The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-09-21
From the Philadelphia Argus.
OVERTHROW OF THE "WOMEN
ROASTERS.s

R0ASTERS."
'sThe sober second thought of the people is
always effcient and never wrong" IS a senti-
nent now universally acknowledged as politi-
cal axiom OF great verify and force. Even the
original utterer OF the apohegem has long since
realized its caustic truthtuinesS, as applicable 10
his own political career, although at the time
1 il was enunciated, the sLiltle Magician though
bhe was styled, neither prolessed The gift Of pro-
phecy nor claimed to be ''prophet or the son
4 oi prophet" The sentiment is particularly
applicable now. The 'Sober second thought
OF the people is everywhere rrpudiating Know
/ NothugiSui, and absolving themselves from its
bloody orgies and midnight treasons. The cleo
1 tons that have already taken place this summer,
4 20 number OF the States, prove that wonder
4 ial and glorious reaction has begun in favor of
I the everlasting principles Of Democracy, over
the unprincipled demagogueiSm of the piebaId
| factions, under whatever name and Sectonali-
| ties they have rallied to the fight. From eve
Ty section OF the Union our ears have been
greeted with the thunder roar ofthe unconquer-
/ ed and inyincible Democracy. From the gold
en- shores ofCalfornia, laved by the halcyon
waters of the Pacific, 10 the iiower-gemmed
wales and aromatic groves of the valleys Of the
| Rio Grand, every breeze is laden with the ex-
hierattng shouts of gladness for victories gained
over the rampant midnight conspiralors and
their deSplcabe allies, the abllion and jug-aW
proscriptlonlStS and disunlonists. Virginia,
North Carolina, Alabama, Texas Iowa, MSsou-
ri, Indiana, Tennessee and California are found
nobly proclaiming the doctrines OF the Revolu-
tionary fathers and yielding their uniliuching
allegiance to the principles of Jefferson, jack
son, Polk, and all the other glorious lights of
Democracy which cast their retulgence abroad
and auspiciously illumine the face OF the politI-
cal hrmanent at the present hour. But one
solitary State, thus far, has tatrred in her duty,
and permitted herself to fall from its former high
estate Of chiyalry and honor, before the bloody
Juggernaut of treason and prescription The
fair land of Henry Clay is once more the
s.bloody ground" but the wild, uncouth savage
red men of the forests are not those who now
have fallen before the death-dealing rifles of the
'shunters of Kentucky" No the chivalrous
State Of the sage of Ashland has become the
Theatre for roaSting Uomen alive, because their
fathers, and husbands, and brothers, though gull
ty of having been born in a foreign land, refus-
ed TO show the knee TO Baal, and acknowledge
the sovereignty OF oath-bound coDsplratorS, mid
night skulkerS and dark-lantern assaSSlnS.-
Even though Democratic progress has been
temporarily STAYED before the laggot and the
nurderer's weapons, the satellites OF blood have
achieved no civic triumph. They have, in
sooth, barely escaped total disruption and utter
annihllation. Instead of fifteen or twenty thou
sand majority, the KnowNothingS, with all
their IuggIeiy Of horrld oaths, butchering of
men and roasting of women and children, have
carried their treasons to consummation only by
the lean majority of less than FIVE thousand
votes The elected officers take their places
with a consciousness that they do not possess
the privilege by the unawed and voluntary sut-
rages of a free people, but through the trrrors
of murder and conflagraton. But even in Ken
lucky, the sober-second thought oil the people
will bring the day OF retribution. Vengeance
will surely come, and come it must with over
whelmng force and power.
As has been already remarked, the rapid de-
cline in the fortunes Of Know Nothingism, has
no parallel or precedent in the political history
ofour country. Built upon foundation of
sand, with JanuS-like principles TO suit the par
tleular views of the various sections OF the
country, appealing only TO the preJndIces and
passions OF the multitude, afihating with aboIi-
itlonisn and all other Sms which run stark
mad at the North, conniving at the destruction
OF the fundamental principles which lay at the
bottom of our governmental structure in fine,
party 'sof men and not of measures" is it any
wonder that acknowledgement is rapidly oos-
ing even its temporary hold upon the people
Swift as a meteor it has passed through the po-
litical sky to fall, at last. like another Luciter,
to ignomy and .bofhingaesS. Repudiated by
IFS former warmest adherents in the North, and
nearly every step in the South by the gallant
and chivalrous Democracy, ii may be fairly
said to be now struggling IN the throes oil COM
pete inanltlon and ruin.
The Know-Nothng party has never been, is
not and cannot be national. 1T lacks that in
gredient without which man cannot coalesce.
Ii has no harmony, unity of feeling and ac-
ton, nor adherence to Immutable truths Ac-
cordingly, the spirit of reaction is now being
felt over the entire length and breadth olthe
land. The thunder storm has passed over our
heads, and in its terrific progress has purified
the political atmosphere 1t has not destroyed
the Democracy. "Truth crushed TO earth must
rise again" The proud ediice, erected by the
master-spirits ofthe Republic. has nobly with
stood, like another Sebastopo, the futile on
slanght of its "alliedp enemies, and looks down
with complacency upon their impotent rage and
power 1t stands forth as beacon Of consola-
ton to the mariner tossed on the waves OF Po-
ltical life and encourages him to seek the only
haven which can lead TO safety and happiness.
The cohorts of Know-Nohingism have been
unable to withstand the shocks of the serried
ranks OF the Democracy, and have been put TO
rout by their determined exertons and patrIot-
ism. Let the good work go on. To The prow-
ess of the Democracy Of Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania are now drectad the anxious eyes
of all true patriots in oar land. Upon the pre-