The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-04-20


aud We no less earnest now ln our desire TO
maintain that position than ever before. We
have steadily struggled and voted against near
" every feature OF the political policy sustain
ed by the mass of cur adopted citizens, and no
man felt more keenly than the writer Of this
article when the great American Statesman Of
the West fell a martyr to foreign bigoiry, and
with him every vital principle OF American
progress. But ia the honest and earnest sup
port of this platform We have known no change.
We cannot share the zeal that leads'to ntatua-
ton, aud would make man and party the
creature Of one idea, and much less can we as
sent to system of political regulation that
might bring the binSh 10 the cheek Of The ver-
est Auocrat We might vote for candidates
designated BY snch political machinery, If there
bv We could best attain the ends we desired;
but the system conironts the professions of the
party at the very Threshold, and is itself libel
upon everything claiming to be American. It's
thorough modification has already been demand
ed in the most unrquivocal language by every
respectable American Journal in the State, and
nearly every politician of common dIScrrnment,
who has no selfish purposes to crafty, has
heartily sanctioned the movement. Why, then,
has it not been Accomplishment We answer
stutitied by designing and ambitious men
men WHOSE only hope of political success is
based upon a system of organization wherein
few Gao govern and none dare question. This
is the secret. and we should not 60 beyond thr
limits Tour own county, or il may be our
own town, TO demonstIatar the correctness OF
our position, did the occasion demand It.
We shall soon have an open American par
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principles and drfying the sererest criticism,
or the dav is not far distant when Americansm,
in its common acceptation, will be a singing re-
proach. Let those who doubt il wait and see
-Cham5ers5urg Repository and Wig.
A SUBSCRIBER OyEEBoARD--Tt is well for
Editors 10 BE- ''brought up Standing once IN
while bv the more discerning OF their Subscr-
hrrs. 1t hrightens their ideas, refreshes their
Difference for public sentiment, and enables them
TO correct the errors into which they are 50 La
bic 70 fall. For the life OF us we never knew
until the following dplactabe epiStle gravep in
formed us OF the fact, that we have been build
ing up either the foreign or catholic interest
indeed we have been aboring under a singular
hallucination that we have uniformly leaned
the other way; but it is evident that gentle
man 50 thoroughly versed in our anguage--so
liberal and enlightened in his views, and patr-
otic in his aspirations, cannot he mistaken and
we defer as complacpnuv as can while W.
aftctonalaly commend him to the more con-
genial rays Of the Transcript. We omit the
name for The sake fthe writer's children
Mercersburg March %
mr. A X Mcclure Dear Sir at tbr close OF
my subscription for your paper wich is the first
may wish it 10 stop as ! don't wish to take ii
any longer at present az yonr cnrse OF late IN
the American REFORM dos not meat with my ap-
probation hope YOU wount call this proscrip-
ton be cause | cant help your to pull down the
american party and bid up the torran and ro-
mancathiIck party. yonrS--- --
The gentleman is probably opposed to the
English language because il Is of ''torran'' orr
n.--c.hambarsbarg Repository md Wais.
r7- in the House, the Governors veto of the
Pottstown Bauk has not yet been considered.
What the real cause nav be for this unusual
course Of that body, il is not for us to say; bat
it is clear TO the most casual observer. that con-
sidrrations not properly connected with the tea-
sure have controlled its action. independent Of
the very questionable parliamentary sanction
Tor such delay, there is an obvious proprety,
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that would dictate an early and final cousdera-
ton of such 4 tnrSsage and until there is evi-
dence to the contrary, the popular acceptaion
Of it will be anything but cieditabIe TO the leg
isatnre. 1.-THE House considered the veto Of
the Pottstown bank wrong, it was its duty to
pass the bill by the constitutional majority, on
lis own merits, disconnected from all other mea-
sIres or, if it considered the veto right, it
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that lis approval bp placed promptly on the rr-
cord. The public will watch with interest for
a drveloppmpnt OF the causes which have kept
the expression Of the House Smothered, and we
hazard nothing 10 saving that it viii require
considerations Of no trivial character TO vindi-
cate that body fully in the estimation Of the
people. If log-rolling is 10 be the game-show
your hands, gentlemen, The press will see
that daylight ppnetrates the arrangement -
Chambersburg Repository md Wing.
! K We must be excused from kicking every
whelp into nutoriety who keeps barking at orr
heels. Because We may occasionally feel cal
led upon to correct nagrant falsehoods and do
/ PlcitY affecting questions of public interest, it
must not BE- supposed that we can follow the
dog to its kennel, or the mouSing owl to its hid
ing pIace.--Chambers6Rrg Repository s Hhjg.
Hear another Old Line Whig Paper
! G5- The Democrats will soon have no trou-
bic in writing exposures of Know Nothiugisn !!
Seeding members of the Order, and the
RESPECTABLE portion of the WHIG Press
are about to relieve us Of this labor altogether
DEMOCRATS stand firm. Your principles will
soon reflect more honor upon yourselves and
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