The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-01
SIDE ISSUES.

SIDh ISSUES.
Cax'T rE CoNraovEerEp.- Bostoe .Alreuiser
says THAI '.peltcal organizations ostensibIy got up
Tor the purpose OF eiectng what has been called
idea reforms, for tender copseiences-
conrieances 10 enable unscrupnleus leaders to turn
to selfish the honest convictions OF credaons
associates" 1t has been hoasied by Fuu-dFinking
temperance politicians III this State that their only
object in insisting the passage OF Maine law in
New Hampshire the breaking down OF the De-
mociatic party. II is now admitted by the antt-Ne-
braska agItators that every attempt to repeal the
territorial bill Of thr last Congress out ot the qes
ton, aud yet they contrive 10 make people be-
leve that such proceedIng Is proper and essential
In both of these respects the great object is to
their ahors 10 selfish account.-N. II. Patgfot.
We have had most palpable evidence of the truth
OF this selfish propensity the part of the allied
leaders against the Democracy in the State. All the
side issues managed with one vlew-that OF IN
iurng the Democracy and building up the fortunes
OF those who managed them. in own city, the
Temperance Convention. though protesting to be free
from all political bias, and intent only on one great
object that of aboishing the sale OF liquor IN this
Commonwealth, was IN fact only scion OF the
Know \ ohug party, and used to advance the pros
poets OF that pToscrptIve and ntoerant order. The
same was made of the Abolition and Free Soil
movement. Each of these political parties protessed
to be actuated by only aim, single purpose
opposf to the slave power OF the country-and
orces INTO one general armv against the Democracy,
and their members voted for any nau, matter how
opposed 10 their original principles, II he was
ticket adverse 10 the Democratic party Of the Union.
The aHtI-Nebraska party acted npon The same plat
form. When that bill was pending IN Congress, the
Nrir York TubHls and other fusion journals, pro-
claimed the great principle OF the mewly-iormed an
ti-NebIaska party be the support and maintenance
OF every who voted against the bill. no matter
what his political principles. This was the platform
I,Tf,F In. t1Il
cratic members who deserted Their party this
great issue were lauded patriots. and their reeec
lion insured BY the assistance of Wing and Abolition
votes. But how the promise redeemed? The
fate OF Drum and others In the State. and the similar
course OF treachery towards Democratic candidates
in other States, IS the besr exhibition OF Wing and
Abolition alihlessnesS 10 promise. The allies were
loud in their protestations Of unsel6shness when the
Nebraska bill pending, bnt when the day of elec
tion came, their old hatred for the Democracy re-
turned, and voted tor any candidates calculated to
defeat hose selected by that party.
With all these facts before the people OF the eX-
sefshne>s Of the opposition in this State at the
recent election, still the Why and Abolition presses
taking about the repeal OF the kansasNebraska
act as another means OF agitatlng the country and
reaping advantages fTom the storm OF passion and
prejud,ce which will thus sweep over the State. No
other end can he gained by such movement. To
repeal Tie law is Impossibility, Tor two reasons.
First the Senate viii not consent to sucn a repeal.
Secondly. before such a repeal be effected, both
Kansas and Nebraska will be knocking at the doors
of the Union for admission ftee STATES, and hence
the repeal of the kanSaS-Nebraska act VIII he fool
i>hiy iruIesS. These facts that every schoobny
is perfectly acquainted with, and hence movement
such as Indicated IS but another selfish sIde-issue
fIom which the opposition hope to derive aid and as
sistance coming contests. Those who escape The
net OF Know Noihingism TO he enmeshed in that
OF sectional hatred and anmoSity The halls oi Con-
gresS 10 be turned INTO course; where eve
~ broken-dcyyn political hack is be troted for
the purpose OF disgusting the country with the eflu
via arising from diseased regulations. And this
movement on the part of the W higs and their allies
is to be predicated the reiormaory idea, or in
other words, side issues the means by which
they hope to enfeeb- the democracy, and thus in
victory to the allies. Are not these the sell
FISH ideas OF men seeking their political fortunes
rather than the Country'S good On what other
platform will Seward, or Greely, or Clayton stand
When did these men, or either OF them, show by
their conduct that their SympathIes embraced The
whole Union? When have they ever eschewed sec
tarlaujsm agitation, matter how dangerous or
del,erious to the peace ot the Union, when II prom
ised TO advance their private political fortunes
Never; and the very fact that these men are now
engaged in raising sIde-s,ue on the kausas-N ebras
la bill, should awaken public attention 10 the real
purposes disguised behind the movement.
They the bitter, impacable enemies of the De-
mocracy and the rights OF the masses and side-sues
en- anatna from such sources should not receive the
couuteuarce and support Of any Democrat who loves
the principles Of his party. They are but masks for
Wing and Abolition attacks-meaus by winch the
ranks Of the Democracy are to be thnned and rem
dered incapable of resisting the united attacks of the
opposition This is the only intent Of the selfish
sde-issues by which the country Is afflicted, and
II becomes the Democracy to take bold, open stand
agains; all organizations which, under the guse of
reforms. are only contrivances by which the public
mind is TO be preiudiced against the principles aud
advances OF the Democratic party. In all past times,
the Democracy have taken this course and there Is
safety il other at this crsis-PtladeipLia Ar-
gus.