negro slavery ; therefore,
of them men, arrived here to day from ance, as w ill send tnem bacii in'o llio
1 .. , ,.-l.,M, ,1.... . . .. r f it
i'.iii.i.iuit, iyj t,tiii.ii i-in iin-v i.-1 I- si' i ni .et t SSU)I1.
I e.-s others than those now in Power save ,
I ironi l niii'o i loorgi: i coui-.tv, .Marvland.
;the country from ruin and tho r00!''0, The men not being fit formilitary service,
1 from slaughter. It can bo done by the are to be employe 1 at the Giesboro Cavul
people demanding in thunder tones mi ! rV camps, and tho women and children
'honorable peace, for they would submit : domiciled at I reodoni's V.Hage, in tins
i 4 ' ' 1 viennt'.', af'k-ii. Lui:
, to none other. j xviin"t a comf,,, ti. thourhl it must be
I The war has now raged with violence ... , , .
I, ., , ., ... , J to thc loy.d workuu'maii, as he counts his
for near three veurs. In that time what , . , , . ,
. . ,r .. j pay on a .Nitur l iy night, to think, that it
VWi.t L lldt I'ltH ill v'llJJMi.-m.' . A'..
""1.3
ub
imported
"IrTtelliponce" and J.-itk. nrlicle-. .
lie hath discovered that your sons r
nieepcu in prolouml ignoranc '
They kaow naught of the cultivated art
Of eating soup with a fork. The
Dainty napkin glides not o'er thir honest,
Toil-bronzed featutes. Upon their mahogany
Sideboards glisten not tjuaintly carved "
Itottles, nor sparkling glasses, flagrant
With tho perfume of the grape of suuuy France,
Or the banks of the Khine. They have not been
Initiated into the mysteries of7rn,
Lin-
' coin said, at its commencement, there
i was a Union feeling in all the .Southern
States; now the South is more united
j than was thc people of tho United States i
I during tho Revolution, w hich gavo us a
a place among the nations of tho earth.
j Much as wo may boast of our victories over
the South, lhe Southern men can fioast
j with e'pial truth of their victories over us.
i In ull our boast and in all our prido, thc
! great fact that, at the close of tho thirty
j threemontlis of war, with the largest nr-
mics the world Las ever seen since the
jdays of Xerxes, supplied nnd paid at an
estimated cost of three million dollars per
day, tho great capitol of the Republic is
f till in danger Lorn the Southern Army,
land that not at a single moment has it
I been deemed entirely safe from capture,
'admonishes us that tho war has been far
from a succe-s, and that the hundreds of
Their " neighbour as themselves."
But I am tired of writing in blan'; verse, nnd think it time to1 lhou9un,ls of brave lne who sleep on the
close ; vrt allow me to state that the action of the abolitionized j tnany LaUl?-ficlJs ' ie u ditc!lt J in tl)C
vampires who disgrace the community and assemble .t tho Oak I fT11 f3ve "d3. h W"c th?lr
n , , . i , ,. . ... I Wood and ofiere I no their lives in vain.
uiuiomuuuriiuu.n;, mm nuuoiuai.lilut uviav all 110 llie-olOOU . , , . , , .
..... . i i . . I This day, as tho war is now conducted, it
J of the nation, are known, and deserve tho contempt of every lov-' r r , i .1 1
4 seems father from a close than the dav
:erof human libeity in the land. ; ., , ,, , . , , ,
enty-five thousand men to crmh tho lio
bellion. Then it was a war to re-po-e
t 1ia fnr! 4 anil nlbrr nmiinrt u nf I h a 11 a inn
MorUe, ho and other elements of knowledge lzenee."! " L- ;( ; .1,-c...i!
Oh. men of Clearfield ! seek ye this j countryman walkmg along New ork, found his prog-
Knight of the quill, this hireling Hack-wool pcdlcr, i ess B(orPI by a barricade of lumber, and a.-ked what it was for
1 Ravo bigots ! Democrats can sustain their own ministers who !
, teach the doctrines which Christ inculcated in the Sermon on the
Mount.
Yours as ever,
YOUNG NESTOR.
That he point vou to those gentlemen
Of "wealth and intelligence ? " Seek of them
Knowledge, and you will find it
In an empty xckH-lHik,
My ong in o'er. Sfy tele is done.
My oil ig out. My money gone.
To dun my patrons is no sin,
Then to the Dcnlht wantajour tin.
THE CARRIER.
and to free the negro.
Why then not put a stop to it? Because
it does not suit tho purposes of the party
' Oh that's to stop the yellow fever," was the reply
I Ay. 1 nave often heard of the board of health, but I never j in power. All the efforts made have been
sow one before. j rendered abortive by the Administration
j . j and ty tho Abolition pressuro which con-
! aTWLen a young lady ofTer. to hem a cambric handkerchief, troIi U' 'ok0 tho war anJ government
I for a rich bachelor, she means lo sow in order to reap j o01111 mu5t c,0'. and colonels, genw-
i . al, quartet masters, commissaries and sut-
j tiers go lack to ptiwte lite without fur-
fcaTA mau may smile and L a villain still.
Lincoln's Messai.e. Part of the lie
lienn pi ess commend the President's Pro
clamation because it docs not endorse tho
doctrine of State suicide, and ti e ether
portion becauso in does. This reminds us
of tho man who had an a'v:.iu.i! on exhi
bition, and being aked by one v ;iO hud
never rcen such an animal bi-forc .-bat it
ww, replied: " Yuu pay your r.ionish
you want him bear, you liavo hii.i bear ;
ycu want him wolf, you Lavo him wolf."
t:jrTlie President wants the South to
swear to (support his abolition and eman-
is dimiui.-hed about thirty per cent, w hich
thirty per cent, goes to feed and clothe
the contrabands, who, before he becamo
so philanthropic, were clothed and fed at
j somebody else's e.xpence. Ho will say to
his wife: "You cannot liavo the stout,
warm dress I promised you for this win- cipation proclamation as a condition for
tcr, and m'nd you no meat except twice comiug back into the Union, and tho war
a week, I cannot afford it I have got lo is to bo waged until they are forc3 1 to do
feed and clothe the colored people." He it. If they would swear to support 'ho
will say to his child, "no rido for you in Coustilutiou Uiey could not come. Now
the cars to day, my child, that five cents what hi tho ivar fori CIMon IXmocrat.
has gone to some little wooly heads."-; t J-n editor having read in another
What a glow of universal lovo will thrill j,aper that there is tobacco w.hich, if a man
his heart when ho sees his own suffer in Rmoko or c,cw it) he will for-.'it that ho
order that the poor black may be made olvfM a ()ol!dr in tilll wo,.,it' innocently
happy. U will say to himself: Howtc01u,Iu,io. ,hal maiiv of ,lis subscribers
lovely is freedom! Throe short yenrs ago, l(VC ,iC.f,n furn;sll(Vi wil, ,;ie nnicle !
tln?e immortal oiils were in bondage. 1 ... ......
They were no cr.ro to mo, I never felt for 1,0 nic"" ,1:r"1 ,nf,l,lod of (ktcr
them, I never thought of them, I had not mining l.orso power : Stand beuinu liiui
lo deprive myself of a single thing for 1 nd tickle hi legs with a briar,
the.r benefit. Now, thank God, they are j rX.H. S. Tyrnell, a Connecticut coun
freo, and they are the oljects of my dear- ttym.iu, was lately robbed of 1,000 i:-.
est solicitude, and I have the p!ea-uro of New Yoik, by female thieve?.
supporting them. True, my own chil-
tren sutler tor it but still it is a groat'
privilege, and I ought to lo very thankful."
The only interruption that ho might I tor-To smile nt (he,je:t which I darts ft
suffer to this self-satisfying train " of I thorn in another's breast, is to bejOUiQa
tiioiut miglit be the suggestion of some!
C-iJ'.S'.ilistitutes aro growning sarco in
New York. It ii difficult to procure liicru
; for .' I, except in rare cases.
iloyal, traitorous, vonouiom Democrat.
who might say to him: "But you are
freo too, and nobody supports you. You
have to work hard enough for your week's
waces, no ono docks off thirty per cent,
from their wages to keep ,)" in idleness,"
To which the ioyal workman would natu
rally reply: "Ah. you secessionist! you
Southern synipathNor!" To this argu
ment, of course, there can bo no reply'
and nothing is left lor the cowed traitor
to do but rotire gracofully, singing the
new boor of "I'd b- a contraband."
Phil'a. Ant.
principal in tho mischief.
t1 Rear Admiral Farragut visited tho
Russian bhips in New York on the 5th of
Iecember laid.
JC-yMiss Bnteman, the nctro, is an
nounced for " Deborah," nt Hi AJelphi,
in London.
fl-iTSomo of the Green Mountains
whitened with sniv.
frrJohn B. Adams, an aator, luU.j
d'.d in Boston.