The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-12-28


5ullies amongst us at election times.
protecting themselves, by mock trial, fIom
punishment for any murders which they shall
commit on the inhabitants OF these States, in the
discharge of their right Of suffrage at the
Polls tas in louisville, New Orleans and Balti-
more.)
For imposing taxes on US without our consent.
For depriving US in many cases oftbe bene-
fits Of trial by jury-holdng their secret erira-
judicial oqths paramountto TO all others, especial
ly when any of our citizens of foreign birth,
or Of different religion from other citizens, are
concerned.
Fer taking away the RELIGIOUS CHARTERS of
MANY of our citizens, aboiishlng our most
valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the
powers OF cur governments.
For suspending our legislatures virtually, by
their efforts 10 attain asctndancy, and declaring
themselves invested with power to leglslate for
us in all cases whatsoever leven 10 simple
beverage.
7Asg hare pluadercd our citizens, burnt the
houses, the Churches, md destroyed the hOes Of
our people.
1hey haze ercHed domestic instructions a.
nsoagst as in our .Norh-Wesfern borders,
and especially IN our southern States, and haue
endeaUored TO bring on tie inhuJitanfs Of these
States, The Negro slaue population ,0hose
knotcn rule Of ooarfare as, lohea roused TO UeT-
geance, undistingaished - - all ages,
Secfs and conditions.
From this fair impartial H institu-
ted between the acts of the X (Hothings and
the eUils and s0rongS denouncefby our glorious
patriots OF "'T6,' it would seem that there is
the strongest possible resemblance between
our British oppressors Of old and them
They appear 10 have studied the immortal in
strument OF our political redemption only for
the express purpose OF ascertalnng and re-en-
acting all the s'iniuries and usurpations" there
held up to the worlds adherence by the heroes
and sages of the American Revolution. Of a
truth, if General Washington had caught such
characters during the Revolutionary War, they
would have
"Dangled on the nearest tree"
as traitors and tories who had thus fraternized
with the common enemy, who, in the Declara-
ton of Independence, is pronounced guilty ''of
cruelty and psrtidy scarcely pareiieied in the most
Jarbqrous ages, md totally uRworthy of q ciUi-
tized natioa." The usual language OF Washing
ton and his Generals in their proclamations was:
"All who should, IN ANY MANNER, aid the enc
my, would be considered as traitors, and should
suffer tile utmost rigor Of tie Iaw."-(Fide
Marshal's life of Washington.) What then
would the American Saviours of their country
have done to those who would seek to re-eStab-
ish the bondage and monstrous principles of
tyranny to overthrow which they mutually
pledged to each other THEIR LIVES, THEIR FOR
TUNES, AND THEIR SACRED HoNoRs."
Since then there is such evident likeness
such perfect identity spirit and views between
our know nothing task masters and our former
British enslavers, magnanimous resolve similar
TO that passed by the patriots Of Congress the I'd
July, I17G, should be adopted and proclaimed
by the entire American people, viz:
Resolved, That these United Colonies are
and of right ought to be Free and Independent
States, that they are absolved from all allegiance
TO the Know-Nothing, secret oath-bound Despo-
tism, and that all political connexion between
them and the said faction is and ought to be to-
tally dissolved
Assurpdly new Declaration Of Independence
is now imperatively demanded, not against the
tyrant King George the Third of Great Britain,
but against the tyrant King Sam the First Of
Great Know Nothngdom; aud the ilustrious
signers Of this Document are TO be all the Free
man Of the United States at the polls assembled
in 1856. This will be called the evpr-nemor-
able Epoch Of AMERICA REDEEAlED-of
LIBERTY RECOVERED.
"From the caverns of darkness TRY daysprngs
shall dawn,
Ye Know-Nothing tyrants beware
Your names shall decay like vapors fmorn,
Or vanish like phanloms of air.
Thy Temple, 0 Freedom with grandeur shall
rise,
lis basis the earth, its summit the skies,
Aud firm as creation shall Iast''
u Our friend TRAUcu, of the Standard,
corrects Us in a statement we made a week or
two since viz ''that Holiday sburg has long
been in want of good Hotrl''-and AYERS that,
during residence Of fifteen years in the place,
he never knew it to be without half dozen or
less OF as good Hotels as can be found in any place
ofits size between Pittsburg ard Philadelphia
We stand corrected, with the single remark, that
number of our people, on visiting the town,
have failed 10 find them Some folks, however,
never can hit upon ''streak of good luck. p
The Exchange" by Maj. WINeArE, we can
safely say is such house as the Standard speaks
Of
Z GO ~Ifan Attorney to the Poor House is as
unnecessary as the fifth wheel to wagon
how much is the services of an Attorney worth
to the Commissioners Of the County?
u If the Treasurer to the Poor House is only