The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-08-10


1t is now only a question of time as TO the
demise Of the Chambersburg Council Of Know
Nothings, under the lead of STrARAUGH EYs-
TER, SrEsALY & Co., and also as to the death Of
their little croaking organ. 1t matters little
whether they die now-in four WEEKS, IN four
months or four years hence, for they are TO all
intentS and purposes dead already. The Coun-
ell is deserted, for the very good reason that
reputable men cannot now go there without be-
ing implicated in the viIlainy We have SO thor
oughly exposed and we kaoW that scores, who
even Yielded passive obedience to The Order
until the little croaker swept lis black shadow
OF dishonor over the whole organization bv re-
vealing its secrets To shelter lis iaisrhoodS on
other issues, have publicly announced that they
cannot longer b. connected with such C0un-
Gil or such an organ. They have therefore
Withdrawn some by formal communication adj
dressed 20 The President, and many more with
out honorng the organization SO much as 10
OWN that they owed it any allegiance. They
think, and Justly too. that the Council as a
body has forfeited all Claims upon honorable and
upright members, bF the deep, damnlng evi-
dence of guilt that blots lis records, aud they
now leave il to the creatures who are the au-
thors of IFS infany. President SrUAGAUCH
may still preside regularly for while over the
ruins hr and his kindred spirits have wrought,
but the deserted ball cannot again be thronged
with honorable men ;on the contrary the great
mass ofthp party will vindicate themselves by
seeking the first opportunity to crush the lead
ers, who have involved the organization in dis
grace TO crafty thrir iendish malice or advance
! their business and political interests. Ii is
! therefore morally and politically dead--dead
and the most charitable inscription could
place over lis remains TO tell that ii once exist
ed, is-s'Ihe uHiiaeiy Uacfim Of heartteSS ell
iaiRy :"
The little organ, too, has seen lis days of half
prosperity and must soon withPr into the moth
ingneSS itS Weakness invites, aud which lis awk-
ward scoundlrlism will vet welcome as a re-
tuge from the returning wave OF justice. Ii has
lent itself TO every disgraceiul action that this
Council has been guilty ot-and naturally
enough, TOO, for the Council was its nurse and
shield, and it had TO obey It's masters. It did not
pretend TO claim the support of an intelligent
public on lis own merits. bH il ever the
whining beggar in the Council room, through
its avowed confidential friends, and relied upon
the DEGREES of the Order TO foIce oath-bound
members TO it from early and unhonor-
ed grave. 1t was the hHed apologist of the as
SaSSns who dragged the names Of honorable
men before the Council, without authority, for
the avowsd purpose OF sacrificing them here
and disgracing them abroad by an official false
hood and il was the cringing medicaHt that pat
forward irresponsible lickspiltles to strike down
others, against who's moral, personal or polIii-
cal standing no plausible objection could be
urged, merely for the purpose of making the
party minister TO IFS pressing necessities.
The issue clearly and distinctly mad. =
the party must force IFS members by DEGREES and
resolutions to support it, independent Of lis mrr-
its. and so drhase itself as 10 strike svsternati-
eally at the business prosperity OF others, which
earned by patient toll, or the little thing
must die: and humiliatIng as was the petition tc
come from creatures protesting manhood, the
few unscrupuluuS Traders who controlled the
Council stopped and crawied 10 accommodate IT.
Ii hoped thereby TO live, and grew vain and in
Solent on the Councils aims: but now the
Council is about 10 pay the inevitable penalty Of
IFS prostitution. and the rrcoi sweeps the little
organ in lis course. II is virtually drad-dead
Hundreds who have been Influenced by yariou,
considerations 10 support it, have sickened at lis
insolence and revolted at the indellible mark ol
infamy that has been stamped upon il by the ir-
resistable power Of truth: and plead, beg and
wriggle as it may, that sense of honor and jus
tice that is ntuitive IN the popular heart, will
quietly but surely and speedily visit il with that
disgrace it has SO blindly courted. 1t may
make convulSive demonstrations of life, but
they will prove only the violent throes o
dissolution It's oath-bound friends in this place
who gaveit life at the cost OF honor, have been
driven from their own works by the stern de-
mands Of justice, and without them II has no tri-
bunal at which 10 cringe and plead IFS wants
no refuge from the poisoned shaft it aimed al
others, but which has been returned with ter
fold force to rankle in the heart that sent it.
It is dead--dtad and the only Inscription
that even charity could giSe TO tell that il hac
existed, is--es.fn nntineis Oiciim Of ITS own
hearfiess viHaiayt"
We need not point the moral ofthis lesson
it is too clearly apparent TO admit OF doubt
However dishonor and injustice may seem tc
triumph for season, there is a retributve stroke
that must surely follow in their train and nrv-
er was this truth felt more keenly than by The
little croaker and bis fellow trioksters wbt