The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-08-04
The Whigs and Adopted Citizens |!


gain poicsr would seem to furnish yerifcaton Of
this saying. To the necessities which surround them,
may, perhaps, 10 some extent, be attributed the
specimens of inventions and expedents whichthey
have recently presented to the country. Dshoncred
in their past professions, and ashamed of all their
former measures, they now countenancing the
doctrines and counting the cooperation of The Native
Abolition, and Know Nothing factions with the vain
hope of gaining power. They have resorted to the
dangerous, aud misehievous expedient of tampering
TO national and sectarian preudIces-arraying one
class of protesting christians against anOtherof sow
ing the seed of intolerance and persecution, which,
other ages of the world, have produced the bitter
fruits that have been presented to the lips
OF man, only that presented 10 Eve by the SER
peut.
Two years since they had especial affection for
the foreigner and for members of the Catholic
Church, aud vanly attempted 10 cajoIe and fatter
this class of people 10 support the Naig candidates,
without reference TO their political sentiments But
this expedent failed. These people voted in accor
dance with their previously conceived notions OF po
litcal affairs, and the Wing candidates reject
ed Now they about TO try another invention
They have allied themselves with the Know Moth
ings and Natives, and foresworn the prescription of
both the ormer classes from clvil place In the eec
ton of Mayor CONRAD, of Pha-, we have the first
fruits of this coalition, and, in his inaugural address,
We have their first edict against all citizens not
native born. The adopted citizen is distinctly told
in that document that Notwithstanding the guaran-
of the Constitution, he shall not be pc rmtted
hold Office in this country. Not the humble
station OF police man.
ha fical
workings of this unjust and an-republican doctrine
in community. The accident of birth is to
be test for civil Office and every citizen not native
born must be prescribed. Under this doctrine many,
very many, OF good citizens 5 have in Bedford
county would be degraded. For instance, Messrs.
NICHOLAS Lyons, JAcoB BoILINGER, RoHERT FYAN,
JONATHAN FEIcHNER, MICHAEL BANSoN, WM. STAnL,
Val. WYANT, JOHN J. LUTHER, Jos. GoXDoN, JAMES
PRICE, GKo. YoNsTEIN, EwD. KERR, WALTER BRowH,
Rev. J. McELuENY, GEO. HYNsLrNG, JONI RuDDLEs-
DIN, and hundreds of others that might be mention
ed had room, all citizens of high respectability,
with all their affections, interests and hopes center
ed in country. With other country 10 love,
and no other institutions 10 obey, they Americans,
true Americans, by adoption, faith, affection, and
hope; yet, with all this they could not hold any Of
fee under this strange dogma of WhggeIy. How
shall the and daughters, and grand children, Of
these respectable citizens brook The mputation thus
cast upon their parents How shall they relish
doctrine that breaks the pledge of the constitution
their fathers How shall they tolerate party that
proscribes their ancestors because of the place of
their BIRTH and assigns them Inferior and degrad
ed position in society?
Office, honor, and emoluuents, these valuable citi-
whom We have named, do not seek, and in this
regard they could bid defiance the intoleant dem
agogues who have started this test but il is the
implied disgrace and humaton-it is because they
10 be set apart degraded class of people who
should not be trusted with civil ofiice-not even the
humble position of police man, that they have just
cause to complain. 1t is this, indeed, far more than
the loss of civil office, that wounds their pride and
excites their ndignaton.e Theye have filled the con-
ditons of the Constitution-have became citizens
have felled the lorest-cultivated the so-and made
the wilderness TO bloom as the Ihn,, ha - =
tho taxas ad r.-s"s tne battles of the Country
worshiped God according the dictates Of con-
sciencethanked him for the blessings incident to our
Republican GOyernmentfor the blessings of civil and
religious libertyand prayed Tor the continuance of
all these. And shall now, in their ripened years
with many of their locks whitened for the grave,
break with them the plghted faith of the Constfu-
ton Z Shall its promise of political and religious
freedom the oppressed of all nations BECOME by
word and scof-''the word OF promise to the ear 10
be broken to the hope" Wesay Thepeople say
NO. And an all wise Providence will stay the wrong